Set up a Box Office for Under $200

Set up a Box Office for Under $200

Set up a Box Office for Under $200

If you're a venue operator that sells tickets to events, you'd doubtless assume that a box office operation that encompasses internet ticket sales, bar-coded tickets for admission control and speedy ticket printing by means of a thermal ticket printer is completely outside your budget and in reality just for the big guys. But not so. Nowadays, the cost of ticketing software that lets you to select and sell tickets directly off an interactive seating chart, records all customer information and transactions in a dedicated record, prints tickets via a low cost thermal printer and allows you to straightforwardly set up internet ticket sales, is very affordable.

First of all, the software system. Usually, most software ticketing companies licence the use of the software, so you won't have any major up front acquisition expense - just a nominal usage charge either set at a predetermined sum per ticket or a percentage of the ticket charge, which can be as small as a couple of percent of the ticket cost. A few providers might charge for generating a seating chart if you sell reserved seating, or others might apply an initial charge for establishing your system, so it pays to shop around a little.

As for equipment, since the majority box office software suppliers host the program on their own servers, you shouldn't require any high powered computer systems, or any further fancy equipment - just a conventional Computer with a high speed internet service connection will customarily suffice.

For ticket printing, you've in all probability discovered that specialist thermal ticket printers can cost well in excess of $1000 - in all probability well outside your finances if you only sell a few thousand tickets per year. But again, you don't need to pay out this sort of money to acquire a perfectly acceptable thermal ticket printer which will print tickets at a surprisingly fast speed. A number of ticketing software systems, such as HandyTix be able to print tickets with simply a commonly available Dymo LabelWriter 450 that you can typically grab for around $100 or so. For ticket stock, you can find specialist suppliers who are able to provide stock for these Dymo printers either blank or printed to your specific requirements. Otherwise, many of the ticketing software systems will allow you to print tickets by means of simply a standard laser or inkjet printer. Again there are a number of sources of pre-perforated paper or ticket blanks that you can draw on to print multiple tickets per page with such printers. Maybe not so expedient as a single ticket thermal ticket printer, but quite acceptable if you are on a firm budget.

And if you desire the additional protection of bar-coded tickets, that's no trouble either. Nowadays you can grab a handheld laser scanner for well below $100. Just make sure your chosen ticketing software system provider is able to print bar codes on tickets. You'll also require a PC and online connection at your venue to gain access to your live database, though in some cases you may perhaps be able to cut off ticket sales and download the barcode records before your event for offline validation.

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