Membership Infrastructure for Cultural Organizations

Withfriends was built by event organizers, venue managers, art space founders, and digital designers who have all experienced the pressures of running a cultural organization and show space.

We started Withfriends to provide additional support from within your own community of supporters and to help sustain and grow your business through membership. 

Financial Value

Whether you need money to expand your programming or to buy more pint glasses after last Saturday night, Withfriends builds a fundraising budget that can supplement your monthly cash flow and help you grow in a sustainable way.

How do we build this budget? By converting your audience into monthly paying members.

Within three months of launching a venue on Eventbrite that’s selling about 15,000 advance tickets per month, we bring them an additional $54,000 in annual fundraising from simply running memberships. 

This is based on averages from our data that suggest that between 1-3% of ticket buyers convert into monthly paying members at $10/month.

The best part? It’s all cumulative! Every month you’re building on the last, and after one year you could build a fundraising budget worth hundreds of thousands of dollars!
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Engagement Value

A feature that's valuable for both ticket buyers and organizers is our Testimonial feature. When a ticket buyer completes a membership purchase, they're asked why they decided to donate. If they chose to answer, that message is sent to the organizers who can publish it, or simply feel good about the work they're doing.

Being a member of your favorite venue gives you the feeling of ownership, and bridges the often missed connection between event organizer and attendee.

You’d be surprised how often messages like these appear, and give everyone from the box office manager to the GM a sense of acknowledgement and purpose:

Member Management

Withfriends automates everything you need to run your membership program. We automate benefits like discounts and presales, help you look up members onsite with our member app, and provide simple behavior insight tools so you can find your super users, tweak your pricing just right, and monitor how often benefits are actually being used.

You can read more about Membership Management in our Full Feature List

How It Works

Withfriends integrates seamlessly with your existing ticketing flows on Eventbrite

• In-browser membership upsell directly following Eventbrite purchase.  A rebate mechanic based on your member benefits incentivizes becoming a member.

• Membership upsell by email as well in followup.

• Automates member benefits like discounts & pre-sale access 

• Sign in with your Eventbrite account and add events from Eventbrite with a single click.

This is in addition to:

• Instant Setup - by clicking Become an Organizer

• Organizer Profile - Direct Membership Purchasing for any org on https://withfriends.co

• Creating and Managing Events - Create events with multiple tiers, private links, and additional messages on ticket receipts.

• Mobile Check In - Multi device check in with Ticket Scanning available.

• Membership Management - Backend is as powerful as the front-end is streamlined

• Membership Drive - Boost membership sign-ups during a set period of time

Sign up here and/or schedule a meeting  to get started now
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