Get People Together…
Everything you need for your festival event 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 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.
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.
Festival Quick Start Guide
It’s easy and free to create your festival event on TicketSignup. Dive into our Festival Quick Start Guide to get started with customizing your event today.
Key Features for Your Festival
Multi-Day and Timed Ticket Options
Make it easy for festival attendees to find and buy tickets for the day and time of their choice with ticket display options that break down by day and then time, or can be featured on a calendar. Attendees can immediately identify slots that are sold out or in danger of selling out, prompting faster action.
Ticket Management
Easily manage tickets from your event dashboard, including transferring to a different ticket option or time and issuing full or partial refunds. Or, allow attendees to manage their own tickets for free or for a fee – no logins or passwords required! Enabling ticket management reduces customer service, keeps your attendees smiling and maximizes attendance every day of your event.
Mobile App
Eliminate lines and get people into your attraction faster with the seamless, touch-free EventDay Tickets App for mobile devices lets your team check people in with a QR scan or name search. Still have tickets? The Tickets App integrates with Square to allow you to continue selling at the gate!
Pricing Strategies to Maximize Revenue
Turn pricing into a marketing tool with custom pricing options. Drive prompt purchases with time-limited discounts and strategic price increases, encourage family participation with combo tickets, or shift the flow of your attendees by providing incentives for purchasing tickets to less popular days.
More Benefits of TicketSignup for Your Festival
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.
Referrals
Motivate your attendees to bring their whole tribe by enabling automated refunds for attendees who refer people to your event.
Reporting
Track your purchases, segment your attendee data, and dig into detailed financial information with comprehensive reporting.
Recommended Festival Timeline
Need a cheat sheet? This printable Festival Timeline provides guidance and reminders to help you prepare your event, get your festival ready for ticket sales, and ensure you (and your attendees) are ready for festival event day.
Customer Spotlight
Richmond Tattoo & Arts Festival
The Richmond Tattoo & Arts Festival was founded in 1988 as one of the first tattoo conventions in the country and has a long history of attracting the best artists in the industry. TicketSignup allowed them to sell tickets and send emails while maintaining their artistic branding. With more than 20,000 custom contacts uploaded, 18% of all their ticket sales came directly from free email!
Years Running: 35
Artists on Site: 190
Exhibitions: 58
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
Festivals
Festivals are some of the most time-honored community traditions, bringing people together around common interests like music, beer, movies, and seasonal delights. TicketSignup’s flexible and powerful options are helping organizations to market their festival, sell more tickets, and improve the festival experience. Learn about a few of the latest and greatest festivals using our ticketing, email, and website solutions.
Bourbon Festivals
Horseradish Festivals
Craft Beer Festivals
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
Special Event Management, Inc
From shutdown to sellout, the switch to TicketSignup led to a community festival’s first sellout ticket event. Learn how they took advantage of purpose-built technology to increase efficiency, work better with nonprofits, and support their marketing team.
110% Increase in Ticket Sales
227% Increase in Revenue
18% Increase in Email Open Rate
The Latest Blogs on Festival Events…
Using TicketSignup for Vendor Registrations
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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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Detroit Bourbon and Blues Festival
The Detroit Bourbon and Blues Festival is a summer event celebrating whiskey, bourbon, and blues, and the impact Detroit has had on each. This fun-filled event lets attendees sample a variety of different drinks, while taking in some tunes from talented blues…
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Eventbrite to TicketSignup: Success Stories
Interested in transitioning your ticket sales from Eventbrite to TicketSignup? Amid recent price increases and staff layoffs, we have helped a number of events transition to TicketSignup for a new home for their event(s). Learn more about their events and what we…
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Pistons & Props
Pistons and Props is a two-day event in Janesville, Wisconsin, that brings together classic car enthusiasts and aviation aficionados. Showcasing an impressive lineup of classic cars and iconic aircraft, including the B-25 and BT-13, the event offers an unforgettable experience for visitors…
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Ticket App Time Window CheckIn Validation for Passes
TicketSignup makes it easy to create event and season passes with limited or unlimited uses. Staff can easily validate and track uses with the Ticket App. Now you can specify allowed check-ins within time windows. For example, events can enforce that a…
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Festival Season Is Here
Summertime is officially upon us, and with it, festival season is here. All festivals bring people together, but they can be centered around all sorts of things: music, food or drink, hobbies, advocacy, and more. Looking for a new event for your…
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Dallas Parks and Recreation
A couple years ago Lisa McClendon, Dallas Parks and Recreation Service Area Manager, was tasked with revitalizing a 400 acre farm that had sat vacant for 20 years. It sat just outside the city, and out of view of the public, making…
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Transfer Tickets to a Friend
Ticket holders can now transfer some or all of their tickets to a friend as a gift. When tickets are accepted by the recipient, a new QR Code is issued for the transferred tickets that only the recipient can use. The sender’s…
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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…
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Richmond Tattoo & Arts Festival
The Richmond Tattoo & Arts Festival was founded in 1988 as one of the first tattoo conventions in the country and has a long history of attracting the best artists in the industry. As a relatively small show, the focus is on…
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