Marketing & Operations
Freed · One GoHighLevel platform for operations and marketing
One platform behind Lavelle and 44 Toronto.
One GoHighLevel platform running both venues, operations and marketing together. Every guest captured and marketed to automatically, every booking, ticket and check tied back to the person who drove it, every promoter paid from one set of numbers, and every dollar of spend reported against what it returned.
- Venues
- Lavelle
44 Toronto - Prepared by
- Massimo Grisafi
Marketing & Operations - Date
- November 9, 2026
Overview
Two venues, one building, the same guest, and five systems that don't talk.
A guest who has dinner at Lavelle and goes downstairs to 44 Toronto exists in four places and belongs to none of them. Their table sits in SevenRooms, their ticket in Ticket Gateway, their spend in Toast, their sign-up in a form export. Nobody can see the whole night, and nobody markets to them afterwards.
The same split runs through operations. Labour sits in Push, sales in Toast, and nobody sees labour against sales until payroll closes. Promoter credit is reconciled by hand from SevenRooms check-ins, Ticket Gateway affiliate sales and the bottle sheet. Settlements, deposits and payouts are rebuilt in spreadsheets every week. Budgets are forecast in one place and actuals land in another.
Guest marketing
Capture once, market forever
Birthdays, post-visit, lapsed guests, abandoned deposits and retargeting audiences run on their own, on SMS, email, Instagram and paid media, for both venues.
Operations
One source of truth
Toast, Push, SevenRooms and Ticket Gateway feed one record per guest and one ledger per night. Promoter statements, settlements and budgets build themselves.
Cross-marketing
Each venue fills the other
Lavelle diners get the 44 Toronto list. 44 Toronto birthdays get offered dinner upstairs. One consented database, two brands, one night out sold end to end.
Click through
Inside the platform.
Architecture · Logins & roles
Platform
One GoHighLevel platform for both venues, and who logs in to it.
One GHL platform
One platform. Both venues. Operations and marketing in the same place.
Lavelle and 44 Toronto run on a single GoHighLevel platform. Each venue keeps its own brand, sending domain, phone number, calendars, pipelines and team, and every guest, booking, promoter and dollar sits in one system Freed can see end to end.
database
One platform means a guest who dines at Lavelle and books a booth at 44 Toronto is one record with one history. Permissions keep each team inside its own venue; ownership sees both.
Logins & management
Everyone logs in. Everyone sees only their part.
One platform at a single address, with a login for every role. Permissions are set per person and per venue, so a promoter sees their own statement and nothing else, and a venue manager never sees the other room's numbers unless Freed grants it.
- Single sign-in, venue switcher. Managers covering both rooms flip between Lavelle and 44 Toronto without a second login.
- Access is removed in one click. When a promoter or staff member leaves, their login goes, their history stays.
- Every change is logged. Comps approved, payouts edited, credit reassigned, all with a name and timestamp.
- Shared inbox per venue. SMS, email, Instagram DMs, Facebook messages and web chat land in one conversation view with a named owner.
Capture · Birthdays · Visits · Lapsed · Retargeting · Cross-marketing · Flows
Marketing
Every guest captured and marketed to automatically. Switch venue and channel on each demo to see the message as the guest gets it.
Capture & email sign-ups
Every way a guest touches either venue becomes a contact.
Guest WiFi at both venues, website sign-ups, SevenRooms reservations, Ticket Gateway purchases, ad lead forms, Instagram DMs and missed calls all write to the platform, tagged by venue. Name, mobile, email and birthday, de-duplicated against what's already there.
- Guest WiFi. A branded portal on each venue's network. Guests sign in with name, mobile, email and birthday. Guest network split from the POS network.
- Email sign-ups on both sites. "Get the list" on 44toronto.com and "Reserve first" on chezlavelle.com, each feeding its own welcome flow.
- One opt-in, both venues. The sign-up names Lavelle and 44 Toronto, so a guest captured in one room can be marketed to by the other.
- QR at the table and the door. Each placement carries its own tracking link, so the platform shows which QR, which table tent and which flyer produced the sign-up.
Birthdays
The highest-value booking in the building, on a schedule.
A birthday group is a booth or a cabana on a minimum. Every guest with a birthday on file gets a sequence that starts thirty days out, timed to when groups actually plan, with the offer escalating as the date gets closer.
Visits
Every visit is logged, thanked and turned into the next one.
A SevenRooms check-in, a ticket scan or a closed Toast check marks the visit. The guest's record updates their visit count and spend tier, and the post-visit flow takes over: thank-you, review request, and the next reason to come back.
| Spend tier | Built from | What changes |
|---|---|---|
| First visit | One check-in or scan | Welcome-back offer on the next event night |
| Regular | 3+ visits in 90 days | Early access to tickets and table inventory before public release |
| Table guest | Any booth or cabana booking | Personal host follow-up, birthday offer upgraded to table |
| VIP | Top spend tier from Toast checks | Named host, priority inventory, comps at management's discretion |
Lapsed guests & win-back
Guests who drift get noticed at 30, 60 and 90 days.
Nobody chases a guest who stopped coming. The system does. Each step uses a stronger reason to return, and a guest who books stops the sequence the moment the booking lands.
Retargeting
The database becomes the ad audience.
Every segment in the system syncs to Meta, Google and TikTok as a customer audience. Ads go to people who already know the venue, lookalikes are built from the guests who spend most, and anyone who just booked is suppressed so spend isn't wasted on them.
| Audience | Source | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| Abandoned deposit | SevenRooms booking started, not paid | Ads and SMS within the same window as the reminder |
| Ticket page viewers | Site pixel on event pages | Event ads until doors, then switched off |
| Top spenders | Toast spend tier | Seed for lookalike audiences on Meta and TikTok |
| Lavelle diners, never at 44 Toronto | Cross-venue record | 44 Toronto booth and guestlist ads |
| Booked this week | Any confirmed booking | Excluded from every acquisition campaign |
Cross-marketing
Sell the whole night, not half of it.
Lavelle and 44 Toronto share a building and a guest. The group layer lets each venue market to the other's consented guests, so dinner upstairs leads to a booth downstairs and a 44 Toronto birthday starts with a reservation at Lavelle.
Dinner to club
Lavelle reservation, 44 Toronto list
A Lavelle dinner on an event night puts the party on the 44 Toronto guestlist automatically, with the offer in the confirmation.
Club to dinner
44 Toronto booth, Lavelle first
Booth bookings get a Lavelle pre-dinner offer, so the group arrives having already spent upstairs.
The full night
One birthday package
Dinner at Lavelle and a booth at 44 Toronto sold as one booking, one deposit, one host.
Season to season
Hand guests across the year
Rooftop season guests move into 44 Toronto's winter calendar, and 44 Toronto's list hears first when Lavelle opens its season.
The flow library
Sixteen automations, both venues, all timing relative to the trigger.
| Flow | Trigger | Lavelle | 44 Toronto | Channels |
|---|
Inquiries · Follow-ups · Pipeline · What the team sees · Event reporting
Private events
Lavelle's corporate, private and celebration business, run on the same platform. Every inquiry is answered on the spot, assigned to an events manager, followed up until it books, and reported to the dollar.
Inquiries
Every event request lands in one place, sorted by what the guest wants.
The event form on chezlavelle.com, Meta and Instagram lead forms, DMs, missed calls and event requests coming through SevenRooms all create one inquiry. The event type the guest picks decides the reply they get, the package they see and who it goes to.
| Event type | Routed to |
|---|---|
| Corporate event | Events manager |
| Private dining & social | Events manager |
| Birthday & celebration | Reservations & VIP |
| Holiday party | Events manager |
| Full buyout | Events lead and management, whatever the type |
| General question | Venue inbox |
Guest count and preferred date are required. They're what lets the first reply qualify the inquiry instead of the events manager chasing basics.
Follow-ups
Answered immediately, followed up until it books or says no.
The guest hears back the moment they submit, by text and email, in the events team's voice and specific to their event type. The events manager is assigned and alerted at the same time, with every detail of the request. If the guest doesn't reply, follow-ups run on a fixed cadence. The moment they reply or book a walkthrough, automation stops and the manager takes the conversation.
- An owner on every inquiry. No inquiry is ever unassigned. If the assigned manager is off, it routes to the next.
- Replies go to a real inbox. When a guest answers an automated message, it reaches the assigned manager's own inbox and the shared conversation view, not a send-only address.
- One text and one email per touch. Nothing heavier, no time-of-day phrasing, all timing relative to the inquiry.
- After the event. Thank-you, review request, and a rebooking prompt ahead of the same date next year, which is how corporate holiday parties come back every December.
Pipeline
Every inquiry on one board, from request to deposit.
Each inquiry is a card. The card moves as the event moves, and the board shows the value sitting at each stage. Click any card to see what the events manager sees.
What the team sees
No extra work for the events team.
The system does the chasing. The team does what only they can do: talk to the guest, quote and close.
On the phone
An alert with everything
Name, event type, guest count, date, source and the guest's note, the second the inquiry arrives, with one tap to call or text back.
One action
Move the card when it books
The only manual step is moving the card to Confirmed when the deposit lands. That single click is what ties every booking back to the ad, post or link that produced it.
Quoting stays as it is
Same packages, same process
Quotes and event details keep running the way Lavelle does them today. Saved templates make custom replies faster, signed by the manager by name.
Management
Approval where it matters
Buyouts and custom offers route to management before anything goes out. Every message sent is logged on the card.
Event reporting
Inquiries, walkthroughs, bookings and value, by type and by source.
Inquiries and bookings by month
Booked value by event type
| Source | Inquiries | Walkthroughs | Booked | Booked value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| chezlavelle.com event form | 64 | 29 | 17 | $118,400 |
| Meta & Instagram lead forms | 51 | 16 | 8 | $46,200 |
| Google search | 22 | 12 | 7 | $61,900 |
| SevenRooms requests | 18 | 7 | 5 | $27,300 |
| Referred from 44 Toronto | 9 | 5 | 3 | $22,800 |
| Total · last 6 months | 164 | 69 | 40 | $276,600 |
Night & weekend reports · Integrations · Promoter reports · Accounting
Operations
Every night and weekend reported from Toast, Push, SevenRooms and Ticket Gateway, with promoter credit, labour, settlements and the books built from the same data.
Night & weekend reports
Every night closes with its own report. Every weekend rolls up.
When the last Toast check closes, the night report builds itself from Toast, Push, SevenRooms and Ticket Gateway. Revenue mix, guests through the door hour by hour, tables, promoter and staff credit, labour and settlements, for each venue and for the weekend.
Toast, Push, SevenRooms, Ticket Gateway
Toast, Push, SevenRooms and Ticket Gateway feed one record.
Each platform keeps doing its job. The platform listens to all of them and writes the result to the guest, the night and the promoter.
| System | What it sends | Where it lands | Connection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toast | Closed checks, spend, items, server | Guest spend tier, night revenue, budget actuals | Through SevenRooms' Toast link to the reservation, plus Toast reporting for night totals |
| Push | Schedules, timesheets, labour hours and cost, payroll | Labour % of sales, sales per labour hour, staffing actuals in every event budget | Push payroll and labour reports synced per venue, matched to Toast sales by night |
| SevenRooms | Reservations, deposits, guestlist, check-ins, booked-by | Guest record, visit log, promoter credit, deposit ledger | API sync per venue |
| Ticket Gateway | Orders, scans, affiliate sales | Guest record, ticket counts, promoter ticket credit | Scheduled pull of orders and affiliate reports |
| Ad platforms | Spend, clicks, conversions | Cost per guest, cost per booking, budget actuals | Admin access already in place |
Connection timing
API access to Toast, Push and SevenRooms is granted by those platforms and can take time to approve. Until it is, the same data moves through scheduled exports so nothing waits on it.
Promoter profiles & reports
Every promoter has a profile, a link and a statement.
Each promoter gets a login, personal tracking links for tickets and tables at both venues, and a live view of what they've been credited. The weekly report builds itself from the credit rules, goes out on the same schedule, and the dispute window runs inside the portal.
Credit rules, enforced
Guests credit only when checked in at the door through the guestlist team. Bottle spend credits only to the Booked By on the booking, never the server. Web bookings carry no promoter payout.
Payout tied to revenue
Every statement shows what the promoter drove in tickets, door and bottle spend next to what they're paid, so payouts stay in proportion to revenue.
Dispute window
Statements go out with the dispute window closing end of day the following Wednesday. Disputes are raised and resolved inside the portal, with a record.
Accounting & payments
Deposits in, settlements out, books in sync.
Table deposits, ticket payouts, promoter and DJ settlements and contractor invoices all run through the platform and post to Freed's accounting platform. Nobody re-keys a number.
- Accounting sync. Invoices, payments and payouts post to Freed's accounting platform with the right venue, entity and category.
- Payout batches. Approved promoter and DJ statements export as one payment batch per week to Freed's payables system. Ownership approves the batch, not forty transfers.
- Settlements per payee. Ticket sales by platform and payee stay separate, so each party sees only their own numbers.
- Contractor status page. Every DJ, promoter and contractor can see whether their payment is approved, scheduled or paid, which ends the daily chase.
Dashboard & KPIs · Budgets · Marketing KPIs · Report folder
Reporting
Operating and marketing KPIs, budgets and every report on file, for each venue and the group, built from live data.
Ownership dashboard
Both rooms on one screen.
The ownership view. Switch between the group, Lavelle and 44 Toronto. Every tile, trend and chart is built from Toast, Push, SevenRooms and Ticket Gateway data, refreshed through the night.
Group · last 8 weekends
Weekend revenue · Toast
Guests in the database
Operating KPIs · trend over 8 weekends
| Night | Venue | Tickets | Tables | Revenue | Status |
|---|
Reporting & budgets
Every night budgeted, every dollar reported.
Each event night gets a budget before it's announced: talent, promoters, staffing, production and media against forecast tickets, door and bar. Actuals land from Toast, Push, Ticket Gateway and the ad platforms, and the variance is on screen the next morning.
Marketing KPIs
What marketing spent, sent and brought back, month by month.
One tab per month, each a full report. Email, SMS, flows, paid media and reviews, with every booking and ticket traced back to the message, ad or link that produced it.
Report folder
Every report, filed where ownership can find it.
Night reports, weekend roll-ups, promoter statements, marketing months, event pipelines, budgets and settlements are filed automatically as they close. Open a folder, pick a report, and the summary is right there.
Management · Timeline · Platform & usage · Requirements
Rollout
Who runs what, when it goes live, platform and usage, and what’s needed to go live.
Management
Who runs what.
| Area | Owned by | Cadence |
|---|---|---|
| Platform build, integrations, permissions | Massimo Grisafi · Marketing & Operations | Build, then ongoing |
| Budgets, forecasts, settlements, promoter reports | Massimo Grisafi · Marketing & Operations | Weekly |
| Flows, campaigns, audiences, creative | Marketing & Operations team | Weekly |
| Paid media allocation | Marketing & Operations, inside ownership’s ceilings | Monthly reallocation |
| Inbox replies, table enquiries | Named venue owner per inbox | Daily |
| Payout approval | Freed ownership | Weekly batch |
| Group review | Ownership with Marketing & Operations | Monthly and quarterly |
Timeline
44 Toronto live in week one. Both venues fully live by week six.
44 Toronto activated
Account, sending domain, number. Existing database imported, de-duplicated and segmented. Welcome, birthday, post-visit and lapse flows on. First segmented campaign out to the existing list before the weekend.
Lavelle on the platform, capture live
Lavelle brand added with the chezlavelle.com sending domain. SevenRooms history imported. Guest WiFi, site sign-ups and QR placements live at both venues.
Integrations and logins
SevenRooms and Ticket Gateway syncing for both venues, Toast spend and Push labour flowing through. Logins and roles issued. Promoter profiles and tracking links set up.
Operations and reporting
Dashboard, settlements, event budgets and accounting sync. First weekly promoter reports issued from the portal.
Cross-marketing and compounding
Shared guests between venues, dinner-to-club and full-night packages live. Retargeting audiences and lookalikes. First quarterly review.
Platform & usage
Platform per venue, messaging metered and capped by ownership.
Every SMS, email, call minute and AI reply runs at the rates below, tracked per venue. Ownership sets a monthly ceiling per venue and sending pauses before it is crossed.
| Service | Rate (CAD) |
|---|---|
| GoHighLevel platform, per venue, monthly | $300.00 |
| Outbound SMS, per segment | $0.0620 |
| Inbound SMS, per segment | $0.0300 |
| MMS, per message | $0.1000 |
| Email, per send | $0.0027 |
| Outbound voice, per minute | $0.1040 |
| Conversation AI, per response | $0.1600 |
| Dedicated phone number, monthly | $8.00 |
Cost of one send to the whole list
SMS costs roughly 23 times email per contact, so it is held for moments that convert: birthday, event day, abandoned deposit, guestlist confirmation and replies.
Requirements & decisions
What’s needed to go live.
Access
- Toast admin for both venues, and the SevenRooms–Toast link enabled
- Push admin for both venues (scheduling and payroll reports)
- SevenRooms admin for both venues
- Ticket Gateway access, both venues
- Accounting platform access for invoice and payment sync
- DNS for 44toronto.com and chezlavelle.com
- Website admin on both sites
- Network controller access and access-point model at each venue
Decisions
- Who holds each platform role
- Named owner for each venue inbox
- Monthly messaging ceiling per venue
- Lavelle media ceiling
- House offers per venue and minimum spend on the champagne offer
- Promoter commission structure to load into profiles
- A corporate credit card on file for the platforms