--- title: "Festival Ticketing and Event Management Software" description: "Sell day and weekend tickets, camping and instalments, fill your on-sale through your fans, then book acts, fill shifts and run every stage from one dashboard." canonical: "https://www.ticketfairy.com/solutions/festivals" --- # Festival Ticketing and Event Management Software 1. [Solutions](https://www.ticketfairy.com/solutions) 2. By event type 3. Festivals # Sell Out Your Festival and Run Every Stage on Time Sell day tickets, weekend tickets, camping and [payment plans](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-ticketing/event-payment-plans) on one event page, and let your buyers bring their friends for a share of their ticket back. The same event then carries your line-up, advances, shifts, passes, traders and run of show, so your ticketing team and your production team work from the same facts. Fai drafts the admin across all of it, and you approve each change. [Get started free](https://manage.ticketfairy.com/registration) [Book a demo](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-ticketing/book-a-demo) - Every day, weekend and camping pitch sold from one page - An on-sale your fans help you fill - Acts, crew, traders and stages ready for the gates ![Ticket Fairy Compared with last time for a summer festival, with tickets sold ahead of last year and the sales and arrivals charts](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-event-comparison--statistics.png) ## Sell Every Day, Weekend and Camping Pitch From One Page Start from the multi-day festival template, which asks for your dates and stages and lays out day and weekend tickets for you to price. Group them into a category for each day and one for the weekend, and put every price release inside, so fans compare the days first and the price second. Camping, parking and the shuttle sell as add-ons in the same checkout, offered only with the tickets they belong to. A fan who cannot pay for a weekend ticket today pays a deposit and the rest in instalments from the same card. - **Day and weekend categories**: each release opens by itself as the one before sells out - **Camping and parking add-ons**: offered with the ticket types they belong to - **Payment plans**: a deposit at checkout and the rest weekly or monthly [Ticket types & pricing](https://www.ticketfairy.com/features/ticket-types-and-pricing) [Add-ons & upsells](https://www.ticketfairy.com/features/add-ons-and-upsells) [Payments & payouts](https://www.ticketfairy.com/features/payments-and-payouts) ![Ticket Fairy add-on form filled in for a weekend camping pitch](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-add-ons--camping.png) ## Fill Your On-Sale With Your Own Fans Every buyer gets a personal referral link and earns back part of their ticket price, or all of it, as their friends buy through it. Events sell 20% more tickets on average with Ticket Fairy referrals. Take registrations from the day you announce, open a presale for registered fans before the public on-sale, and put prizes such as a [VIP upgrade](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-ticketing/merchandise-integration-ticketing) on the event for the fans who bring the most friends. Connect Meta and every other network you advertise on once for your brand, and give each post, partner and poster its own tracking link to see what each one sold. - **Referral rewards**: buyers earn back their ticket price when friends buy - **Prizes and leaderboards**: upgrades, merch and experiences for your biggest fans - **Pre-registration presale**: registered fans buy before the public on-sale - **Tracking links and pixels**: the tickets every ad, post and partner sold [Referral rewards](https://www.ticketfairy.com/features/referral-marketing) [Private sales & presales](https://www.ticketfairy.com/features/private-sales-and-presales) [Advertising & tracking](https://www.ticketfairy.com/features/advertising-and-tracking) ![Ticket Fairy Reward Targets with three tiers, the sales needed and the share of the ticket price each one returns](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-referral-engine--reward-targets.png) ## Open a High-Demand On-Sale and Keep Tickets With Real Fans Schedule the event page to go public on the minute your announcement promised, and let each release open on its own date. Limit how many tickets one order and one customer account can hold, so the weekend tickets spread across more of your fans. Put a name on every ticket and keep resale on your own event page at face value, where the next fan on your [waiting list](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-ticketing/event-waiting-list) gets the first chance to buy. Your door team then scans the new holder's ticket and the old code no longer gets in. - **Scheduled on-sale**: your page goes public on the minute you announced - **Purchase limits and names**: per order, per account and on every ticket - **Face-value resale and waiting list**: returned tickets offered to the next fan in line [Orders, refunds & resale](https://www.ticketfairy.com/features/orders-refunds-and-resale) [Checkout](https://www.ticketfairy.com/features/checkout) ![Ticket Fairy Anti-Scalping/Fraud Settings card with names required and ticket resale turned on](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-resale--anti-scalping-card.png) ## Get a Dashboard That Arranges Itself Around Your Festival Tick Festival as your event type, and your event shows the sections a festival runs on, grouped in the order a festival runs. Programme holds Artists, Applications, Schedule, Stages and Public line-up. Money and partners holds Budget, Contracts, Sponsors, Traders, Outside teams and Licences and certificates. Advance holds Advancing, Travel, Accommodation, Hire and shopping, Production, Kit and equipment, Site map and Accessibility, and Team holds Crew, Volunteers, Shifts, Accreditation, Press and Meals. Show day brings Run of show, Day sheets, Now and next, Desks, Arrivals and parking, Incidents, Risks and Lost property, and After the show brings Feedback. Tell Fai what you want help with, such as Line-up and advancing, Staff and volunteers or Food, drink and market traders, and your list shows the sections each one needs, with the group for where your festival is now open first. - **Event type**: ticking Festival decides which sections show and their names - **Start with Fai**: choose what Fai helps with and your list follows - **Today page**: the countdown to gates, your tasks and what changed [Planning](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-operating-system/planning) [Event Operating System](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-operating-system) ![Ticket Fairy event type dialog with a tick box for each kind of event and Festival ticked](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-event-today--event-type.png) ## Book, Advance and Run Every Stage on Time Send each act's agent or tour manager one advance link for travel, hotel, technical and guest list details, and Fai fills in answers from their emails and tour books for you to accept. Running-order checks catch the same act on two stages, a flight that lands after soundcheck and a set that runs past curfew, each with a fix you apply in one tap. Announce your line-up in waves, then call each stage from Now and next on the day, with every team working from its own day sheet. Anyone on your team can report an incident from their phone, and your control room runs the site from one live log, with live counts for each zone from the scans at your gates. - **Advance links**: the act's team fills in their own details, no account needed - **Running-order checks**: clashes, changeovers and curfew caught early - **Now and next**: how late each stage is running, live [Artists & line-up](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-operating-system/artists-and-line-up) [Show day](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-operating-system/show-day) [Control & safety](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-operating-system/event-control-and-safety) ![Ticket Fairy Now and next for a festival with the Main Stage running late and the next acts on each stage](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-event-running-order--running-late.png) ## Have Your Crew, Volunteers and Traders Ready Before the Gates Open Plan shifts by team and hour, and Fai lists who fits each open place from the crew and volunteers who work your events. Issue every pass with its zones, days and meals from your shifts, advances, traders and press list, and hand them out at your desk. Traders apply on your own page, pay their invoice and book a load-in time, and you drag each one onto a pitch on your site map. Place every camping and campervan plot on your site plan and check campers in at the campsite from a desk link. At the public gates, your door team scans tickets on their own phones and sees which wristband to hand over, including the campsite band for everyone who bought camping. - **Shifts and offers**: the first person to accept takes the place - **Accreditation**: zones, days and meals on every pass - **Traders and pitches**: applications, invoices and a place on your site map - **Wristbands by ticket type**: the right band shown as each ticket scans [Crew & volunteers](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-operating-system/crew-and-volunteers) [Accreditation](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-operating-system/accreditation) [Traders & markets](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-operating-system/traders-and-markets) ![Ticket Fairy rota for a festival Saturday with places filled and cover by team and hour](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-event-staffing--rota.png) [Get Started for Free](https://manage.ticketfairy.com/registration) [Book Demo Call](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-ticketing/book-a-demo) **Get this page as a PDF** Read it later or share it with your team. We email you a link to the PDF. What to put in your PDF Enter your email We will email you this deck. We may also email you now and then about Ticket Fairy features that can help your events. You can unsubscribe at any time with one click. ## Everything You Need to Sell and Run Your Festival - [Ticket types & pricing Ticket types with their own price, allocation, limits and door times, release tiers that open by themselves, categories for day and weekend tickets and tickets held back for guests. Learn more](https://www.ticketfairy.com/features/ticket-types-and-pricing) - [Add-ons & upsells Parking, camping, merchandise and upgrades sold with the ticket, VIP tables booked with a deposit and passes that cover several of your events. Learn more](https://www.ticketfairy.com/features/add-ons-and-upsells) - [Referral rewards Buyers earn back their ticket price when friends buy through their link, fans chase prizes you choose, and you see what every referral brought in. Learn more](https://www.ticketfairy.com/features/referral-marketing) - [Orders, refunds & resale Find and fix any order, refund buyers or let them refund themselves, keep resale at face value with a waiting list, and postpone or cancel an event cleanly. Learn more](https://www.ticketfairy.com/features/orders-refunds-and-resale) - [Check-in & box office Your door team scans tickets on their own phones, every ticket type gets its own entry rules and wristband, walk-ups buy at the door and you see who has arrived. Learn more](https://www.ticketfairy.com/features/check-in-and-box-office) - [Artists & line-up Every act advanced within its allowances, running-order clashes caught early and a line-up fans can add to their calendar. Learn more](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-operating-system/artists-and-line-up) - [Crew & volunteers Every shift filled with offers to the people who fit, one record of your crew across events, and volunteers recruited, looked after and rewarded. Learn more](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-operating-system/crew-and-volunteers) - [Accreditation The right pass for everyone who works your event, handed out at your desk and checked at your staff gates. Learn more](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-operating-system/accreditation) - [Show day Every team briefed, every incident handled fast and the right people told, with Now and next for each stage. Learn more](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-operating-system/show-day) - [Traders & markets The right mix of traders, their paperwork and payments in before load-in, every pitch on your map and your share of sales invoiced. Learn more](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-operating-system/traders-and-markets) - [Site & logistics Your site mapped, hire lists worked out from riders, deliveries booked into arrival times and kit handed out and back. Learn more](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-operating-system/site-and-logistics) - [Control & safety One live control log for your whole site, crowd levels in every zone, an emergency plan ready for every warning, and medical care, barriers and permits on track. Learn more](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-operating-system/event-control-and-safety) - [Site services Service rounds done on time, runners and carts on call, your campsite planned and checked in, and a sustainability report to share. Learn more](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-operating-system/site-services-and-sustainability) - [Front of house A box office that balances, ages checked once, VIP guests looked after, merch stocked, fans guided through their day and cashless payments on every wristband. Learn more](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-operating-system/front-of-house) [More about ticketing for Festivals](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-ticketing/festival-ticketing-software) ## Run Your Festival Step by Step - [Run ticketing for a music festival](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/run-a-music-festival) - [Set up ticketing for a multi-day festival](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/sell-a-multi-day-festival) - [How do you set up a payment plan so buyers pay for tickets in instalments?](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/let-buyers-pay-for-tickets-in-instalments) - [Sell parking, camping and merchandise with your tickets](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/sell-add-ons-with-your-tickets) - [How do you keep a high-demand on-sale running smoothly?](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/keep-a-high-demand-on-sale-running-smoothly) - [Reward buyers who bring friends to your event](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/reward-buyers-for-referrals) - [Run your event from its Today page](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/run-your-event-from-its-today-page) - [Advance your performers before the show](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/advance-your-performers-before-the-show) - [Offer open shifts on your event rota to crew and volunteers](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/offer-open-shifts-to-your-crew-and-volunteers) - [Issue accreditation passes for your event](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/issue-accreditation-passes-for-your-event) - [Assign wristbands to each ticket type](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/issue-wristbands-by-ticket-type) ## Questions About Ticket Fairy for Festivals ### Festivals #### Can I sell day tickets and weekend tickets on the same event? Yes. Run the festival as one event with a ticket category for each day and one for the full weekend. Each day ticket can have its own doors-open and last-entry times, and a weekend ticket can let its holder in once a day. #### Which payments can fans spread out with a payment plan? Payment plans run on card payments in the currencies that support them. You choose the deposit, the number of payments and when the last one is due. If a buyer stops paying, the order is cancelled after the grace period you set and its tickets go back on sale. #### How do I get the festival sections in my dashboard? The sections for artists, shifts, passes, traders and show day are part of the Event Operating System, and they appear when you tick Festival as your event type. Book a demo, and we set up your first festival with your team. Owners and admins set the event type, and you can change it at any time. #### Does every section show from the first day? Until your team finishes or skips Start with Fai, every section shows. After that, your list shows the sections for what you asked Fai to help with, and any section that already has something in it. Add or pin any other section under More sections. #### Can everyone on my team see the budget and contracts? No. Budget and Contracts show only to people whose role can see your event's finances. Door staff get the scanning app and nothing in your dashboard. #### Does the ticket scanning app work without a signal? The Entry Fairy app needs an internet connection to scan tickets, so check the connection at each gate before you open. The accreditation desk and the crew meal desk work without a connection and send what was done when it is back. #### Does Fai change anything without asking? No. Fai drafts tasks, emails, advances and fixes, and a member of your team approves, changes or turns down each one before anything is saved or sent. ## Solutions for the Rest of Your Team - [Lead a Festival That Sells Out, Stays on Budget and Grows Each Year See your festival's sales and costs against last year, give every head of department the dashboard their role needs, fund deposits early and plan next year from fan feedback. Festival directors](https://www.ticketfairy.com/solutions/festival-directors) - [Fill Every Tasting Session and Every Pitch Sell tasting sessions with glasses and tokens, check ages at the gate, bring in the right traders with their paperwork and invoice your share of their sales. Food & drink festivals](https://www.ticketfairy.com/solutions/food-and-drink-festivals) - [Get Every Shift Covered, Every Gate Ready and Every Crowd Safe Fill every shift, book every delivery, issue every pass and run show day from a live control log, with your dashboard arranged for festivals, conferences, conventions or sports events. Operations managers](https://www.ticketfairy.com/solutions/operations-managers) - [Fill Every Shift and Look After Everyone Who Works Your Event Recruit volunteers, fill every shift with offers to the people who fit, get passes, meals and kit ready, keep teams briefed on the day, approve hours and reward volunteers. 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