velsa

Built to do all the things venues actually do.

Velsa covers the full operational surface, from the first inquiry to closed books. Here's what's in the system today.

Bookings & contracts

Manage prospects, hold space, write contracts, and collect deposits — without the spreadsheet and without the "wait, who's holding which room?" Slack message.

Partitioned spaces

Distinctive

Book grand ballrooms and divisible rooms as whole spaces, individual sections, or any valid combination. Physical constraints are enforced — sections 1 and 3 can't be booked together without section 2.

Holds, tentative, definite

Move bookings through inquiry → hold → tentative → definite as the relationship matures. Multiple soft holds can coexist on the same time; the space only locks when a contract is signed. Expired holds release overnight and the next prospect in line is promoted — and emailed — automatically.

No double-bookings, guaranteed

Distinctive

Once an event is definite, its space is locked for that window — enforced in the database, not just the interface. Two coordinators racing to confirm the same contested slot can't both win; the second write is rejected.

Find-a-space, ranked

Given dates, attendance, and preferences, get a ranked list of available spaces sorted by fit score. No more hunting across calendars or asking three colleagues which room is free.

Contracts & addenda

Distinctive

Generate contracts from any booking, send for signature via DocuSign, and lock them on signing. Every subsequent change is a separate, separately-signed addendum — the original is never edited.

Custom payment schedules

Break a booking's fee into any number of installments with their own due dates. The system auto-issues each invoice on its due date and chases past-due automatically.

Sales pipeline with forecasting

Track prospects through six stages from new lead to closed contract. Probability-weighted forecasts give a realistic view of upcoming revenue without the optimism bias.

Operations & staff

Coordinate the people, spaces, and equipment that turn a booking into an event that actually happens.

The two-week ops board

Every published run-of-show item across every venue, grouped by date and department. One screen tells the team what's happening in the next fourteen days. Filterable by venue and department.

Run-of-show with department ownership

Build a timed schedule for each event with department tags and assigned staff. The schedule pulls names from the booking's roster — so “who's actually here?” is never a day-of question.

Constraint-aware floor plans

Drag rounds, rectangles, and stages onto the canvas. The system knows about walls, doors, columns, and outlets and warns when a layout is over capacity. Auto-layout places tables given a headcount.

Work orders & recurring maintenance

Distinctive

Track setup, teardown, repairs, and preventive maintenance against each venue. Recurring rules schedule the quarterly HVAC check and the weekly carpet cleaning without anyone remembering to.

Calendar across every venue

One calendar across every venue you operate, filterable and zoomable. The bookings detail you need without leaving the page or opening four tabs.

Equipment inventory with live stock

A per-venue equipment catalog where completed work orders draw stock down and return it. Low-stock alerts fire before you run out, and printable count sheets back the annual audit.

Reporting & accounting

Actual accounting, not just an invoice generator. Built for venues that have to answer to a board, a grants office, or a fiscal auditor.

Fund accounting

Distinctive

Real fund accounting — General, Enterprise, Capital Projects, Grants — over a shared chart of accounts, each fund with its own ledger. Standard for government and non-profit venues, unusual for venue software.

Invoicing across every revenue source

One invoice model for booking deposits, balances, payment-schedule installments, exhibitor orders, and ad-hoc charges. Auto-issued on the right trigger, emailed to the right party.

Payments, refunds, and dunning

Record manual payments (check, ACH, wire) or process cards online. Refund per-payment or void invoices entirely. Past-due invoices escalate automatically; no spreadsheet of aging buckets.

Fiscal-year budgets with variance

Set account-level budgets at the start of the fiscal year. The variance report tells you, by account and by fund, where you're running over and under — not the same answer.

Configurable ledger export

Distinctive

Export journal activity on a fully configurable column layout — CSV or fixed-width — to match whatever your finance system expects, whether that's an ERP, Workday, or a Clerk of Court AR summary. Batched, acknowledged, and re-exportable — not a CSV dump your controller has to reshape.

Audit-grade journal ledger

Every financial transaction lives in an append-only journal with a source pointer back to the originating record. Nothing gets deleted; nothing gets quietly edited. Filterable by account, fund, date, or source.

Financial statements

Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and trial balance generated straight from the ledger — point-in-time and period-over-period, with a built-in balanced check. The statements a board or auditor asks for by name.

A reports library, plus your own

Distinctive

Fifteen-plus built-in reports — AR aging, sales pipeline, work-order status, attendance, room-nights and economic impact — plus a no-code ad-hoc builder for the ones you invent. Export to CSV, Excel, or PDF, or schedule any of them to email on a recurring cadence.

Underneath all of that

Cross-cutting capabilities that make the rest possible.

The best way to see it is to try it.

Velsa is live as a demo with realistic seeded data. Click through the flows above and see how they actually work.