How To Sell Tickets Online

The question of how to sell tickets online can be made simple with an online ticketing solution like Freshtix. Follow the 4 simple steps below and you'll be up and running in no time. Freshtix is not a ticket resale site. Freshtix ticketing software is used by venues, festival organizers, and event organizers to sell tickets online

Create your event on a ticketing website like Freshtix
Fill out the event information. You'll need to know:
- Event name
- Date and time the event takes place
- Cost and quantity of tickets available for sale
- Location of the event
Choose how you'll get paid
Promote the event

Ticketing Technology for Festivals, Venues, and Events

WHY YOU SHOULD USE FRESHTIX

Founded by a team with years of experience selling millions of tickets, Freshtix is a trusted end-to-end ticketing technology partner for leading festivals and organizations such as the Candler Park Music & Food Festival, Taste of Atlanta, iHeart Media, Hard Rock Cafe, Harley-Davidson, Starwood Hotels, and many more.

Freshtix provides ticket technology while being simple enough for an organizer of even a small event to post an event and promote it online. Freshtix is dedicated to supporting you and your customers through the entire process from event creation to on-site operations.

Our amazing team is ready to serve those that want to organize and be a part of great live events.

ADVANCED FEATURES FOR FESTIVALS, VENUES & EVENTS

Single-day and multi-day events or festivals are simple to build and our software allows for all of the advanced features needed for today's largest events. With a focus on a frictionless ticket buying experience and expedited entry upon arrival at the event we offer everything from simple barcode scanning entry to full-scale RFID solutions for access control social media integration, cashless payments, gamification & more.

CREATE & CUSTOMIZE YOUR EVENT

It's so easy to build an event that you will be up and running in no time. Use the event wizard to create tickets for festivals, performances, fundraisers, conferences, parties, retreats, workshops, and events of all kinds. You can also offer multiple ticket types, discount codes, packages and more. Once you create an event it can be customized with our vibrant event templates using color themes, your logo, videos, social media links, and a host of event detail options. Go ahead, make it your own. [more]

EMBED TICKET SALES ON YOUR WEBSITE

Fully featured sales widgets enable you to present a ticket ordering form for your event and sell tickets directly on your website.

SOCIAL NETWORK INTEGRATION

Freshtix is integrated with Facebook, Google Plus, Pinterest, Tumbler, and Twitter so you can easily share your events across your social networks. Freshtix also enables you to integrate your Facebook and Twitter profiles on your event pages so that you can gain fans and followers on your social networks. With the Facebook event RSVP feature, attendees can let their friends know they are attending your event.

PROMOTER TRACKING LINKS

Give each of your outside promoters a unique URL enabling you to track the source of every ticket sold. Use this for mailing lists, social media marketing, and other promotional partners. [more]

PROMOTIONAL CODES & DISCOUNT CODES

You can create promotional codes that allow your ticket buyers to enter a single word or code to receive a discount off the full ticket price. The discount can be either a dollar amount or percentage off. Freshtix enables you to specify the state and end time of your promotions. You can have multiple discount codes per event allowing you to create unique ticket offers. [more]

SIMPLE TICKET BUYING EXPERIENCE

Freshtix offers you the most convenient event ticket purchasing process available on the market today resulting in less cart abandonment. Freshtix is completely mobile ready. Responsive event pages make it fast and simple for consumers to easily purchase tickets via their smartphone and present their ticket via the phone to be scanned by our free Android and iPhone ticket scanning applications. This enables you to provide an easy ticket buying experience regardless of their ticket browsing preferences.

FLEXIBLE TICKET DELIVERY

Our printable e-tickets include full-color event images and optional sponsor opportunities that enable you to either sell advertising and sponsorships on your tickets or promote other events that you are creating. Freshtix also offers paperless mobile tickets, fully responsive on mobile devices. Your customers simply access their tickets via their smartphones present them for scanning for entry. All Freshtix tickets are issued with a unique non-sequential secure barcode, thus making duplication impossible and tickets one-use only.

SELL TICKETS WITH OUR BOX OFFICE SOFTWARE POINT OF SALE SOLUTION

Sell tickets at your event using Freshtix's Box Office software. Easily accept cash or card payments on-site at your event.

Our robust platform uses laptops and won't have you fiddling around with iPads or credit card swipes stuck in headphone jacks! Easily sell tickets and print tickets at your venue or event using a Boca Thermal ticket printer or a Star thermal printer.

Use our platform to manage staff, vendor, volunteer credentials easily without having to juggle multiple platforms. [more]

TICKET SCANNERS & ACCESS CONTROL

Freshtix knows how to keep the lines moving with fast ticket scanning. Our free Android and iOS ticket scanner apps turn your staff’s smartphones into fully functional ticket scanners complete with search functionality to look up customers on the fly and duplicate ticket detection.

Our app allows you to quickly scan barcodes or printed tickets, mobile phones, thermal paper tickets and proper thermal ticket stock. For assistance at the entrance, you can look up an attendee on the device without having to send them to customer service.

Download our whitepaper and we'll show you how to get 3000+ people into your beer, wine or music festival with just a few ticket scanning devices and some well-organized staff.

CLIENT DASHBOARD & USEABLE ANALYTICS

With our robust client dashboard, you can view real-time current and past events sales reports, ticket purchaser information, heat maps, event-over-event comparison, gross sales reports, promoter settlement reports and more. And we don't charge for additional customized reports. Need something custom? Just ask.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does Freshtix cost to use?
- If you pass the fees on to the ticket buyer, like 99% of our clients do, there's no cost to you. The ticket buyer pays $1.49 + 2% of the face price per ticket.
Do I need my own merchant account?
- No. You can use ours. Or, your own. Or you can use PayPal.
Can I upcharge since your fees are so low?
- Yes. You can increase our fee to be returned to you in the form of a rebate.
Do you offer a free trial?
- Yes. Freshtix is free for free events so you're welcome to give our entire platform a whirl to see just how awesome we are.

Ready To Get Started?

Click 'create an event' now!