Selling Access to Premium Events
Introduction
This article tells how you can monetize video events like sports matches, concerts, or webinars.
There are two ways to monetize the event and sell access:
- Event Tickets: The end user can buy one or more ticket(s) to the single event without registration to the system
- Event packages: The end user registers to the Suite account and purchases access to the Event by buying a premium event package
Please notice that an Icareus Suite customer must have a payment gateway/service providers' merchant account before they can sell tickets.
Event Tickets
When using tickets with premium events, the end-user can buy one or more ticket(s) to the single event without registration to the system.
A. End-user path
The end-user's path is as follows:
1. End-user goes to event page (URL)
On the event page they can either:
- Insert ticket number to access the content
- Buy ticket.
The user needs to select "Buy ticket to the event".
2. Buying the ticket(s)
The end-user is taken to ticket selection page
They can select 1 to N tickets to purchase and then click "Order" to proceed.
3. Give email and select payment method
In the next phase the end user needs to give the email address where the tickets will be sent. Optionally, they can register or login to their account.
Secondly, the end-user needs to select their payment option (in the example account PayTrail or Bambora).
4. Payment
After selecting the payment option, the end-user is taken to the payment gateway's payment page, where they will make the payment.
When selecting e.g. Visa payment, they'll go to Visa credit card payment screen:
5. Confirmation
After succesful payment, the end-user is returned back to Icareus's system event page, showing confirmation.
From the "Back to homepage" link, the end-user is taken back to the event page.
6. Tickets
The end-user will then receive the tickets to the email address they gave:
(In this example the user purchased 3 tickets)
7. Consuming the tickets
End user can then insert the ticket number to the event page:
And then click "Watch" to access the event.
B. Administration and configuration of premium event access
Tickets are a part of the Event's Access Control feature and can be configured when creating the event, by going to the Info tab and selecting from "Access Control" the Ticket option:
After that, additional fields will appear:
The fields are:
Field | Type | Comments |
Price | € [Currency used] | Fill in the wanted price |
Tax | % | Fill in tax percentage used |
Validity | Days | Write the amount of days that ticket is valid |
Maximum quantity | Number | Maximum amount of tickets allowed to purchase at a time |
After inserting the values to the fields, click "save" and the ticket purchase is configured!
To further edit the ticket purchase descriptions or change some other purchase parameters; Monetisation -> Packages -> Event Tickets, where the ticket event is created automatically
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