There's nothing wrong with Excel. The problem is using it as a live reporting system for something that updates multiple times per day, is accessed by a dozen people, and needs to be shared securely with external partners.
It's 8:45am. People expect your weekly update at 10. You open your ticketing platform - or rather, you open three of them, because you've got shows on Ticketmaster, Weeztix, and Paylogic - and you start downloading CSV's.
You paste everything into your master spreadsheet. You'll need to combine both Weeztix (in which you sell the bunch of tickets) and Ticketmaster (in which you sell VIP tickets via a partner). You add the totals row. You see the totals don't match because you forgot to update a column. You fix it. You send the PDF.
By the time your partners reads it, two shows just had a line-up release and the numbers are already wrong. Someone will reply asking for the "latest version." You'll send another PDF on Thursday. Then another next Monday.
This is the spreadsheet problem. We knew it all too well, that's why we created Showtool. The number one tool for reporting, handling ticket sales and more. We do this for venues, booking agencies, promotors, festival organizers and more. We stripped away a lot of manual work, and made it prettier to see too.
Setup time
Manual
30–60 min every week
Showtool
15 min once
Data freshness
Manual
As old as last export
Showtool
Updates automatically throughout the day
Sharing with partners
Manual
Long e-mail threads with PDFs
Showtool
Password-protected links: always live, no email needed
Error risk
Manual
Every paste is a potential mistake
Showtool
No manual data entry: data comes from the ticket providers
Number of ticketing providers
Manual
One extra export per platform
Showtool
All in one dashboard from day one
Marketing data
Manual
Separate export from your ad platform
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Meta Ads, Google Ads, Reddit, TikTok data alongside ticket sales
Mobile access
Manual
Zoomed-out Excel on your phone
Showtool
Mobile-optimised dashboard and shareable links
Data protection
Manual
E-mails which can be forwarded
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Members which can be removed, shareable links which can be revoked. Our robust platform is built by privacy-first design.
Switching to Showtool doesn't mean giving anything up. You can still export your full shows data to Excel at any time: for finance, auditing, or that one stakeholder who prefers the spreadsheet. Your ticketing provider doesn't change. Your existing team workflows stay the same. You just stop doing the weekly CSV export ritual.
Yes. Showtool lets you export your full shows list and ticket data to Excel at any time. Finance teams that need spreadsheets can still get them: you just don't have to build them manually every week.
About 15 minutes for a single ticketing integration. You connect with a secure connection, Showtool imports your events, and your dashboard is live. If you have multiple ticketing providers, allow about 30 minutes total.
Showtool supports Weeztix, Ticketmaster, Paylogic, and CM.com simultaneously. All your shows appear in one dashboard regardless of which platform they're sold on. We have a good history in working with these ticketing platforms. We make sure they're secure by design, and access is revocable by you at any time.
Any quantity of shows will work. Showtool offers various ways of filtering large sums of shows, for example for tours or seasons.
Most teams find they stop reaching for the spreadsheet after the first week of using Showtool. The live dashboards are a big relief for all partners and we innovate every day to make them as intuitive to use as possible.
14-day free trial. No credit card. Setup takes about 15 minutes. You can still export to Excel whenever you need.