Automated e-ticketing for music events
once last spring my friend and colleague Alexander llxff we are going to organize a concert in Kazan one of the famous metal group. Well Pat your nerves and disillusioned with the organizational business, with grief in half he still had.
Had a lot of problems, and the tedious negotiations with those who are in any way associated with the concerts. At every step we had to collect the contacts of the right people and find at least some information about the clubs, the lessees of equipment, locations of ticket sales.
And so was born the desire to simplify the whole thing.
Since the most difficult problem was the distribution of tickets to the concert, we decided to start with her.
We have created a Orap – a platform for organizers of music events, which enable easy and fast to sell tickets. The system allows you to create event descriptions and put them into a poster. When you check in as the organizer, you can sell e-tickets.
To validate tickets at the entrance you can use our app on Android.
The app reads the QR code on the ticket and shows the validation status of a ticket when he purchased, cost and other details. If the ticket is left, the organizer learns about it too, as you try to pass on the ticket again.
The service is written in PHP 5.4 and MySQL(Doctrine). Storage cache, we use MongoDB. And as the Twig templating engine is used. As a search engine used by Sphinx.
The service itself lives only on the Commission of the cost of tickets to 10%. More we certainly do not take money and not going to take. In the 10% borne all costs associated with making payments. The Commission we charge the organizer, so the ticket cost 100 rubles, the same cost the buyer.
The organiser adds event website and poster. Then, enter information about the tickets and their numbers. Some of the design elements on the event page can be changed independently using the constructor.
This is enough for the event appeared in the common poster, but not enough to sell. We care about the buyers of our tickets, so the event can only be legal entities and individual entrepreneurs who have concluded a contract with us and have listed us as an advance payment of 10 rubles to the account, so we can verify the good intentions of the author :)
the Buyer on the event page select the type and the number of tickets indicates the e-mail and your phone number. After we transported him to the ROBOKASSA.
After payment, a ticket will be generated and sent to your email. Also, the buyer will immediately return to the page where we show all bought their tickets. You can print them directly from your browser.
Though, to print out the ticket is not even necessary – you can just show a QR code on the screen of your mobile phone.
The tickets are designed to print them conveniently to turn and to place the folds do not fall on the most important data of the ticket.
The representative of the organizer must stand on the entrance with the phone based on Android, and installed our application.
In each scan ticket, the application can give three answers:
the
We specifically derive information about the ticket and the date of purchase, in the event of misunderstandings or steal a ticket it resolve to the organizer to decide on the passage of the viewer. For example, if the ticket is already gone – organizer may put the viewer if he can prove that the ticket he bought. And can and not to let it on the conscience of the organizer.
We list the money for the sold tickets to the organizer to the account within 2 business days. If the organizer already exists a business relationship, we can transfer the money on request of the organizer at any time.
We collect information about the users wishes, visits and visitors. Data about the time of passage to the event returned by an application server system. All statistics are available to the organizer at any time.
Since beginning work on the project, it was attended by 3 people: a designer and two programmers. Because we all have work, had to work in the evenings and sometimes at weekends. After a while we leave the designer and successfully served in the Studio Lebedev.
Almost a year ago was just a big number. Looking back we see that it is not implemented even half of them. To focus on your core helped us in July 2011 on working weekends for startups (Harvest) the experts of this event.
Special problems have not arisen, except a little sludge from the first time you work with ROBOKASSA (as it turned out, a test server and a work Desk they work differently).
the
In conclusion, I would like to thank Microsoft for their startup support programme BizPark, Just for prompt assistance in solving problems, as well as all of our friends and acquaintances who provided invaluable support for our ideas. ;)
Link to OLAP
Article based on information from habrahabr.ru
Had a lot of problems, and the tedious negotiations with those who are in any way associated with the concerts. At every step we had to collect the contacts of the right people and find at least some information about the clubs, the lessees of equipment, locations of ticket sales.
And so was born the desire to simplify the whole thing.
Since the most difficult problem was the distribution of tickets to the concert, we decided to start with her.
We have created a Orap – a platform for organizers of music events, which enable easy and fast to sell tickets. The system allows you to create event descriptions and put them into a poster. When you check in as the organizer, you can sell e-tickets.
To validate tickets at the entrance you can use our app on Android.
The app reads the QR code on the ticket and shows the validation status of a ticket when he purchased, cost and other details. If the ticket is left, the organizer learns about it too, as you try to pass on the ticket again.
The service is written in PHP 5.4 and MySQL(Doctrine). Storage cache, we use MongoDB. And as the Twig templating engine is used. As a search engine used by Sphinx.
The service itself lives only on the Commission of the cost of tickets to 10%. More we certainly do not take money and not going to take. In the 10% borne all costs associated with making payments. The Commission we charge the organizer, so the ticket cost 100 rubles, the same cost the buyer.
How is selling on the part of the Organizer
The organiser adds event website and poster. Then, enter information about the tickets and their numbers. Some of the design elements on the event page can be changed independently using the constructor.
This is enough for the event appeared in the common poster, but not enough to sell. We care about the buyers of our tickets, so the event can only be legal entities and individual entrepreneurs who have concluded a contract with us and have listed us as an advance payment of 10 rubles to the account, so we can verify the good intentions of the author :)
How to purchase
the Buyer on the event page select the type and the number of tickets indicates the e-mail and your phone number. After we transported him to the ROBOKASSA.After payment, a ticket will be generated and sent to your email. Also, the buyer will immediately return to the page where we show all bought their tickets. You can print them directly from your browser.
Though, to print out the ticket is not even necessary – you can just show a QR code on the screen of your mobile phone.
The tickets are designed to print them conveniently to turn and to place the folds do not fall on the most important data of the ticket.
How does the ticket check
The representative of the organizer must stand on the entrance with the phone based on Android, and installed our application.
In each scan ticket, the application can give three answers:
the
-
the
- Ticket normal;
the ticket is already gone;
no Such ticket exists.
We specifically derive information about the ticket and the date of purchase, in the event of misunderstandings or steal a ticket it resolve to the organizer to decide on the passage of the viewer. For example, if the ticket is already gone – organizer may put the viewer if he can prove that the ticket he bought. And can and not to let it on the conscience of the organizer.
After the event
We list the money for the sold tickets to the organizer to the account within 2 business days. If the organizer already exists a business relationship, we can transfer the money on request of the organizer at any time.We collect information about the users wishes, visits and visitors. Data about the time of passage to the event returned by an application server system. All statistics are available to the organizer at any time.
Problem
Since beginning work on the project, it was attended by 3 people: a designer and two programmers. Because we all have work, had to work in the evenings and sometimes at weekends. After a while we leave the designer and successfully served in the Studio Lebedev.
Almost a year ago was just a big number. Looking back we see that it is not implemented even half of them. To focus on your core helped us in July 2011 on working weekends for startups (Harvest) the experts of this event.
Special problems have not arisen, except a little sludge from the first time you work with ROBOKASSA (as it turned out, a test server and a work Desk they work differently).
plans
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the
- Automated refunds. While the ticket can be returned only by contacting customer feedback on the website; the
- Seating plan, buy tickets to a seated event; the
- create a client application to easily manage your tickets, search events and even faster ticketing; the
- Selling cards in metro, with the possibility of replenishment. And also think about working with NFC chips the
- And a lot of other interesting ideas.
In conclusion, I would like to thank Microsoft for their startup support programme BizPark, Just for prompt assistance in solving problems, as well as all of our friends and acquaintances who provided invaluable support for our ideas. ;)
Link to OLAP
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