Booking system for

Museums and
Galleries

Timed entry every 15 minutes, guided tours with reserved rooms, checkout and emails in the visitor’s language, school groups, and redeemable vouchers. The European museums that are making the transition are doing so without a separate Excel spreadsheet.

Controlling who enters is not the same as controlling the room. Capacity is managed by time slot.
15 mintimed-entry windows
+30languages in the booking flow
QRticket validated without the box office
+70Cultural OTAs

Challenges Facing the Industry

Five Challenges Facing Museums — and How TuriTop Can Help

From the line at the ticket counter to the annual pass: what sets a full museum apart from one operating at 30% capacity.

Challenge 1

Density per room. Not per door

You sell a timed-entry ticket for 4:30 p.m. and think you have the capacity under control. But the crowd is concentrated in the main hall, the line forms inside, and the experience is ruined. Controlling entry doesn't mean controlling the hall.

How TuriTop Helps You (Partially)

  • Entry windows every 15/30 minutes with configurable capacity per time slot
  • Resource Manager: Each guided tour locks its assigned room
  • Honest: TuriTop controls who comes in; your team manages the internal flow
  • Exportable data by time slot: See which hours were at capacity and adjust the next edition accordingly
Challenge 2

Five products at the same door

General adult, children ages 7–12, students with ID, seniors, free admission on the third Sunday, annual pass, guided tour in Spanish, audio guide in Italian. If your system requires the ticket agent to manually enter ticket prices, the bottleneck shifts to the ticket counter and the line outside grows longer.

How TuriTop Can Help You

  • Ticket types listed as separate items with their prices and capacity
  • Automatic discounts based on a code (student ID, membership)
  • Seasonal pricing. Free admission on the third Sunday of each month (date to be determined)
  • Redeemable gift certificates. Sell the Christmas gift certificate today; it can be redeemed in the spring.
Challenge 3

School groups and tour buses. Managing the rush

On Tuesday at 10 a.m., four school groups and two tour buses will arrive. That’s 300 people in 20 minutes. If you handle them as individual bookings, the system will crash. If you handle them poorly, the individual visitors will wait half an hour, and their frustration will grow.

How TuriTop Can Help You

  • "School Group" product with its special price and "responsible teacher" field
  • Payment links via email for schools that pay through school invoices
  • Manual bookings (box office, agencies) are included in the same inventory
  • Affiliate Program: Travel agencies earn a commission for each bus they bring in
Challenge 4

The visitor's language, captured at booking

In peak season a large share of your visitors come from abroad. If the booking experience isn't in their language, they abandon the cart. And if the confirmation reaches them in a language they don't read, they turn up on the day not knowing what they bought. The language barrier is solved before they walk in, not at the desk.

How TuriTop Can Help You

  • Multilingual system (+30 languages) for the calendar, checkout, and emails
  • The guest's language is recorded on every booking and available in the export.
  • A preliminary email from your domain with instructions in the visitor's language
  • Automated emails in the visitor's language, with no multilingual front desk needed
Challenge 5

Turn a one-time visitor into an annual member

A visitor who comes in four times a year is 4× more profitable than a one-time visitor. But the upsell for an annual pass happens at the exact moment they leave, exhausted, staring at the counter. If they don’t receive a well-designed follow-up two days later, that conversion is lost.

How TuriTop Helps You (Partially)

  • Mailchimp sync: Each visitor is added to your database, segmented by entry type
  • Custom discount codes to encourage conversion to an annual subscription
  • Gift Certificate as a Bridge: Offer an "Annual Gift Certificate" for Special Occasions
  • Automatic review requests: email sent two days later with links to Google and TripAdvisor · configurable delay
  • To be honest: TuriTop doesn't handle recurring billing for annual subscriptions. You'd need your CRM.

What TuriTop Does for Your Museum

Six features designed for the gallery

Timed-entry

15-, 30-, and 60-minute windows with capacity capped

Set the frequency of time slots and the capacity per time slot. If the 4:00 PM slot is full, the system will sell the 4:15 PM slot. No human error, no double bookings. Guided tours block their room using the Resource Manager.

+30 languages

Checkout and emails in the visitor's language

Calendar, booking process, and automated emails in the visitor's language. The language is recorded on the booking and comes through in the export.

Tu dominio

Prior email + reminder from your own brand

The email is sent from 'museo@tudominio.com' and includes a map of the entrance, information on showtimes, and basic rules (no flash photography, no food in the theater). It's your brand, not ours.

Groups + schools

Specialized Products for Schools and School Buses

Create a "school group" product with its price, "responsible teacher" field, and policy. Tourist buses operate on an affiliate system with commissions recorded by agency.

Vouchers and discounts

Gift Cards and Group Codes

Gift certificates redeemable (validity is configurable). Discount codes subject to conditions (student, association, member). Seasonal pricing for scheduled free admission days (third Sunday of the month).

Curatorial data

Data by time slot and sales channel

See which time slots sold out, which cultural OTA brought in the most visitors, and which discount codes were used. Data exportable to Google Sheets so the curatorial team can design the next program based on numbers, not intuition.

Before and After

Your museum, with TuriTop and without TuriTop

What Changes at the Ticket Counter When You Stop Typing in Fares by Hand.

Without TuriTop
  • A 40-minute line at the door because your ticket agent is typing in the fares by hand
  • Audio guide provided in Spanish to an Italian guest who made the booking in Italian
  • Schools pay within 60 days after receiving three emails from your administration
  • Total capacity is controlled, but Room B is packed on Saturdays
  • The annual bonus is lower because the visitor left feeling tired and you didn't sign anything
  • Free admission on the third Sunday of the month = chaos at the ticket counter
With TuriTop
  • Timed-entry ticket purchased online · QR code check-in in 3 seconds
  • Customer's language recorded on the booking · available in the export
  • Payment links sent via email with an invoice. They pay through their corporate payment gateway
  • Windows with range-based capacity + hourly data to adjust the next edition
  • Mailchimp + personalized discount codes for visitors in the days that follow
  • Seasonal prices — €0 scheduled by date; tickets can still be reserved
Tablet audio guide on a brass pedestal in front of an abstract painting in a room with ochre-colored walls Audio Guide · Room B

You're not alone in the room

Your job is the collection. Ours is to make sure visitors come prepared.

TuriTop manages timed-entry windows, tiered rates, school groups with invoices, a multilingual booking flow, redeemable vouchers, and data by time slot and origin. Your curatorial team focuses its energy on the one thing that can’t be delegated: to tell the story that the collection doesn't tell on its own.

Payment processing

Instant payment for your bookings

Connected to the payment gateways you already use. Money lands directly in your bank account — no TuriTop commission.

Redsys
Bizum
Apple Pay
Google Pay
Stripe
PayPal
Mercado Pago
myPOS

Credit/debit cards, bank transfers, and mobile wallets. Bizum, Apple Pay, and Google Pay are processed through Redsys.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Museum Directors Ask Us

How do I configure timed-entry with 15-minute time slots?

In the activity settings, you choose the frequency (15, 30, 45, or 60 minutes) and the capacity per time slot. The system sells tickets exclusively for that time slot until it is full, then moves on to the next one. For guided tours inside the museum, assign a room as a resource in the Resource Manager. That room is locked during the tour and cannot be overbooked with another simultaneous guided tour.

Can I set different rates (adult, child, student, senior)?

Yes. Each type of ticket is created as a separate product with its own price and capacity. Free admission (third Sunday of the month, International Museum Day) is configured with seasonal prices or as a 100% discount using a code valid only on that date. Official passes (student, senior, associations) are managed using conditional discount codes.

How do schools and tour buses make bookings?

You have two payment streams: a “school group” product with its own special price and a custom field for “responsible teacher + cell phone number,” and, for buses, an affiliate system. Each agency has its own user account, and its bookings are recorded with commission. For schools that pay via municipal or school invoice, payment links sent by email allow the school to pay on its own schedule through its corporate payment gateway.

How do I manage the audio guide and the tour in multiple languages?

Enable the multilingual system. The calendar, checkout, and emails are automatically translated into more than 30 languages. The customer’s language is saved with the booking. That way the confirmation email arrives in their language with no multilingual front desk needed.

Can I turn one-time visitors into annual subscribers or members?

The full annual bonus (recurring subscription with automatic renewal) is beyond the scope of TuriTop at this time. You would need your own CRM or partner system. What we do offer: Each visitor is added to your segmented database via Mailchimp; you can launch campaigns targeting those who’ve visited 3 or more times, offering the annual bonus with a personalized code; and the redeemable gift vouchers (with configurable validity) serve as a bridge to give future members their first introductory visit.

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Ready to make sure the entrance is no longer the bottleneck?

Activate TuriTop today. Your next window may be selling timed-entry tickets this afternoon.

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