💳FREE TICKETING SYSTEM for Forró event organizers (development paid by FoFed membership fees)
1) 🤌SUMMARY: Usually ticket system fees are 6% of each ticket. The federation can provide that kind of ticketing system for free to all its members. Costs will be covered by membership fees. Service includes a wide array of features aimed at making organising forró events as effortless as possible. Free usage = no fees except for Stripe or PayPal, Omni-pay for payment processing in most countries, with offline payments so you can collect pre-orders and RSVPs, but get paid by bank transfer or cash. ! The DEVELOPMENT would be PAID BY FOFED membership fees (see below)! 2) 🗯️DETAILED IDEA: *WHAT is the objective?* Save costs for forró organizers and make organising forró events as effortless as possible. *HOW would it look like/List of features:* - Mobile friendly event pages. - Easy attendee management - Refunds, Messaging etc. - Data export - attendees list to XLS, CSV etc. - Generate print friendly attendee list. - Ability to manage unlimited events. - Real-time event statistics. - Customizable event pages. - Multiple currency support. - Quick and easy checkout process. - Customizable tickets - with QR codes, organiser logos etc. - Fully brandable - Have your own logos on tickets etc. - Affiliate tracking - track sales volume / number of visits generated etc. - Widget support - embed ticket selling widget into existing websites / WordPress blogs. - Social sharing. - Support multiple payment gateways - Stripe and PayPal out the box. Other payment gateways can be added. - Support for offline payments. - Refund payments - partial refund & full refunds. - Ability to add service charge to tickets. - Messaging - eg. Email all attendees with X ticket. - Public event listings page for organisers. - Ability to ask custom questions during checkout. - Browser based QR code scanner for door management. - Multi-user permissions 3) ℹ️*NOTES / WHAT HAPPENS IF THIS IDEA GETS UPVOTED* This Ticketing System would be developed by Tuvens.com. It would be free to members of the Federation, but there would be costs to be covered by the Forró Federation (money from FoFed membership fees): - one-time license fee: €500 - Software development: €1,000 - yearly hosting & maintenance: €400
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Roman P.
over 1 year agoI support the general idea of having a joint ticketing system. However, we should certainly not reinvent the wheel. Instead, the FoFed can decide to host an open source Pretix system on a rented server and allow local organizers to have their individual accounts. I am sure this would be much more sustainable and cost-effective than to produce and maintain a new system from the ground up.
Forró Federation
over 1 year ago@Roman P. Hi Roman, this proposal is not to build a ticketing system from the ground up, but to use an open sourced ticketing system available on license. It is fully built, but would require paying a license fee and since it is open sourced there will be bugs and minor changes based upon organiser requirements. There is a developer on standby to do this if the community finds it to be a worthwhile expense. A small festival can save hundreds of euros in fees compared to paid ticketing systems, and a large festival can save thousands of euro. So in practice if 3-5 small festivals or one large festival requested this it would break even already in terms of development cost.
Wellington Figueiredo
over 1 year agoI already use this ticketing system and it's amazing, saved me at least the budget to cover other costs such as teacher's accommodation, as the fee was paid before and hard to use a proffesional ticketing system.
Bruna Azevedo
over 1 year agoI think it will be beneficial for communities that are starting. I'd suggest adding a booking tool system for classes attendance too. They are quite expensive and the free option I found is quite limited and still takes me a lot of time.
Thomas
over 1 year agoI love the suggestion and am putting the Munique Dança vote on this system. We have a custom trailered solution just like this, for which we paid a heap of money. Unlucky us, our once powerful system starts to get quite old and brings up considerable maintenance efforts. The suggested system includes very useful features which once were the reason for our custom system (categories workshop, regular classes, concert and festival. Easy list export. PayPal and bank transfer payment supported. Database entries for level, full pass vs party pass, lead and follow. Group email solution to filtered subgroups, e. g. People who didn't pay in time)
Ivone Pereira Lima
over 1 year agoI liked it, I think this initiative and inclusion is important, congratulations.
Filipe Braga
over 1 year agoThis is a great idea for small communities who struggle with costs. Voting as Forro Liverpool here
Forró dihei
over 1 year agoAwesome idea ! Voting from Zurich here Forró dihei band