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Is this something the club could add to the website?

For season ticket sales and for match sales why not add this?

I assume gone are the days of fudging gates.

So why not have a running total on ticket sales? It may well encourage fans to buy if they know there is still availability and also if they know they can push us towards capacity.

Thoughts?
 



Champagneblade said:
Is this something the club could add to the website?

For season ticket sales and for match sales why not add this?

I assume gone are the days of fudging gates.

So why not have a running total on ticket sales? It may well encourage fans to buy if they know there is still availability and also if they know they can push us towards capacity.

Thoughts?
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Would need a real-time connection between the website and the ticketing system. Technologically it’s possible, but not sure the club would want to invest in setting that up just for a one-off event. The website hosting and ticketing would all be separate 3rd party companies that would have to integrate with each other etc etc.
 
Rodders said:
Would need a real-time connection between the website and the ticketing system. Technologically it’s possible, but not sure the club would want to invest in setting that up just for a one-off event. The website hosting and ticketing would all be separate 3rd party companies that would have to integrate with each other etc etc.
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Ticket sales figures database connects to central database.
Central database feeds to ticketing website which is already picking up from database.

Not complicated unless you’re a day rate IT geezer trying to drag a job out.
 
SwissBlade said:
Ticket sales figures database connects to central database.
Central database feeds to ticketing website which is already picking up from database.

Not complicated unless you’re a day rate IT geezer trying to drag a job out.
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What central database? Who's building, hosting and maintaining that? Does the ticket sales merchant have an API/data output that gives out the relevant data to send to this central database?

Who's responsible for that data once it's given to whoever manages the central database?

Currently the clubs main website runs on Urbanzoo's gamechanger platform. Ticket sales are powered by Seatgeek and the club online store uses Jonas sports. Are these companies happy to share this information with each other?

Gonna be a hell of a long day of politics for your day rate IT geezer before he even starts work on the code...
 
JT89 said:
What central database? Who's building, hosting and maintaining that? Does the ticket sales merchant have an API/data output that gives out the relevant data to send to this central database?

Who's responsible for that data once it's given to whoever manages the central database?

Currently the clubs main website runs on Urbanzoo's gamechanger platform. Ticket sales are powered by Seatgeek and the club online store uses Jonas sports. Are these companies happy to share this information with each other?

Gonna be a hell of a long day of politics for your day rate IT geezer before he even starts work on the code...
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See, you just dragged that job out into a 3 month job when all they need to do is ask
Sandra to look at the sales and tweet out an update every hour

Failing that, Chuck it on one of them SQL servers and get it done in a day
 
SwissBlade said:
See, you just dragged that job out into a 3 month job when all they need to do is ask
Sandra to look at the sales and tweet out an update every hour

Failing that, Chuck it on one of them SQL servers and get it done in a day
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My solution would still be quicker than teaching Sandra in the ticket office to use twitter.
 
Just googled ticket totaliser.......

If flipping Morcambe FC did one for their 2022-2023 season ticket sales.....then blimey we are not worthy...sack the board...shoes off in carpark....all round to knowsknowt for a beer.....
 
SwissBlade said:
Ticket sales figures database connects to central database.
Central database feeds to ticketing website which is already picking up from database.

Not complicated unless you’re a day rate IT geezer trying to drag a job out.
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Fine until someone decides to DDOS the site and you cannot update the database (ie sell tickets) because it's being flooded with read requests.

You'd need to add some caching to fix that.
 
Champagneblade said:
Is this something the club could add to the website?

For season ticket sales and for match sales why not add this?

I assume gone are the days of fudging gates.

So why not have a running total on ticket sales? It may well encourage fans to buy if they know there is still availability and also if they know they can push us towards capacity.

Thoughts?
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Great idea and common sense really, I've seen other clubs do this where you can see the exact amount of tickets available for sale in each stand.
Think a running total for season ticket sales is a great idea too. I remember a few year ago Bradford and I also believe Huddersfield followed
with really cheap season tickets, think they were £199 for adults anywhere in the ground.
Think Bradford set a target of 18K season tickets and had a running total on their website, they managed to hit their target too.

However United have so many areas of "restricted views" and "safety committee restrictions"
Noticed that quite often the front 3 rows at the front on the BLUT are rarely sold.
Also I think part of the front row in the away end is rarely sold either.
Also restricted view tickets are never put on sale until the rest of the ground is very full.
If we're looking at selling out a few day before a match, then bits of seating will be released and put on sale.

So whilst we're constantly having a floating capacity in each stand
you can never provide an exact figure/ running total regards empty seats or even available seats.

Think we still have 32,700 seats on the stadium but the working capacity now appears to be 32,050.
That was the attendance when we played Man Utd a few year ago and that game was officially sold out days before the match.
 
Klaatu Barada Nikto said:
Fine until someone decides to DDOS the site and you cannot update the database (ie sell tickets) because it's being flooded with read requests.
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I knew you’d be along soon enough with another expensive solution.

You’ll get a lump sum to sort it out, whether it takes a day or 3 months it’s up to you. We just need the numbers on the website. Jobs Outside IR-35 and you get a free refugee to come live with you
 



All hail the glitch. The once a yearers have bought em all for their cats.
 
Cappy said:
Marketing/sales 101 is usually to instil a fear of missing out. i.e., "buy now before they run out". Letting you know there's fucking loads left goes against this.
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I’d tend to agree this point if you were talking about a concert.

I think football is slightly different. Having a healthy attendance is something fans take pride in and in its own way you know it contributes to the teams coffers, though less and less due to tv money.

“Come on lads let’s see if we can make James Blunt a sell out” isn’t the sort of alternative rallying call you’d expect 😉

I reckon tickets sold and tickets remaining on sale, possibly updated with additional ones being released if the amount sold breaches a certain figure I.e. restricted view or front and back rows being offered for sale.

It just doesn’t seem like rocket science. I think it would have a more positive effect than negative. I was thinking season tickets and also match by match for each game.
 
Ive gone on the ticket lay out page and counted up all the greyed out sold seats and i have the sales at 18,987
 
Champagneblade said:
Is this something the club could add to the website?

For season ticket sales and for match sales why not add this?

I assume gone are the days of fudging gates.

So why not have a running total on ticket sales? It may well encourage fans to buy if they know there is still availability and also if they know they can push us towards capacity.

Thoughts?
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I love it xxx
 
BLADES1988 said:
All hail the glitch. The once a yearers have bought em all for their cats.
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The Pigs are gunna have a field day with this glitch.

Can just imagine...

"They only sold out cos there was a glitch that allowed fans from other clubs to buy their tickets"

"The glitch allowed 1000s of students to get tickets for free"

"They have sold out their 34000 allocation cos of a glitch in the system. We would have sold more than we were allocated. That's a Fallowfield fact!"
 



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