Ticketing Software

[achstechdirector]

Im looking for a free ticketing software that can reserve seats and handle sales. It doesn't need to print tickets
It just needs a seating chart (for my theatre) and the ability to reserve seats and sell seats
i need it to keep track of our seating for a night
A excel sheet would work but I don't know how to program it

Maybe this is a wild dream and im completely crazy but any help is greatly appreciated

[gafftaper]

Well it's not free but it's reasonably priced...

Brown Paper Tickets provides a ton of services for a VERY reasonable price. We used them for a couple of shows before someone decided we needed to waste a lot of money on an expensive in house ticketing system. I would be much happier just staying with Brown Paper Tickets. Their fee is 99 cents plus 2.5% of the ticket price. So a $10 ticket runs $11.24. You hide the fees in your cost structure and your customer never knows they are paying a fee. They handle assigned seating and your customers can even order online 24 hrs a day. They talk a lot about about being a "fair trade ticketing company"... not exactly sure what that means but I'll tell you they are a lot nicer to deal with than Ticketmonster.

Check them out it's a great way for a high school, college, or community theater to easily establish an online ticket system.

[lieperjp]

Run a search for "ticketing software" and see what comes up. There was a very informative thread a while ago.

Something we're looking into is this one: Seat Yourself - Online Ticketing - Online Ticket Sales Software System. You don't have to pay for it, a $0.50 fee is added on to each ticket. I believe, though, that you do have to pay credit card fees if a customer pays via credit card.

[achstechdirector]

I cannot find any threads. It seems that I have read one a long time ago but cannot find it. Any help is great appreciated

[Footer]

Don't know the fees, but I have worked a few places that use. Box Office Software. Ticket Software. Ticket Printing.

[derekleffew]

Here's two past threads: http://www.controlbooth.com/forums/t...ticketing.html, and http://www.controlbooth.com/forums/t...cketmaker.html.

[gafftaper]

Originally Posted by Footer

Don't know the fees, but I have worked a few places that use. Box Office Software. Ticket Software. Ticket Printing.

From what I've seen Vendini is the big dog in the market and they offer the Cadillac in services. I think they cost quite a bit more than some of the other options but you get everything for that price.

[martinty]

Ive looked at a few pieces of software, none that do all the things that i want them to do, and at a reasonable price.

These are the things i want to be able to do:

General Seating
Membership
Flex Passes/Seasons Tickets
Online Ticekting
Mailing Lists and Patron Tracking.


The Services I have looked at:

Vendini
Showclix

The Software:
Box Office Xpress Jr
Tick it 2K


I like Tickit 2K the most... havent got a price yet though... I liked showclix for its ease of use, and really low cost... Vendini has all the things I want, but at a much higher cost, and they require a credit card to charge their fees to...

Box Office Xpress Jr is expensive software, and expensive online ticketing... the good thing about them is they are based in Canada, as am I so communicating and money is way easier to deal with...

Not sure what is going to happen, I need to pick asap...

any ideas or suggestions?

[achstechdirector]

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Ok so I decided as President of the theatre that we needed to computerize our ticket reservation process...then i saw prices on ticket softwares...so I decided I would try my hand at writing one. I used Visual Basic 2008 and Gosh that stuff is so messed up I have a headache just from trying...so obviously to no avail I am stuck...I could always just scrap the idea..but would like to see any options I have left.. ANY IDEAS?

Details of what I would like (It may be useless but it makes me feel better)

A graphic representation of our theatre with clickable seats that can store a name and phone number and whether it is paid for in it. have multiple performances or be able to run multiple copies of the program at once


THANKS FOR ANY HELP!!!

[HandyT]

What you are seeking should be possible with many of the main event ticketing programs. Did you try HandyTix online event ticketing system software which has interactive seat selection, where you can click on the seat to see who bought it, how much they paid etc.? Their charges are max. 2.5% of the ticket price with no other upfront charges.