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How to ticket my Panto

Are you putting on a Christmas Pantomime this year?  Would you like to use a simple, free way to sell your tickets from your website? 

As an amateur group you put a lot of effort into rehearsals and production all for free.

We know that you want to be able to sell as many tickets for your Panto as possible and can help you do this without creating extra work for your Box Office, especially when it is run by volunteers.

Here is how ts Express can benefit your Theatre Group and help to make your Pantomime a roaring success! 

• 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 Panto audience to pay! 
• Simple - You don't need to be an IT expert to use ts Express, it is simple to set up and you can easily put Panto pictures, your Theatre Group logo and 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 Panto ticket sales.  Click here to see how easy it is to set up a ts Express account.
• 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 your Panto Box Office person to take on and run.  It will mean less cheques and cash to pay into the bank, and will reduce the number of phone calls they receive.
• Transparent - At any time you can see exactly how many Panto tickets you have sold, to whom, for which performance and how much money you have taken.  You can watch your sales grow by the minute and report back to your Committee with all the facts and figures!
• Flexible - Decide how you want to sell your Panto tickets.  You can set different price bands for ticket concessions and even sell merchandise items like t-shirts, cds and programmes in advance which they can collect when they arrive. 
• Choice - Let your audience pay for their tickets in advance by credit 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 the Panto online (and you won't get a PayPal charge for this!).  You can even 'sell' free tickets through ts Express helping you keep control of your Panto without charging your customers for tickets. Find out more about this click here.
• 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 group’s 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 Panto tickets online in advance they are more likely to turn up, no matter what the weather!  And they might buy more tickets for their friends at the same time! 
• Be Viral – the more tickets you sell in advance, the more chance you have of your ticket buyers persuading their family and friends to come too... and book their own tickets online!
• Sell - We give you a web link to put on your group’s website that your audience can click on to buy tickets.  It takes minutes not hours to set up, and you can be selling your Panto tickets almost instantly, if you email the ‘buy tickets now’ link to your members.
• Share - Share the buy tickets now link with other websites - your local newspaper, radio station or school 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 Panto tickets so you can contact them with details of your future productions or encourage them to get involved or even become members of your group.
• Promote – Your panto tickets will get listed on the www.ts.com ticket portal and the other web sites like www.wherecanwego.com automatically, helping you to reach a new audience and boost your ticket sales. Find out more about promotions by clicking here.
• Control - With ts Express from ts.com, you keep in control at all times of your tickets, your payments and your Pantomime!