Ticketing Setup

Once you have signed up to use our Ticketing offering, please follow these steps (in order) to activate Ticketing, add staff roles, and set up your events.

Note

To find out more about TouchPoint’s ticketing platform and associated costs, see the Ticketing in TouchPoint help article.

Setting Up Ticketing

Step 1 - Contact Support

TouchPoint Support will activate Ticketing in your database. You can then provide the Ticketing role to anyone who will be creating venues or managing a Ticketing event.

Step 2 - Create Venues

See also

Ticketing Venues

Step 3 - Set up an Involvement for your Event:

  1. Create a Registration Form Involvement. On the Registration > Settings & Fees tab, check the box for Enable Ticketing under the Ticketing header.

    See also

    Registration Form for more settings related to accounting codes and discount codes.

  2. Next choose your pre-created venue from the Venue dropdown.

  3. Choose your Ticket Design from the dropdown.

  4. Enter the appropriate Account Code under the Fees section. Then set prices for your event. There are various options to set ticket prices:

    • Global Ticket Price per Involvement - Set prices from the gear icon of the blue toolbar in the Involvement. Click on Ticket Pricing. You can also globally set pricing per category here. Pricing provided for a specific meeting (see per Event and per Section below) will override the global pricing.

    • Ticket Prices per Event - Set prices in the gear icon of the meeting blue toolbar. Click on Ticket Pricing. This is helpful when there are different prices for matinee and evening shows.

    • Varying Prices per Section - Set in the gear icon of the meeting blue toolbar by clicking on Ticket Pricing, where you can set Ticket Prices per Category. Categories are created upon venue creation and should be unique, with future pricing in mind.

  5. Under the involvement meeting tab, create a meeting for each ticketed event/date. Meetings (event day/time options) will be presented in a dropdown for the registrant to choose from.

    Note

    Do not create meetings before you have chosen a venue per above instructions. When creating a meeting, you

  6. Update the confirmation email under Registration > Messages. See article below as default confirmation email replacement codes for a Registration Form will need to be updated when using Form for a Ticketed event.

    See also

    Email/SMS Replacement Codes for specific Ticketing replacement codes.


Optional Settings

  • Hours Before Ticket Sales End. This setting is used in conjunction with the Meeting Date & Time. Whatever number of hours you specify here, tickets can not be purchased after this amount of hours before your event. Be sure your time zone is accurate in the LocalTimeZone Administrative Setting to ensure local time is honored. This will only affect external sales. Internally, at the Box Office, they will still be able to purchase tickets. (Currently only available in a Join Involvement)

Note

Tickets will be held for 15 minutes as a ticket buyer is logged in to complete a registration. If the seats aren’t purchased within 15 minutes, they will be released. (This time cannot not be adjusted.)


  • Max Number of Tickets - enter an integer for the maximum number of tickets someone can purchase. When selecting seats, they will not be allowed to pick more than the max amount.

When viewing online tickets, a scroll bar will allow them to access all the tickets for the event. To allow the attendee to Release or Transfer their tickets, turn on the following settings:

  • Allow Release My Tickets

  • Allow Transfer Tickets

Note

At this time only use the Allow Release and Allow Transfer options for a Reserved Seating event, not for General Admission. Someone with the ManageTransactions role who has access to a Ticketing involvement can release a Reserved Seating ticket in the Tickets tab of the Member Dialog for the registrant as well.


Customizations and Reports

Learn to customize tickets and how to transfer or release a ticket.

See also

My Tickets Page

View Ticket Event Manager to manage social distancing rules and utilize Assisted Booking.

Learn how to use the Ticket Sales Report.



Latest Update

08/28/2024

Updated steps for the Registration Form