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It’s festival season- Chowdafest 2014!
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With the changing of the seasons from Summer to Fall, it also brings another "season" into effect: Festival Season! We are proud to say Chowdafest 2014 will take place this Sunday, October 12, in Norwalk, CT. Chowdafest is a culinary competition pitting award winning chefs & restaurants against each other where YOU are the judge! When you arrive, you get a pencil, ballot and spoon. Then slurp down 30 decadent samples of chowder, soup and bisque! It's up to you to determine who has the best! Try our our Italian section called "Ciao-dafest" or our new Chowda-Mex section. Sample ice cream, cheese, crackers, beer & wine too. Chowdafest is a true "foodie" experience. chowdafest Selling tickets to a festival with SimpleTix is easy! From 10-10,000 attendees, SimpleTix is your solution for festival ticketing! Endless possibilities for price groups!
Selling Seats or a whole table for a Dinner Gala? SimpleTix has...
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If you are going to be hosting an event that allows attendees to select a specific seat or table to sit at, SimpleTix is your solution! With our reserved seating mode, you can upload the layout of all the tables and create an interactive seating chart out of it to allow attendees to choose where they sit! It is a very easy way to let people sign up for an event, and also know where they are sitting! With this information, you can then pass it onto a caterer if dinner choice was an option! Layout of an example dinner fundraiser! The yellow spots tell you that their is seats available. If you hover over the table, the tool tip will appear! After selecting the seat of your choice, you can hover over the seat and it will give you the seat information and price. After you click the seat of your choice, you can have different price groups for your dinner! Different prices for each seat give you all the flexibility you need for your event! As you can see, attendees can simply select where they will sit with relation to a stage or friends!
Easy Entry for Android is now out!
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Use EasyEntry at your event to scan and validate SimpleTix eTickets. You can have many tablets with EasyEntry at different entrance points. After a ticket is scanned and validated it cannot be used again. So this avoids the possibility of someone trying to use the same ticket twice. https://player.vimeo.com/video/101451860 Supports Android Phones Supports Android 7″ Tablets Supports Android 10″ Tablets EasyEntry also supports the ability to add your own hosted web-hook / notification URL. If you enable this feature EasyEntry will do a POST of all the verified ticket data each time a ticket is successfully scanned.
Unveiling Easy Entry at the Madison Parade of Homes
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EasyEntry was the Perfect Solution There were 6 locations this year at the Parade of Homes. Each ticket was allowed to visit all 6 sites. Resulting in over 26,000 ticket scans over the course of 2 weeks. EasyEntry was setup at all 6 Parade sites. EasyEnty was really easy for all the volunteers to use with just 5 minutes of training. re-Printing Made Easy With SimpleTix you can do a bulk order of tickets from the box office side of the app. The SimpleTix charge is just $0.29 per ticket on the box office side. The organizers can then choose a “bulk ticket” e-ticket layout and send the PDF file to their local print shop for printing. Minuteman Press charged just $416.20 for printing and cutting 12,000 tickets. (Prices per location may vary)
Release News! New seating chart improvements
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Improved seat inventory tooltips As you hover over a section you can see how many seats are available in that section. These even update in real-time, as soon as anyone else buys a seat, the number instantly updates. Polygons now fully working Custom shapes worked before in SimpleTix, however if two custom shapes were close to each other often they overlapped and one area was not select-able. This was now been fixed. Quick link to tag sections There is now a direct link for you to be able to jump right into the section view of the seating chart and mange the seats tagged within that section. Before this you had to do this from the main venue view and then click into the section. This is much faster now. Clone a Section You can now clone an entire section. Including the seating chart mapping & tagging. If you have many sections that are very similar this is fast way to take care of setting up your inventory. In a recent project we setup and tagged the largest section first, and then cloned it for the other sections. Then finally removed the extra rows and seats in those new sections. This enabled us to complete a 8,000 seat venue in under and hour! Discount titles now on tickets Do you use the discounts per reserved seat event time feature?You now have the option to display the ticket discount title on both the order item title and on the ticket.
How to scan and validate tickets without internet access
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So you’re hosting an event in the country side far away from WiFi, 3G, 4G or any type of internet access. No worries! With CodeREADr and SimpleTix you can still validate tickets with a “local database”. This works on almost all mobile devices! ou will only need internet access on your device for a single brief moment to download the “database” of barcodes. After this is downloaded you will not need to be online during the ticket scanning. https://player.vimeo.com/video/95465275 Ideal Use Cases Venues where the internet is not reliable A festival with a single entrance where online ticket sales have ended Scanning pre-paid parking vouchers Scanning flex passes like beach access Widely Compatible! Android Tablets Android Phones iPads iPods iPhones
A Ticketing App with Prosper202 Support
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Prosper202 is the world's only self-hosted ppc tracking software. Prosper202 provides pay per click affiliate marketers with leading edge self hosted ppc software! The only effect this software will have on your bottom line is a positive one. With Prosper202 you can create your own tracking codes. First install your own self-hosted instance of Prosper202. Then login into your SimpleTix site. Go to Admin Panel -> Plugins -> Analytics Choose Propser202 and enter in your Prosper202 “Post URL” Done! You can link to any url on your SimpleTix site, just simply attach the SubId to the end of the url, like this: everglades.simpletix.com/event-list/?subid=123 SimpleTix will attach a cookie to this computer for 7 days. If they complete an order within these 7 days will alert your Prosper202 site of the orignal subid and the order total. Finally you can track your ad the RIO on your ad campaigns! Create campaigns for all of your ads. Then track their performance. Now you have the tools to see which ads are worth your advertising budget, and which ones should be cut. Prosper202 offers full reports!
What’s new in Version 3?
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New Features Ability the the customer to have the tickets sent to them via SMS You can now pay for your SimpleTix hosting bill and per ticket fees automatically with your PayPal account Twitter Wall, if you set a HashTag for your event, we offer a url you can display on the a TV screen at your event so you can see live Tweets Ticket Window -a new pop-up window you can easily link to from your existing website, customers can complete their orders in this window without ever leaving your site. The Field of Dreams Movie Site 25th - just sold over 6k tickets using this. Ability to add tickets to an existing order - any type of ticket: flex pass, general admission, or reserved seat Ticket Kiosk - Touch-screen POS for customers to buy their own tickets. See video Easy Entry - A tablet app that allows you to scan tickets. See video Improved support for Datamax o'neil ticket Printer. See video A short Bitly url is automatically created for all events Create event wizard - much simpler the the prior create event page Support for the Prosper202 (Prosper202 provides pay per click affiliate marketers with leading edge self hosted ppc software! ) Checkin.SimpleTix.com - a new mobile web-app to lookup participants and mark them as validated New role "seat tagger" so can allow a "seat tagger" to login and have limited access to just the venue settings and tag seats. No other reports or private data can be accessed. New role "check-in" a box office stay member that can just scan tickets. No access to any other box office features. New inventory report - for reserved seat mode events. See all seats - what is sold and what is not sold New bulk print ticket feature. You can...
Canadian Cabaret uses SimpleTix seating charts for online ticketing
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Who said that organizing a small evening of music and song is an easy task? Without the right approach it can be quite a fuzz. Canadian Cabaret decided to avoid the fuzz by using SimpleTix! For their coming event, Canadian Cabaret is using SimpleTix interactive seating chart for online ticketing. And guess what… the tickets are all sold out! Looks like Vancouver can’t wait until a dinner dance in a company of Argyle Jazz Band and Jazz Choir ensembles. The show starts at 7 pm and songs from the Motown era will last till midnight. All that Canadian Cabaret required to get started with SimpleTix was a seating chart from the school. The next step was to set the event details and upload a csv with seat inventory and ticket prices. Once a seating chart was uploaded and all of the seats were tagged, Canadian Cabaret became the one in charge. In just a few steps, they went from a system of having to email and call the event organizers - to a complete ticket portal with seating chart; all these in less than an hour. Now, with a personalized seating chart for online ticketing Canadian Cabaret displays real-time seat availability online. As soon as a customer selects a seat, it becomes unavailable on everyone else’s browsers. What is the most exciting is that there is no more need to contact event organizer to adjust every small change. The DIY feature allows everyone to upload a spreadsheet of the seat inventory, set the ticket prices, upload the seating chart images, and finally tag all the seats effortlessly. On the day of the event, all participants will come with their e-tickets and the staff can validate them using our ticket scanning apps. P.S. There are going to be plenty of items up...
SimpleTix Ups The Ante On Ticketing Solutions With The First Tour Kiosk...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SimpleTix Ups The Ante On Ticketing Solutions With The First Tour Kiosk App Ever Seen In The Marketplace Already established as an unmatched ticketing platform SimpleTix launches a new Tour Kiosk App for Everglades Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. ALEXANDRIA, VA (March 8, 2014) - Setting the bar even higher for online ticketing solutions SimpleTix announces the launch of their Tour Kiosk App for Everglades Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Making it even simpler for customers to enjoy their visit to the park the new app, never before made by any competitor, provides an air boat tour ticket that can be bought on site. Dually, customers can use the app’s Open Tickets/Day Pass feature to give them a special eTicket that isn’t attached to any preset date or time. Once ordered conveniently online or scanned at the holiday park, customers will automatically be assigned to the next air boat tour group. Aron Kansal, CEO of SimpleTix said of the new feature, “Everglade has been using SimpleTix since 2012 to sell tickets on their website and Facebook fan page but now we’ve extended their features. In the spring, Everglades will unveil the tour ticket kiosks. Now customers can walk up and buy tickets on their own and automatically be assigned a ticket with their names and a full-liability waiver printed on it. The ticketing solution is convenient and it reduces the need to hire extra seasonal staff during peak seasons. It saves operational costs.” Giving venues the luxury of capturing customer’s business 24/7 SimpleTix offers myriad of other time-saving features. Known as a customer facing point of sale system, their ticket solutions allow customers to select an event, the type and quantity of tickets needed, swipe a credit card and then decide how they want...
The Modern Shuttle Bus Tickets
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Traditionally you walk up to a bus ticket window, buy a ticket, and get a paper ticket like this. If you sell the shuttle bus tickets online the work flow is much different. When you sell shuttle bus tickets with SimpleTix, the end-users can have the tickets sent directly to their smart phones. This allows you to sell tickets anywhere, not just a single kiosk. You can advertise your shuttle bus service on elevator banner signage or on the back-side of a luggage cart. Potential customers can scan a QR code on the ad, which takes them right to the page where they can purchase the pass. At the end of the transaction they can have the eTicket voucher sent to their smart phone via SMS or eMail. Real-time Data With paper tickets you do not have any real-time data about how many passes have beed used per day. How many have been redeemed versus abandoned. With SimpleTix you'll have real-time reporting on how many passes have been sold, redeemed, and outstanding. This can allow you to make quick decisions such as adding additional drivers. You can also track where the users are coming from. For example if you're paying a high rate for advertising on an elevator signage, but getting little results, while paying less to advertise to advertise for a spot on the baggage carousel, SimpleTix will provide in-depth reports to tell you. Turtle Beach resort in Australia has been having great success with SimpleTix for selling shuttle bus tickets for both airport pickups as well as entertainment transportation.
Sell Event Tickets on Strikingly, Weebly and Wix!
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The SimpleTix iframe and ajax widgets can be used on any website builder to sell your event tickets on line. Easy to use website builders like weebly.com, strikingly.com and wix.com all have tools for you to drag and drop custom code right on to your webpages. Here is how to use SimpleTix with weebly and wix. Please note strikingly.com works the same way if you have a pro account.