Purpose-built for taprooms and craft breweries that host private events. Not a hotel ballroom system crammed into a smaller box.
Private events are some of the most profitable shifts a brewery runs all month — a single buyout can outperform a busy Saturday in the taproom. Yet most breweries manage these bookings with a shared Google Sheet, a few group texts, and a folder of half-edited Word docs. Inquiries slip through. Deposits get forgotten. Beer-tender setup gets sprung on the crew the morning of.
This isn't a discipline problem. It's a tooling problem. Restaurant private dining workflows assume a host, a banquet captain, and a chef coordinating a fixed menu. Breweries are different: the taproom is the venue, the production schedule constrains what's pourable, and your "event coordinator" is often a co-owner doing it between bottle releases.
The dominant enterprise option, Tripleseat, was built for hotel banquet halls and full-service catering operations. It's powerful, but you're paying $4,200+ per year for menu engineering, BEO routing, and catering kitchen integrations you'll never touch. For a brewery running 5–25 private events a month across two or three spaces, 90% of those features are noise.
What a brewery-first tool should actually do: capture inquiries the second they arrive, generate a proposal in under two minutes, handle e-signatures on a phone, recognize that "drink tickets" are a real line item, and quietly send reminders so nobody has to remember who paid a deposit on which Tuesday.
Add drink tickets as proposal line items with custom pricing. Track redemption per event so reconciliation takes minutes, not hours.
Cash, check, and Venmo deposits get recorded with a note. ClearHost tracks the balance even when the money didn't move through Stripe.
"No outside alcohol," "no amplified music after 9pm," ABC permit reminders — auto-populated on every contract so nothing gets missed.
Beer garden, back room, brewhouse, full buyout — configure your real spaces with capacity, base rate, and conflict rules.
ClearHost generates a daily event-staff brief you can paste into 7Shifts so your bar leads know what's coming Friday at 6.
Drop the inquiry form into Squarespace, WordPress, or Wix. New leads land in ClearHost, not your already-overflowing inbox.
| Feature | ClearHost Venue ($149/mo) | Perfect Venue ($299/mo) | Tripleseat ($350/mo) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead capture form | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Event calendar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| BEO + proposals | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| E-signature | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Guest portal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI email drafting | ✓ | ✓ | Limited |
| Drink ticket add-ons | ✓ | — | — |
| Offline payment recording | ✓ | — | — |
| Multi-contact per event | ✓ | — | — |
| Setup fee | None | None | $500 |
Prices as of May 2026.
No. ClearHost works for any hospitality venue managing private events — restaurants, bars, event spaces, wineries, and distilleries all use it. We've leaned into brewery-specific features because that's where we started, but the core workflow fits any venue that takes private bookings.
Tripleseat costs $350+/mo with a $500 setup fee and is built for hotel banquet halls and full-service catering. ClearHost is purpose-built for small-to-mid venues running 5–30 private events a month. You get 90% of the workflow at 35% of the price, with zero setup fee.
Yes. CSV import is built in for contacts, past events, and revenue history. The Pro plan includes white-glove data migration from Tripleseat, Perfect Venue, or your spreadsheets.
ClearHost generates a daily event brief you can paste directly into 7Shifts shift notes. Native two-way integration is on the roadmap for Q3 2026.
You choose a plan. No automatic charges — we'll email you before the trial ends with a reminder. If you don't pick a plan, your account pauses (data preserved) until you're ready.
ClearHost is currently in private beta. Join the waitlist and we'll reach out when we're ready to expand.
Thanks for your interest in ClearHost. We'll reach out when we're ready to onboard new venues.