Tessera: Agile Ticketing for Independent Music Venues

Tessera ticketing gives scrappy independent music venues the fast, flexible ticketing solutions that give you command of your operations, your cash flow and your patron’s experience.

 

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Tessera Lets You

  • Pay NO per ticket fees
  • Use your own payment gateway
  • Easily integrate with WordPress website (new site or pre-existing)
  • Configure fully customizable ticket types
  • Reserve blocks of tickets for promoters and groups
  • Define default ticket types to save time setting up new shows
  • Password-protect ticket for pre-sales and VIP sales
  • Check in guests on mobile devices with real-time guest list (ticket scanning available)
  • Seating charts available
  • POS: sell tickets and merchandise on a mobile device
  • Enable customers to save their billing information and preferences
  • Enable 1-click checkout
  • QR code scanning

As an independent venue manager you’re a scrapper. 

You’ve got to juggle:

  • Unpredictable business conditions (pandemics, anyone?)
  • Sudden shifts in regulations and seating/occupancy/scheduling/ticketing strategies
  • Inflexible long-term contracts with vendors
  • Unpredictable cash flow
  • Limited, overworked staff
  • A hyper-competitive marketplace 
  • Providing responsive customer service to demanding fans

You’re dedicated to the music and artists you present. To the fans you serve. And to preserving your venue’s  independence. And that takes all the grit, determination, hustle and scrappiness you can muster to keep the the music flowing, the fans happy and the lights on.

You need the right tools to keep you in the game. To keep you ahead of the game. 

Meet Tessera Ticketing

The Tessera Difference

Welcome to Tessera, a new ticketing platform for independent venues that are seeking to reduce exorbitant per-ticket fees that are the standard in the industry, do more with less and provide a great ticketing experience to their patrons.

Tessera offers a new way, and many independent venues have found it to be a great alternative to traditional ticketing vendors. How are we different?

You keep your ticket fees.   We’re a hosted, subscription-based ticketing platform. That means – unlike traditional ticketing vendors – we don’t lock you into a contract and extract a percentage of your sales — or even a per ticket fee. We simply charge a fair, flat, yearly subscription that adds up to far less than the fees you’re now paying. Any ticket or service fees you charge belong entirely to you.

You keep full control of your monies. Tessera uses your payment gateway to connect directly to your bank account. You have instant access and full control of all your funds all the time. We never touch your money.

You keep your independence. We don’t require a long-term contract that locks you in, even when business conditions change. Need to make  change? Just give us 60 days notice. You’re in the driver’s seat.

 

Easy Wordpress Integration

Tessera’s seamless API integration with WordPress gives you a multitude of implementation options. Integrate Tessera with your existing WordPress site, tweak our simple WP base template with your own branding, let our savvy designers create your site, or we can implement your own designer’s vision. Whether you need a quick start or a more deliberate design process, we’ve got you covered.

Easy Wordpress Integration

Tessera’s seamless API integration with WordPress gives you a multitude of implementation options. Integrate Tessera with your existing WordPress site, tweak our simple WP base template with your own branding, let our savvy designers create your site, or we can implement your own designer’s vision. Whether you need a quick start or a more deliberate design process, we’ve got you covered.

Unlimited Brand and Presentation Flexibility

With Tessera’s tight WordPress integration you’re not limited to a handful of lame web page templates that never seem to suit how you want to display your shows/events. Fully customizable show cards offer a flexible way to promote your shows. Want to display your shows in some other way? No problem. We can accommodate virtually any design.

Unlimited Brand and Presentation Flexibility

With Tessera’s tight WordPress integration you’re not limited to a handful of lame web page templates that never seem to suit how you want to display your shows/events. Fully customizable show cards offer a flexible way to promote your shows. Want to display your shows in some other way? No problem. We can accommodate virtually any design.

Sell Tickets Your Way

Set up a virtually unlimited number of ticket types with different on-sale and stop-sale dates, password protection (with configured start/stop dates), coupon codes, general admission or reserved seating. Tessera also Includes “default” ticket types to make setting up new shows a breeze.

Sell Tickets Your Way

Set up a virtually unlimited number of ticket types with different on-sale and stop-sale dates, password protection (with configured start/stop dates), coupon codes, general admission or reserved seating. Tessera also Includes “default” ticket types to make setting up new shows a breeze.

Automated Functions for Lean Operations

These days everyone needs to do more with fewer staff. Tessera helps you automate  your operations with such features as default ticket types and cloning shows for fast show setup and automated ticket sales reports email to promoters and agents. Tessera reduces your staff’s manual labor.

Automated Functions for Lean Operations

These days everyone needs to do more with fewer staff. Tessera helps you automate  your operations with such features as default ticket types and cloning shows for fast show setup and automated ticket sales reports email to promoters and agents. Tessera reduces your staff’s manual labor.

Custom Software Enhancement

Need a new feature or system integration? We’re not just another ticketing platform vendor. We’re a full-blown software development company with over 20 years of experience developing industrial-strength solutions in multiple industries. (Over 10 years ago we developed a robust ticketing system for a well-known independent music venue in Chicago, and have iterated that platform into a product we can offer to other venues.) We can develop any customizations you need!

Custom Software Enhancement

Need a new feature or system integration? We’re not just another ticketing platform vendor. We’re a full-blown software development company with over 20 years of experience developing industrial-strength solutions in multiple industries. (Over 10 years ago we developed a robust ticketing system for a well-known independent music venue in Chicago, and have iterated that platform into a product we can offer to other venues.) We can develop any customizations you need!

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