About
Prompter exists to grow community theatre.
Everything else — the pricing, the free tier, the way the money works — exists to fund that. Not the other way round.
The free tier is the product, not a trial.
Most community theatre is run by people doing it after work. The company has no budget for software, and the show still has to be cast, scheduled, budgeted and sold. That company is who Prompter is for.
So Produce is free forever, and it is the whole base product — production management, your public website, and ticketing. Not a cut-down version. Not free for ninety days. You get 1 GB of document storage and one active production at a time, and beyond that nothing is held back to make you upgrade.
A company that uses Prompter free forever and never pays us a cent is not a failed conversion. They are the reason it was built.
How it pays for itself
The companies that can afford it carry the ones that can’t.
Some companies grow. They run several shows at once, they need unlimited productions, more storage, their own web address, the Bard assistant. Those companies move to Produce+ and pay a monthly fee.
That fee is what keeps the base product free for everyone else. A society with a paid subscription is not just buying features for itself — it is paying for the grassroots company three towns over that will never be able to.
Ticket sales carry a small fee too, and it is charged to the ticket buyer rather than taken out of your takings — your company receives the full face value of every ticket it sells. Between the two, the platform funds itself without ever needing to make the free tier worse.
What that commits us to.
It means we don’t make the free tier worse to sell the paid one. If something moves out of Produce and into Produce+, that is us breaking this page, and you should hold us to it.
It means no countdown, no “limited time”, no card required to start, and no feature quietly removed from under a company that planned around it.
And it means the upgrade has to be worth buying on its own merits — because the alternative, making the free tier painful enough to escape, would be the opposite of the point.
Start with the free one.
Create your company and run your next production. Upgrade if you outgrow it — and not because we made you.