Don’t miss out on a single ticket sale even if your event attendee prefers cash over credit. Check out different payment options for your events with Yapsody.

Credit & Debit Card

You can start accepting online payments for selling tickets online through Credit & Debit Card by linking your preferred payment gateway for the Online Ticket Store.

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Paypal (Business or Premier Account)

Our ticketing platform supports Paypal for almost all countries as it is preferred by event attendees globally. One of the best parts about PayPal is that it allows you to accept payment via major credit services like Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express. 

Screenshot – Yapsody Dashboard

You won’t need a merchant account to process credit card payments, all you need is a free PayPal Premier or Business account to accept credit card transactions. Click here to learn more about integrating PayPal with Yapsody.

Cash and Checks

Pretty straightforward process. You can drive your customers to the venue and accept the payment by Cash by enabling it in the Box Office section. Check payments are mostly preferred by the organizations who make a bulk booking on behalf of their employees for a business conference

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Pay Later

You can select the Pay Later option only for the Online store or for both the Online Store as well as at the Box Office. You can even restrict the delivery of tickets of Pay Later transactions to ‘Will Call Method’ by enabling the option “Restrict Delivery to Will Call” and also add any Payment instructions, The payment instructions will be displayed when the ticket buyer selects to purchase tickets via the Pay Later payment method. 

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Once you receive the funds you can mark the transaction as paid and issue tickets to the event attendee.

Complimentary

Finding a way to make your privileged customers’ day? How about issuing them a Complementary Event ticket? It couldn’t get much better than this, While setting up a complimentary payment option you can create an unlimited category such as VIP, General, or Sponsors as per your preference. 

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Moreover, we won’t bill your account for issuing complimentary tickets, Yes! you read it right, there are no fees for tickets issued by selecting “Complementary” as a payment option.

Now, that you’re aware of our online payment options, sign up with Yapsody to sell your first 50 tickets with NO ticketing fee & collect money directly in your preferred payment gateway account. We also support communities worldwide by offering nonprofit entities a 50% rebate on their event ticketing fees.

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Add a Seating Chart

Speak to your venue-manager and procure a venue seating chart that can be uploaded on our ticketing platform. This will help you map the sections with the seating chart uploaded by you and dictate the prices accordingly.

Add Reserved Seating Sections

You will have an option to add a General Admission or a Reserved Seating section as per your Seating Chart. You can also add multiple General Admission and Reserved Sections as per your Seating Chart. Once you’ve finished adding rows and columns, add colors to seats to designate pricing tiers. 

Create Holds

With Yapsody’s Box Office Interface, you can easily create and book hold tickets for multiple categories such as VIP and artists to assign their seats beforehand. 

Ticket Customization

Your seating plan is incomplete without a stable ticketing system. With Yapsody, you let your ticket design reflect your brand. Use event imagery and illustrations to get your attendees excited about your event. What’s more? Add upcoming event details in your ticket to promote your next event.

Payment Integration 

Yapsody supports 170+ currencies and over 10 payment gateways such as PayPal, Stripe, Braintree, and WePay for you to choose from.  You also have the flexibility to separately enable payment method for the Virtual Box Office and Online Ticket Store. When it comes to making payments, Yapsody gives multiple choices to your attendees like credit, debit and pay later option.

Notify Presenter Policy (NPP)

For us, every event presenter is equally important, whether you sell 10 or 100,000 tickets for your event. If your attendee is having doubts, we’ll send an email to you requesting clarification on the same and then your ticket buyer will be updated about it. This ensures 100% customer satisfaction. We re-direct ticket buyers for Refund issue to you and also send you an intimation email about the same. If your ticket buyer wants to buy tickets for an already sold-out event, we immediately inform you about it. This has helped our presenters to boost their online ticket sales even after an event is sold out and generate additional revenue.

YapScan

Lastly, your event should be seamless during the check-in and ticket validation process where you cannot afford hiccups. YapScan turns all your event managers smartphones into a fully functional ticket validating device that can be used for scanning e-ticket barcodes, cross-checking names, e-ticket numbers, or simply scrolling through the attendee list.

As we head off into the Holiday season, your community might be anticipating the next big bash. If you’re an event presenter looking for that competitive edge,  get a flat 25% off on your ticketing fees by using our holiday promo code –  HOLIDAY25
If you don’t have a Yapsody account yet, sign up now and sell your first 50 tickets with NO ticketing fee & collect money directly in your designated payment gateway account.

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Centuries ago (that’s a hyperbole), presenters used retail stores and booking offices to sell their tickets. This tedious procedure of distributing the tickets amongst the retailers, keeping track of sales, collecting unsold tickets continued until online ticketing took the world by a storm. With the monstrous success of online ticket stores and box offices arrived another major blunder – How am I supposed to carry my computer around the whole time? We let the Yapsody POS app answer that for you!

WHAT’S THE FUSS ALL ABOUT, THOUGH?

Yapsody POS app converts your iPad into a fully functional mobile box office that rewards you the freedom of selling tickets from anywhere on the face of the earth (and beyond if they have Wi-Fi there). Our servers allow all sorts of devices to sync with them in order to enable real-time ticket availability service. Plus, the app is designed to help you manage a large number of customers with minimum wait time.

SOUNDS NICE. HOW DOES IT WORK?

You can download the app from iTunes, or simply follow the link https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yapsody-pos/id884078477?mt=8 to enjoy a candy shop of features already available, while we are constantly working to keep the app updated and efficient.

1. INVENTORY

You can access all types of tickets in one single place, that is, the inventory. You won’t be toggling between different tabs or windows for the different categories of tickets. No pain, but all gain!

2. PAYMENT GATEWAYS

You don’t have to worry about the constrictions of payment gateways available to your customers. We offer you cash, check, pay later or absolutely any other custom means of payment that you wish to set up.

3. COUNTRIES

The POS app is available to Yapsody accounts based in all the countries worldwide.

4. CURRENCY

All your 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.

5. TICKET DELIVERY

Deliver tickets to your customers in a jiffy via email or use AirPrint to print the tickets on a local wireless printer.

6. REPORTS

Your sales and transactions will be recorded and reported in the Yapsody box office as well as the YapStat app.

If you are a Yapsody presenter and haven’t yet downloaded this app, what are you waiting for? Seize the day, my friend!

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Moneris provides hassle-free, advanced, and secure service to over 350,000 businesses as well as simple procedures for setting up payment support for VISA, MasterCard, and American Express.

If you already have an existing Moneris merchant account, you can start selling tickets right away by adding your account details to Yapsody. If you do not have an existing account, you can contact Moneris to get a merchant account for your venue. Once it is created, add your account details to Yapsody and start accepting money with Moneris’s fast and reliable secure processing.

We will continue to expand our payment methods and payment gateway options.

Click here to learn more about Supported Payment Gateways (Country-Wise).

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