Theaters face five key challenges:
- Ticket Sales Growth
- Box Office Operations
- Usher Sign up & Management
- Theater Class Registration
- Donors & Fundraising
You can sell more tickets and streamline class registration with Stride Events’ tools.
Alpine Community Theater Converts 32% Abandoned Tickets
Disney's The Little Mermaid show at Alpine Community Theater converted 32% of abandoned ticket sales with abandoned cart email reminders.
1. Sell More Theater Tickets.
Use free growth tools to boost ticket sales for your shows:
- Referral Program — Offer rebates for each ticket your attendees help you sell. Customize the rebate amount and automatically track results.
- Share & Save — Offer a $1-$2 discount when buyers share your theater page with their Facebook friends. It helps you get the word out and sell more tickets.
- Abandoned Cart Emails — Close more sales with automatic abandoned cart email reminders.
- Free Website — Draw more attention to your theater with a customizable website. We offer a free website builder and free hosting.
- SEO Boosters — Enhance your online visibility with free calendar listings, attendee review collection and publication, and a customizable marketing page.
- Discounts & Promo Codes — Support your marketing campaigns with customizable promo codes and bundles. You can also increase order sizes with automatically-applied group discounts.
2. Streamline Box Office Operations.
Enhance your box office operations with a fully integrated POS app:
- Sell tickets and concessions in one transaction.
- Never double-sell a seat with a fully-integrated system.
- Track cash sales per box office window to stop cash walking out the door.
3. Simplify Usher Signup & Management.
Fill all of your volunteer needs with an integrated sign up and management system:
- Create all the jobs and shifts you need.
- Make it easy to sign up to volunteer online.
- Communicate with volunteers by job and shift via mass email.
- Check in volunteers and track volunteer hours.
- Reward volunteers with autogenerated discounts to shows.
4. Make Theater Class Registrations Easy.
Streamline theater class registration and grow participation in your classes with Stride Events:
- Simple Two-page Form — Get more registrations completed with a quick, customizable form.
- No Participant Account Creation Required — Eliminate account and password creation fatigue for your participants. Let people sign up without creating an account. They can manage their registration from their confirmation emails.
- Growth Tools — Boost your class numbers with the same effective growth tools you use to sell more tickets.
- Transfers and Deferrals — Set guidelines for registration transfers and deferrals so your participants can make changes on their own.
- Participant Self-edits — Lower your customer support burden by allowing people to make allowed corrections to their registration.
5. Boost Fundraising & Manage Donors.
Generate more donations with fundraising tools:
- Purchase Pathway Donation Requests — Include donation opportunities during ticket sales and registration.
- Roundup to Donate — Allow attendees and participants to round up their purchase to donate to your organization.
- Volunteer Confirmation Page Donation Request — Include a donation request after people sign up to volunteer.
- Standalone Donation Page — Gather donations from a standalone page. Set your organization’s goal, and track progress towards it.
- Fundraising Teams and Goals — Let fundraisers make their own fundraising goals and teams to achieve them.
- Register for Free Program — Offer free registration for classes based on a participant hitting set fundraising targets.
