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How to ticket your Sports Club’s celebration events

Are you the Social Secretary for your Sports Club – is it your responsibility to organising the annual end of season dinner dance?  Would you like to use a simple, free way to sell your tickets from your sports club website?

You want to get as many people to come to the dinner dance as possible so give them an easy way to buy tickets for them and their partner.  You could even sell your latest tour t-shirts online at the same time!

Sounds complicated?  Well it’s not with ts Express – here’s how you can get your members 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 Sports Club members to pay! 
• Simple - You don't need to be an IT expert to use ts Express, it is simple to set up.  You can easily put images from the season’s highlights, club logo 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 dinner dance 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 you to take on and run – important when you have so much else to organise!  It will mean less cheques and cash to pay into the bank and handle on the night, and will reduce the number of phone calls you take.
• Transparent - At any time you can see exactly how many tickets to your dinner dance that you have sold and to whom and know exactly who has paid.  You could chase up members who haven’t booked yet!
• Flexible - Decide how you want to sell the tickets to your Sports Club dinner dance.  You can ask people to select a ticket with their menu choice (eg. to identify vegetarians) and even sell merchandise items like left over tour t-shirts. 
• Choice – Make it easy for your members to buy 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 night - 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 Sports Club dinner dance online (and you won't get a PayPal charge for this!). Find out more about this click here.
• Visibility - Print out a Door Report on the day so you know who is coming along, 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 members have already paid for their Sports Club dinner dance tickets online in advance they are more likely to turn up!
• Sell - We give you a web link to put on your Sports Club’s website that your members can click on to buy tickets.  It takes minutes not hours to set up, and you can be selling your dinner dance tickets almost instantly, if you email the ‘buy tickets now’ link to all your members.
• Marketing - You will have the name, address and email details of the people who have bought your dinner dance tickets so you can keep your database up to date and contact them with details of future Sports Club events.
• Control - With ts Express from ts.com, you keep in control at all times of your tickets, your payments and your Sports Club dinner dance!