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Event Guide: Festivals and Live events
Event Guide: Festivals and Live events
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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!

✅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 releases by amending ticket sales start and end dates. Tickets can go on sale at specific dates, or when a previous tier/type has sold out!


Generate artist, comp and staff access tickets or import tickets from another platform

Bulk upload with a CSV

If you have a spreadsheet with names and email addresses you can easily generate hundreds of tickets in minutes using our bulk upload tool.

Create comp orders one-at-a-time

You can also generate comp tickets for staff, artists, guests or family using the manual order page on the orders/refunds > orders page. This is great if you're creating a handful of orders as they come in.


Hide tickets and reveal them with an access code

Manage your presale, early or exclusive access to your ticket options by hiding them from the event page and revealing them with access codes.

Create as many access codes as you like each with a quantity.


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.


Style your event page with your brand and images

Page styling

Bring your event page on brand by adjusting colours and logos of your event page

Clean up your checkout experience

Do you have alot of ticket options? Organise them into easy-to-navigate dropdown menus using ticket groups

Add images to your ticket page

Add images to your tickets and ticket group options to further style your event while providing some helpful visual guides for different festival experiences or items.


Embed your event checkout on your website

Your event's entire checkout experience seamlessly embedded onto your own website. Drive traffic to your brand and control the buyer experience end to end.



Easily manage and control capacity limits around groups of tickets

Avoid constantly checking ticket sales to make sure you're not overselling ticket segments with the ability to cap sales across designated groups of ticket types.
You can also easily track different reporting groups of ticket types so you don't have to constantly export and count your sales!

Control ticket sales with grouped capacities

If you're running an event with multiple ticket types and complex capacity requirements you can automate sellouts across a group of ticket types.

Track sales and check-ins across multiple ticket types

Using reporting groups you can quickly view sales and check-in information for selected ticket types allowing you to keep on top of your overall sales for "Entry tickets" vs "Vehicle Passes" vs "Bus tickets" etc.


Seamlessly check in ticket holders using the Humanitix for Hosts scanning app

Free-to-use and download onto any iOS or Android phone or tablet device.

Use the device's camera to scan the QR code on ticket holder's digital tickets, or, manually search for them on the day. You can also easily track sales and check-in counts on-the-go.

See our tips on getting your devices, app, and staff ready to check in guests
>> Get ready to check in


Sell tickets at the gate/ on the day using the Humanitix for Host app

Turn any NFC-enabled iOS or Android mobile phone into a payment terminal and sell tickets right through the Humanitix for hosts app. Centralise all your reporting and avoid having to use multiple platforms or arrange additional payment terminals.

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