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Everything you need for your hot air balloon festivals is included – no subscriptions, no monthly fees, and no long-term contracts.
Tickets
Make it simple for attendees to buy tickets in seconds with flexible ticket grouping options and an effortless purchase path.
Event Website
Use our intuitive Website Builder to create a professional, branded website for your hot air balloon festival. Turn your event photos into instant FOMO.
Event Day
Streamline your on-site operations with the Tickets App. Sell more tickets with point of sale through square and check in attendees in an instant.
Free Email
Upload unlimited custom email lists and re-engage your hot air balloon festival attendees year after year with beautifully designed, personalized, and branded emails.
Key Features for Hot Air Balloon Festivals
Easy Setup
Soar through our easy-to-use ticket wizard and start selling tickets (fast). Flexible setup options make it easy to offer a range of tickets, from single-day general admission to a VIP weekend pass.
Our platform is designed to be user-friendly so everyone on your team can easily access and customize your event settings to best suite your needs.
Promotional Tools
Increase ticket revenue and engagement for your hot air balloon festival with TicketSignup’s free marketing tools. Take advantage of features like:
Social Sharing: Customize your image and CTA when supporters share your event link. Don’t underestimate this feature as visuals go a long way!
Referral Rewards: Stir up word-of-mouth marketing and incentivize attendees to promote your festival, offer money back for 5+ successful referals.
Custom Source Tracking: Keep track of what’s actually bringing in new website traffic and converting into sales.
TicketSignup is the Ultimate All-in-One Ticket Platform
Your TicketSignup Event Includes..
Attendee Management
Save time with TicketSignup’s self-serve ticket management tools. Your attendees can request a new confirmation email, transfer tickets, and track their referrals all without having to contact support.
Our self-serve structure is vital for weather cancellations and other unexpected delays – send out one update email and let the platform do the work.
- Comprehensive Ticket Reports: Easily track attendee data as individuals purchase tickets. TicketSignup reports have quick search options, customized column settings, and export options.
Pricing Tools
There’s many ways to structure your hot air balloon festival and TicketSignup can support whichever you chose! Create a ticket for a general observer, for hot air balloon rides, and for sponsors.
With TicketSignup you can strategize ticket sales with:
- Price increases: Up the ticket price as the festival gets closer to encourage early bird purchases.
- Coupons: Create a coupon for a limited time around specific holidays, you can limit to the first 50 purchases to incentivize quick action.
- Cart Discounts: Offer money off the overall purchase once someone crosses a threshold to influence that a certain total cost is reached.
Tickets App
- Checking in Attendees: Scan QR codes or Search Purchaser Name
- Attraction check-in: Make it easy for ticket holders to redeem their attractions on site
- Hot Air Balloon Ride Example: 1 hot air balloon ride included with ticket; scan QR code when it’s their time to go into the air to ensure attendees only go through up once
- Upsell: Increase your per-ticket revenue. Sell items during ticket purchase and through a standalone store on your website. Then, redeem items and continue to sell items on site!
TicketSignup Supports a Fast Purchase Experience
Create a streamlined process for your attendees to buy tickets, add-ons, and make donations.
“The Apple Wallet integration was really cool. People were able to have their tickets immediately,”
“We noticed it got even easier for people to buy tickets on site when TicketSignup added Apple Pay this year!”
“The direct ticket purchase QR code – it makes the day of sales incredibly easy for us and our attendees.“
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Continuous Improvement
We are dedicated to building new technology as fast and as frequent as possible. Follow our blog for updates as new features arrive!
Free Technology
Our platform (and all of it’s bells and whistles) is free to use, no in platform purchases, no add ons, and no contracts!
Per Cart Processing Fees
When your attendees purchase tickets they will pay a per-cart processing fee- NOT per-ticket. This is a small detail that can save your attendees big!
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