Use cases

The difference between sectors is rarely in the ticket sale itself and almost always in what has to happen around it. A museum does not sell an evening but a time slot: visitors pick a day and a window, and you decide how many people can come in per block. An ice rink and a guided tour work exactly the same way.

A theatre, a music venue or a dance school with an end-of-year show needs the opposite: a hall with numbered seats, where the visitor picks their own place on a floor plan you have drawn. Rows, tables and wheelchair spaces are set separately. For a choir performing in a church once a year, that is the difference between keeping a list and simply selling.

Festivals, clubs and trade shows run into other things: multi-day tickets, a waiting room for a sale that peaks the moment it opens, and fast scanning at the door without a queue forming. Associations mostly want it to stay simple, with no subscription attached.

What stays the same in all twelve cases: your own ticket shop in your own house style, iDEAL and the other common payment methods, a rate of 0.32 euro per sold ticket, and no service fees appearing for your visitor in the final step. Below is what each sector involves.