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How to protect your visitors with timed ticketing.
How to protect your visitors with timed ticketing. 2043 1364 egocentric Systems GmbH

Tips how you can save your revenues after the quarantine with timed ticketing.

The time has come, since May 11, 2020, the shutdown has been loosened in almost every state. Shopping centers, amusement parks, zoos, but also gyms and restaurants can be visited. So the economy is starting up again and our lives are getting back to normal. However, there will still be limitations and access to shops and restaurants will be restricted to a certain number of people.

As part of the reopening, there will be new rules and you have to follow a hygienic routine. Distance will play a major role for all of us in order to prevent further infections. The number of visitors who are allowed to stay in one room at the same time will be limited to a certain number of visitors per square meter.

We, at egocentric Systems, strive with all of our innovations to develop functions with which you can optimize your daily processes and sell more tickets! This also applies to our integrated timed ticketing options. This gives you functions with which you can easily manage your available free slots.

Less queues – more sales.

Due to the remaining and necessary restrictions, we will have to work with some changes in the upcoming months. The implementation of the hygiene rules has already resulted in long lines in front of businesses. Your customers with annual cards or subscriptions have to wait at the door until a guest leaves. The waiting time will be too long for guests and there will be a negative impact on your business. Either way, the result is unhappy guests and lost revenue. We are looking for solutions to escape this hardship. So, we have recognized an opportunity in this, where many museums and exhibitions are already familiar with in order to sell their museum tickets.

 

With time tickets, our software enables you to sell defined time slots. So you can sell your guests defined time slots for special exhibitions, tours, lectures or other events. Furthermore, you can use this great function, just as well, to direct visitor flows. Our time tickets are a perfect ticketing tool to secure your sales. At the same time, you can respond to the necessary restrictions in the context of the Corona crisis. By booking time-controlled tickets through your online shop, you solve the problem of the large number of visitors. Use the time slots provided to ensure that your guests comply with the applicable distance rules and avoid long queues. Let your visitors simply select the time window for the respective day during online ticket sales and, thus, optimize visitor flows.

YOUR BENEFITS WITH TIMED TICKETING.

  • Easy setup of time slots, quick duplication for further opening days in advance or automatic setup via our program planner.
  • Management and planning of visitor flows through a specific exhibition or tour and avoidance of overcrowding, time slot management.
  • Protection against overbooking and prevention of overlapping time windows
  • Real time viewing, tracking and processing of your tickets.
  • Quick view of guest lists with the help of the Check-In Manager for each time period.

Our ticket shop software. Your style.

EXAMPLE VIEW OF A TICKETSHOP

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EVEN MORE FUNCTIONALITY!

As already mentioned, we at egocentric Systems are convinced that technology should help people. For this reason, we have been developing tools with which you can improve the experience of your customers. Booking time slots is only one way so our software can optimize sales at your box office. We can do much more. At the same time, you may use the integrated marketing functionalities to increase the number of visitors and to offer your guests a smooth event experience.


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Survive Corona Crisis. 10 things you can do as a promoter now.
Survive Corona Crisis. 10 things you can do as a promoter now. 2560 1707 egocentric Systems GmbH

Survive corona crisis. 10 things you can do as a promoter now.

Cultural and sports businesses are in a difficult and uncertain phase due to the corona crisis. It will be a great test for the entire industry as well as our society. After the federal and state governments adopted comprehensive measures, such as a ban on mass events, from March 16, 2020 to contain the corona virus, it became dark in the once very busy event venues. Without a doubt, it was a very necessary step, but what will come in the next months to theaters and opera houses, sports clubs, artists, freelancers, technicians and employees in the event sector can only be roughly guessed at the moment. However, the fact is, that we are all facing a very difficult time. The whole industry has no choice but to get creative so that the lights don’t go out in the end.

We support you! In this blog post you will find a selection of ideas on what you can do to make the most of your time and get through the Corona crisis in the best possible way.

Collect donations! #hold together

OFFERS THE POSSIBILITY TO DONATE YOUR REFUND.

As a result of the necessary cancellations, many organizers are faced with an high amount of refunds due, which will definitely cause major financial problems. Given that almost every venue depend on ticket revenues to survive, the public’s goodwill is vital to keeping the institutions alive. In times like these, cohesion and mutual support are often very important and have an immense importance. In this respect, broad support from ticket buyers is very likely. So don’t be shy and offer your ticket buyers to donate the ticket price to enable your event location to survive the Corona crisis.

OFFER A CONSIDERATION FOR DONATIONS.

Do not only collect donations, also offer your visitors an equivalent if they do not reclaim the ticket price they have already paid. These could be very different things and your creativity is certainly even greater than ours. So here are just a few suggestions: In return, offer an exclusive question and answer session with your director, your artists, the team or the management. Take the audience backstage, let them participate in exclusive “behind the scenes” sessions, offer them special house tours by your artists or exchange tickets for vouchers with special offers for the post-Corona crisis time.

SELL MEMBERSHIPS.

A good way to get an injection of money is to sell memberships. Through this you can give your audience the opportunity, e.g. to receive particularly popular premier tickets in advance or to get special discounts on tickets. In addition, in connection with membership, you can offer invitations to premieres or special events, or link a membership with a special communication channel, a certain number of bonus points, limited program booklets or other giveaways. Using these options will definitely result in a win-win situation for organizers and customers.

SELL MERCHANDISING ITEMS.

Use the many possibilities that merchandising articles offer and your audience will thank you with sales. Concentrate either on the sale of stocks or set up a special edition with the clearly stated purpose of supporting you during this difficult time of the Corona crisis. Good examples come from sports such as the campaign against COVID-19 from the Dynamo Dresden football club active in the 2nd Bundesliga Germany. Most organizers already have their own online shop and can quickly generate sales. For all others, egocentric Systems offers a ready-made solution that is ready within a short time and can be used for sales. If you are looking for suppliers for items available at short notice, our merchandising team will be happy to help. Just speak to us directly.

P.S.: Our partner egocentric Merchandising will be happy to assist you on the subject of fan article production. From A for autograph card, T for T-shirts to Z for zip bag, the product range offers everything your heart desires. Did you know that the team prints in Germany?

INTERACT WITH YOUR AUDIENCE.

Daily contact with other people is as normal for us as the daily commute to work. So it is not surprising for most of us that the lack of interaction with other people is one of the biggest problems. In addition, the focus of many people is shifting. That is why it is very important to be remembered. Find ways to take action with your audience. Offer interactive content! A number of options for this are online meetings, interactive quiz duels between your artists or employees and the audience, invent new screenplays online or create cool stories.

OFFER SHOWS AND PERFORMANCES ONLINE.

The show must go on! What has long been common for sporting events is now also coming to the cultural sector – the livestream. More and more organizers are broadcasting the latest news, house tours or recorded performances through your channels. This is a very good way to stay in touch with fans and other interested parties. Unfortunately, it is not yet possible to market live streams like regular events. But that will change. We are currently developing a way to stream events live and sell tickets. Beyond that, there are additional income opportunities after the theater reopens. Sold-out pieces find additional viewers or fans from far away online, but still have the opportunity to be there live. The Corona crisis can also pave new paths for your future.

OFFER GAME MANUScripts.

Even if your viewers don’t have the opportunity to watch a full play or production, they’re still interested in culture during this Corona crisis. Maybe they even have a lot more free time than in the normal hustle and bustle of everyday life. Offer your audience playback scripts and let them see your world a little more than usual. Of course, this applies not only to scripts, but also to screenplays, theater instructions and general books on the subject.

USE SOCIAL MEDIA.

Social networks are more present than ever before. Use your social media channels to connect artists and viewers. Shout out what your worries and fears are, what ideas you have and what opportunities there are for your audience to support you. At a time when social contacts are rare and only the focus is on the virtual world, social media is a good tool. Use your reach, but there are also great Facebook groups – like the coronavirus group in the UK theater industry – that provide hourly updates on situations and advice. It is more important than ever to make sure that people are not mentally isolated. Therefore, communicate and share in your life!

WORK ON YOUR TO DO LIST AND CREATE NEWSLETTER.

At the moment we all don’t know when things will return to normal. But every break requires a restart. It is therefore extremely important to be prepared for a new beginning. In the best case, use the time and maintain your customer database. Push through the long overdue check for contact duplicates or create the customer group selections that you have long wanted to work through. The planning of the next marketing campaign can now also be processed in peace. Stay in touch with your target group and regularly create newsletters, maybe for the next few months if there is time for it. Don’t forget to offer your customers the opportunity to subscribe to newsletters.

LOOK STRAIGHT AHEAD!

Despite the corona crisis – there is light at the end of the tunnel! Everything may look uncertain at the moment, but resilience will only keep the industry going. It is never too early to think about where the light can be found at the end of the tunnel. We all cannot prevent the event venues from being closed at the moment, but we can make the most of the time and are already thinking about restarting. Do tasks that you wanted to do for a long time, deal intensively with preparations for various tasks, e.g. the tender that you had wanted to do for a long time. Use the time to exchange information with other houses online and read into things that you have long wanted to know. Or just use the time to get to know the innovative white label ticketing software from egocentric Systems 😉

And that shouldn’t be enough in these times. We want #together and have created the best entry for you with the soliticket.de project to get through the crisis in the best possible way!

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Know your customers with the integrated CRM system of the Event Manager from egocentric Systems

CRM – Customer Relationship Management. More than just a database.
CRM – Customer Relationship Management. More than just a database. 2560 2214 egocentric Systems GmbH

THE TICKETING OF THE FUTURE
DEVELOPED IN DRESDEN.

The ticketing of the future is developing in Dresden. One of the important topics for modern and future-oriented ticketing is the topic of customer relationship management – in short, CRM. With this management tool from egocentric Systems you discover the uniqueness of your guests, fans and visitors.

YOUR CUSTOMER’S UNIQUENESS.

Every person is unique and therefore wants to be addressed individually. If you want to sustainably strengthen the relationship with your guests and increase your sales significantly, you should know your customers. You can make your business even more successful by returning visitors, selling higher ticket categories and subscription tickets or by means of merchandising articles and secure sales through food and drinks sold in advance.

Keywords such as “360 ° customer view“, “customer journey” or “CRM”, which come up again and again in this context, are at best only buzzwords in daily meetings without good expertise. We at egocentric Systems support you with our many years of experience in ticketing and event management to fill these terms with life and to drive your business forward.

We see CRM as much more than just a piece of software. For us, CRM is a philosophy that extends deeply into all areas along the customer journey. This is the only way to really get a comprehensive view of your visitors, to get to know their wishes and to use the respective potential even more.

If you want to promote higher ticketing sales, the sale of your merchandising articles and increase your catering turnover, then it is best to get to know our event manager better today. Our event manager has a new and improved CRM system. So you understand your customers down to the smallest detail.

A CRM MANAGER WITH MANY POSSIBILITIES.

With the CRM system from egocentric Systems you can see the total sales of your customers at a glance. You not only have the historical sales data and interests of your customers available, but all the information you need for successful marketing. Complete the respective customer profiles by storing several addresses and maintain two full contacts with individual email addresses per customer number. Collect all the information you need as an organizer from your guests in five additional, user-defined fields. Manage how you can get in touch with your customers. With the help of the integrated relationship management, you can easily connect customer accounts. With this function you can e.g. Represent relationship relationships and use the rating system to categorize customers quickly and easily according to your respective criteria.

Thanks to Event Manager, you know everything about your customers and can quickly and easily make selections, set up automatic mailings, start campaigns or integrate external tools such as Mailchimp.

Privacy. The be-all and end-all of today’s CRM systems.

CRM is an integral part of marketing and customer service, so data protection must not be neglected. Data protection is a top priority for us too. Marketing consent, double opt-in procedures and compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are a matter of course.

If you want to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of your measures and significantly improve the product experience of your guests, fans and members, then you should work with the event manager from egocentric Systems. We promise you will be satisfied with the result: enthusiastic guests, even more loyal fans and significantly higher sales in ticketing, merchandising and F&B.

Turn your guests into fans!

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How the event manager of egocentric Systems can make life easier for organizers.
How the event manager of egocentric Systems can make life easier for organizers. 1920 1080 egocentric Systems GmbH

The event manager of egocentric Systems is one of the most advanced ticket management platforms in the industry. The software from egocentric Systems not only already has a variety of important functions for an organizer, egocentric Systems is constantly developing new features together with its partners, which will help you as an organizer to meet the growing to meet the requirements of the industry.

Our Dresden-based team has more than 23 years of experience in ticketing business, not just on the software developer’s website. The years of experience are also based on many exciting years on the part of the organizer. We use this knowledge to focus on your ego and to develop software that fits exactly to your needs.

Below are just some of the improvements egocentric Systems has made to its system in recent weeks and months. For a more detailed explanation or demonstration, please contact your egocentric Systems representative at: info@egocentric-systems.de

Server Upgrade: To meet the growing demands and provide the best possible performance for your ticket buyers, an upgrade to a server with larger bandwidth capacity has recently taken place. This has led to a noticeable increase in the speed of our event manager.
Custom templates: Thermal, laser, and e-tickets can now be customized using HTML formatting. This allows all organizers to overwrite the default template, change the font size, and customize the layout. A preview function shows what the layout will look like before the tickets are printed. This function can be found under “Setup” by clicking on “Events” and then on “Settings”.

Mini-Calendar: Our ticket platform now has a calendar widget that can be viewed on the organizer’s websites. This mini-calendar can be embedded in any page. When you click on a date with an event, the customer is redirected to a ticket page that displays only the events of that particular day. You can find this function under “Setup” by clicking on “White Label” and then on “Widgets”.

Printable seat plans: Last but not least, our developers have completed a frequently requested feature that allows customers to print out their seating plans. The experience gained from the first weeks of use clearly shows how much this feature supports the design and furnishing of hall plans. We are very happy if we can help you with this.

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5 types of subscriptions you should use for your event series.
5 types of subscriptions you should use for your event series. 1620 1080 egocentric Systems GmbH

Over the years, the popularity of subscription services has also increased sharply in the event sector. If years ago it was only the season tickets of my favourite club, this type of ticket has changed due to the convenience of ticket buyers, the cheaper price structures, preferential ticket availability especially at often sold-out venues and immediate accessibility at other events.
Subscriptions have changed the traditional ticket purchase to benefit both the promoter and the customer. From this, organizers can derive potential profit gains and an increase in customer loyalty based on the regular and predictable revenues or contributions in the company.
Customers have available at discounted prices, tickets guaranteed.

There are currently five types of subscriptions in the egocentric Systems event manager. However, our international product management and development team, in cooperation with our customers, is constantly developing new forms that will help you achieve higher ticket revenues.
Depending on the industry, each subscription depends on the different requirements.
In the following you will learn more about the possibilities of mapping a subscription to the egocentric Systems Event Manager and how it can benefit you.

Standard subscriptions

The default subscription is the simplest form of subscription and is explicitly valid for a certain period of time, e.g. referred to as the season. Ticket managers can set up a standard subscription by event series or date, depending on their needs. You can discount these tickets if required or as a free ticket, e.g. label for sponsors. If the guest wants to continue the subscription, an auto-renewal is available to extend the benefits for as long as the ticket manager wants.
Standard subscriptions are mainly used in the sports & museums.

Subscription for regular guests

This type of subscription is designed so that ticket buyers have a fixed seat throughout the season. Unlike the standard subscription, customers choose their seats online after purchasing the subscription for this series of events and do not have to go to the box office to choose their seats. With the exception of VIP seats, your guests can flexibly decide where they want to sit with this subscription and have booked their fixed seat for each event in the event series.
Your guest will receive his tickets after choosing his seat, or you can simply print them out online.

Subscription for regular guests is mainly used in the areas of culture & sport.

Theatre subscriptions

Theatre subscriptions, as the name suggests, are tailored to theatres, provided they use allocated seats for their events. Ticket buyers can purchase this subscription in advance, like the aforementioned regular guest subscription, to secure their seats for an entire game series. The only difference is that the promoter allocates seats based on a list of preferences and loyalty within the organization, based on a list of preferences stated by the customers, and the seat is not chosen by the customer himself.

Theatre subscriptions are mainly used in the cultural sector by theatres, theatres, but also in opera houses and cabaret.

Choose a show subscription

By selecting a show subscription, your customers can choose which shows they want to participate in from a series of events. However, the organiser has the option of deciding which shows the guest has to choose from and how many customers he wants to offer. Show organisers also have the opportunity to offer a discount, e.g. depends on the popularity of the show or the number of events a customer buys. This is an easy way to apply dynamic pricing to its ticket sales.
Show subscriptions are used at a variety of events. For example, they are used by theatres, gala shows, performing arts, comedy clubs and museums, but are also used in the cultural sector.

Flex Pass Subscriptions

Flex Pass subscriptions allow ticket buyers to select multiple shows simultaneously or within a valid period. Organizers have the possibility to determine which demonstrations they want to offer their customers. Although customers have the freedom to choose their own event, organizers can restrict the choice of certain options, e.g. E.g. by event, ticket category, date, ticket types and much more. This form of ticket subscription is a great way to reward customers who come to your events more than once or twice. You could promote the whole thing, in which you e.g. Offer “Save 20% on tickets if you come to at least 3 events this year.”
The ticket buyer then flexibly selects the show and the date and can print the ticket at home or enter as a mobile ticket with his mobile phone.

Flex subscriptions are also used at a variety of events and are used by theatres, gala shows, performing arts, comedy clubs and museums, but also in the cultural sector.

As i said, subscriptions are very popular due to ease of use, cheaper pricing structures and easier ticket availability. As specialists in the ticketing industry, we would like to help you choose the best subscription package for your event. We have a variety of options for your subscription and are convinced to offer the right one for both your organization and your customers. It is independent of which industry you are working in, we recommend you to use the many possibilities of egocentric Systems to increase the marketing of your event, your profit and last but not least the customer loyalty!

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5 ticketing functions for a successful museum.
5 ticketing functions for a successful museum. 1920 600 egocentric Systems GmbH

Each museum creates a unique experience, has different requirements and, above all, very specific framework conditions. Ticketing, one of the many framework conditions, is an essential part of most museums. Within ticketing, museums use various features to ensure that everything runs smoothly and that visitors have a great experience. Do you want to know what features could help your museum? Through our cooperation with museums, we as specialists in the ticketing industry have the opportunity to coordinate precisely and understand what is important for this industry. In our experience, here are the five most sought-after features that we believe will help your museum succeed.

Automatic programming

If you have the same program every day, week, or month, it can be tedious to create the program manually over and over again. With an automatic scheduler, you can choose to create your exhibitions and events at a specific time and day. This makes it easier to create permanent exhibitions and other events so you can focus on other tasks.

Museum memberships

Memberships give your customers the opportunity to choose how much they feel connected to the museum. You can sell your customers a membership of 1 month, 3 months, 6 months or 1 year. Your visitors can then choose how many and which events they want to attend

You can add a membership to egocentric Systems by selecting it from the subscription type. Name the membership and add an assigned number of tickets. Select the duration and whether to apply the tickets per event or event date. If you want to discount your membership, you can also add this option.

Time-Slot Ticketing

Timed ticketing allows organizers to add tickets to specific categories assigned to specific time windows. This helps to regulate the flow of visitors, reduce long queues and overcrowding. In this way, you can not only improve the visitor experience, but also through timed ticketing you can control your visitor flows more efficiently. For example, if you have an exhibition with a limited number of participants in your museum, the exhibition will be unlocked by a limited ticket with the purchase of a main ticket.

Simply create a price list that meets the requirements of your home. These lists can be customized by price, range, and ticket type. Create multiple price lists and map them to the exhibitions for which you want to use timed ticketing.

The TimeD Ticketing Time Window Tool lets you view, track, and edit ticket availability in real time. When a time window is sold out, customers are notified during the selection process. This is used to prevent oversupply of your events.

Last but not least, our check-in manager allows you to see who is attending the event at a given time and check in by simply tapping a button on each person’s name.

Ticket add-ons

Offer a ticket add-on to customers who buy tickets to your museum to make the event even more attractive! Depending on the type of event, you have the opportunity to sell what you want by purchasing the main ticket. For example, would you like to sell an audio guide for a special exhibition? There are endless possibilities for you to sell in addition to your tickets!

To take advantage of this functionality, select an exhibition in egocentric Systems that you have created. Edit the issue by checking the box for the ticket add-on and naming the add-on that you want to sell during checkout. This feature increases your revenue and expands the range of products for a great visitor experience.

Fundraisers

Donors are an important group for museums, as they contribute to the overall success and financial security of museums. It is important that you maintain your relationships through automated contact and donation management. Automated communication helps to maintain the relationship between you and your donors intensively. In this way, you can also show your donors how much you appreciate their help. With fundraising campaigns, you can encourage your ticket buyers to donate for a specific purpose or area within your organization. For higher conversions, you can use egocentric Systems to attach a campaign to your events and donate and buy a ticket at the same time.

Advertising

Advertising can be an eye-catcher, especially if it is placed on your customer’s tickets. By advertising on your tickets, you have the opportunity to present your upcoming events, support local projects and highlight other information to inform the participants of your exhibitions. You can also sell sponsor packages to your event partners and view their ads on your tickets to thank them for their commitment.

Finding answers to the daily challenges of ticketing is facilitated by the integrated museum ticketing features of egocentric Systems. Each organization works differently, but can benefit from a number of features that help any museum succeed. Many of our museum customers use these features to reduce administrative overhead, increase revenue, and create a unique visitor experience. For us, it is important to provide our customers with a museum card software that allows them to use various unique functions that they can customize and tailor to their needs. With egocentric Systems, we have simplified the management of your tickets, donors, events and memberships for museums.

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