Have A Look At Some of The Premium Event Ticketing Features To Create Events In The COVID Era

1. Reserved Seating

Considering social distancing rules with mandatory masks becomes the norm in the upcoming months, organizing a reserved seating event where your attendees can choose their seats makes a lot of sense. Create seating maps with seating arrangements that adhere to 6 feet of distancing and your event good to go.

2. Pass On Fees

Enable the ‘Pass On’ fees feature to add the ticketing fee to your attendee’s ticket cost. We understand it has been a dry run for many event organizers which is why this feature will help stabilize your cash flow on the road to recovery.

3. Access Codes / Invite Only

An invite-only event will be in demand for the upcoming months where exclusivity runs high. With our Access Codes feature, sell event tickets only to those who have received your invite or access code through our event ticketing system. 

4. Questionnaires & Surveys 

Willing to go the extra mile and accommodate your event attendee’s wishlist? Make full use of our Survey feature to create logic-based questionnaires to gardener the best insights that can be leveraged at your next event. 

5. Discount Options

Event attendees are definitely looking forward to attending live concerts and shows, but need an attractive price point. Using different types of discounts, you can boost your ticket sales in a short amount of time.

6. Mailchimp Integration

Tell your loyal fans and audience that you’re back! Announce it all over your social media but make sure you drop them a personal message through our Mailchimp integration. An email with all the necessary information such as ticket prices, locations, and safety rules are crucial for all your upcoming events. 

7. Accept Donations

Times are tough which is why your community might come together for a charity event to help those in need. Accept donations easily with our Accept Donation feature available on the Online Ticket Store and Virtual Box Office. The best part is, there are “no Yapsody fees” on Donations. All the proceeds are directly transferred to your account and will not be charged for in your monthly invoice.

We’re sure these features will elevate all your upcoming event creation and ticketing needs. Don’t forget to explore all our 30+ Premium Features that might be well suited for your venue or event type.

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Facebook

This is like the default sub-topic in every event-related blog, isn’t it? And that doesn’t imply you have to automatically skip this part; it implies that there’s so much about Facebook that you just haven’t put to use yet. If you’re ready to shell out a few dollars, you can use Facebook features exclusively meant for businesses. You can upload your customer list and find the ones with an existing profile on the network. Once that’s done, you’ll be equipped with a custom audience that can access your posts and ads. You will also get access to a lot more customer data and the best part is – you can keep returning to your existing customers even as you keep adding new members. Along with that, you get insights into the likes and dislikes of your customers which, from a sales and marketing perspective, can be used to devise foolproof strategies.

Batchbook

Yeah, because everything with a ‘-book’ is a buzz. For less than $40 a month (and a 30-day free trial), you can get this exceedingly sophisticated CRM (Customer Relationship Management) platform that gives you all data pertaining to your customers in a single place.

Batchbook lets you

• Create customer profiles
• Create to-do lists
• Club customer data obtained from all social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc) with existing contact information
• Do all of the above on your mobile phone

It’s easy-to-use, highly resourceful, and it’s mobile friendly. For $40, that’s ridiculously too much!

KISSmetrics

Quite similar to Facebook and Batchbook in terms of profile building, KISSmetrics is rather data-driven. It tracks where your customers go while on their mobile, tablet, or PC in terms of digital content. It comes with a 14-day obligation-free trial and later charges close to $80 per month for the ‘startup’ package, which enables unlimited customer profiling and lists. KISSmetrics gives you an insight into the kind of content that makes people linger and campaigns that stir maximum interest.

OnePulse

OnePulse is THE platform that lets you connect personally to your customers. You can ask questions about anything related to your brand or event, and receive responses from customers in real-time via the OnePulse mobile app. It’s like WhatsApp for companies to communicate with their customers. You can also invite customers and form a private OnePlus community to get instant feedback regarding their experiences with your brand. The big win about OnePulse is that it’s pocket-friendly – you’ll be charged around $31 for 100 responses from the OnePulse community, all-inclusive, while getting a private community of customers into OnePulse is absolutely free.

Yapsody

Biased? I’d say we’re smart and extremely fair since we gave everyone else a fair chance to make an impression before we made our move at the end. So, last and no-way-the-least, Yapsody is one of the very few (and best amongst these few) event ticketing platforms that lets you maintain a close rapport with your customers. You will get your own Virtual Box Office (Online Ticket Store) and also a customized URL to let your customers know all about your event. This is going to be a hub for personalized FAQs that you can put up to help out your customers, your contact details so that they can directly get in touch with you, social media tools and widgets to enable spreading the word easily, and a MailChimp integration tool to easily import your contact list. Really, are we just an online ticketing system? I doubt!

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YapScan
Presenters no more have to stand with a manual checklist to validate their attendees at the entrance of the venue. Imagine how time-consuming that is. To help event presenters save time, Yapsody designed a mobile app that easily scans your event attendee’s tickets in no time, giving them a seamless experience right before the event begins. Tickets can be validated in 4 ways using your Android/iOS(iPhone / iPod Touch), both online and offline:

• Photo scanning using the built-in camera
• Laser scanning for quick entry with a compatible laser attachment
• Search by attendee name
• Search by ticket number

YapStats
Event presenters need real-time data to quickly assess the situation and develop a plan to meet the goal. YapStats does just that. It gives you real-time statistics about your online ticket sales for the event directly on your Android/IOS device. With instant reports and real-time tracking, you can alter your sales strategy to boost ticket sales. When event presenters have multiple accounts, it becomes challenging to keep a track of all the activities and the sales conversion for every account. With the YapStats app, track ticket sales for every account in a jiffy. Using a single app, conveniently track real-time stats for any account, any event from any location. Let’s say, you have 10 accounts with Yapsody and multiple events for each account set up at different locations. Using the YapStats app, you can track real-time sales data for each event across all accounts and access key event-related information at your fingertips.

Mobile Optimized Online Store
The benefits of a mobile-optimized online ticket store are endless for the event presenters. It is even better for those who want to buy tickets online. They don’t have to necessarily hunt for a desktop to purchase event tickets online. They can buy their tickets from anywhere using our mobile-optimized online store. What this means is our online stores can be accessed seamlessly using the browser on a ticket buyer’s mobile to purchase tickets. This helps people to buy tickets on mobile without the need to download a specific mobile application for it.

Using these mobile apps and mobile-friendly online store interface, you’ll save time, money and give your audience the experience they look for at every event. Apart from the powerful mobile apps, we offer an online ticket store and virtual box office to help you plan, promote and sell tickets online in minutes. You’re 3 steps away from creating your account with Yapsody. Sign up Now! Sell your first 50 tickets for free and free access to our mobile apps!

For those looking to up their technology through branded digital solutions, do check out our technology development services.

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Here are 3 ways in which YapScan and YapStats makes your life easier

1. Forget About Long Queues

Using Yapsody is not just about creating, promoting, and selling event tickets. You get an end-to-end ticketing solution through YapScan that automatically syncs between your mobile devices and our servers to ensure that every team member’s mobile device is updated in real-time.

You can also assign separate permissions to your on-ground staff for specific events. For example, you can give scanning permission to all your team members but can elect to reserve the “unscanning” function for specific members only. Meanwhile, you can chill at the bar with a Long Island watching your event unfurl in all its glory. 

2. Focus On The Money

Unless you want to sit down and count all your notes after a successful event night. Our YapStats app turns your iPad and iPhone into an event stats tracker with a single-point view to track your total ticket sales, daily sales report, the revenue you earned, and many more. Event ticketing revenue is a definitive factor for measuring event success and this tool does exactly that through a graphical analysis for easy understanding. 

With YapStats you can access:

• Daily ticket sales
• Total number of tickets sold
• Total number of complimentary tickets offered
• Total event capacity
• Comparison between the total revenue you earned and the total revenue you can earn

3. Plan Better For The Future 

Automating your ticket validation and report generation process is rewarding. As an event manager, you can sit back and observe how your event unfolds. With YapScan, you’re not wasting minutes fiddling with tickets and checklists. This increases your brand credibility as someone who puts their guests first. And with YapScan, you’re getting detailed reports of your event. With data available at your fingertips, you can study your audience better to create an even better experience in your upcoming events.

If you’re looking for an end-to-end event ticketing system to boost your ticket sales, sign up here and get handsy with our apps, YapStats and YapScan. 

For those looking to build cost-efficient yet robust digital solutions for their brands, do check out our technology development services.

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1. Point of Sale App 

With our Point of Sale app for iOS, turn your iPad into a mobile Box Office to boost the event success. It lets your event presenters issue tickets directly from your venue while your devices sync with our server for real-time ticket availability. Large buttons and a single screen view allow for quicker transaction processing to handle large ticket buyer volume with minimized wait times. Plus, the app is designed to help you manage a large number of customers with minimum wait time.

2. Single Point Inventory and Payment Gateways

By accessing all types of tickets in your inventory, you won’t be toggling between different tabs or windows for the different categories of tickets. No pain, all gain! You also don’t have to worry about the constrictions of payment gateways available for your ticket buyers. We offer you cash, check, pay later or absolutely any other means of payment that you wish to set up. 

3. Multi-Currency Support

Our POS app is available to Yapsody event presenters all over the world. All your event ticket transactions will be processed in the currency that you’ve selected in your box office. You may solemnly close that ever open currency conversion tab in your browser as our multi-currency event ticketing platform supports over 150 currencies.

4. Ticket Delivery & Quick Reports

Nothing can be more annoying than waiting in a queue to have your ticket printed out. With our Virtual Box Office, deliver tickets to your guests in a jiffy via email. Simultaneously, your ticket sales and transactions will be recorded and reported in your box office as well as the YapStat app. With YapStat, you have the ability to track your ticket sales report, daily sales report, potential revenue, the revenue you earned at the palm of your hand. Let’s just say with our Virtual Box Office by your side, it’s im-POS-ible to not make your event a great success. 

Looking to boost your online ticket sales? Learn more about Customizing your Online Ticket Store to Boost Ticket Sales. 

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1. Create A Unique First Impression

Your event store is a subdomain provided by us where you can list all your new and upcoming events for a seamless ticket buying experience. We firmly believe that your online store deserves every element of your branding which can be identified by your ticket buyers. You can customize it by selecting a color palette, customizing your background, adding your own logos, displaying your social media profiles, and adding your own website. Remember, that sometimes, your first impression is all it takes for your potential event attendee to buy your ticket.

2. Don’t Let Langauge Barriers Come In The Way

Consider yourself to be Mr. Worldwide of the event management industry? With our multi-language support, interact and connect effectively with your attendees by presenting your online ticket store and events in local languages. Our event ticketing system supports 15 prominent languages from across the globe. It’s a sure-shot way of breaking the language barrier and boost your ticket sales across multiple locations and venues.

3. Keep A Vivid Media Gallery

Keep a highlight reel of your best events in the form of images and videos on your store. Images and YouTube videos can be added to your event pages. These images and videos will appear as thumbnails in the event details pages which your ticket buyers can click on to expand. This entices the ticket buyer further to be part of your amazing events.

4. Share Your Events On Social Media

We realize the power of social media and how it impacts your overall ticket sales. After creating your events, you can share it immediately on your social media platforms. You have the option to promote your events on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. After clicking on your shared event, ticket buyers will land directly on your store and if designed well, they’ll end up buying your tickets.

Ready to enchant your ticket buyers? Sign Up To Create Your Online Ticket Store

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Screenshot – Yapsody Dashboard

Here are 5 types of events best suited for general admission:

1. Live Music Concerts

Always consider your audience persona before choosing a seating plan. With events like live music concerts and live entertainment acts, you are better off with general admission seating. The average age range of your guest list might be between 18-25 who want to check out their favorite band with no frills attached. Their spur of the moment ticket buying decision gets fulfilled all because of your general admission event. 

2. Fundraisers & Charities

Nothing can be more memorable and hospitable than people coming together for community fundraising. Keeping these events as an open for all style of entry elevates additional participation. What’s more, is that you can create both general seating and reserved seating sections for events like these.

Every last bit counts when it comes to charities which why we do our bit of giving non-profit event presenters a FLAT 50% Rebate. 

3. Art Shows & Expos

We’ve witnessed a lot of our event presenters opting for general admission in case of art shows and expos as these events are week long. You’re letting your guests move freely inside the venue and on their time and pace. Create variable pricing for weekdays and weekends to target a wider audience and maximize revenue generation. To make sure you don’t overcrowd such venues, you can also designate a quantity for each ticket type. 

 4. Fairs & Festivals 

Being casual events, no one will want to reserve their tickets in advance. Fairs and festivals are perfect for maintaining a low price point to attract plenty of attendees. With general admission, you’re creating the ultimate “Open for All” scenario for those who want to have the most basic event experience at the lowest price point. 

5. Comedy Shows & Movie Nights

Another type of event that has your event attendees making spur of the moment decisions. It’s understandable to have reserved seating for comedy shows and movie nights as guests want to be seated in a good section. Weekend events like these are frequented by working professionals who make sudden plans. To accommodate them, it’s beneficial to keep a certain quantity of seats under general admission. 

Create a General Admission Event

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1. Add Users To Your Yapsody Dashboard

Organizing and planning an event is done only with a chosen few. You won’t be going around yelling from the rooftops letting everyone in on the plan, right? Similarly, you won’t be giving access to everyone on your team to handle your Yapsody account. Start by adding your core team members who will be operating the system by sending them an email invite.

2. Assign Detailed Permissions 

While inviting and adding users, make sure you assign detailed permission to each of your team members based on their roles and responsibilities. This makes it easier for them to focus on their area of specialization while navigating the system. 

3. Combine Them In Teams

You can also assign your users into different groups. So your on-ground team will have access to ticket scanning and Box Office whereas your event marketing team will have access to all the marketing tools and integrations on your account. This cuts down your overall event management time in half when teams work together on the account. 

4. Restrict Access During Specific Events 

You can also restrict a user’s access to specific events. This option makes it perfect for venues that work with multiple event presenters. Restrict who can set up events, view specific reports, scan tickets, configure account settings, refund tickets, reissue tickets, access presale tickets, use marketing features, and much more.

Our user management feature makes it easier for all your team members to fire on all cylinders by focusing on their assigned role in the system. Learn more about working smoothly with a large team for your event campaign. 

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1. Early Purchase Discount

Known popularly as the early bird discount, this type of discount is great for creating hype and a sense of urgency. Start off with a low ticket price and gradually increase the price as the day of the event approaches. Divide this discount to be used frugally in phases to exceed your ticketing revenue. With Yapsody’s early purchase discount, event presenters can quickly sell out the first phase of event tickets and build hype around their event. 

2. Group Discount

Group discounts are perfect for multiplying your event attendee list through a single ticket buyer. Perfect for events that will be frequented by friends or family together such as a gala dinner, pub crawl, conferences, or a movie premiere. Group discounts are a perfect fix for event presenters who want to sell a fixed number of tickets in one go. 

3. Multi-Use Promo Code

Using email blasts to send exclusive invites to your recurring attendees? Create a multi-use promo code discount and send it only to a group of loyal attendees. This strategy creates a sense of loyalty in your audience’s mind. Use our Mailchimp Integration to send email blasts with an irresistible offer for a quick event sell out with your loyal attendees.  

4. Single-Use Code

Perfect for those events which will be attended by elders and not so tech-savvy citizens of your community. If you’re inviting families with four members in it, you’d want to issue a single-use code to each family enabling them to buy four tickets at a time. Create a sense of convenience to boost event attendance and gain your audience’s trust.

5. Miscellaneous Discount

Some event presenters truly leave no stone unturned in bringing people together. Our miscellaneous discount is used in event scenarios where you provide audiences with additional discounts other than the ones we provide. Maybe it’s your birthday or an event anniversary and you’re feeling generous. This discount is the way to let your attendees know that you truly do it for them.

We hope these discount options are used smartly to boost your event attendance. For those still looking for an event ticketing platform to boost their event creation and revenue-generating potential, SIGN UP here.

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Here are 9 ways of impressing attendees with your event pages. 

1. Consider the Event Type 

Before creating any random event description on your page, consider the type of event you’re hosting. If it’s a theater event, your descriptions and copy need to tease them the right way and hook them into heading into the checkout page.

Screenshot – Event Page

Musical night followed by dinner? Add music videos of artists that’ll be performing at your venue and high-quality images of the food that they can expect. Planning a pub crawl? Don’t miss out on all the juicy details as organized drinking should be taken seriously, right?

Screenshot – Event Page

2. Choose Visuals Over Words 

Visuals and minimal storytelling are your best friends. We’ve noticed event presenters not having to write lengthy event descriptions as their pictures spoke a 1000 words. With our Online Ticket Store, you can achieve this by creating a combination of strong or subtle color palettes mixed with your branding. Maybe you’re the popular one in the event industry and all they need to see is your brand logo to hit the BUY ticket button.  

3. Don’t Overwhelm Them

Don’t use jargons and heavy terms that require them to pull up Google search. Translate your event details effectively in a minimalistic manner so that they don’t stray away from your page. Sometimes, less is more so don’t start penning an essay on your event pages.

4. Use the Power Of Video

In the generation of 4k ultra HD videos, a well-shot teaser can do wonders in communicating what words cannot. You might have to write a script for it, but the payoff is huge. You can not only add your videos on our Online Ticket Store but also use the same video on multiple social media channels. Videos add a great impression for events pages with live music concerts, theaters, and stand-up gigs. Learn more on How to Promote Your Event Using Video. 

5. SEO Optimize Your Event Page 

Before going live with your event page, it’s absolutely crucial to SEO optimize it that will make it reach the appropriate audiences. Optimizing your event page with our SEO optimization feature will make your event page appear organically on top of search results, making it easier for new attendees to find your events. 

6. Dig Deeper Into Attendee Data 

Ask your attendees all the right questions, so you can create the ideal attendee experience. Maybe your first-ever event didn’t go as expected but that’s how the event industry works. By understanding your event attendee, you can craft better descriptions for your event page and attract more ticket buyers. Use our Questionnaires & Surveys feature to dig deeper into attendee data. 

7. Provide Social Proof

No one wants to pay money for an event only to witness the event go bust at the last minute. Social media profiles for brands are official proof of legitimate existence. Create another layer of trust in your event attendees by adding your social media icons on your Online Ticket Store. We’ve always witnessed a quick checkout for those event pages with social media icons on them.

Screenshot – Yapsody Dashboard

8. Attendees Love Discounts

Now, if you’ve done everything right to hook them till the end of your event page, it’s time to create a sense of urgency by giving them a discount. An event marketing tactic that never fails the test of time. Use our event ticketing platform to assign different types of discounts through multiple ticket types.

9. Add Custom FAQs  

Don’t leave out anything to their imagination. If event attendees are having doubts or second thoughts about attending your event you’re losing out on ticketing revenue that could’ve been avoided otherwise. Clear the confusion you think they might have by adding custom FAQs on your Online Ticket Store. The only thing they should be imagining is how amazing your event is going to be. 

Ready to unleash your inner creativity and create an amazing Online Ticket Store? SIGN UP with us and woo your audiences.

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So, here’s a glimpse of 19 things we did in 2019 to elevate our event ticketing platform for event presenters and their attendees worldwide. 

1.Website Revamp

At Yapsody, we believe in refreshing our user experiences to evolve further as one of the best event ticketing platforms out there. Our website went through a total revamp in May that improved our website speed, structure, ease of usability, and navigation. 

Screenshot – Yapsody Website

The Yapsody website enhancement has led to significant improvement in our website ranking by 50%. We saw a significant increase for new presenters signing up with Yapsody. All the brownie points go to our tech, design, and marketing teams for meeting the deadlines. 

Screenshot – Enterprise-Grade Features

2. Event Marketing Services

Part of our revamped website involved an introduction to our service offering for our users worldwide – Event Marketing Services. We started offering event marketing services to our presenters under which we collaborate with them through co-branded blogs, social media promotion, and a host of SEO services to amplify their event marketing efforts. We understand how taxing it can be to organize an event and handle all the nitty-gritty of it. Our event marketing services let event presenters rest easy as our team of marketing experts handled their promotional activities. 

Screenshot – Yapsody Facebook Page

Our event posts shared on Facebook and Instagram have generated the best levels of engagement, with posts crossing the 500,000 mark.

3. Google Analytics

If there’s one feature that is unanimously used by all our event presenters regularly, it’s Google Analytics and rightly so. Leveraging the mighty Google Analytics Integration, our presenters were able to:

• Get in-depth detail about how much traffic each marketing channel is contributing to their ticket sales.
• Track real-time sales conversions and create customized reports to understand the figures better.
• Find out how long your visitors spend on which page and which page is getting more traffic.

4. Premium Event Listing 

With our new addition of Premium Event Listing in 40 major cities worldwide, presenters were able to list their new and upcoming events on our geo-targeted event page for FREE and increase visibility by 10x.

Screenshot – Yapsody Event Page

With a premium listing, we also promoted their events on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (and LinkedIn, depending on the nature of their event)

5. Global Language Selection On Mobile 

We don’t let any ticket sales get lost in translation. Our event ticketing platform was already supporting 15 prominent languages from across the globe. We integrated our global language selection on mobile devices as well making it easier for our event presenters to reach audiences from all over the globe. 

6. Adding ​Instagram Feed to the Online Ticket ​Store

To make sure event attendees stay updated with our event presenter’s social feed, the functionality to add an Instagram handle on their Online Ticket Store was implemented. This made it easier for their audience to stay updated with their social feed for quick updates during ticket purchasing. 

7. Events Calendar – WordPress Plugin

We also launched “Yapsody Events Calendar” for those event presenters who own a WordPress Site. This plugin helped display their Yapsody events on their WordPress site in a Calendar view. On click of the event from the calendar, the attendee was redirected to the actual event page of the venue where they could purchase tickets.

This plugin bridges the gap between the presenter’s WordPress platform and Yapsody Online Store to market their events on their website pages within a calendar. This Calendar will dynamically display events on the calendar as and when an event is added, updated or deleted in the Yapsody Box Office platform, in short reducing the load over the presenter to manually add events on their site for promotion and marketing of their upcoming events.

8. Wix Integration

Our event presenters onboard are a sharp lot who know exactly what they want in creating that memorable event experience. Considering the evolving landscape of our business, the need for custom functionalities gets requested from us occasionally. With our flexible event ticketing platform, they were able to raise a request which was then rolled out by our tech team quickly. Similar to our WordPress plugin, we got a special request from presenters who needed a calendar plugin for their Wix plugin. Needless to say, we obliged them.

9. Mollie Integration 

Our event ticketing platform supports all the major payment gateways such as PayPal, Stripe, WePay, Sage, and many more. This year, we also added Mollie to our arsenal which is one of the best payment collection options for our event presenters across Europe. 

10. Super-Powered Support 

Our Support team truly are the Jedi of the Yapsody universe where they not only handle the queries of event presenters but also their ticket buyers. Our job is to facilitate an end-to-end smooth operation and that’s what we delivered on a 24/7 basis. For us, every event presenter is equally important, whether you sell 10 or 100,000 tickets for your event. With over 2000 monthly support tickets, we were able to achieve 95%+ satisfaction. Over the last twelve months, our CSAT scores for both ticket buyers and presenters have been over 95%

11. Customer-Centric Programs 

During the year, we have further enhanced our Customer Support to facilitate our event presenters in their event creation journey right from the time they sign-up to their event creation. Our team is available 24/7 if you ever get stuck or have any queries while setting up an event or even when your event is on-sale and is always available at hand to provide you with guidance via live chat, email, or schedule a callback.  Through our various client onboarding and retention programs, we have made it our goal to support our client’s revenue generation quest through event ticketing in every aspect possible.

12. Exclusive Seasonal Offers

Considering the evolving nature of the hospitality business, holidays and topical seasons around the world is a golden opportunity for event planners to create an event quickly without burning a hole in their pocket. We rolled out 3 exclusive offers during Halloween, Christmas, and New Year. Much to our presenter’s delight, it truly was a merry time to combine this holiday offer with our low ticketing fees. 

13. Discounted Tiers 

We saw a lot of our clients move up through our discounted tiers – Gold, Platinum, and Elite as part of our Loyalty Program. Our Discounted Tiers is one of the many reasons why Yapsody is preferred among event presenters worldwide. Combined with our low ticketing fees and pass on fees feature, the potential for boosting ticket sales went way higher.

Screenshot – Pricing Tiers

14. Solving Challenges For Nonprofits  

Noah Webster House organizes community-based events catering to various ages from cemetery tours to lectures. To simplify the process of selling their event tickets online, they researched several online ticketing systems. Listing their events brought about a set of challenges. For starters, it wasn’t feasible for a nonprofit organization like theirs, from a pricing standpoint. The presenter was required to pay $2 a ticket for tickets that cost $10 or less. Besides this, they did not have a single platform where they could view all their upcoming events. Instead, they were only able to create links for their individual events and were allotted event ID numbers. There was no scope of personalization, making the process a disorganized affair.

Development Manager of Noah Webster House, Amy Boulton says, “Yapsody is a great site, particularly for non-profits.”

The museum organizes multiple events throughout the year. It only made sense to make the switch to Yapsody, because they didn’t have to pay a high flat fee on tickets priced low. Apart from the reasonable fees, she was exceptionally pleased about being able to have a branded URL and an exclusive store of their own for no additional costs.

15. Creating Consistency for Community Caterers 

One of the biggest challenges for a catering company like Georgia Smoke is consistency in its quality of service to its community. They always use the freshest ingredients and cook everything to order so nothing is out of place. From sourcing ingredients to serving the food hot, they never resort to cutting corners. Having raised over $25,000K for Friends of Disabled Adults & Children (FODAC) previously by serving 4,000+ oysters, Georgia Smoke wanted to upscale their logistics for the Seventh Annual #OysterRoast in terms of event creation, ticketing, and consumer support. 

“Yapsody had a good deal for nonprofits and I chose it. The system is easy to duplicate events and has good deals on nonprofit events. Their customer support is helpful, quick, and fast. The last thing I need to worry about during these events is ticketing; I trust Yapsody to do its part while I do mine.”

– John R. Lenz, Georgia Smoke BBQ

Yapsody proved to be the perfect mix with features like Pricing for Non-Profits, 24/7 Customer Support, Event Setup Wizard, and Surveys. Being such a well-known caterer in Atlanta, Georgia Smoke BBQ  exceeded expectations by staying indispensable in their quality of service through Yapsody’s ticketing service. And after it was all said and done, the community’s fundraising total for FODAC pushed past $25,000.

Read more of our success stories HERE.

16. Implemented ABN for Australian Events

Many of our Australian presenters requested to include ABN (Australian Business Number) on the transaction receipt because in Australia it is a legal requirement that their ABN is included on all receipts that they issue. We have implemented the request in such a way that if any event presenter is adding company information under business details settings then that information will show under the receipt.

17. Implemented Custom Reporting 

We made enhancements to our reporting module to better represent data and facilitate analysis for our event presenters. Within our Attendee List Report, there were changes done to provide data to clients including transaction time as well as a provision to display the information based on time of purchase. This helped our event presenters to manage and gather information about their attendees in a more detailed format.

18. Accepting Donations Made Simpler

Yapsody allows you to accept donations from both the Online Ticket Store and the Box Office.
Our presenters requested the “Accept Donation” button in the left column under the Support and Contact Presenter button on the event landing page where the Get Ticket is shown. We have implemented this change globally for ease of access.

19. Working Towards 2020 

2019 was all about revamping and re-working on many aspects of our product that will have its ramifications in 2020. Come 2020, we will be launching Yapsody 3.0 for our event presenters and hospitality enterprises worldwide. Needless to say, it will come loaded with a fresh set of features and integrations that will make ticketing and revenue generation easier for both the presenter and their event attendees.

That’s it from our YapWrapUp: 19 Things We Did In 2019. Stay tuned to the Yapsody blog for more updates. 

We hope all you event presenters are having a busy time with sold-out venues. If you’re someone who loves bringing people together for an unforgettable event experience, then Yapsody is the perfect fit for you. Sign Up as an event presenter to elevate your event ticketing and revenue generation experience with our Enterprise-Grade Features. 

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The feature is available for every type of event & venue so that you don’t limit the creative planner in you, however, here are 5 events that truly deserve Reserved Seating. 

1. Live Music Concerts 

You’re truly letting the early bird and enthusiastic fans feel the magic of their musicians up close. It’s a feeling that is next to none. Reserved Seating allows them to choose exactly where they would like to be seated or standing to have their ultimate event experience. Reserving their tickets beforehand puts their minds at ease in having to avoid long queues and get preferential treatment. They’re paying top dollar for a top-notch experience and that’s what they should get. 

2. Gala Dinner

Food is a multicultural social glue that brings people together. Masterchef cookouts and gala dinners are perfect for reserved seating where people will be in their best attire not looking to sweat it out in a queue or haggle their seats with others. In the case of a community dinner service as well, reserved seating gives an option to the entire family, especially the senior citizens and kids to have a great time rather than hunting for seats as the door opens. Food is meant to be enjoyed in peace and this is exactly what Reserved Seating achieves. 

3. Charities and Fundraisers

Benefit music concerts and dinners for charities and fundraisers are also well-suited. As an event presenter, you might invite a host of high profile celebrities, patrons, and investors to open their hearts and wallets for the community. Make sure you don’t make them feel anything less than a VVIP. With our feature, you can hold their seats and entire sections for their seating pleasure in advance. Make sure you use our event ticketing platform to streamline the process and get a FLAT 50% rebate. 

4. Casino Nights

A bit of a posh affair, a black-tie affair themed around the British spy requires a lot of effort. With precise planning and a reserved seating arrangement, a Casino Royale night brimming with poker tournaments, celebs, VIPs, and corporate sponsors can be a sure shot success. Keep these events ticket priced high to keep the guest list exclusive. Just keep that guest list and YapScan in hand for ease of check-in.   

5. Movie Nights

Whether it’s an international film festival or a theatrical drama, you can offer multiple ticket types and let your attendees enjoy the performance from their choice of seat. With reserved seating, setting up a private movie screening at a theatre that serves food and beverages also works wonders. 

Now, that you know which 5 events deserve reserved seating, go ahead and do your thing. Sign Up with us to create, promote, and sell event tickets online.

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