5 mistakes that cost your festival money

1. The money in someone else's account

If the ticketing platform collects and pays you out after the festival, you pay artist and production advances with money you don't have yet. With payment straight into your account, you have it from the first sale.

2. Passes and day tickets with no control

A three-day pass that gets in three times and a Friday ticket trying to get in on Saturday: without control per day, people slip in.

3. Queues at the entrances

Several entrances with a scanner each and the ticket in the phone's wallet keep the queue moving. A paper list at a large site doesn't scale.

4. Paper accreditations

Artists, production, press and suppliers with printed accreditations that get lent out. An accreditation with a QR in each person's name is controlled just like a ticket.

5. A site box office that doesn't add up

Box office sales in cash and card, without recording each ticket: at closing it doesn't add up. With every sale recorded, each day's takings work themselves out.

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