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How we help you sell
You can create a range of events, from open space general admission to reserved seating and more.
Use the TryBooking box office app on your phone to sell tickets, merchandise, food and drink easier than ever before.
Features loved by clients
Collect information with custom forms
You can ask your customers for additional information during the online booking process. Use pre-built commonly asked questions or create your own, then select which to make mandatory or to be kept optional. Ask for anything from dietary requirements to their member number. Even follow up with a sub-question to find out more about your customer.
Generate promotion codes
Offer discounts and promotion codes for VIP members or special groups. Encourage early online event bookings with early bird pricing or add late registration fees. Create opportunities to promote your event in stages to customers.
Have more control with Password Protect
Easily handle membership renewals, control early or priority access ahead of the public release. Implement a custom password to ensure that only those with access can proceed with bookings. Set ticket limits and establish a booking window for added flexibility.
Seating plans & tables
TryBooking offers flexible seating plans to suit any venue. Your created seating plan or venue template can be further adjusted and customised to reflect the shape of the stage, venue doors, reserved group seating sections, hidden seats, even stalls and circles.
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Allocate seats with seat holds
Ensure VIPs, members, and season pass holders are catered to with TryBooking's Seat Holds feature, allowing event organisers to reserve seats and secure them with a password. Patrons can then use this password to select their allocated seats and complete their booking hassle-free.
Communicate directly with your customers
Streamline your emails! Send targeted messages with event links, schedule them for any time, and track everything in a past email log. Reach specific attendees by session or section, and save time with reusable templates. Easy event communication, all in one place.
Place the event on your website with widgets
Add our ticket, purchase button or event details to your own web pages in just a few quick steps. Kickstart the ticket purchasing process directly through your website and help drive traffic to your event page.
White label to promote your brand and not ours
Use our white label options to make the booking experience feel more comfortable for ticket buyers by making it appear as the booking is being done through your website.
Customise your event pages
A wide range of settings are at your disposal to customise your event page to match your branding guidelines, tone-of-voice and style.
Sell in person with the Box Office App
Sell tickets, merchandise and accept donations right on your phone with the TryBooking Box Office App. Our Android and IOS mobile application facilitates your in person sales. Everything from last minute ticket sales to merchandise can now be sold in person by card or cash.
Manage entry with the Scanning App
Speed up entry to your festival with our great mobile scanning app which scans QR codes on tickets as well as manual check-ins via your door lists - at no additional cost!
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Custom Event Tickets
Use our standard tickets or add your own branding. Control the look and feel of your event pages and tickets by adding banners, sponsor images, logos and backgrounds.
No Sign Up
Ticket buyers do not need to register with us to make a purchase (no passwords to remember)
Keep Your Customer Data Secure
TryBooking treats your data seriously. We do not on-sell or provide your data to any 3rd parties or send you emails apart from those relating to your current purchase. Please consult our Privacy Policy for further details on how we handle your data.
Payment Options
We offer the following payment methods: Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, Google or Apple Pay.
Discovery and Sharing
The Buy Tickets page is a hub for interested browsers and people searching for your event. It is an additional way for users to find and book in for your events. They then have the option to share and help spread the word across Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Process Refunds
Process refunds directly to your customer's credit card. Refund the full amount, partial amount or just void the tickets. Add terms and conditions to your pages and tickets to keep your guests informed.
Private and Public Events
You can make your events private or public depending on your audience. When your event is private you can send the specific event url to your audience.
Track Sales
Get more insight with the ability to monitor your revenue, sales and scans as they happen.
Real-Time Reports
Manage and track your online bookings from one easy place. Access powerful real-time sales and marketing reports. Get data on total revenue, ticket sales by type, account transactions and more.
Custom Reports and Data Exports
Access your own data at any time and download reports to multiple formats such as CSV, XLSX and PDF.
Marketing Reports
Gain strategic insights on your campaigns and marketing effectiveness with our reporting. Access information regarding social media advertising, tracking codes, purchase location and much more.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I start selling through TryBooking?
Ready to begin selling through TryBooking? The first step is to create an account via Create Seller Account.
Follow the prompts and provide a valid email address as we will send an activation email. Once you have activated the account you will be able to log in and begin creating your event. It's that easy!
We also have a number of setup guides in our Learning Centre to help get you started with creating your event.
Can I use TryBooking for registrations?
If your looking to create an event that does not require tickets, check our easy set-up guide for registration events. Use our custom forms feature to collect information and payment for registrations, while removing the need for paper forms and tedious admin involved with collating data.
Also make sure you communicate to your community that they do not require a digital or printed event ticket for entry.
How do I run a sausage sizzle on TryBooking?
You can easily set up a general admission event, where you set your 'ticket' as a sausage. You can even create multiple 'ticket' types where you can setup combinations like sausage and soda. Then use the box office app, to sell the sausages in person using your own phone to take contactless payment.
How do I use TryBooking for free events?
All you need to do is signup to TryBooking, then follow our Create Event Wizard. Here you will have the option to select Free when prompted for setting up ticket prices. For further guidance, see: Free Events
What is an event ticketing system?
Event ticketing system keeps things simple with a easy process for users to do registrations for any event by enabling online/electronic registration and payment.
Can I use your services free of charge?
There no costs to create an account or events on TryBooking, nor are there any fees associated with tickets set at or discounted to $0.00. We only charge fees when processing paid transactions on your events and fundraising pages. With no sign up or contract fees trailing our system is risk fee. For more information on our fees can be found via Pricing
What ticketing service fees does TryBooking charge?
Should you be taking payment through your TryBooking event, the transaction will be subjected to a processing fee and a ticket fee. These fees vary per region associated with your TryBooking account. Below details these fees per region.
Australia:
For bookings or donations made on events:
- 50c ticket fee (charged to the ticket buyer) or a 15c ticket fee if the ticket price is $5.00 or less.
- 2.5% processing fee (charged to the event organiser by default or passed on to the ticket buyer by selection)
For donations made on fundraising pages:
- 2.5% donation fee (charged to the fundraiser by default)
Are there any costs associated with creating an event?
No, there are no cost associated with creating a event.
There are NO lock-in contracts, sign-up or account maintenance fees, nor any subscriptions.
Fees are only incurred when a paid transaction is processed through your event. Allowing you to run a free event without any cost.
We encourage you to create an account and see for yourself how easy the TryBooking site is to both create and manage your next event or to simply book an event.
Is TryBooking a free event ticketing platform?
TryBooking is free for all free events, there is no limit to how many tickets you can sell, nor the number of events or even any restricted access. However, once you start charging for a ticket, that's when TryBooking applies our small processing and ticket fee.
Can I customise my own event page?
Yes, you can have full customisation of your own event page. We also provide a widget to allow you to place your event page onto your site.
Can I use TryBooking to sell tickets to private events?
Yes, you set your event private via the Event Publication. It is at your discretion to share your unique booking URL publicly or privately. See: Private Events
Passwords can also be added to your event for a second layer of security. See: Password Protect
How long does it take to get setup?
It takes just a few minutes to create your account and begin creating your first event on TryBooking.
All that's required to get started it a valid email address, ensuring that you will receive the activation email to complete the registration. Once the account has been activated, you can log in and begin creating your event.
With our Create New Event wizard, you'll have your event set up and selling within minutes!
To begin creating your account click Create Seller Account
Do you offer discounted pricing for nonprofits?
We aim to keep our fees as low as possible for all clients whilst giving them full access to all features. This means the same low fees apply to all account holders, regardless of their Not For Profit status. They are:
For donations made on fundraising pages:
- 5% donation fee (charged to the fundraiser by default
For bookings or donations made on events:
- 50c ticket fee (charged to the ticket buyer) or a 15c ticket fee for ticket prices set at $5.00 or less.
- 2.5% processing fee (charged to the event organiser by default)
You can consider passing on all fees to the buyer so that you are taking the full ticket or donation value, see: Passing on fees
How can I link my TryBooking event to my website, blog or social media?
We provide a number of methods to integrate your TryBooking event into your website for a seamless booking experience.
Choose from our numerous Widget options to have the event embedded into your website, or one of our Event Listings to have new events auto-populate to on your site as they are created, or simply embed the unique direct URL for your event.
The direct URL is ideal for linking to social media pages.