Industries · Festivals
Festivals
Whether you're running a local book festival or a large multi-day festival, our platform has you covered.
Supporting Great British events, priced fairly, real-ly friendly team.
Why festivals choose us
Local team, local servers, local support – and pricing that works for community-sized budgets.
Events we help festivals run
From your first event to your hundredth, TryBooking stays in the background so you can focus on what matters most.
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.
Gate admission, competition entries and ring events across multiple show days.
ExploreGrottos, light trails and festive markets. Timed slots keep the queues down.
ExploreBonfire Night and community displays. Advance sales and gate sales together.
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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. Festival goers 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 needed for festival goers
No app, no login, no password. Festival goers buy, get confirmation, show up. Tickets are received by email and you can add them to your Google or Apple Wallet for extra ease. For community festivals, fewer barriers mean broader reach.
Features for festivals
On the day
Gate sales and entry management just got easier.
Box Office App
Accept contactless or cash payments instantly at your event with our Box Office app. Great for ticket sales, merchandise, refreshments and more.
Scanning App
Validate tickets at entry, scan guests in and out, and monitor live attendance numbers. Scan parking passes, VIP upgrades alongside General Admission.
Intuitive and straightforward
"Having never used an event booking platform before, I was pleasantly surprised by how intuitive and straightforward I found Trybooking. Setting up the event, managing bookings and communicating with attendees was very easy, even for a first-time user. TryBooking played an important role in helping us successfully deliver a large-scale fundraising event."
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.
TryBooking charges a flat 5% + 20p per ticket, and 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.
