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. 

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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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When it comes to making payments, Yapsody offers multiple choices to your event attendees like Credit, Debit, and the “Pay Later” option. As an event planner, you have the flexibility to enable these payment methods from our Virtual Box Office.  This blog will focus on selling event tickets online by integrating PayPal for accepting payments.

Set up a Premier or Business PayPal account

Set up a Premier or Business account, if you haven’t already. Yapsody doesn’t have its own Payment Gateway but you can link your Business PayPal account to process payments.

Verify Your Account

Make sure that your account is created and verified before you start selling tickets. You’ll receive a confirmation email from PayPal. 

Yapsody Integration

After setting up your Premier or Business account, follow these steps to request your API Username, API Password, and API Signature.

Go to their website and log into your account

Click on the “Tools” option at the top of the page

Select ‘All Tools’ option from the drop-down menu shown under ‘Tools’

Scroll down the page and click on “API Credentials” option 

 You’ll see multiple options like Pre-built Payment Solution, PayPal Checkout SDK Integration, and NVP/SOAP API Integration. Select the option View/Request API Signature under the option NVP/SOAP API Integration.

Your API credentials will be displayed to you. Click on ‘Show’ to view the API credentials.

Once you’ve set up a PayPal merchant account, you will receive the API credentials that you need to enter in Yapsody. 

Note: When you use PayPal, it automatically deducts its payment processing fee before depositing the funds into your account. You’ll also be collecting the Yapsody Processing & Flat Fee for which we’ll invoice you for at the end of each month.

Sign up now and start selling concert tickets via PayPal. Yapsody supports 170+ currencies and over 10 payment gateways such as PayPal, Stripe, Braintree, WePay, and more for you to choose from. 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

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