Host your own SPEED DATING EVENTS at your physical venue for just $49 a month. Perfect for A bar, Lounge or a Restaurant.
Earn 25% COMMISSION from venue ticket sales.
The software is designed to work only with physical locations.
SPEED DATING FACTORY software runs the room so your bar doesn’t have to. Singles reserve a seat at a real event, seven-minute rounds at a real table, real chemistry, no swiping into the void. Venues get sold-out and a dashboard built for running a your event, not just a party.
# SPEED DATING FACTORY — Venue Guide
## How the software works
SPEED DATING FACTORY is a platform that fills your bar or restaurant with paying guests on a speed dating night and then the software runs the event. Singles find your event in our app that is advertised on Meetup by SPEED DATING FACTORY and your advertising for the event and show up. During the event, the app tells every guest which table number to sit at each round, so your staff never has to manage the room.
The business model for you as a venue:
You pay a $49/month subscription to host events — that's the only cost plus your advertising if any, with unlimited events included.
Ticket revenue is collected through the platform's payment system for SPEED DATING FACTORY. The venue does not charge the event price.
You make your money on food and drinks and 25% COMMISSION on venue ticket sales.
Every dater has a one drink minimum per event, and a room full of people on dates orders more than one.
## What you have to do to hold a speed dating event
### 1. Create your account and venue profile
Sign up on the website, choose "I run a venue", and fill in your venue's details: name, address, city, country, and time zone. Event times are always shown in your venue's local time.
### 2. Subscribe ($49/month)
From your venue dashboard, start the subscription. You'll pay by card at a secure checkout. Once active, you can publish as many events as you like nationwide.
### 3. Create your event
On the Events page, click create and set:
Title and description — e.g. "Tuesday Singles Night"
Date and start time
Duration and minutes per round (7-minute rounds are the sweet spot)
Total capacity — how many seats your room can hold
Gender balance (optional) — split seats between men and women so the night stays even
Age range (optional) — e.g. 25–39
The entry fee is fixed at $35 per participant platform wide that goes to SPEED DATING FACTORY and there is nothing for you to configure. As soon as you publish, the event is listed for singles in your city, and seats can only be booked until they run out and the system prevents overbooking automatically.
### 4. On the night: run the event from your dashboard
Open the event on your venue dashboard:
Check in guests as they arrive, so the app knows who's in the room.
Start the night when everyone's settled, the app freezes the roster and assigns everyone a table for round one.
Advance the rounds — when a round's time is up, tap next round. Men rotate to the next table, women stay seated. If there's an odd number, someone sits out a round (a good moment to order a drink).
End the event when the last round finishes.
Your only physical prep: number your tables, keep the bar staffed, and enforce the one drink minimum.
### 5. After the event
The daters take over from here. Each one privately picks who they'd like to see again, and when two people pick each other, the app reveals their contact details to each other. Nothing for you to do, but happy matches come back to the bar where they met.
Interested parties, simply go to the event link to sign up.
