The Global Standard for Concert & Festival Operations.

Most festivals run a ticket platform (Eventbrite, Dice, See Tickets), a separate access control system (wristband vendor), an onsite cashless provider, a custom festival app, a sponsor management tool, production scheduling software, a safety logging system, medical dispatch, paid media platform, review aggregator, accounting software, artist contract tool, crew comms app, and permit tracker. That is fourteen vendors, fourteen invoices, fourteen logins with zero integration. Calisto consolidates all of these: Tickets handles sales with $0 per-ticket markup, Access handles wristbands and zones, POS handles cashless payments, Apps delivers the festival app, Ledger handles sponsor revenue and artist settlements, Tasks handles production scheduling, Assure handles safety and permits, Signal handles medical and crowd monitoring, Dispatch handles crew coordination. One login, one subscription, one source of truth.

Yes. Connect your existing ticketing platform and ticket counts, revenue, and attendee data sync automatically into Calisto. Or use the native ticketing engine and skip third-party fees entirely. You can run both simultaneously, native for direct sales and external platforms for discovery, with one unified inventory preventing overselling.

Calisto was built for global operations from day one. Fans purchase tickets using PIX in Brazil, UPI in India, M-Pesa in Kenya, iDEAL in the Netherlands, or any of 56 regional payment gateways. Attendee communications arrive in their language. Artist guarantees settle in the agreed currency. Sponsor invoices generate in local denomination. The data model, the billing layer, the address forms, and the locale handling were all built for international events from the start, not bolted on later.

BYOB means Bring Your Own Backend. You can deploy Calisto on your own database and storage, in your own jurisdiction. European festivals facing GDPR keep attendee PII in Frankfurt. Talent data (artist contracts, rider details, guarantee amounts) stays on servers you control, not a third-party ticketing platform. Sponsor data segregation is possible when contractually required. No other festival platform offers this level of data sovereignty.

All five standard structures: flat guarantee, versus (VS), door deals, guarantee plus percentage, and co-promotion splits. Each deal type has purpose-built workflows for offer sheets, contracts, ticket scaling tables, settlement calculations, and co-pro partner management. One-click offer sheet generation and offer-to-contract conversion via Calisto Sign.

Calisto tracks 7 revenue streams (tickets, bar, merch, F&B, VIP, sponsorship, parking) and 14 expense categories in real time during the event. Cashless wristband transactions, POS sales, and ticket scans all flow into the settlement worksheet live. Co-promoter splits calculate instantly. Artist guarantees vs. percentage determine automatically. Advance deductions and merch splits apply. Complete settlement statements generate on show night, not days later in a spreadsheet, and sync to QuickBooks, Xero, or Alegra with one click.

Yes. Native cashless wristband infrastructure with RFID top-up stations (card, cash, or mobile payment), POS terminals at every bar, merch, and vendor station, and real-time balance management. Funds available in seconds after top-up. All cashless revenue flows directly into the settlement engine. No manual reconciliation across vendor stations after the festival.

Yes. A branded attendee app with interactive festival map (works offline with no cellular signal), lineup and set times with push notifications for schedule changes, cashless wallet integration, food and merch ordering, and real-time alerts for weather delays or stage changes. No custom app development required. Configure and publish from the Calisto dashboard.

Drag-and-drop Run of Show timelines with minute-level scheduling, 8-department crew rostering with call sheets and cost syncing, rider tracking (hospitality and technical) with per-item fulfillment status, equipment inventory with checkout and return, task templates with relative date offsets that auto-generate every checklist when a show is confirmed, and GPS-based crew zone tracking on show day.

Calisto Assure handles structured safety checklists (fire, electrical, crowd management, emergency exits), permit tracking with expiry alerts, crowd capacity monitoring by zone, alcohol service compliance verification, noise level monitoring at property boundaries, insurance certificate verification for vendors, and emergency action plan distribution. Full audit trail for every inspection and sign-off.

Calisto was designed by someone who has actually run events. The rain delay protocol exists because that person needed to cascade schedule changes to 50 crew members in 3 minutes. The settlement engine closes same-night because an artist manager once demanded payment before leaving the venue. The lost child workflow exists because it happened. Every feature reflects a real operational scenario, not a product team hypothesis about what festival organizers might want.

Yes. Start for free with full access to all 50 products across all three suites. No credit card required, no time limit, and no feature restrictions. You only pay the 2% revenue share once you begin processing transactions.