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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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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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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Yapsody has been the preferred event ticketing platform for independently-owned casinos for more than 25 years. Given our experience in the casino industry, we designed our event ticketing features in conjunction with our casino clients. 

Here are 9 event ticketing features preferred by our casino clients for ease of event creation, promotion, and revenue generation functionalities: 

1. Reserved Seating 

A defining factor of casinos is all things premium. Everything from the food to your accommodations. So why should the events be any different? A majority of our casino clients prefer reserved seating for giving their guests the ultimate flexibility in choosing premium seats and other added benefits. VIPs don’t stand in queues to attend events and that’s where reserved seating comes handy.   

2. Ticket Customization

A casino is one of those high profile venues that host events regularly. They can’t have a similar ticket design for every event. With our ticket customization option, they breathe life into their e-ticket by displaying brand and sponsor logos, custom illustrations, and upcoming events.   

3. User Management

There are big casinos and there are small casinos. Even in the smaller casinos, the teams working behind the scenes are large. With our ticketing system user management, casino clients seamlessly allocate roles and detailed permissions to each department. Your ground staff will use a different set of features compared to your marketing team hence creating an awesome event experience for everyone. 

4. Access Codes

Make your casino event an “invite-only” one. Unless your guests have an invitation, they don’t get to come. This is a classic case of poker tournaments being held in casinos where only the high rollers, VIPs, and celebrities are invited to attend in an exclusive event. Our casino clients enable this feature to make their event tickets available for purchase through multi-use or single-use promo codes only. Hence maintaining that exclusivity casinos are known for. 

5. Discount Options

Many of our casino clients use our discount feature to create an all-inclusive package for their guests to elevate their resorts, spa, clubs, and restaurant services. By creating an event ticket with multiple discounts, our casino clients boost their ticketing revenue exponentially. 

6. Payment Gateway Flexibility 

A casino gets a footfall of thousands of global citizens every day. Our casino clients stay on their A-game when it comes to giving their guests the flexibility to choose from a multitude of payment options. We have integrated multiple payment gateways such PayPal, Mollie, WePay, Stripe, Braintree and many others for payment processing across over 60 countries while supporting 170+ currencies.

7. Surcharge Options

Many times, our casino clients witness their event sales rocketing up. That’s the time they take advantage of applying surcharges on events that will sell out soon, regardless of the ticket price. This gives them total control of maximizing their revenue. 

8. Event Marketing Services 

Running a casino isn’t for everyone and for those that do, have our respect. The casino business is a hectic one and in that process of setting things right on the floor, many clients miss out on marketing activities to boost their ticket sales. With our event marketing services such as premium event listing, co-branded blogs, social media promotion, and a host of SEO services, our casino clients offset their promotion activities to us. 

9. 24/7 Support 

Vegas is known as a 24-hour town as their casinos are open day and night. Our support team truly is a bunch of Jedi’s masters when it comes to solving high volume queries during casino events. Even when you think you have everything under control, chances of your events going haywire are high. That’s where our event ticketing platform shines as casino clients know Yapsody will be there to save the day. 

Want to supercharge your casino events into a money-making machine? SIGN UP with Yapsody and take total control of your event creation, promotion, and ticket sales.

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Insight-Based Engagement

Data is a powerful tool for any event marketer out there. You need to understand why a particular event sold out and why it didn’t. And if it didn’t, did you ponder over your insights and reports to fulfill your attendee’s desires next time? 

We noticed a recurring pattern with our event presenters using our Event Tickets Reporting feature. 

Screenshot – Yapsody Dashboard

They customized their event marketing approach with data points to engage with the right audiences after every event they organized. 

Screenshot – Yapsody Dashboard

With real-time stats regarding inventory, sales, and accounting statistics, we witnessed this most-preferred feature to be a clear cut winner across all venues and events. 

Personalized Email Marketing

Personalizing content before shooting it out to your audiences changes the result of your marketing campaign. With our Mailchimp Integration, our event presenters produced some of the best lead generating email campaigns. The key to a healthy open rate was to add a personal touch with topical emailers. It was quite evident even in 2019 that email marketing will never go out of fashion for its brand awareness and lead generating capabilities.  

Event Marketing Services

A little push goes a long way in reaching that extra mile. All our event presenters did was create their events on our platform, and we provided a host of event marketing services that gave them that boost to reach a wider audience. We promoted their events on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (and LinkedIn, depending on the nature of their event)

Screenshot – Facebook Marketing Insights

A few event promoters wanted the top slot so they leveraged our premium listing services and increased their visibility by 10x! Others wanted a blog post written exclusively for their event so our marketing specialists churned out blogs on our website reflecting pre and post-event related content that further enhanced their reach.

Apart from Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, event presenters can now add their Instagram profile links to their Online Ticket Store. Should a ticket purchaser want to visit the presenter’s Instagram profile, they will now be able to without having to look up the profile on the Instagram app. With these services, we cut down on minutes of wasted time for all Yapsody users.

Google Analytics Integration 

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.

Ticketing Validating Apps

At Yapsody, we offer event presenters various Ticket Validating Apps to boost the ticket validation process. The end goal of any event is to be a success in the minds and hearts of your audiences. And it’s not gonna happen if you make them wait for an hour in a queue. Event ticketing apps make tasks like validating attendees, scanning tickets and reporting simple and quick. We continue to update our apps that make ticket validation a breeze. 

Personalized Chat Support

There was a rising trend in chatbot adoption but many event attendees don’t prefer a robotic problem solver. While automating customer service, it becomes important to address an attendee’s queries on a personal, empathetic level to make them feel valued. Our event presenters closed that gap through our Support team. Tactful customer support before, during, and after the event remains one of the key factors in making your event attendees happy. 

Cybersecurity

With data becoming an extremely powerful tool, handling sensitive data can be risky. From misusing third-party data to the exchange of data, it is challenging for event presenters to secure their events and attendees from cyber attacks. This is one of the many reasons why event presenters and hospitality enterprises trusted us with their ticketing and revenue generation. 

Yapsody employs a cross-functional team of specialists to oversee PCI Compliance and avoid credit card frauds. We are also GDPR compliant that keeps attendee information secure. Read Yapsody’s GDPR policy here. Through our super-secure platform, event presenters remain untroubled with their entire event creation, payment integration, and ticket selling process. 

Adding Events To Calendar 

We’ve witnessed our event presenters undergoing scenarios where their event managed to sell out quickly, but on the D-Day, they ended up with a few empty seats. Their ‘Early Birds’ forgot they ever purchased tickets. To remedy this, we added the ‘Add To Calendar’ plug-in on our platform to ensure their ticket purchasers never forget to attend events again. Once they’ve made a ticket purchase, attendees would receive a reminder for the event directly in their Apple, Google or Outlook calendar. This plug-in made life easier for presenters having a WordPress or Wix site.

Screenshot – Yapsody WordPress Integration

This plugin bridges the gap between the presenter’s WordPress or Wix platform and our Online Store to market their events on their website within a calendar. 

Screenshot – Yapsody WordPress Integration

This calendar dynamically display events on the calendar as and when an event is added, updated or deleted.

Screenshot – Yapsody Calendar

Global Language Selection On Mobile 

Our event ticketing platform facilitates the sales of over 1M event tickets for presenters worldwide. To ensure their tickets sales are not lost in translation, their event attendees can choose from over 15 global languages to view tickets on their Online Ticket Store on their mobile itself.

Yapsody Supported Languages

 This made it easier for Non-English speaking attendees to:

• Read event information & understand instructions. 
• View tickets and Generate e-tickets in their language. 

An event presenter’s ultimate goal is to bring people together for a shared experience and Yapsody leaves no stone unturned to elevate that event experience. 

These were a round-up of our most-preferred features used by event presenters on board with Yapsody. Want to integrate these features to elevate your event creation and revenue generation? Sign up now as a presenter and sell your first 50 tickets with NO ticketing fee + Pass On Fees & collect money directly in your favorite payment gateway account.

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Address Your Recipients In Your Subject Line

Speak directly to your user in the subject line as many of the recipients love being addressed by their name. An average person gets bombarded with a lot of emailers on a daily basis so it’s crucial to break through the clutter with a personalized subject line. Keep a bank of subject lines in reserve and keep refreshing them to analyze which one has a healthy open rate.

Correctly Timing Your Emailers

A no-brainer for any event marketer. Email Marketing holds no value if you’re sending out emailers randomly. Being in the entertainment sector, your audience might check for events over the weekend rather than on weekdays. Or maybe they check their emails right before work or before going to bed. Figuring out your audience personas and their online habits is key to acing email open rates.  Use MailChimp’s email personalization to fill in names and send emails at the correct time zone. 

Keep It Short and To The Point

The average attention span of users has been reduced to a GIF or a video which should dissipate maximum information in a short span of time. Similarly, your email content should be broken down into pointers that can be easily digested. Your job is to convey the event details through short and simple messaging. Don’t bombard them with jargon and imagery that diverts them from your Call-To-Action.

Personalize Your Email Templates

Create your own email designs with a drag-and-drop email designer with MailChimp. Your users will love your brand and event persona reflecting in your emailers. No one likes a drab, shoddy looking emailer that looks like a last-minute effort. It’s okay to send out emailers once a week, but make sure it’s unique and value-adding. Creating compelling and visually strong templates will save you a lot of time in the long run. 

Create A Sense Of Urgency

Event marketing is a time-oriented branch of marketing. The plan for bringing any talent on board for an event begins months before. Similarly, for your tickets to sell out, you should try selling them in phases. Early bird discounts or group discounts create a sense of urgency and tend to sell out faster.  Last-minute deals also work well provided you’ve not already sold-out. As a part of their brand loyalty, you can send emailers to your recurring event attendees with a special discount or a referral bonus to bring a friend. A win-win situation where you get old and new attendees for your event. 

Yapsody’s MailChimp Integration is one of the many elements that make up our Event Marketing Tools. If you’re a new event presenter, SIGN UP NOW and get access to our Enterprise-Grade Features such as Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel Tracking, SEO Optimization, and WordPress Integration that will improve your event ticket sales.

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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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