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How to ticket a School or College Event

Is your school or college putting on an event that you want to sell tickets for?  Would you like to use a simple, free way to sell tickets to the event from the school or college’s website? 
You are putting a lot of effort into organising the event itself and want to get as many people as possible to support it and buy tickets. 
ts Express is an easy way to let the kid’s friends and families buy their 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 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 pictures, the school’s logo and any other important information on your sales page and on your tickets. Click here to see the 6 simple steps to setting up your ts Express account.
  
• 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 ticket sales for the school or college event.
  
• 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 the person responsible for ticket sales 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 to the school or college office.
  
• Transparent - At any time you can see exactly how many event tickets you have sold, to whom, and how much money you have taken.  You can watch your sales grow by the minute and report back to the school or college with all the facts and figures!
  
• Flexible - Decide how you want to sell your school or college event tickets.  You can set different price bands for ticket concessions (eg. Student/Adult/OAP) and even sell merchandise items like t-shirts in advance, which they can collect when they arrive, or even take donations online. 
  
• 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 school or college event online (and you won't get a PayPal charge for this!).  Or you could 'sell' £0 value tickets - this will help you keep control of people attending your event without you charging them for a ticket. To find out nire abiyt the options for ticketing your event click here.
  
• Visibility - Print out a Door Report on the day so you know who is coming 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 the school’s bank account.
  
• Costs - Depending on the number of tickets you sell, PayPal’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 event 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 school or college’s website or intranet for people to click on to buy tickets.  It takes minutes not hours to set up, and you can be selling your school or college event tickets almost instantly, if you have a list of email addresses – a parent’s group you can send them the ‘buy tickets now’ link.
  
• Share - Share the buy tickets now link with other websites if you’re selling tickets to the public - your local newspaper, radio station or local businesses 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 their event tickets so you can contact them with details of your future productions or encourage them to get involved with future school or college activities.
  
• Promote – If you are selling tickets to the general public, your school or college event tickets will get listed on the www.ts.com web portal and the other web sites like www.wherecanwego.com, helping you to reach a new audience and boost your ticket sales.  Click here for more information.
  
• Control - With ts Express from ts.com, you keep in control at all times of your tickets, your payments and your school or college event!

Do you still have questions about ts Express?  Click here to read our FAQ list and find out more information.