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School show tickets for private schools with Ticket Tailor

Sell school play and concert tickets online and scan them at the door. Free if buyers pay a booking fee, otherwise up to about $80£60€71A$115C$113 a month.

At a glance

  • What it costsFree–$80Free–£60Free–€71Free–A$115Free–C$113 a month

  • Worth, in extra profit or time saved in the worked example$59£44€52A$84C$83 a month

  • Pays for itselfWithin the month

  • Sign up and configure; no technical skills neededEasy to set up

Figures come from the worked example below, using its stated assumptions. Tool prices checked . How we check prices

The problem

Selling seats for the school play and concerts by reply slip and cash means counting money, chasing slips and handling double bookings. Four ticketed events a year with 1,200 tickets at 1.5 minutes each is 30 hours a year, about 2.5 hours a month.

What the AI does

Ticket Tailor sells tickets from your own box office page, with reserved seating and a free check-in app, and payments go into your own Stripe, PayPal or Square account. There's no monthly fee: pay as you go is 60p per paid ticket plus VAT, free tickets cost nothing up to 5,000 a year, and reserved seats use an extra credit per seat. You can add a booking fee so buyers cover the fees.

A worked example

A small independent school in Hampshire sells about 1,200 tickets a year for 2 plays and 2 concerts, at $11£8€10A$15C$15 each, by reply slip and cash.

Before

1,200 tickets at 1.5 minutes: 30 hours a year, about 2.5 hours a month

After

Online sales and check-in; about 1 hour per event to set up: 4 hours a year, about 0.3 hours a month

What it's worth

About $59£44€52A$84C$83 a month of office time saved. That's 2.2 hours a month at an assumed $27£20€24A$38C$38 an hour. Ticket fees are 1,200 x 60p = $958£720€857A$1,382C$1,354 a year, $80£60€71A$115C$113 a month plus VAT, more than the time saved, so add a booking fee to pass them on (which brings the school's cost close to $0£0€0A$0C$0) or buy prepaid credits, which the page lists from 22p a ticket.

How to set it up

  1. Create a Ticket Tailor account and connect the school's Stripe, PayPal or Square account.
  2. Set up each performance with its seating plan or general admission, price and booking fee.
  3. Send the box office link to parents and staff, and put it on the website.
  4. Download the free check-in app and scan tickets at the door.
  5. Offer a phone number for families who can't book online.

What goes wrong

  • Reserved seating uses an extra credit per seat, which doubles the fee on reserved tickets.
  • Card processing fees from Stripe, PayPal or Square are separate from Ticket Tailor's fee.
  • Don't publish a cast list with pupils' full names on the public box office page.
  • Filming and photography rules for performances belong in your parent communications; tickets don't replace consent.

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Last updated October 17, 2026.