Student-season box office for a campus theatre

A student season needs a box office the department can run. Reserved seats for the mainstage. General admission for the black box. Comps for faculty and guests. A door that does not become a laptop in the lobby.

This is not a presenting-house Ticketmaster stack for touring acts. It is not AudienceView Campus as the default story. Places is being built for the people who put on the student season: the chair, the production manager, the box-office student worker, and the house that has to open on time.

Student season, not the civic hall next door

Campus halls sometimes inherit a seating chart nobody can edit and a box office that cannot see comps versus paid without a spreadsheet. A rented PAC may force a landlord tool for one weekend. That landlord tool is not the department’s season system.

Places keeps the university cluster separate from the volunteer community-theatre beachhead. Same organization → season → production → performance nouns. Different page, different offer surface.

What the house needs

• An editable seat map the department can keep current.
• Public ticket sales for the people running the house.
• Door math that stays with the production, not a side spreadsheet.

Planned launch offer: tools are free; Places earns $1 per reserved-seat ticket; GA tickets are free for small events for a limited time; comps and free tickets are $0.

If you are comparing how platforms talk about fees, door night, or who holds the money, start at Compare. Volunteer houses start at Community theatre.