Easy On-Line Event Ticketing?

Ronster writes "Dear /.ers (slash-daughters?) I am looking for an elegant online solution to a real-world annoyance. I lead regular tours of my local cemetery, which I enjoy immensely. However, I hate the administration - can you recommend an on-line service, or some software (ideally open source) that I could host on my website, that would allow people to register for these tours, perhaps issue them with a ticket, and even let them cancel their reservation, all without allowing the total number of reservations for each event becoming more than, say, 25? Thanks."

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some thoughts...

[ubiquitin]

Cancelling the registrations is the hard part, as it means that an individual would have to be able to log back in. This means that the ticket-holder needs to have some password or other unique method for doing so. Perhaps consider handling this with a special cancellation link with a per-user hash that gets emailed to each ticket holder along with their confirmation. This requires email integration, not impossible obviously, but something that you'll want to give architectural consideration. If you come up with a detailed specification for your project submit it with your contact information to contact.phpconsulting.com, and I'll quote you on it.

Re:What cemetary do you work for?

[Anonymous Coward]

Really? Never been to New Orleans?

why not use an ecommerce app?

[darkgumby]

You could use oscommerce or phpshop.

Just create a product for each day/time you give the tour and set the inventory to the number of tickets that you want to distribute for each tour.

When someone 'buys' a ticket then the inventory is depleted by one.

If someone cancels their order then the ticket should become available again and the inventory should increase.

I'd use Mambo CMS as a frontend. It has a nice event calendar component. Add events to the calendar with links to the product in the ecommerce package and you should be all set.

Phpshop has been integrated into Mambo. There is an effort to integate oscommerce.

Brown Paper Tickets

[km790816]

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producers.html

The story: hippy response to TicketBastard.

Free to set up events. No min or max. Many options for different prices, etc. They even handle mailing the tickets. They take a small % off the top of each ticket to cover their costs.

In their own words:

The only fair-trade ticketing service!

Ticket buyers and event organizers have been held hostage by ticketing companies long enough. Our mission is to keep as much money in everyone's pockets as possible. That way, producers can put on more shows, performers can earn a better living, and ticket buyers can see more shows! That's what building a community is about.

* Our service fees are the lowest in the industry (99 and 2.5%) - no kick back fees or mystery charges. Ever.
* Charter Not-Just-For-Profit company, 5-star rating
* At least 5% of our profits are donated back where they were earned to create more community

You almost feel good about buying tickets from them. Crazy...

www.hotscripts.com

[stickystyle]

just a quick search of 'tickets' on the second page i already found something that sounds like what you are looking for.