QuizzaMe brings a hosted show and its own kit to Australian pubs and clubs. Quizado is the other model: the venue owns the software, the questions and the crowd, and pays for a plan instead of a night.
Quizado is the QuizzaMe alternative for a venue that would rather run the technology in-house: one monthly software plan instead of a per-night booking, phones instead of supplied handsets, and every dollar the bar takes on the night staying with the bar.
A booked show is a fixed weekly cost. Forty covers or twelve, the invoice is identical, and the quiet months are the ones where it hurts most.
One software plan covers every game you run in the month. A big night and a slow night cost the same, so a quiet month does not carry a per-night bill.
Adding a Sunday music round or a Thursday game means a second booking, so most venues never test whether the extra night would work.
Run as many games a week as you want on one plan. If Sunday flops it costs you nothing but the roster hours, so you can afford to find out.
When the show owns the gear, the night depends on somebody else arriving with it. The venue does not control that part of the calendar.
The only hardware is your own screen and one device to host from, and the players use their phones. Nothing has to arrive for the night to happen.
Teams that come for a touring brand will follow it to the next pub when the booking moves. The venue built the audience and does not keep it.
Your logo on the screen, your league table, your teams stored in your own account. When the season ends, all of it is still yours.
A booked show is the show you booked. Wanting a game show night for a fundraiser or a music round for a members afternoon means a fresh quote.
Bar trivia and Name That Tune sit in one app, and Family Feud, Jeopardy and Music Bingo are on Hospitality Group. Change the format the week you feel like it.
Booking a run of shows to find out whether trivia suits your club is an expensive way to run an experiment.
Start free with the built-in packs and run a complete bar trivia night for up to sixteen players with no card. Test it on a quiet Tuesday and decide afterwards.
Built from the ground up for modern bar trivia and live events.
A QR code on the screen and the phone browser is all it takes. No handsets to charge before service, hand out at the door or chase at close.
Apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, iPadOS and Android, plus the web app. The office laptop and the TV in the bistro are enough to run a full night.
Five bar trivia round types plus Name That Tune, with Family Feud, Jeopardy and Music Bingo on Hospitality Group. Nothing costs extra per night.
Start free with the built-in packs. Neighborhood Pub opens the premium library. Writing your own question sets starts on Trivia Pro, which also brings monthly AI credits for a bar trivia round about your own club, and everything you write stays in your account for next season.
Trivia Pro adds a custom logo on the display and the player screens. Custom fonts, colours and white-label are Hospitality Group.
Leagues carry results week to week, from Trivia Pro. A running table is the cheapest way to turn a good night into a booking people make in advance.
QuizzaMe is an Australian trivia company running hosted pub and club trivia. They do not publish a venue rate, so this page makes no claim about what they charge, which nights they cover in your area or the detail of their format. Ask them directly for a quote and for what a booking includes.
What is worth saying is that a hosted trivia company is a real business with real costs behind the price. Somebody writes the questions, somebody drives to the venue, somebody maintains the equipment and somebody answers the phone when a booking moves. When you compare a per-night fee against a software plan, you are not comparing two prices for the same thing. You are deciding which of those jobs you want to do yourself.
For a lot of Australian venues the answer is that they want to do most of them. There is usually somebody on the roster who is good on a microphone, and a screen already on the wall. What has been missing is the software in the middle. That is the gap Quizado fills.
Do the arithmetic the way a licensee would. A booked show is a fixed weekly cost multiplied by fifty-two, and it buys exactly one night a week. A software plan is a fixed monthly cost that buys as many nights as you can staff. If the quiz is the only thing you run, the two are closer than they look. The moment you want a second game in the week, the software model wins by a distance.
Then count the hardware. A hosted show arrives with its own equipment, which is convenient and also means the capability leaves at eleven. In-house, the equipment is a screen you already bought for the footy and a laptop that already lives in the office. Players bring the rest in their pockets, and there is nothing to charge before service or count back in at close.
The real cost of running it yourself is labour, and it is honest to say so. Two hours of a staff member on the microphone, plus half an hour of prep, is the line that belongs in the comparison. Against that, put what stays with the venue: the teams, the question sets, the league tables and a night nobody can move to the pub down the road. The Quizado free plan lets you measure all of it before you spend anything, and the pricing page has the plans when you are ready.
Software does not find you a host. If nobody on the roster wants the microphone, no amount of automatic scoring fixes that, and a booked company solves it in one phone call. It also does not write you a fresh show every week with somebody checking the questions for you, although the question packs and, from Trivia Pro, AI generation for bar trivia get most of the way there.
It does not work without the internet either. There is no offline mode, so the host device and every player phone need a connection. A club with no usable signal in the auditorium should sort that out before switching, or stay with a hosted show that brings its own answer.
And it does not carry a brand. A touring show has a name people recognise on a poster, and the first few weeks of an in-house night are quieter for that reason. A league table with a prize at the end of the season is the usual way through it, which is why leagues sit in the product from Trivia Pro rather than as an afterthought.
Paying for the service is the right call in plenty of venues, and the maths says so.
These are the numbers that push a venue to run the technology itself.
Write down the booking fee you pay now and the staff hours an in-house night would take. Put the plan cost from the pricing page beside them. The decision is usually obvious once it is on paper.
Nothing stops you testing a game on a different night while the booked show carries on. Use the free plan, keep it small, and watch how the room takes to answering on phones.
Give notice on the terms you agreed, then start with a ten week ladder and a prize at the end. Switching with a season attached loses far fewer teams than switching quietly.
If you already work as a trivia host for an Australian company, the economics above cut your way too. The company carries the equipment, the questions and the bookings, and takes the margin for doing it. What you carry is the room, which is the part that cannot be bought.
Quizado is a way to run your own bookings without buying a van full of gear. The free plan covers a first night on the built-in packs. Trivia Pro is where you start writing your own question sets; it adds a custom logo, media rounds with image, audio and video, monthly AI credits for bar trivia, and leagues so a venue can watch the night build. Hospitality Group covers up to three venues, adds custom fonts and colours, and adds Family Feud, Jeopardy and Music Bingo, which is what function bookings usually want.
You travel with a laptop and plug into the screen the venue already has. Everything you write stays in your account, so the second year costs you less work than the first. Read whatever you have signed with your current company before you take a booking near one of their rooms.
A hosted trivia company sends a trained person, brings the equipment, writes the show and takes the whole job off your roster. That is worth money and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Quizado is software: no host, no gear delivered, no weekly show written for you, no offline mode. If the reason you book is that nobody in the building wants to run it, keep booking.
New to running a night in-house? Start with the bar trivia software overview, then look at the trivia host app if you would rather run everything from a phone or laptop behind the bar.
Start free with the built-in packs, put the QR code on the TV and see how the room reacts. Writing your own question sets starts on Trivia Pro.
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