Ticket Turtle features
Ticket Turtle allows each patron to print their ticket at home and bring
it with them to your event.
You have the opportunity to design your own e-ticket using our special design system. You can add your logo and other images, custom text, ticket information and so forth. On the other hand, if you don't have time to work on the design, you can just use a standard layout, and add your logo.
One very nice feature of the custom ticket is that you can add notes which are specific to each venue, such as parking arrangements, a map to your theatre, or a picture showing people where to park. You can even sell advertising space on the ticket, for example, to local restaurants.
Sample designs from some of our clients:
Brandywine Ballet,
Bend Film,
Who Stole My Dead Husband.
While your patrons are printing e-tickets at home, you can choose to print on pre-prepared ticket stock for seats sold at the box office.
Ticket Turtle will generate a PDF document which will print the patron's name, address, seat number, and so forth, on the appropriate place on a preprinted ticket. Of course, this requires that you have custom ticket stock made for you*. If you prefer, you can just print the same type of tickets your patrons print at home, on 8.5 X 11 paper. Some customers prefer to have a thermal ticket printer in their box office.
* NOTE that Ticket Turtle clients also can get a special discount from Boca Systems on some of their printers that work with the Ticket Turtle system, as well as their printed ticket stock. Ask us for details.
You have two ways of verifying that these tickets are authentic. One is to buy a bar code scanner (talk to us about options) which connects to a computer at your venue entrance with internet access. Tickets can then be scanned verifying the ticket and recording it as having been used.
The other is, basically, the honor system. This works fine for many smaller organizations, depending on the communities they are serving. Each ticket has a ticket code (a word plus a number, something like "barn804"). This ticket code appears on your door list, and you can check them, or check IDs.
