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$0.89 + 1.85% per ticket sold — no subscription.New here? Learn how BrightStar works
Every event page leaks the same four ways. Elevate closes each one, automatically.
You pour your heart into a gathering people genuinely want to attend — and money still slips through the cracks. Cart abandonment, missed upsells, and static pricing leave thousands on the table, every single event.
Elevate's revenue optimization tools work automatically in the background. Recover abandoned carts, suggest relevant add-ons, and let AI optimize your pricing — all hands-free.
Tools that recover lost sales and grow every order — quietly, in the background, while you hold the room.
Your event page sells only YOUR event — zero ads, zero cross-promotion of other events, zero distractions between your audience and your ticket button.
BrightStar branding removed. Colors auto-matched to your hero art. Your event, your brand, your experience — clean and professional.
Automatically re-engage buyers who started checkout but didn't finish. Recover 15-25% of lost sales.
Offer meal plans, VIP upgrades, merchandise, and more at checkout. Increase order value effortlessly.
Sell private rooms, shared dorms, and multi-night stays with real inventory — accommodation and admission in one checkout, built for retreats.
Recurring community memberships with automatic billing — steady revenue between events, deposited straight to your Stripe account.
AI-driven dynamic pricing that automatically adjusts based on demand and conversion rates.
Auto-fill cancellations instantly. Never leave money on the table when you're sold out.
Buyers handle their own upgrades, exchanges, credits, and refunds — happier attendees, near-zero support load for you.
Assigned seating with interactive maps, plus organized ticket categories for tiers, sections, and special access.
Turn your community into your sales force. Track referrals, automate commissions, grow organically.
Dana-based gratitude collection. Let attendees show appreciation after transformative experiences.
Ticket buyers become lifetime ambassadors — they earn on every organizer they bring, and your community grows itself.
Promo campaigns, early-bird tiers that step up on schedule, and custom fees — the pricing levers, all in one place.
Photo gallery, event highlights, and testimonials — plus custom confirmation emails and automated reminder sequences.
Set it up once, and let the tools work for you automatically.
Set up your event with all the details — pricing, tickets, and rich media content.
Choose the Elevate tier. Configure upsells, add-ons, and Smart Pricing.
Cart recovery, visitor retargeting, and pricing optimization run in the background.
Track recovered sales, upsell revenue, and optimized conversions in your dashboard.
Build your own event in the wizard — no account needed — with every Elevate tool switched on.
Every tool in Elevate earns its keep while you hold the room. Three of them, up close — as your buyers see them.
A seeker fills their cart Friday night, then life pulls them away. Elevate follows up in your voice — at 30 minutes, 6 hours, and 24 hours — with their cart saved and waiting. This is the real email, exactly as your buyer receives it.
15–25% of lost sales recoveredRecordings, meal plans, VIP upgrades, a tea ceremony before the doors open — offered at the exact moment saying yes is easy. One tap, and a $60 order becomes $82.
+18% average order valueWhen the room is still glowing, gratitude wants somewhere to go. A gentle dana screen reaches attendees after the gathering — appreciation, straight to the people who held the space.
Bonus revenue, zero effort…plus smart pricing, an affiliate engine, rooms & stays, memberships, waitlists, and white-label branding — every tool in the grid above.
BrightStar has carried conscious gatherings — kirtan and retreats, sound healing and ceremony — for more than twenty years. The tools are new — the trust isn’t.


















































































Teachers, musicians and organizers who run their gatherings on BrightStar — some since 2005.
Elevate’s platform fee — $0.89 + 1.85% per ticket — applies only on the events where you switch the revenue engine on. No subscription, no setup.
On other platforms, the fee buys processing. Here, it buys a revenue engine.
Our mission is to empower conscious creators with prosperity — growth tools that let the gatherings that heal also sustain the ones who hold them.
Illustrative, using the product’s own averages. Card fees still apply, as they do everywhere.
…and more, with new revenue tools landing every season.
Proven to increase sales by 10-20%. The tools pay for themselves.
Seva is our free tier: full ticketing, door scanning, and the essentials, with no platform fee, forever. Elevate will still be here the day the room gets bigger.
Explore Seva — free ticketingEvery major ticketing platform takes a fee on every paid ticket, from the first one. On BrightStar, ticketing is free — fees apply only on the events where you enable the revenue tools.
| Feature | Eventbrite | BrightStar |
|---|---|---|
| Sell paid tickets with $0 platform fee | — | ✓ |
| Fees only on events where you enable the revenue tools | — | ✓ |
| Your page, your brand — no ads for other events | — | ✓ |
| Abandoned-cart recovery for every buyer | Limited* | ✓ |
| Post-event tip jar | — | ✓ |
| Rooms & stays — retreat accommodation inventory | — | ✓ |
| Memberships — recurring revenue | — | ✓ |
| Smart pricing (AI) | — | ✓ |
| Automated affiliate commissions | — | ✓ |
| Brand ambassador — earn on organizers you refer | — | ✓ |
* Eventbrite’s cart reminder reaches only buyers signed into an Eventbrite account.
Amplify includes every Elevate feature plus the marketing engine — and targeting built on your audience, your collaborators’ audiences, and the 500,000+ network.
The tools pay for themselves on the first gathering: recovered carts, filled waitlists, and orders that grow on their own.
Elevate is the revenue layer inside BrightStar — the platform born from more than twenty years serving conscious gatherings, from weekly satsangs to multi-day retreats. Because it lives where your event already lives, there is nothing to integrate and nothing to configure twice: flip the tier on and your event page becomes wholly yours — no ads, no cross-promotion, your brand only — while the conversion machinery starts working underneath it.
That machinery covers the whole leak map. Abandoned carts are followed up automatically, and 15–25% of them come back. Meal plans, VIP upgrades, and merchandise are offered at checkout, where saying yes is easy. Rooms & Stays sells accommodation and admission in one order — private rooms, shared dorms, multi-night stays with real inventory, built for retreats. Early-bird tiers, discount codes, and smart pricing keep the room filling at the right numbers.
Got Questions?
Elevate is BrightStar's conversion tier: your event page becomes 100% yours — no ads, no cross-promotion, no platform branding — with a revenue engine working in the background: abandoned-cart recovery, upsells at checkout, smart pricing, the affiliate engine, and self-serve ticket care. You enable it per event; the tools run on their own.
On the free tier, your event page can carry discovery modules that point to other gatherings. On Elevate, it sells only yours: zero ads, zero cross-promotion, BrightStar's branding removed, and the page's colors matched to your own art. Nothing stands between your audience and your ticket button.
When someone starts checkout and leaves, Elevate follows up automatically — a well-timed recovery sequence that brings 15–25% of them back to finish. Visitor recovery — coming soon — will work alongside it, re-engaging the people who viewed your page but never opened checkout. You set nothing up; it is on the moment Elevate is.
$0.89 + 1.85% per ticket sold, per event — not a subscription. There are no monthly fees and no setup costs; you pay only when you sell. Turn it on for the events that need it and off for the ones that do not.
Yes — Rooms & Stays sells private rooms, shared dorms, and multi-night accommodation with real inventory, in the same checkout as admission. It was built for retreats: one reservation covers the seat and the bed. Alongside it: meal plans, VIP upgrades, merchandise, memberships, and a post-event tip jar.
AI-driven pricing that adjusts to demand — early-bird tiers that step up on schedule, group rates, and dynamic adjustments as your event fills. You stay in control of the bounds; the engine handles the timing, so the people who commit early are rewarded and the seats that remain are never underpriced.
No — that is Amplify. Elevate is what happens after someone arrives: it converts the visitor, recovers the abandoned checkout, and grows the order. Amplify brings the visitors. They are separate per-ticket tiers, they stack, and each earns its keep alone — but together, every visitor Amplify pays for gets three more chances to become a buyer.
Maybe not — Seva stays free forever: full ticketing, door scanning, and the essentials, with no platform fee. Elevate earns its keep when the revenue at stake outgrows it: a bigger room, higher ticket prices, a retreat with accommodation, or simply enough volume that a 15–25% recovery rate is real money. Because it is per-event, you can bring it in only for those.
Take the next step
Walk the wizard, meet the tier that brings the visitors, or step back to the whole ecosystem.
Walk the full organizer experience — every Elevate tool live inside it. No signup required.
Open the demo →Elevate converts the room — Amplify fills it. The two tiers compound.
Explore Amplify →One home for the whole movement — artists, venues, seekers, and you.
See the ecosystem →