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Event Guide: Festivals and Live events
Event Guide: Festivals and Live events
Updated over a week ago

We've all experienced a life-changing gig or festival that has shaped us into who we are today. However, running festivals and gigs is no easy feat. That's why it's important to harness the right ticketing tools to get your focus back on what you do best - creating epic events!

βœ…Step 1: Check out our quick start guide!

🏁Step 2: See our top tips and tools below to finish off your event!

Check out our event examples here for some inspo!


🐦 Set up early bird tickets and waterfall pricing

Early bird pricing is a proven method to drive early ticket sales - let's make it easy to manage.

Create multiple ticket types and set ticket releasesby amending ticket sales start and end dates. Tickets can go on sale at specific dates, or when a previous tier/type has sold out!


🎫 Ticket resale & risk-free name changes

Humanitix offers your buyers an in-house resale method that ensures only genuine event tickets are sold. Fully secure and self-service, buyers can list their tickets privately for peer-to-peer name changes or publicly to resell their tickets to the hungry masses.


🌟 Generate artist, comp and staff access tickets

Save time by issuing artist, staff and comp tickets in just a few clicks with our bulk upload feature or process these individually by creating a new manual order.
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Give exclusive ticket access for VIPs to register themselves through access codes


πŸ’… Style the event your way

You’ve put so much work into everything else, so why not your event page?

Use our custom event styling features to reflect your brand and stand out from the crowd.


πŸ’» Sell tickets on your website

Create a seamless registration experience and sell tickets right from your website with our embedded widgets.
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πŸ‘¨β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘§β€πŸ‘¦ Group capacity

Avoid constantly checking ticket sales and make life easy for yourself

Running an event with multiple ticket types and complex capacity requirements? Automate sellouts across a group of ticket types using the grouped capacity tool


πŸ›’ Sell add-ons and merch


Up-sell merchandise and extras with our add-ons tool.


🀘 Add 3rd party embeds to your event page


​Get them grooving from the get-go by embedding a Spotify or Soundcloud playlist.

Want to feature content from other platforms within your Humanitix event? Take your event page to the next level here.
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πŸ“± Use the Humanitix scanning app to check-in ticket holders


​The Humanitix scanning app is free and easy to use.

Download the app onto your mobile or tablet device and digitally check in your attendees to keep the line moving and your attendee's spirits high!

Check out our guide on downloading and using the Humanitix scanning app HERE

See some tips on managing entry on the night HERE

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