Festival Ticket Sales And More (Easy)
Festivals build community, inspire connection, and create unforgettable memories for your attendees. With TicketSignup, selling tickets is easy – but so is managing your event, expanding your reach, and coordinating on-site operations. TicketSignup is free for event organizers, no subscriptions, no monthly fees, and no long-term contracts.
Easy Ticket Sales
Make it simple for attendees to buy tickets in seconds with flexible ticket grouping options and an effortless purchase path.
Free Event Website
Use our intuitive Website Builder to create a professional, branded website for your festival. Turn your event photos into instant FOMO.
Free Email
Upload unlimited custom email lists and re-engage your festival attendees year after year with beautifully designed, personalized, and branded emails.
Free Event Day App
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.
Why TicketSignup For Your Festival
Solutions for Festival Tickets
TicketSignup has a ticketing solution to meet your needs. Options include:
- Sell simple general admission festival tickets with an easy event creation Wizard. Add customizations like tiered pricing, VIP options, bulk pricing, and more.
- Sell single and multi-day passes for festivals with multiple days. Flexible combinations and a check-in that allows for single or multi-day check-ins makes it easy to manage all packages.
- Sell timed entry tickets for festivals with multiple days and pre-assigned timed entry. Comprehensive calendar-based reporting makes it simple to track who you expect, when.
- Sell item tickets for festivals with free admission and ticket sales for food and beverage.
Solutions for Festival Attendee Management
Make attendee management a breeze with customizable self-serve ticket management options. TicketSignup allows you to:
- Administrative ticket management gives you, the festival director, full control of attendee actions, from refunds to transfers.
- Offer self-serve ticket transfers that make it simple for festival goers to change their ticket to another day or upgrade from General Admission to VIP.
- Offer self-serve transfer to a friend to allow ticket purchasers to transfer their ticket to someone else, re-setting the QR code for check-in and ensuring single use. Allow transfers for free or add a charge to boost revenue.
- Upsell festival goers after ticket purchase with the simple ability to add items (like merch or VIP experiences) to an existing ticket after the initial buy.
Solutions for Festival Event Day
Eliminate lines and get people into your attraction faster with the seamless (and free) TicketSignup Tickets App.
- Speedy festival check-in with instant QR code scans. One QR code for all tickets in a purchase, with flexible options to check-in some or all of the tickets at the same time.
- Fulfill items on-site with store check-in for pre-purchased merch or food & beverage.
- Reduce check-in errors with flexible configurations that allow store workers to access store check-ins (only) while gate workers access tickets (only).
- Control weekend passes with dedicated limitations on the timing and frequency of check-ins for attendees holding a multi-day pass.
- On-Site Ticket Sales via the Tickets App integration with Square.
How to Grow Your Festival (for Free)
At TicketSignup, all marketing tools are free – no upcharges and no usage limits. We know we succeed when your event succeeds, and we give the free tools you need to expand your reach and sell more festival tickets. How can you grow with TicketSignup?
Free Event Website
Free content website you fully control. Your event website is always branded for you, not us. SEO optimized.
Free (Unlimited) Email
Free email marketing with unlimited contacts and unlimited sends. Email works. Use it.
Free Engagement Tools
Free tools to spur referrals, encourage bulk-buying, and make sharing instantaneous.
We want to drive traffic to your event, not to our website.
At TicketSignup, we’ll never…
- Advertise a competing festival on your ticket website
- Email your festival attendees (past and present) to direct them to a different festival
- Require you to pay for “add-on” marketing features to ensure you show event lists
At TicketSignup, we always promise you…
- Custom branding on your ticket website, with your logo and colors (not ours) and your content (not ours)
- Custom branding on all email communications and full control of your attendee data
- We share event data for ALL our public events with affiliates
TicketSignup Simplifies Festival Logistics
Chargebacks
Tired of arguing with credit card companies? Leave the chargeback challenges to us so you can focus on providing the a sparkling experience to your attendees on-site.
Ticket Caps
Never oversell your haunt again with flexible options to set caps on individual tickets, ticket groups, and across different tickets.
Fee Transparency
Automatically comply with the FTC and ticketing transparency laws. TicketSignup’s pricing displays are all-in-pricing that’s easy for purchasers to understand.
Reporting
Track your purchases, segment your attendee data, and dig into detailed financial information with comprehensive reporting.
Customer Spotlight
Harpoon Brewery
Harpoon Brewery in Boston, Massachusetts has used RunSignup since 2018 for their sell-out Harpoon 5 Miler and Dogtoberfest races. They used Eventbrite for their three large festivals and free events. Harpoon was looking for a more modern platform that could help them lower customer service and increase ticket sales. While Harpoon had some concerns about losing visibility by leaving Eventbrite, they decided to try TicketSignup for the 2024 Octoberfest. They discovered that their brand – not Eventbrite’s – drives ticket sales. TicketSignup’s free and automated marketing tools transformed Harpoon’s loyal customers into powerful brand ambassadors.
Tickets Sold: 13,000+
Overall Ticket Sales Growth: 8%
Referral Rewards ROI: 3,000%
Targhee Bluegrass Festival
The 2024 Targhee Bluegrass Festival welcomed 5,000 bluegrass enthusiasts to the mountains of Wyoming for a 3-day music festival with options for camping, late night shows, parking, and more. With TicketSignup, Grand Targhee improved the event experience, from easy ticket buying to seamless on-site check-in.
Tickets Sold: 5,000
Average Tickets per Purchase: 2.2
Percent of 3-Day Passes Checked In: 96%
Dungenees Crab Festival
Located in Port Angeles, Washington, the Dungeness Crab Festival is a beloved community event that attracts nearly 30,000 attendees each year. While the festival is free, the nonprofit sells Crab Dinners to generate revenue. In 2024, they opened up sales on TicketSignup to increase revenue, ease ticket management challenges, and improve communications through free email.
Tickets Sold: 4,777
Imported Email Contacts: 14,468
Total Free Emails Sent: 104,675
Midland Music Fest
The Midland Music Fest is a highly anticipated annual ticket event that combines live music performances, food trucks, and a lively beer garden. With the goal of attracting music lovers and fostering community engagement, the Rotary Club of Gainesville takes on the challenge of organizing a memorable music festival.
$150 VIP Tickets
6,000 Page Views
65% Tickets Purchased 48hrs prior
Beaufort Oyster Festival
The Beaufort Oyster Festival started four years ago to help combat the shoulder-season lull many in the hospitality industry experience in Beaufort South Carolina. It’s a two day long festival that showcases food and drinks from a variety of local vendors. Everything is sourced locally, helping keep the dollars in the local economy, providing a much-needed boost for local hospitality businesses during their slower season.
Tickets Sold: 2,600+
Attendees: 6,000
Event Days: 2
Pinehurst BBQ Festival
The Pinehurst BBQ team was able to make a smooth transition to TicketSignup, and is looking forward to having the data from both the Pinehurst BBQ and the Festival D’Avion Air Show 5k integrated into the same platform. With a few tweaks to customize their website and some early-bird email promotions, festival-goers are already finding it easy to secure their ticket to the weekend – no customer support from the Pinehurst BBQ team needed!
A Celebration of: Taste and Tradition
A Collaboration Between: Two Event Partners
A Variety of Options: With Five Events
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Dungeness Crab Festival
About the Dungeness Crab Festival Located in Port Angeles, Washington, the Dungeness Crab Festival is a beloved community event that attracts nearly 30,000 attendees each year. After 23 successful years, a new nonprofit entity was created to keep the festival alive, ensuring…
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Harpoon Brewery
Making the Switch from Eventbrite to TicketSignup Harpoon Brewery in Boston, Massachusetts has used RunSignup since 2018 for their sell-out Harpoon 5 Miler and Dogtoberfest races. They used Eventbrite for their three large festivals and free events. Harpoon was looking for a…
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