Industries · Festivals
Festivals &events
Food and wine, cultural celebrations, community fairs. Multi-day pass ticketing without enterprise complexity.
Trusted by organisations across New Zealand
Built locally, priced fairly, supported by humans
Why organisations choose us
Local team, local servers, local support – and pricing that works for community-sized budgets.
Events we help festivals run
From 10 guests to 10,000, TryBooking stays in the background so you can focus on what matters. Quietly doing its thing while you do yours.
Timed entry, ticket limits, dietary collection. Sell food tokens online before gates open.
Free events free. Registrations, attendee details, multi-day tracking.
Multiple stages and venues. Day passes, weekend passes, individual performances.
Stall bookings for vendors and entry tickets for visitors, one event page.
Multi-day and single-day passes
Sell weekend passes, day passes and single-event tickets from one festival page, with timed entry and capacity per area. Set up once, duplicate for next year.
Bookings on your own site
Embed the full booking flow straight into your festival website with our widget. Visitors browse line-ups, pick their passes and pay without ever leaving your page, your brand front and centre, no redirect to a third-party site.
No account for visitors
No app, no login, no password. Visitors buy, get confirmation, show up. For community festivals, fewer barriers mean broader reach.
Features for festivals
On the day
Gate sales and entry management
Box Office App
Gate sales, food tokens, merchandise. Multiple sellers, multiple entries.
Scanning App
Validate at gates and session entrances. Live attendance numbers.
A sell-out first year
"It was just so smooth! Intuitive and easy. I can’t imagine wanting to break from a working system for any of our next events."
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Set up your festival with multiple days and sessions. Offer single-day, multi-day, or full-festival pass options. Each day can have different ticket types and pricing.
Absolutely. Create ticket groups for merchandise, food and drink tokens, camping passes, VIP upgrades, or anything else. Attendees add them during checkout.
Just 50c per ticket (or 15c for tickets under $5) plus 2.5% processing. Free events are completely free. No setup fees, no monthly fees, no subscriptions.
Yes. Use the free Box Office App on any phone to sell walk-up tickets. Your online and in-person sales share the same real-time inventory, so you’ll never oversell.
Yes. Use referral tracking to see which marketing channels, social media posts, or email campaigns are driving ticket sales. Measure the return on your marketing spend.
Run a festival that runs itself
Free to create. Our team can help with complex programmes.
