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How Theatres can Boost Profits and Save Time with Instant Gift Certificates
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In the competitive world of live, interactive theatre and entertainment, finding new ways to entice your audience is crucial. Not only do you have to produce cutting-edge entertainment that keeps audiences coming back for more; you have to develop a seamless ticketing experience on your website. With more and more audience members searching for entertainment and booking tickets online, it’s imperative to provide exciting offers that are easy to take advantage of right from your website. One of the most effective ways to increase profits is by offering digital gift certificates during checkout. Gift certificates inspire ticket buyers to consider friends and family when making their purchase. Tickets to a live show are a wonderful gift for birthdays, anniversaries, retirement and bachelor/bachelorette parties. The simple act of offering a gift certificate during the checkout process makes your audience start thinking about all the people in their life who would enjoy seeing a show. Your job, as a dinner theatre or interactive entertainment group with a growing web presence, is to make gift certificate purchases easy to process for your staff and easy to purchase for your audience. One of the best ways to do this is with SimpleTix gift certificate codes. SimpleTix allows you to sell gift certificates on your website in the same way that you sell tickets to shows. This automatic, error-proof feature generates a unique gift code at checkout, which clients can immediately share as a gift with their loved one or colleague. With gift certificates, there’s always room for error. Staff might accidentally enter a code twice, or enter the wrong code altogether. What’s more, it can take hours out of your staff’s already-busy day to manually process gift certificate orders. Because SimpleTix instantly generates a unique & single use gift certificate code at the time...
How to Use Square to Sell Event Tickets: Online, In-Person, and At...
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How to Use Square to Sell Event Tickets: Online, In-Person, and At the Gate If you’re looking for square event ticketing, you probably want one thing: a simple way to sell tickets online, take payments in person, and keep lines moving at the door. That’s where SimpleTix fits. It gives you online ticketing, box office tools, and a direct Square connection for POS, gift cards, and catalog upsells. You also get same-day payouts, no contracts, and pricing that stays easy to understand: $0.79 + 2% per ticket. Whether you run a festival, museum, class, farm, or live event, the goal is the same. You need ticketing that works before the event, during the event, and at the gate. SimpleTix helps you do all three without piling on extra complexity. Get started — $0.79 + 2% per ticket Why square event ticketing matters for modern events Square can be a useful option for event organizers who already use it in other parts of their business. Adding ticket sales through a platform that works with Square can make operations feel more connected. SimpleTix supports Square for ticketing-related workflows, including POS, gift cards, and catalog upsells. You can sell tickets online, sell them in person through the Organizer app, and use Square for gift cards and catalog-based add-ons. That said, this is not just about payments. It’s about workflow. You want one setup for advance sales, walk-ups, scanning, and add-on revenue. SimpleTix gives you that without a monthly subscription. Learn more on our hub page for Square ticketing software. Sell tickets online with Square and SimpleTix Online sales are where most events start. But many organizers hit friction fast. They need a checkout that looks professional, supports mobile buyers, and doesn’t make setup a project. With SimpleTix, you can create event pages, embed...
What Are You Using for Your Oktoberfest Ticketing App?
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Your Oktoberfest event is a chance to show your local area how to enjoy a good brew. Restaurants, concert halls, bars and more all use Oktoberfest as a reason to get people out of the house and into their venue. If you’re making the most of Oktoberfest as an event promoter, you’re putting a lot of trust in your ticketing app. Long gone are the days of the box office or ticket counter. Your customers want and expect mobile access to their tickets, and during a busy event your staff wants to scan tickets as quickly as possible. The current options are typically form sites, but these ticketing app solutions don’t have much to offer. Wufoo doesn’t offer scannable tickets. EventBrite has high prices (and they pummel your customers with additional email campaigns that have nothing to do with your business.) It’s not technically spam – but it’s just as annoying. With SimpleTix as your Oktoberfest Ticketing app, you can create scannable mobile tickets that keep the event check-ins easy for your staff and the party going for attendees. SimpleTix is used by small (200 or less tickets) and large (6,000+) ticket festivals from the United States to Australia. Here’s why SimpleTix makes sense: Maintain your own branding and design.Your venue or organization has a look and feel all its own. With SimpleTix as your Oktoberfest ticketing app you can maintain total control over the graphics, colors and images in your mobile ticketing. Get your funds as soon as attendees pay.Your presale ticket sales can go directly into your account for promotion funds and other expenses. There’s no delayed payments or deductions, and you can use your own merchant account, Paypal or both. Empower your staff with multiple users.During a busy season like Oktoberfest, you’ll want to delegate as much...
5 Event Trends in the Resort Space
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Whether your resort space is well known for hosting events or you’re ready to grow that reputation, there are multiple event trends that you need to be aware of. Implementing these trends help you make the event easier on your staff, more enjoyable for your guests and more profitable for your organization. Ordering Tickets Online Adapting to consumer trends is part of staying in business, and online ordering is a must in the resort industry. Accept for a fact that your prospects are comparison shopping, searching social media sites and expecting online ordering. As a resort vendor, you have to provide an online ordering experience that meets two goals – it helps your clients register for your event and it helps your staff keep track of attendance and better prepare for the event’s start. When your online ordering process goes smoothly, everyone benefits. Offering Season Passes Season passes are a no brainer for resorts – and are essential if you run a seasonal business. Online technology has made it even easier for your business to create, promote and profit from the seasonal pass model. Seasonal passes are a win-win-win for your resort – you get additional incoming traffic from seasonal pass searchers online, your customers get to enjoy your resort year round and your business benefits from repeat attendees. Someone who may start out as a one-time attendee for an event may start coming back to a resort again and again with the right season pass offer. Making Passes Mobile Friendly Combining the convenience of online access with the savings of season passes, mobile passes are a must for modern resorts. Event attendees are using their mobile devices throughout the course of an event, so why not make attendance convenient for them? Mobile passes can speed check-ins and improve the...
How to Really Boost Event Ticket Sales Online
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Social media has changed the way that people experience events – but that doesn’t mean that event promotion has got any easier. Setting up a Twitter account or Facebook ad is one thing, but seeing measurable results in ticket sales is another. Starting early with promotion is more important now than ever before. The accessibility of social media has lured some event promoters into a reliance on immediacy. With a few clicks and some funds spent on advertising, they can get their event in front of thousands of targeted social media fans. However, getting in front of a social media audience isn’t as valuable as you think. When your social media promotions are short sighted, your event gets lost in the social media clutter. You have to take a multi-technique and phased approach to event marketing to boost your sales. Visibility of your event is built in layers. Here’s the pre-event, during event and post-event techniques that really boost ticket event sales online. BEFORE THE EVENT Define a hashtag for your event. This might have seemed frivolous just a few years ago, but it’s now become an essential for event marketing. Your attendees want to participate in the event on social media. It’s part of the experience of attending an event – and essential one at that. It brings together a feeling of community whether you’re hosting a conference or a concert. Don’t disappoint your audience or leave hashtag creation up to the masses (because it will happen). Select a unique hashtag and start promoting it early and often. Incorporate it into marketing materials and encourage any event social media ambassadors to start using it immediately. Curate and share content that will draw in your audience. Social media is fueled by content. During the course of your event, your attendees,...
SimpleTix Announces Millionth Ticket Sold, New Offices in Old Town Alexandria
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SimpleTix, the feature-rich, event registration tool, now has two achievements to be proud of: It issued its one millionth ticket, and opened new offices in Old Town Alexandria. According to Founder and CEO Aron Kansal “The team is thrilled to have hit the million ticket mark this week, especially since that business all came through word-of-mouth and customer referrals. Asked what he sees in the future for SimpleTix, Kansal responded, “We’re ambitious, and hope to hit the two million ticket mark in the next 18 months, while remaining self-funded, and developing strategic partnerships with complementary products.” SimpleTix offers turn-key online solutions for every type of event ticketing and registration need: live performances, food and wine festivals, and conferences. According to SimpleTix client Elizabeth Power of The Perlman Music Program, “The system works and it’s very cost effective for all the components your get. When it comes to usability and support, no other product comes close to SimpleTix.” SimpleTix offers the flexibility to set your own booking fees, maintain total design control over graphics, colors and images, and collect funds directly, all with a unique flat rate per ticket. Registration for conferences can be done completely online, and allows vendors & exhibitors to view available floor space 24/7, including pricing, availability, and online payment. Boasting sales in 38 countries, and in 12 different currencies, SimpleTix is uniquely positioned to serve the international ticketing market. The millionth ticket sold? It was in Australia. With an eye towards global expansion, Kansal spent several months in New Zealand last year successfully growing the SimpleTix client base. In fact, though a US-based company, the firm’s most successful markets so far are the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. SimpleTix recently opened new offices on N. Washington Street in historic Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, and is used...
Fishing Tours with SimpleTix!
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Hosting fishing tours at your local lake or river? Use SimpleTix to cover your ticketing needs! Looking to sell daily fishing passes for different types of fish? With SimpleTix, we have a couple ways that will best suit your needs! Method #1 - Calendar Style Customers select the date from the calendar Customers first select a date from the calendar. This design allows customers to find that date quickly if you have many event times. For example if you have this event 5 days a week all year – this design is the best. Customers select the tour time Customers now select the tour time from the list. You have the flexibility of of having different times per date. For example if you have have additional times on the weekend – no problem. Lastly select tickets Customers can finally select the tickets. You can have unlimited price groups. For example a price group for people who bring their own fishing poles v.s. needing to rent. Great Reporting at the Date/Time Level This mode will give you great reports you can look at each day to see your expected participants. View Sales Data Per Date/Time View Participant List Per Date/Time Method #2 - Flex Pass Style List all of your tours & activities On your home page list all of your different tours and activities. Customers just select the tickets Customers will not select a date & time, just simply buy the tickets. This is best for any case where you do not really need to know when they will arrive, you simply just want to sell the passes online. Conclusion In conclusion – the first method gives you better reporting and the second method is just more simple. Both method will give the customer an e-Ticket which you can scan...