Alternative
Event Temple alternative for non-hotel venues.
No PMS required.
Event Temple is a solid hotel sales tool: group sales, room blocks, PMS connections, from $249 per month. If your venue is an event space, a winery, a barn or a rooftop, and your clients are as often couples as companies, that logic just adds weight. Joinways starts from your inquiries, not your guest rooms, from $69 per venue per month.
Which Event Temple alternative if you have no hotel logic?
Joinways is an Event Temple alternative for independent event venues with no hotel logic, at under a third of the entry price: $69 to $199 per venue per month billed annually depending on venue size ($86 to $249 monthly), users unlimited, against Event Temple from $249 per month billed annually (read on its pricing page, September 2026). Event Temple is designed for hotels and chains, with group sales, PMS synchronization and multi-property reporting, and it does that job well. Joinways is venue management software built on an independent venue's day-to-day: inquiries arriving by email, web form or marketplaces like Peerspace and The Knot are read on arrival and their details extracted; a wedding or private event is treated as a real sales cycle, with holds on dates, a proposal with e-signature, a deposit paid through Stripe and follow-ups paced over months; a calendar per space detects conflicts; and the BEO is generated from the signed proposal. Live in half a day, full switch-over in two weeks, no integration project. The 30-day trial needs no card, and data exports at any time.
- From $69 per venue per month, users unlimited, against Event Temple from $249 per month
- No PMS required. Hotels can still connect Mews or Apaleo
- The wedding and private event cycle handled in full: holds on dates, proposal and contract signed online, deposit then balance, follow-ups over months
- Automatic extraction of date, guest count and budget from every inquiry, marketplaces included
- Live in half a day, full switch-over in two weeks, full data export at any time
Joinways vs Event Temple: for an independent venue
Event Temple is still solid for hotels and chains. This comparison is published by Joinways, from the standpoint of an independent venue and from Event Temple's public pages, including what Joinways does not do; where they do not settle a point, the cell reads "Not verified".
| Feature | JoinwaysJoinways | Event Temple |
|---|---|---|
| Entry priceJoinways: $69 to $199 per venue/month billed annually depending on venue size ($86 to $249 monthly), users unlimited, 30-day free trial with no card. Event Temple: from $249 per month, billed annually, with conditions and possible setup fees (eventtemple.com/pricing, read on September 6, 2026). | Yes | Yes |
| Works without a PMS or hotel systemEvent Temple's public positioning centers on hotels, PMS connections and group sales; standalone use by a venue with no PMS was not verified. Joinways works alone and can also connect Mews or Apaleo. | Yes | Not verified |
| Automatic extraction of inquiry details (email, forms, marketplaces)Event Temple documents lead capture and a sales pipeline; automatic extraction of date, guest count and budget from free-text emails was not verified. | Yes | Not verified |
| Wedding and private event cycle: holds on dates, deposit then balance, follow-ups over monthsNot described on Event Temple's public pages from the standpoint of a wedding venue. | Yes | Not verified |
| Sales pipeline and multi-space calendarBoth tools offer pipeline and calendar views. | Yes | Yes |
| Floor plans and POS integrationJoinways has neither. Check Event Temple's integrations if you rely on them. | No | Not verified |
| Unlimited users on every planEvent Temple's user model was not verified for this comparison. | Yes | Not verified |
| Full data export at any timeJoinways: CSV/Excel export of contacts, events and revenue from the app. Event Temple's export terms were not verified. | Yes | Not verified |
- Yes
- Partial
- No
- Not verified
This comparison is published by Joinways and reflects our reading of Event Temple at the time of writing; a "Yes" for Event Temple can cover a different scope or a different plan. The FAQ below says when Event Temple remains the right choice. "Not verified" means the public documentation of Event Temple did not settle the point.
Sources: Event Temple, official pricing page · Joinways pricing (public)
Event Temple thinks like a hotel: group sales, room blocks, PMS
Event Temple earned its place with hotels, and it is legitimate there: group sales, banquets, the PMS link, chain reporting. If your venue is an independent event space, estate or rooftop, that logic has a cost: hotel features you never use, a pipeline built for a different client than yours, and an entry price more than three times Joinways'.
- The mismatch is immediate: the conversation is about PMS sync and group sales, while you rent out spaces, with inquiries, proposals and a calendar
- Part of the tool's value sits in the PMS integration: without a PMS, you configure, and pay for, machinery that does nothing for you
- The pipeline models B2B hotel sales (group sales, room blocks): the couple writing on a Sunday evening about next year's wedding does not fit that mold
- Hotel terminology end to end: an independent venue's team spends its time translating its own business into someone else's words
A tool that starts from your inquiries, not your PMS
Joinways is organized around the inquiry, which is what keeps an independent venue busy. There is no upfront integration and no hotel module, and private events get the same follow-through as corporate ones. You connect your mailboxes, handle your first inquiries the same day, and the full switch-over takes two weeks.
Related product pages: Clients & companies
- Start with no technical dependency: connect Gmail, Outlook or Microsoft 365 and your website form, that's it
- Weddings and private events treated as a real sales cycle: holds on dates, proposals with e-signature, deposit then balance paid through Stripe, follow-ups prepared over months
- Calendar, list, and kanban across spaces with availability conflict detection, no hotel system behind it
- Public pricing per venue, unlimited users, invoices in QuickBooks Online, full data export at any time
What the switch changes for an independent venue
What Joinways puts in place for an independent, with no rooms and no PMS.
Corporate and private clients
Offsites decided in a week and weddings signed a year out move forward in the same tool, each with its own statuses and follow-ups.
Time saved per person
Automatic extraction, reply templates and proposals built from your packages: each salesperson gets real selling time back every day.
First reply
Inquiries centralized and prioritized: a same-day first reply becomes routine.
Figures are illustrative: they describe what a structured process is designed to make possible, not measured Joinways customer results. Actual results vary by venue.
Event Temple is built to sell rooms, and you sell dates
Choosing between a hotel tool and an independent-venue tool comes down to what your business actually is: cover both of your cycles, corporate and private, drop what belongs to chains, and switch fast.
List your real usage over one month (inquiries handled, proposals sent, spaces booked, weddings in progress): that scope is what the new tool must cover 100%
Be wary of features that assume another system (PMS, channel manager) or another client (the B2B hotel group): without them, they do nothing for you, yet still clutter every screen
Set a two-week switch with milestones: week one, connections and packages; week two, the team handles new inquiries for real and the old system goes read-only
Right-sizing indicators
- Time from green light to the first proposal sent from the new tool (aim: under two weeks)
- Share of paid features actually used (target: close to 100%)
- Inquiry conversion rate, per cycle: corporate on one side, private events on the other
The features you never open still show up on the invoice
An independent venue's work comes down to taking the inquiry, holding the date, sending the proposal and preparing the wedding or the offsite. Pick the tool that covers those four steps and that a small team will actually use in full.
Who Joinways replaces Event Temple for
The independent profiles whose business is not hotel sales.
Related product pages: Events · Tool integrations
Estates, barns and wineries
Weddings, offsites, private parties: a space calendar with Hold and Confirmed statuses, proposals with deposit and balance, a BEO for the day itself. The full private event cycle, with no hotel system to plug in.
Event halls, rooftops and urban spaces
An inquiry kanban per space, availability conflict detection, confirmed revenue by space and by period. The shared calendar view helps avoid double bookings without a channel manager or a PMS.
Independent boutique hotels
Private events, weddings and offsites managed on the events side: inquiries, proposals, BEO and follow-ups in Joinways, while your PMS keeps running the guest rooms. Mews and Apaleo connect if you want them to (Cloudbeds is in development); nothing is required.
A Tennessee estate picks Joinways over Event Temple
Starting point
A historic estate outside Nashville (weddings, offsites, private parties) wants out of Excel. The team evaluates Event Temple: a convincing demo, but centered on the PMS and the hotel group-sales pipeline, from $249 a month. The estate has no guest rooms to sync and no revenue management team, and most of its business is weddings, which get decided over months.
The setup
Joinways set up in two weeks: Outlook inbox, website form and The Knot notifications connected, a calendar for the three spaces (conservatory, barn, lawn), packages with deposit and balance terms, five reply templates including two for weddings. No technical integration, no IT team.
Six months later
Same-day first replies, and wedding bookings that move forward thanks to holds and prepared follow-ups. The team now pays for a tool it uses in full.
Owner
Illustrative scenario: historic estate event venue
Illustrative scenario based on typical venue outcomes, not an actual named customer.
Frequently asked questions
Does Joinways work without a PMS?
What is different from Event Temple day to day?
How does Joinways handle weddings and private events?
When is Event Temple still the right choice?
What does the day-to-day look like once we've switched?
Can we try Joinways before deciding?
Pricing is public: from $69 per venue per month depending on venue size, with a 30-day free trial. See pricing