From Stalls To Servers

Gone are the days of setting up stalls and booking windows to sell your event tickets at the box office. Now, all you need is a computer and a working internet connection to get all your event ticketing done right at your fingertips. Plus, you won’t have to deal with angry ticket buyers as you put up a “Sorry, We Are Closed” sign. With our Online Ticket Store, venues such as casinos, clubs, and theatres are profiting really well from migrating into an online event ticketing system. If it’s a high volume, tech-savvy audience that you cater to, don’t think twice before switching over to online ticketing. 

Right There, Right Then

With an online ticket store, you can add discounts, surcharges, and taxes to your events, sitting right there with a coffee mug staring at your laptop skin – not to mention, collecting the ticket sales in your local currency while dealing in your local language too! Could it get any simpler? It can.

With our Virtual Box Office in place, your physical ticketing takes a swifter route by automating the issuing and printing of tickets. Our Point of Sale app is perfect for those venues and events like clubs, cafes, festivals, and live concerts where guests might pop up unannounced. You can neither say no nor drive away extra ticket sales, right? Imagine extra money just walking straight to your door and your on-ground team turning them going all “We don’t accept cash and credit”

Our virtual box office makes physical ticketing at your venue a breeze. Sell tickets, instantly view stats, offer discounts and refunds, generate custom tickets, accept payment all with the click of a few buttons. As they say, old school never dies. 

Still uncertain about what your event and venue needs?

Sign Up Here to use our Online Ticket Store and Virtual Box Office to power your online and offline ticketing simultaneously.  

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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.

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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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Virtual Box Office

With multiple activities to handle while organizing an event, time is what you need. For example, this holiday season if you’ve planned 10 events, you wouldn’t want to create each event from scratch. This must-have feature helps you save a whole lot of time. We call it “The Virtual Box Office”. It gives you single-click access to the event wizard, real-time sales analytics, reporting, inventory management and a lot more. Are you wondering how does it save time? It has a performance customization feature that lets you create multiple events in no time. Using this feature, you can simply copy your existing event and make changes to it.

Online Ticket Store

Does your event management software offer you a platform to showcase your events? Another feature you must consider is the online ticket store which is also referred to as the events page. This store lets you display all your events in a single page. 

The online ticket store is like the stage of a theater, it’s the most happening drama everyone wants to see. It’s where your attendees can see the event details like the date, artist information, and address of the venue. When you promote your event online, they are directed to the online store to purchase tickets. With Yapsody’s event management software, you can customize your store the way you like it. You can add your brand logo, colors, images of your artists and external links to your social media pages. You can also geo-tag your events so your attendees know how to get to the venue.

Multiple Payment Gateway

When you deal with your attendees’ hard-earned money, you can’t take a risk. Payment gateways are a secure way of collecting payments. When an attendee buys a ticket, these systems authorize payments from the attendee’s account directly to your bank account.

While most event ticketing companies may have limited payment gateway options, our event management software offers multiple choices to you. Our popular payment gateways include Stripe, Braintree, PayPal, WePay and many others for close to 60 countries across the globe. That way, you receive the money from the ticket sales directly to your bank account.

Multi-language Support

As an event manager, you don’t want the language to be a barrier between you and your audience. An event management software with multi-language support gives you an upper edge as compared to your competitors. 

Whether you’re in France, Spain or Germany, our event management software lets you create your event in your native language. Our software supports 15 prominent languages so you can connect with your attendees easily without a communication barrier. Apart from language, we also support 170+ currencies across the globe. Do you want to check if your currency is supported? Click here to find out.

Seating Arrangement Options

Attendees look for convenience, especially in the world of digitalization wherein most attendees want to reserve their seats or buy general admission tickets in advance. The seating arrangement feature not only offers convenience but also lets the attendees pick their preferred seat from anywhere and anytime.

Be it a club event or tech conference, using our event management software, you can recreate your venue with our interactive seating plan creator. That way, there’s no war before the event and you don’t have to be the bouncer to stop the ‘seat fight’.

Event Marketing

As an expert event manager, you’d definitely agree that marketing can change the entire ticket selling game. Event marketing as a feature can help you easily promote your event on different social media sites and help you reach out to a wider audience. 

We at Yapsody incorporated this golden feature in our event software management software so you don’t have to approach any event marketing agency to do the job for you. All you need to do is create your event and you can directly promote it on multiple popular social media profiles. Alternatively, once you’re with Yapsody, we promote your events for free. This is how we do it: We

• Share your events on our social media profiles
• Feature your events on our blogs
• Post your events on our website using the premium event listing feature.

Ticket Customization

It’s the holiday season, you’ll have themed parties, Halloween nights or Christmas dinner. With the ticket customization feature, you can set yourself apart. With this feature, you can create themed tickets depending on your event theme. For example, you’re organizing an event this Halloween. Your theme is witches and wizards. You can design your ticket with a smoky cauldron and a witch on the broom flying to the village. Add the event details and your ticket is ready. 

Our event management software offers the  ‘Ticket Customization’ feature so you can customize and create your own branded ticket with the theme you’ve planned for the event.

Accept Donations 

One of the best features a top event management software must-have is the ‘Accept Donations’ feature. While this may not be applicable to all event managers, nonprofit organizations are sure to fall in love with it. 

Our event management software lets you add the accept donation feature on the online ticket store. When your attendees buy tickets for your charity or a fundraiser event, they get a direct option to donate for a cause with Yapsody’s donation feature. Not just that, Yapsody also contributes to your cause by giving you a special offer. Any event you organize, you get a 50% rebate on your event ticketing fees. Now that’s what an incredible offer looks like.

Ticket Validation System

Quick check-in and easy validation are every event manager’s dream. If you’ve been looking for a free event check-in software, we give you something much better than that. 

When you use our event management software, you get our custom-designed mobile apps for free. Our mobile app – YapScan helps you during the check-in process. You can easily scan each attendee’s ticket using your mobile phone and validate them in no time. That way, you can avoid long queues and angry attendees at the door.

Real-Time Reporting

While you spent sleepless nights planning that event, you’ll be restless till you see the numbers. Luckily, the real-time reporting feature is sure to revive you instantly and you don’t have to wait until the end of the event to measure the success. This event management tool works out to be every event manager’s favorite and their guiding star. At Yapsody, we offer you our custom-designed mobile app – YapStats absolutely FREE. This app offers 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. 

Whoever came up with the quote ‘the best things in life don’t come free’, we proved them you wrong. For all those looking for a free event management software, we don’t charge a penny for using our software. When it comes to event ticketing, we already offer the best features at an incredibly low price. But if you’d like to make it absolutely free, you can opt for our ‘Pass on Fee’ Feature. With this ticketing feature, your ticketing fees are passed on to your attendees. So when the final invoice is generated, the ticketing fee you pay is already borne by your attendees, making event ticketing free for you. Are you planning an event soon? Sign up with Yapsody and use the best event management software for your next event. Don’t forget to use our holiday season offers. To avail a 25% off, use our promo code – HOLIDAY25.

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Here’s a little present from Yapsody to all our presenters – a revamped Online Ticket Store with a best in class Customer Interface and a plethora of amazing utilities, including a Customized Questionnaire module.

Give your customers a personalized survey experience and get to know them better with YAppSurvey, our Customized Questionnaire feature. Build dynamic event-specific surveys that are not only responsive, but also simple and sleek.

Upgrade Now to the New online event ticketing system and experience better design and more functions wrapped up in an easy-to-use User Interface.

Upgrade Now and get YAppSurvey, the premium Customized Questionnaire module for FREE! 

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Online Ticket Store

Do you have a customised ticketing page? Using sub-domain to customise your event ticketing page makes sure that people first land at your ticketing page. Name your sub-domain after the organization rather than the event. Yapsody’s Online Ticket Store gives an uncomplicated ticketing experience. To change Online Store Sub-domain, go to your Box Office, and select ‘Setting’. In the ‘Sub-domain’ section, click ‘Change’ and enter the new sub-domain.

Social Media Integration

With strong presence of users on social media, promoting your events will give you a good coverage of your event. However, first check if you have a proper Social Media Integration tool. You can directly create an event on Facebook and Twitter. Or, you can use the two Widgets Feature provided by Yapsody.

Text Link Widget: With this feature, you can share event details on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. You can generate a code and share it on social media. On clicking it, users will be taken to Yapsody to purchase tickets.

Button Widget: This lets you share your event details on your official website. Using Button Widget, you can generate a source code. Integrate this code on your site and get a buy button.

Must Haves in your Ticket

Having an event name is a must. It is your title that suggests what the event is about. With a catchy event title, attract more people and improve your Google search ranking.

Give as much detail as you can while giving event description in the description section, the more information you share, the more interests you invoke.

There should be a slot to create multiple ticket types and add pricings, which can be disabled or renamed.

With Yapsody’s Customise Menu, you can design your ticket by adding images and videos to make it visually appealing. Apart from the main event image slot, there are options to add more images which will get displayed at the Event Detail Page of your Online Ticket Store.

Adding event location with a map on your e-ticket saves a lot of time. Yapsody provides two ways to add location – Using Account Settings and While Event Creation. You can add multiple locations for multiple events; enter address and select time-zone. There’s a checkbox too if you want to display map on your online store.

Payment Method

For all the efforts you have put into, ensure that you get paid. You do it by having best and convenient payment options. At Yapsody, customers can make payment either by Credit Cards or PayPal. You can also create your own custom payment mode. Then, there’s choice of making combined payment, where a maximum of two payment methods can be combined for a single transaction.

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Number One: The Subject Predicament

When you have a lot of content in your emails, it is very difficult to come up with a crisp subject line because either you end up using jargon, or you just make it too long. Ideally, a crisp subject line should convey the content in less than eight words (it is NOT my favorite number #coincidence). Yapsody, for example, has a Translation Program that offers free access to premium features to users who help translate the online ticket store in their local language. While sending out emails about the same, “Relate, Translate, Rebate” would be a better option than “Get Involved In Our Translation Program And Get Free Premium Features”.

Number Two: Open Sesame!

Your opening paragraph should have three main points –

1. Address them personally. There’s no better way to impress someone.
2. Tell them about the event; just don’t throw it at their face. Show your excitement. For example, Seeing you at Tick-event this Friday, 21 August, 2015 would be so much fun!
3. Don’t forget to mention the date so that they instantly add it to their calendars.

Number Three: The Rest

It’s an email, not a blog post. Make it short and crisp and get to the point at once instead of beating around the bush. Convey all important details of the event in a concise manner when it comes to the body of the email.

Number Four: How To Get There

Give details about the location and the venue. Include as many landmarks as you can and make sure you also provide a map. Now, map implies both of these things:

1. Floor plan of the venue
2. Google Map (with directions to the location)

Also, inform them about the public transport available, set up a Google doc for people who would want to share rides, and let them know about the parking scenes.

Number Five: What Is It ALL About

Of course, emails have to be concise. But, interested audience would still want to know about the entire agenda. So, include a link to your complete agenda in your email.

Number Six: WaaiiiFaaiii!!

Sue me if I’m the only person who gets excited when it comes to (free) WiFi. Sometimes, it’s even better than (free) food. Tell your attendees that the WiFi is going to be speedy and strong and that you’ve worked hard for it. Though, you’d want to mention that they could still use their data connections in case of issues.

Number Seven: #Hashtags

Ask them to use the event’s hashtag if they post any update/picture/video on any of the social media platforms. Hashtags are a great way to link attendees to your event personally and get their followers in your basket, too.

Number Eight: I’ll Be There For You…

… ‘cause you’re there for me, too!

Let them know you’re always there to help them out. Provide your customer support’s details (email, contact number, live chat) to give them a sense of reliability from your end.

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Here are some notable enhancements that we have made to the new Online Ticket Store

Desktop. Tablet. Mobile

Customers’ purchases shouldn’t depend on the device they are using. They should be able to access your online ticketing store and book their tickets from a desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile phone. So we’ve introducing a completely responsive design that will appear as though your store was made for the device on which it is being viewed irrespective of device type or screen size.

New Palettes and Body Background Transparency

Palettes can provide much more control over the look and presentation of the content on your home page. We have added seven new palettes to the Ticket Store Setup for easy color combination plus the ability to adjust opacity, which will give you more flexibility to design your Online Ticket Store.

New Event Sharing Platforms

One of the most important features for event presenter is the ability to share and promote their events. Until now, you could share content and event information via Twitter and Facebook; but more is always better! Yapsody added two more Social Media platform; Google+ and Pinterest, to help you promote your event more effectively and with a wider reach.

These are just a few of the exciting new changes coming to Yapsody. To get updates on new features, follow us on Twitter and Facebook and check back with our blogs.

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Event-goers using mobile devices love to surf for nearby latest and upcoming events; when they do, they seek content that meets their “on-the-go” needs. In this blog, we will share some cold hard facts which explain the importance of Mobile Friendly ticketing system for event presenters.

• According to Pew Internet & American Life Project, 45% of those who use the internet on their phones prefer web browsing on their mobile devices
• A recent Google survey of mobile users found that:

i)        72% of mobile users say it’s important to them that websites be mobile-friendly.

ii)      Consumers are more likely to make a purchase when a site meets their mobile needs. Unfortunately for e-commerce sites (like event ticketing), 61% said they are likely to leave a site that isn’t mobile-friendly.

iii)    Almost three-quarters of respondents said they are more likely to revisit a mobile-friendly e-commerce site; and for those sites that are not mobile-friendly, 79% of respondents said they would search for another site to meet their needs.

Now you might wonder what exactly your customers are looking for in an online ticket store accessed from a mobile device. We at Yapsody believe that they don’t want anything special, they just want:

• Big, mobile-friendly buttons
• Limited scrolling and pinching
• Quick access to event presenter contact information
• Links to presenters’ social media profiles
• Simple mobile-friendly checkout process

Like it or not, the first experience most people have with your company and your events is going to be your online ticket store. Do you want them to see a flat, bland, and impersonal ticket store rather than something that looks tailored just for them?
The answer will be NO! So, Sign Up today with Yapsody and enjoy the power of our New Online Ticket Store!

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Whether it’s providing a seamless MailChimp integration, free mobile apps for scanning tickets, or event sharing option for Facebook and Twitter, we always try to provide our event presenters and their customers with intuitive features that allow greater flexibility for interacting with casino events!

That’s why we’ve have added brand new Pinterest and Google+, which leverages the power of #hashtags to allow you and your customers to share your casino event directly from your Online Ticket Store to Pinterest and Google+!

All of you know the importance of Google+, but many of you must be wondering why we have added Pinterest and what it has to do with casino events?  Pinterest recently launched a new feature called “Place Pins” so that users can add the location to their boards and pins. This functionality has big benefits for event presenters because event attendees can now add the location of your casino events when posting event images.

Presenters on Yapsody now have more tools in their Online Stores for customers to easily share event images and details and to talk about the event long after it ends! Whether you’re hosting a big music concert or a small fundraising event, take the experience of your casino event online and keep the conversation going with Yapsody!

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With Yapsody, you do not need to have any design experience or hire a professional to create an awesome looking online ticket store. Anyone can do it simply by selecting a color scheme palette or creating a custom color scheme. Then add your logo to the masthead and a background image of your choice.  Soon we will be adding multiple layouts for you to choose from.

Want to try it out? Head to the “Ticket Store Setup” section of your Settings page. You’ll see a real-time preview of your online ticket store as you make changes.  Your changes will not go live until you are ready, so feel free to experiment with all the options.

Your online ticket store is optimized to look great on any PC or mobile device regardless of how you customize it.  And what’s more is that it’s all part of our free ticketing offer.  So if you’re not already using Yapsody, this is just one more reason to switch over today.

Feel free to leave comments below and let us know what you think of this feature.  We always love to know if there is something we can do to enhance your experience!

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