Venue Management Software in Australia: What Stadiums Are Choosing Between

If you run a stadium or a large venue in Australia and you are looking at venue management software, the shortlist is shorter than it looks. Several names that used to be separate companies now belong to one, and the remaining options are built for quite different venues.

Here is what the market looks like in 2026, what reviewers say about the biggest player, and how to tell which kind of system your venue actually needs. Facts below were checked against each vendor’s own site on 2 October 2026.

The market has consolidated around Momentus

Momentus Technologies is the former Ungerboeck, founded in 1985 in the United States, which rebranded as Momentus in early 2023. On the way it absorbed most of its competition:

• EventBooking, maker of VenueOps, merged with Ungerboeck in May 2021.
• Priava, the venue management company founded in Sydney in 1997, was acquired in November 2021.
• WeTrack, for control rooms and incident management, was acquired in April 2023.

Today the products are Momentus Enterprise, the continuation of Ungerboeck, and Momentus Elite, the continuation of VenueOps. Momentus also launched Momentus Ticketing, a white-label product powered by vivenu, in May 2026. The old Ungerboeck, Priava and EventBooking websites all redirect to Momentus, and a Momentus Priava login still exists for existing customers.

So if your venue runs Ungerboeck, EBMS, VenueOps or Priava, you are already a Momentus customer, and “moving off Momentus” covers all of them. Momentus has an Australian office in Brisbane and claims more than 550 stadiums and arenas as customers worldwide.

The other options

Outside Momentus, the products Australian venues tend to look at are built for different jobs:

• iVvy, founded on the Gold Coast in 2009, sells venue software to hotels, function centres, and stadiums and sports clubs.
• EventPro, headquartered in Canada with an office at Milsons Point in Sydney, positions itself as a complete solution for rooms, resources, people and places.
• Tripleseat, Event Temple and Planning Pod are built mainly for restaurants, hotels and event venues selling function space, with US headquarters. Planning Pod is one of the few that publishes its pricing.

The function-space tools are fine for what they do. A stadium’s problem is usually bigger: thousands of capacity across a hierarchy of spaces, several kinds of booking competing for the same dates, and a building that needs to know what is on.

What reviewers say about Momentus

Momentus is not a product people broadly dislike. Across Capterra, GetApp and Software Advice, which share one review pool, it holds 4.3 out of 5 from 98 reviews, with support rated highest of its scores. Reviewers praise it as one source of truth for every event and as a highly flexible platform.

The complaints are consistent, though, and they are about complexity:

• “it is complex and requires training beyond what we had internally required before”
• “extremely labor intensive onboarding and system buildout process”
• “Steep learning curve to master.”
• “it has too many clicks to get things done”
• reporting that lacks detail, and cost relative to competitors

That is the trade a broad suite makes. It covers venue sales, events, catering, operations and now ticketing, and every venue pays for that breadth in configuration and training, whether it uses all of it or not. One Australian caterer’s case study on Momentus’s own site describes it as “the Rolls Royce of event management systems” with capabilities the organisation does not need.

What a stadium actually needs from the system

The requirements that separate stadiums from function rooms are few, and they decide the shortlist:

• Provisional holds that compete. Venue sales rarely go straight from enquiry to confirmed, and the strongest commercial intent has to win the date.
• A space hierarchy. A stadium contains concourses that contain rooms that combine and subdivide, so booking one space books others.
• Approvals in the booking, not in an email thread beside it.
• The event behind the booking: staffing, run sheets and the operational detail of the day.
• Downstream systems, because the booking drives building services, staffing and security.
• A venue network, where each venue team manages its own spaces without seeing everything else.

We go through each in what a venue booking system actually needs.

Suite, specialist or a stadium platform

Three honest rules of thumb:

• Choose a suite if your venue genuinely uses most of its modules, sales, catering, finance and operations, and has the people to configure and train for it.
• Choose a function-space tool if you mainly sell rooms and packages and nothing downstream depends on the booking.
• Choose a platform built for stadiums if your team works around the system to run bookings: holds tracked in spreadsheets, double-bookings caught by people, and building services scheduled by hand.

Whichever you choose, move venue by venue rather than in one cutover. Venues do not stop trading while the system changes.

If you are on Momentus today, we go further in three posts: signs you have outgrown Momentus, Momentus alternatives for stadiums and moving off Momentus without stopping trading. On Priava, start with what Priava venues should know.

Buying in NSW

NSW Government agencies buy ICT services through the ICT Services Scheme, which is mandatory for them. Suppliers join the scheme at different levels, and the level shapes the contracting route. Check where a vendor sits on the scheme early, because it shapes the procurement as much as the product does.

Where Booka fits

We built Booka for Venues NSW, and every stadium in its network now runs on it, including Allianz Stadium, CommBank Stadium and McDonald Jones Stadium. It does the booking and event operations job with the six requirements above built in, connects to the building management system, and is available to license for other stadiums and large venues. Shakewell is a Registered supplier under the NSW ICT Services Scheme.

It is narrower than a suite on purpose. If you use most of what a suite offers, we will tell you so.

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Sources: Momentus about us, Momentus Answers, pricing and stadiums and arenas; Ungerboeck rebrands as Momentus Technologies and Ungerboeck and EventBooking announce merger (Ausleisure); Ungerboeck acquires Priava (Sports Venue Business); Momentus acquires WeTrack and Momentus Ticketing launch; Gema Group case study (Momentus); Momentus reviews on Capterra and Software Advice; iVvy, EventPro, Tripleseat, Event Temple and Planning Pod; NSW ICT Services Scheme (buy.nsw).