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What does your Tripleseat stack really cost over three years?

The subscription is one line. The stack is the subscription, the paid add-ons, the platform fee on every payment, the separate training tool, and the admin hours that glue it together. Put in your own quote and see the three-year total.

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Tripleseat pricing is quote-based — replace this with your quote.

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Floorplans and Insights (pace, forecasting, benchmarking) are priced separately. Set 0 if not quoted.

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The dollars of deposits and balances guests pay by card through the platform — not a count of payments.

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Tripleseat documents a 0.3% platform fee on top of processor fees. Editable in case your terms differ.

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The training software (LMS) you keep because the events tool doesn't train staff. Set 0 if you don't pay for one.

Hours spent copying the same data between the events tool, the training tool, and spreadsheets.

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For the Excellent side of the comparison. It starts at your stack's hours — no time saved is assumed until you change it.

Three-year cost of the stack

$94,404

Subscription, add-ons, payment platform fees, setup, a separate training tool, and the admin hours that glue it together — over 3 years across 3 locations. An estimate from example inputs — replace them with your quote.

Subscriptions
$37,800
Paid add-ons
$16,200
Platform fee on payments (0.3%)
$13,500
One-time setup
$3,000
Separate training software
$10,800
Admin time between systems
$13,104
Three-year total
$94,404
The same group on Excellent
Subscription ($360 per location, per month)
$38,880
Add-ons, setup, separate training software
Included
Percentage of payments
None
Admin time (3 h a week)
$13,104
Three-year total
$51,984
Difference — your stack costs more
$42,420

Card-processing fees are left out of both sides — your processor charges them either way. Excellent is priced at the monthly rate; annual is two months free. More under “How the math works” below.

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How the math works

Where do the numbers come from?

From you. Tripleseat pricing is quote-based, so the calculator never asserts their prices — the subscription, add-on, and setup fields are starting points to replace with your actual quote. The one published constant is the 0.3% Tripleseat platform fee on payments described in their documentation, applied on top of processor fees — and even that field is editable in case your terms differ.

Why include a separate training tool and admin hours?

Because the real cost of a stack is the stack. Most events platforms do not train staff, so groups keep a separate LMS with the same people and locations entered twice — plus the weekly hours spent re-keying between systems. Total cost of ownership counts all of it, not just the subscription line.

What does Excellent cost in comparison?

Excellent is $360 per location per month, everything included — every user, no setup fees, and never a percentage of your sales (annual is two months free). What the comparison also shows structurally: floorplans, pace reporting, and goals are included rather than sold as add-ons, and staff training runs on the same platform, which removes the separate LMS line and most of the re-keying hours.

Comparison notes reviewed July 2026 against Tripleseat’s public documentation. See the full Excellent vs Tripleseat comparison.