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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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While Yapsody’s General Admission continues to let you enjoy many features for FREE, that you would otherwise be paying for if you were using other ticketing websites to sell tickets online, we thought we could try bewitching (pun intended) you by introducing the premium Reserved Seating Wizard. So get on those broomsticks as we fly you through the features of Reserved Seating, enchanting you all along, an exciting rebate offer hovering over your head like an impenetrable charm!

ADD RESERVED SECTIONS

With a single click of your mouse (quite similar to a flick of your wand), you can create rows and columns to simulate your reserved section, that is, you can have an interactive seating map for your event. For the same, you can:

1. Add more rows and columns.
2. Have the seat numbers auto-generated.
3. Copy and paste.
4. Have different colors for different types of seats.

MAP YOUR SECTIONS

You can have different sections according to the price, position or type of seats in a particular section. Group the seats and have different colors for them, and mark the main areas with symbols for indication –

1. Upload the image of your Seating Chart
2. Use different shapes for the different sections according to your requirements
3. Use different colors for different sections to distinguish them
4. Add other objects in the seat map

MANAGE HOLDS

Creating an event with Reserved seating also makes holds management extremely simple.

1. First, create a Hold category
2. You can add multiple holds to the seats
3. Assign names and codes to your Holds
4. Holds can be assigned to a single seat, to an entire row or to an entire section altogether

Basically, it’s an all-to-one and a one-to-all feature.

SEAT SELECTION

You can allow your customers to choose their seats while booking, a master key when it comes to customer satisfaction. The interactive seating chart allows your customers to:

1. Select their seats as per the ticket types.
2. Select multiple seats at a time.
3. View the type of ticket and its price on selecting a particular seat.

A magical experience, wasn’t it? Do you know what’s even more mesmerizing? – The fact that if you create a Reserved Seating NOW. Some things just make you go dreamily “enchanté!” and you’re definitely more than pleased to meet our Reserved Seating Wizard, aren’t you?

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In a world where people don’t hesitate to find true love online, online ticketing has definitely won over more hearts than we think it has. With practically our whole day timed to seconds, it’s impossible to find a sliver of time to go fetch the retailer who’s selling the tickets to the event you’ve been waiting for since you were a kid, maybe. And if you can get the same thing in a fraction of a second (that implies no change in your to-the-second schedule) simply by a few clicks here and there, why not do that? Having already listed one very important feature that’s admired by customers about online event ticketing (that is, it saves time), we move on to telling you a few more in this blog. 

FAST AND UN-FURIOUS

When customers were asked around about the features that incline them towards using the online ticketing system, roughly 85% attributed their inclination towards three reasons – it’s fast, favorable, and simple.

The process is short and really quick, and you can get done with it while you’re in your cab on your way back home from work, or halfway through your dinner. All you’ve to do is make a few selections, make the payment though well-known gateways, obtain the e-ticket and you’re done! Plus, you won’t have to do a lot of asking around for the types of tickets that are available or whether there are discounts you can avail, because most of it will be flashing at you on your mobile screens, like innocent puppies waiting to be adopted and taken home.

Also, it’s perfectly okay if the show is in less than a few hours and your wife is yelling at you for never doing anything right, because this time you’ll be able to prove it to her that you’re a darling by obtaining the tickets to the show, all thanks to the 24/7 availability of online tickets.

IT’S SECURE AND, WELL, SWEET!

“Sweet?! Oh, Don’t be ridiculous!”

“IT LETS ME CHOOSE MY OWN SEAT! How is that NOT sweet?”

People like to know what they are paying for, and they definitely LOVE it if they get to choose what they’re paying for. Nothing pleases customers as much as wide range of choices do. When they are offered different types of seats at different rates with different views and amenities, they realize the worth of their money and this helps them enjoy the event without any hint of uncertainties spinning in their minds. Also, the payment gateways are secure, and most of the time your order is displayed before you confirm it. That way, you’ll never be fooled by anyone. Not even your own mistakes.

STAY HUNGRY FOR THE ‘FEED’BACK

Whenever you use an online ticketing system, make sure your customers put in comments about the things they liked or disliked about it. If they’re not reviewing it, it only means you’ve not done a job good enough to get to their hearts. Make sure you have little feedback forms for your attendees after an event so that they understand you’re open to criticism and are always up for improvement. After all, the only thing that’s supposed to be constant is change.

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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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This feature will let you add an offline payment method in addition to credit-card-payment options. Also, with this option, you don’t have to pay any service fee to payment gateway providers.

You can add this option for Online Ticket Store as well as Box Office and you can also add any Payment instructions in the text box. From the ticket buyer perspective, it’s definitely a great benefit for them and you can attract more guests to your event.

To get started, login to your existing Yapsody account and click here to learn how to set up Pay Later to your payment method.

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