Festzelt Os Gmbh

What Festzelt Os Gmbh does

Festzelt OS GmbH is a Munich-based SaaS company that builds cloud software for the operational management of large festival tents, with a primary focus on Munich's Oktoberfest Wirte. Founded in 2022 as a spin-off from a digital agency (with roots going back to a 2017 deployment at Marstall Festzelt), the company targets enterprise-scale tent operators with three integrated products: a Reservierungs-Management portal for table bookings, guest data, invoicing, voucher management, and on-site coordination; a Staffing-Tool that automates seasonal hiring, contract creation, and document tracking; and Oktoberfest-Booking.com, the official resale platform for table reservations, which validates authenticity and enforces original-price resale per Munich city guidelines. The platform architecture combines a Webflow-hosted cloud application with native iOS and Android apps for door staff and guests, integrates with payment (Stripe), shipping (GO! Express, UPS), POS systems, and offers an open API. Data is hosted on German servers, and the platform is built to be GoBD- and EU-DSGVO-compliant.

The company operates a sales-led go-to-market with demo-driven direct sales and inside-sales phone/contact-form outreach; pricing is tiered from €249/month (Basic) to custom-priced Advanced, Advanced+, and Professional tiers, with 3–12 month minimum commitments, per-event add-ons, and one-time onboarding packages. Festzelt OS also monetizes Oktoberfest-Booking.com via transaction fees on the consumer-facing resale channel. The customer base consists of approximately 20 festival tent operators at Munich's Oktoberfest (including marquee accounts such as Hippodrom, Löwenbräu, Marstall Festzelt, and Pschorr Bräurosl). The company employs roughly seven people and has registered two EU trademarks (FESTZELT OS and oktoberfest-booking) with EUIPO; revenue, funding rounds, and ownership are not publicly disclosed.

Name

Festzelt Os Gmbh

Legal name

Festzelt OS GmbH

Website

https://festzelt-os.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Festzelt OS GmbH is a Munich-based SaaS company that provides cloud-based reservation management, staffing, and table-resale software specifically for operators of Munich's Oktoberfest festival tents. It serves approximately 20 enterprise tent operators, including Hippodrom, Löwenbräu, Marstall Festzelt, and Pschorr Bräurosl, through tiered subscriptions and the consumer-facing Oktoberfest-Booking.com marketplace.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

NAICS

All Other Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services (561599)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Management Services (8741)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYTHALADAN

White-Label Booking Engine Platforms (SaaS/Widget)

Travel & Hospitality/Travel Technology & Distribution Services/Central Reservation Systems (CRS) & Booking Engines

SECONDARYTHALADAI

Destination & Venue Reservation Systems (DMO/MICE)

Travel & Hospitality/Travel Technology & Distribution Services/Central Reservation Systems (CRS) & Booking Engines

Keywords

• Festival tent management software
• Reservation management SaaS
• Oktoberfest booking platform
• Hospitality staffing software
• Event table reservation system

Headquarters

HQ city

Munich

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Software Subscription - Basic: Monthly subscription at €249 per month with 3-month minimum commitment. Includes management of 1,000 guests/100 tables and 1 event (max 20 days). Supports standard email templates, basic table plans, and email support within 48 hours.
2. Software Subscription - Basic+: Monthly subscription at €399 per month with 3-month minimum commitment. Includes management of 1,000 guests/100 tables and 1 event. Adds Stripe payment processing (Stripe fees + 0.8%), individual email templates, food/beverage management, voucher management, standardized booking portal, and pre-order overview.
3. Software Subscription - Advanced: Custom pricing on request. 6-month minimum commitment. Supports 2,000 guests/200 tables and 2 events. Adds individual email templates, voucher management, booking portal with customer login and inquiry process, Stripe payments, automatic account reconciliation (Dagobert crawler), Oktoberfest Booking integration, API access, print module, phone support within 24 hours.
4. Software Subscription - Advanced+: Custom pricing on request. 6-month minimum commitment. Supports 2,000 guests/200 tables and 2 events. Adds GO! Express shipping integration, custom exports, white-label options, custom domain, extended layout customization, print module with on-site printer setup, phone support within 4 hours.
5. Software Subscription - Professional: Custom pricing on request. 12-month minimum commitment. Unlimited guests, tables, and events. Full feature access including API quota management, multilingual support, print module, cash register integration, phone support within 4 hours, and custom booking flow options.
6. Onboarding and Setup Packages: One-time setup fees for Basic, Basic+, Advanced, Advanced+, and Professional tiers covering initial data setup, tent plan creation, event data initialization, pre-order configuration, invoice setup, brand management, email template setup, print server configuration, white-label setup, and cash register integration.
7. Oktoberfest Booking Transaction Fees: Platform for reselling table reservations at Oktoberfest. Transaction fees are charged per Munich city guidelines. Validates reservation authenticity and ensures resale at original prices.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Festzelt OS develops and sells a cloud-based SaaS platform for managing the operations of large festival tents, particularly at Munich's Oktoberfest. The platform combines a reservation management portal with real-time table planning, CRM, invoicing, voucher management, and Stripe payment processing; a Staffing-Tool for end-to-end seasonal personnel management including automated contract generation; and Oktoberfest-Booking.com, the official secondary-market platform for reselling Oktoberfest table reservations. The software is sold on tiered monthly subscriptions with onboarding packages and integrates with POS, shipping, and payment systems.

Product overview

Festzelt OS is a cloud-based All-In-One software platform designed specifically for party tent operations, combining a core reservation management system with integrated staffing, financial, and guest communication tools. The platform architecture consists of the main Festzelt OS reservation and management platform (offered in versions 1.0 and 2.0), paired with the Staffing-Tool for HR management and the standalone Oktoberfest-Booking.com resale portal for table reservations. Core modules include the Reservierungs-Management for booking workflows, CRM for customer data, Rechnungsmodul for invoicing, Vouchermodul for voucher management, Tischpläne for real-time table visualization, Printmodul for wristband/voucher printing, and Versandmodul for shipping integrations. The ecosystem also includes dedicated mobile apps for staff (admission coordination) and guests (tent status and gamification). The product is offered in four pricing tiers (Basic, Basic+, Advanced, Advanced+, Professional) with optional onboarding/setup packages, and provides an open API for third-party integrations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Oktoberfest Booking: Official resale platform for table reservations at Oktoberfest, operated by Festzelt OS GmbH.
• Festzelt OS Staffing-Tool
• Festzelt OS Reservierungs-Management

Quantifiable outcome

• Eliminates manual reservation tracking and paperwork for festival tent operations
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments2 records

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• GO! Express & Logistics (GO!)coreTechnology or IntegrationGO! Express is integrated into the Festzelt OS platform's shipping module, enabling automated shipping of reservation documents and vouchers to customers. Available on Advanced+ and Professional tiers.
• interev GmbH (External Data Protection Officer)minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partnerinterev GmbH provides external data protection officer services for Festzelt OS. Contact: Herr Jürgen Recha, Robert-Koch-Straße 55, 30853 Langenhagen.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Eventbrite: Eventbrite is the largest self-service event ticketing and management SaaS — a broad incumbent that, while focused on general events rather than hospitality venues, is the reference point for any event-management scale competitor that might move into tent/venue operations.
• OpenTable: OpenTable is the dominant restaurant reservation SaaS globally with tens of thousands of venues — a broad incumbent in hospitality booking software whose platform provides a reference point for both Festzelt OS's reservation module and its reseller marketplace.

Direct peers

• Resy: Resy (owned by American Express) is a restaurant reservation platform with a marketplace component for booking hard-to-get tables — directly comparable to the Festzelt OS reservation portal plus the Oktoberfest-Booking.com resale marketplace pairing.
• SevenRooms: SevenRooms is a vertical SaaS CRM and reservation platform for restaurants and hospitality venues — closely analogous to Festzelt OS's combination of booking workflow, guest CRM, marketing automation, and on-site operations tools, but for restaurants rather than festival tents.
• Cloudbeds: Cloudbeds is an all-in-one hospitality management platform combining PMS, booking engine, and channel manager for lodging — relevant as a comparable all-in-one vertical SaaS architecture for short-term/cultural hospitality inventory similar to festival tents.
• Tock: Tock is a reservation and ticketing platform for restaurants and experiences — its model of combining timed bookings, prepayments, and event-based experiences maps closely to Festzelt OS's reservation + payment + voucher model for special-event hospitality venues.

Emerging players

• Regiondo: Regiondo is a German-based booking platform for tours, activities, and attractions — provides a comparable SaaS booking-engine model for special-experience hospitality, with overlap in the leisure/events vertical and similar cross-border DACH positioning.
• Peek Pro: Peek Pro is a SaaS platform for tour and activity operators covering booking, payments, and channel distribution — comparable to Festzelt OS in being a vertical booking engine plus marketplace for unique experience-led inventory.
• Simplifyber / SimplyBook.me: SimplyBook.me is a SaaS booking and appointment-management platform with white-label booking widgets for service businesses — functionally analogous to the white-label booking-engine architecture that Festzelt OS provides to festival tent operators.
• Bokun: Bokun (owned by Tripadvisor) provides a SaaS booking and reservation platform for tours, attractions, and experiences — its channel-manager and reseller functionality parallels Festzelt OS's reservation-and-resale combination for experience-based venues.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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