No Witchcraft Necessary…
Everything you need for your Halloween events 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, calendar-based ticket options and an effortless purchase path.
Event Website
Use our intuitive Website Builder to create a professional, branded website for your event. Zombie photos optional.
Free Email
Upload unlimited custom lists of Halloween enthusiasts and re-engage your 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.
Ready to Setup Your Halloween Event?
We have two setup wizards, depending on the needs of your event. For simple events (limited days/time slots), the Simple Ticket Wizard is for you. For timed entry events with more complex rules, ticket types, and time slots, we recommend the MTE Timed Entry Ticketing Wizard.
Key Features for Your Halloween Events
Easy and Fast Purchase…
Customizable, data-driven free websites and ticketing options designed to maximize sales.
- Timed entry, calendar-driven purchase path by day and timeslot.
- Dynamic Calendars: Automatically update event details like dates, prices, times, and sell outs – no manual updates required.
- Seamless Transactions: Mobile-optimized attendee experience with Apple Pay and Digital Wallet for effortless ticket sales.
- Flexible Purchase Path: Choose calendars, tiles, layouts, and automated tickets-remaining alerts to guide purchasers.
- Blazing Speed: Lightning-fast load times, even with many dates and time slots.
Calendar-Based Event Management…
Easily set up and manage tickets, time slots, caps, and pricing.
- Advanced Pricing Options: Set rolling or fixed sales windows, volume discounts, and automated price increases with ease.
- Quick Setup: Create your timed entry event in minutes with our easy timed entry wizard.
- Calendar-Based Schedule: Actionable month and day calendar views with custom ticket colors.
- Effortless Updates: Edit Caps, Pricing, or Time Slots for a specific time slot or date; or apply bulk updates across ticket types and days of the week.
Ticket Management
Manage tickets from your dashboard or allow visitors to make their own changes.
- Attendee Actions: Cancel, email, or text attendees by timeslot or ticket type.
- Self-Serve Options: Allow attendees to transfer tickets to a different time, or transfer tickets to a friend.
- Automated Emails: Schedule customizable emails to send before a time slot begins and/or after someone purchases tickets.
- Dashboard Management: Easily pull up and manage attendees’ tickets on their behalf.
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, bulk pricing, and family-friendly per-cart processing fees
- Shift the flow of your attendees by providing incentives for purchasing tickets to less popular days.
- Upsell attendees with VIP experience bundles
Free Event Day App to Check-In, Sell (and Upsell)
Whether you simply need to check-in pre-purchased tickets, want to continue ticket sales at the door, or want to boost revenue through add-on sales, the free TicketSignup Tickets App can help you streamline Event Day operations.
CheckIn Attendees in Seconds
Eliminate lines and improve the CheckIn process for your staff or volunteers with CheckIn through the TicketSignup Tickets App on any iOS or Android device.
- Check in attendees in seconds with the scan of a ticket QR code or a quick search for the purchaser or ticket holder’s name
- Configure the app to show store purchases and any custom question responses to ensure your on-site team has all the information they need
- View CheckIn stats to evaluate the flow of traffic and improve efficiency
Sell Tickets On Site
Encourage attendees to buy from their own phones or enable the Square integration on the TicketSignup Tickets App to allow ticket sales on-site, in seconds.
- Use QR codes and signage to drive attendees to purchase tickets on their own phones – and pay the processing fee
- Allow credit card payments through Square or indicate cash payments
- Automatically connects to your ticket caps set in TicketSignup to ensure you never over-sell your capacity
- Sales tax reports to accurately and easily remit sales tax for point of sale ticket purchases
Sell and Redeem Add-on Items
Make more money with add-on purchases, both pre-purchased and purchased on-site.
- Upsell attendees in advance with merch and add-ons during the purchase path – and an email reminder to add them after the initial purchase
- Bundle items with specific tickets, such as including 2 drink tickets and a fast pass with your VIP ticket
- Check-in store items as their redeemed, whether that’s all at once at the gate, or individually throughout the event
- Coming in 2023: Dynamically assign ticket data to wristbands with QR codes to make it even easier to redeem items (and continue buying) throughout the the event
Attraction CheckIn
- TicketSignup makes it easy to automatically include transactions with tickets sold – and check-in each attraction as they go through
- Example: each ticket enables the attendee to go through 5 attractions, one time each
- View actionable, time-stamped reports to understand when check-ins occurred and adjust operations to optimize your traffic flow
- Coming in 2023: Dynamically assign ticket data to wristbands with QR codes to make it even easier to check-in attractions throughout the the event
More Benefits of TicketSignup for Your Halloween Events
Chargebacks
Tired of arguing with credit card companies? Leave the chargeback challenges to us so you can focus on providing the spookiest 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. You control the caps (and any overriding of them), always.
Sales Tax
TicketSignup takes care of all the obligations of calculating, collecting and remitting sales tax for ticket events, taking hours of work (and fear of incorrect calculation) off your plate.
Reporting
Track your purchases, segment your attendee data, and dig into detailed financial information with comprehensive reporting. There’s a report for every question!
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