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How to ticket your Gig

Organising a Gig at a pub or club and want to sell tickets?  Would you like to use a simple, free way to sell your tickets from your band’s website? 
You want to get as many people to come to the gig as possible so give them an easy way to buy tickets for them and their mates.  You can even sell your latest CD or t-shirts online at the same time!
Sounds complicated?  Well it’s not with ts Express – here’s how you can get your fans buying tickets online

• Free - ts Express really is free to use, we make our money from the advertising on the site and on the print-at-home tickets, meaning there are no booking fees for your fans to pay! 
  
• Simple - You don't need to be an IT expert to use ts Express, it is simple to set up.  But you can still be creative - it's easy to put band pictures, your latest CD album cover image or any other important information on your sales page and on your tickets.
  
• Easy - All you need to do is set up a PayPal account, have access to the internet and have an email address and you can start to set up your online Gig ticket sales. To find out how easy it is to set up a ts Express account click here.
  
• Safe - Access to your ts Express and PayPal accounts are password protected, you can control who will have access to the system for you, protecting your information and your money.
  
• Secure - PayPal is a secure payment site which lets you take credit card, debit card and PayPal account payments for your tickets in advance, but without you having to worry about handling card details yourself.
  
• Less work - As ts Express is simple to administer, it won't be a huge task for you to take on and run – leaving more time for last minute rehearsals!  It will mean less cheques and cash to pay into the bank, and will reduce the number of phone calls you take.
  
• Transparent - At any time you can see exactly how many tickets to your Gig that you have sold and to whom and how much money you have taken.  You can watch your sales grow by the minute and let your venue know how many fans to expect!
  
• Flexible - Decide how you want to sell the tickets to your Gig.  You can set different price bands for ticket concessions (eg. for Students) and even sell merchandise items like t-shirts and your latest CD in advance which they can collect when they arrive or you can send out beforehand. 
  
• Choice - Let your fans secure their tickets in advance and pay by credit or debit card or enable them to simply reserve their tickets and pay for them on the door - all using the same online system.  So if people don't want to use their credit cards, you can still let them reserve their tickets to your Gig online (and you won't get a PayPal charge for this!).  You can even 'sell' free tickets to your gig - useful if you need to keep control of how many people are allowed in the venue.  Click here for information on ticketing options with ts Express. 
  
• Visibility - Print out a Door Report on the day so you know who is coming to each performance, and whether they have pre-paid or not. 
  
• Funds - You can have virtually instant access to your ticket money through PayPal and, once verified, can transfer the takings straight to your bank account.
  
• Costs - Depending on the number of tickets you sell, Pay Pal’s charges are between 1.4% and 3.4% of the transaction cost plus 20p per transaction.  For example if you have sold 2 £5.00 tickets in one transaction, this will cost you between 54p and 34p.
  
• Prevention - If your audience have already paid for their Gig tickets online in advance they are more likely to turn up!  And they will probably buy more tickets for their mates at the same time! 
  
• Be Viral – the more tickets you sell in advance, the more chance you have of your ticket buyers persuading their friends to come too... and book their own tickets online!
  
• Sell - We give you a web link to put on the band’s website that your fans can click on to buy tickets.  It takes minutes not hours to set up, and you can be selling your Gig tickets almost instantly, if you email the ‘buy tickets now’ link to your existing fan base.
  
• Share - Share the buy tickets now link with other websites - your local newspaper, radio station or college and people can click on the link directly from there to buy their tickets.  Extending your reach and making it easier for people to buy tickets.
  
• Marketing - You will have the name, address and email details of the people who have bought Gig tickets so you can contact them with details of future Gigs or tell them about your latest CD.
  
• Promote – Your Gig tickets will get listed on the www.ts.com web portal and the other web sites like www.wherecanwego.com automatically, helping you to reach a new fans and boost your ticket sales. For more ideas on how to market your gig click here.
  
• Control - With ts Express from ts.com, you keep in control at all times of your tickets, your payments and your Gig!

Do you still have questions about setting up a ts Express account?  Then click here to read our FAQ's.