There are a fair few ways to take seat reservations for your upcoming show and if you are on a budget and you are very familiar with php open source shopping carts then it is quite possible you could set this kind of system up yourself.
I have adapted open source php shopping carts like osCommerce and Freeway to present products as seats in a grid style that are then available to purchase through the process of a typical shopping cart right from ‘add to cart’ to the completed sale and then present the seat in such a way as to show purchased seats as reserved in a specially presented seat plan of your theatre.
Any web designer familiar with installing php shopping carts can be adept at customizing the code to make the cart suit their needs. I have produced a special ‘How To’ guide to help build a visual seat reservation system for websites just by adapting the core shopping cart and its code. Its very functional and it works splendidly.
Usually the tried and tested way to sell tickets for your show is through a booking agent using a flat database which is a straight list of seat numbers available referenced from a chart of your theatre seat plan. Why not try to bring your seat plan alive by making each seat clickable from the plan on your website and when a seat is reserved disconnect it from the cart and identify all seats reserved as a totally different color. You get thepicture and you’ve seen it already in the hands of professional organisations selling tickets for shows across the web. If you want such a system for your special event I’m sure it will cost you an arm and a leg to own yourself.
For a an affordable fee I will be selling a step by step guide that will take you or your webmaster through each and every procedure that will adapt a tried and tested shopping cart into your very own visual seat reservation system that can be used over and over again using the basic principles that thousands of merchants use for their online stores across the web.
If you have a special event planned and you want your visitors to reserve or purchase their own seats visually this could be the tool for you.
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