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."

Comments

Mars and Left Handed Sugar

[jayrtfm]

wait, wait, please don't mod this off topic.
The search for life on mars and developing left-handed or reduced calorie sugar are related to ticket reservations.

Dr. Gilbert V. Levin's company Spherics does all three.

Cancelling w/o passwords & no email need

[Randym]

that would allow people to register for these tours, perhaps issue them with a ticket, and even let them cancel their reservation,

You could cancel reservations by having people enter a [randomly generated] number which is printed on their ticket -- in essence, outsourcing the sessionID to the physical ticket.

It would make more sense, too, to just have them print out a ticket from the website [with the date, time and cancellation #]; that way, they wouldn't even *need* an email address to be able to take the tour.

Small problems highlight larger ones

[tod_miller]

It is apparent to me that this small problem highlights a fundemantal issue in development today.

Such an application should almost be done with wizards today.

This level of application should become one-click development for every day people...

Rather than empower people with merely writing documents, this guy should be able to take a web-u-like OS package and make some powerful results - perhaps based on JavaServer Faces or .NET or abstract the technology with a webml like (although less utterly devastatingly complex) interface.

On a brighter note I wrote a simple application for my local theatre, simple enough that I could really experiment with interface and FEEL of the program. I coded a javascript home-roll date picker (simpler and nicer than the ones you can d/l) and they can add events, and book tickets.

of course this is designed to be run with the theatre in single user mode - with no logins.

For max 25 people - I would consider using email / phone interfaces from a website.