Pricing
$50 a month, flat, for your whole team
Two plans, both with every feature. No per-seat charges, no setup fee, no annual contract and no charge per event. Your first month is free and does not require card details.
The short answer
Smart Path costs $50 per month on the Basic plan and $75 per month on Premium, with the first month free. Both plans include every feature and unlimited users; Premium adds priority issue resolution, extended support hours, onboarding assistance and priority access to new features. There is no setup fee and no per-event charge.
- Basic: $50/month. Premium: $75/month. First month free.
- Unlimited users and unlimited event bookings on every plan.
- No setup fee, no annual contract, cancel any time.
Free trial
$0for your first month
Full access while you decide whether it fits your venue.
- Unlimited event bookings
- Full access for one month
- Booking calendar and conflict alerts
- No credit card required
Basic
$50per month
Everything an independent venue needs to run its calendar.
- Unlimited event bookings
- Venue booking calendar with conflict alerts
- Automated client emails
- PDF and Excel exports
- Multiple users and devices
- Email support
Premium
$75per month
For busier venues that want faster answers when something matters.
- Everything in Basic
- Priority issue resolution
- Priority access to new features
- Extended support hours
- Onboarding assistance
Included on every plan
- Unlimited event bookings
- Unlimited users, with no per-seat charge
- Venue booking calendar with conflict alerts
- Tentative holds with expiry dates
- Automated client emails
- PDF and Excel exports
- Event signage generation
- Access on desktop, tablet and phone
What Smart Path does not do
Worth knowing before you book a demo, not after.
- Payment processing. Smart Path records what is paid and outstanding; money moves through whatever you use today.
- Contract generation and e-signature. Keep your existing contract process.
- An enterprise sales pipeline with lead scoring and commission tracking.
- Consolidated reporting across multiple separate properties.
The arithmetic, honestly
At $600 a year, the case does not rest on transformation. It rests on preventing one specific failure.
A peak Saturday at a mid-sized US venue is worth several thousand dollars in venue fee alone. If, over the life of your subscription, Smart Path causes exactly one tentative hold to be released and re-sold that would otherwise have sat unclosed through peak season, it has paid for itself several times over.
That is the primary case. The secondary case is time: the hours each week spent rebuilding event sheets, chasing balances, answering availability questions and writing the same client emails. Four hours a week at any reasonable valuation of an owner-operator’s time exceeds the subscription comfortably.
The case we are not making is that software transforms a venue. It does not. It prevents a small number of specific, expensive, recurring failures. If none of those failures sound familiar, a spreadsheet may genuinely still be the right answer for you, and we would rather you worked that out now than after three months.
Pricing questions
Everything about plans, billing and what happens when the free month ends.
How much does Smart Path cost?
Smart Path is $50 per month on the Basic plan and $75 per month on Premium, with a free first month on either. Pricing is flat rather than per user, so adding your coordinator, your manager and your front-desk staff does not increase what you pay.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. You get full access for your first month at no cost and without entering card details. A month covers a realistic booking cycle, which is long enough to know whether the system fits how your venue actually works.
Can multiple team members use it at once?
Yes, on every paid plan, with no per-seat charge. Everyone sees the same live availability, which is precisely the point: double bookings happen when different people are reading different copies of the calendar.
Is there a setup or onboarding fee?
No. There is no setup fee, no implementation charge and no minimum contract. You pay the monthly subscription and nothing else. Premium includes onboarding assistance at no additional cost.
Can I change or cancel my plan?
Yes. You can move between Basic and Premium at any time, and you can cancel whenever you want. There is no annual commitment, so leaving costs you nothing beyond the month you are in.
What happens after the free month ends?
You choose a plan to continue, or you do not. We do not take card details at signup, so nothing charges automatically. Your data remains exportable to PDF and Excel either way.
Do you charge per event or per booking?
No. Event bookings are unlimited on every plan including the free month. Charging per event would mean charging you more in exactly the season you are busiest, which is the wrong incentive for both of us.
Do you handle payment processing?
Smart Path records what has been quoted, paid and is still outstanding against each booking so your team always knows where an event stands financially. You continue to take payments the way you do today, and the status is tracked on the event record.