Remember you must sell at least 50% of your tickets through the Fringe website. Learn all about how to navigate the website here or register for our digital event here.
Once you book a venue, they will add your performances to the website- at that time you will have access to the ticketing portal of the website!
Please be patient with your venue, you are one of many productions which means it may take some time to input the performance information after you have signed an agreement with them.
DISCOUNT TICKETS
Discounts are a great way to get butts in seats—and participant discounts in particular help entice other festival folks to come to see your show. Your project’s administrators can add discount codes through your project dashboard on the Fringe website. Codes are applied per performance, so if you want to use the same code for all your performances, you will need to apply it to all of them. Your patrons can enter their codes when purchasing tickets online.
For example: if you’re marketing to your college, you can create a special discount code just for them to use on the Fringe website (“IOWA”, for example). This is also an excellent way of tracking how patrons hear about your show. Keep in mind that shorter discount codes are always easier to remember, thereby more effective.
For a lot more talk about ticketing best practices, make sure to attend our Marketing & Ticketing Workshop.
PARTICIPANT DISCOUNTS
In addition to other discount codes you may work into your ticketing plan, you can set special pricing for participants in the ticketing settings for each performance. One key to success at Fringe is luring the right people to see your production, especially the members of the community that see a lot of shows and talk about them. More often than not, this group consists of a lot of participants. One highly publicized night of lower-cost tickets for participants can lead to a successful Fringe run.
COMMISSIONERS CLUB & VOLUNTEER DISCOUNTS
The Hollywood Fringe Festival is a nonprofit organization, and we rely on donations and volunteers to continue to support this amazing community of artists. Commissioners Club members are generous fans of Fringe whose support helps keep our festival going and allows us to provide more opportunities to you! Volunteers donate their time and talents to help us run Fringe events.
One of the perks of volunteering for or donating to Fringe is access to a list of shows offering discounted or free tickets to their show!
Use this form to list your discount offer for both Commissioners Club members and Hollywood Fringe volunteers. Not only is your participation helpful to our community, but it’s also a great way to fill your venue with enthusiastic audience members who will spread the word about your show!
Questions? Email Development Director Stina at Stina@hollywoodfringe.org.
THE DETAILS MATTER
Even the smallest detail can make an impact on your marketing efforts. If your show is geared toward families and contains no adult themes or language, you can state that in your content warning on your project page and mark your project as family-friendly. You can also specify whether your show is a solo show, a world premiere, or whether it has nudity or flashing lights. You can mark these details by navigating to “edit” under the admin tab of your project on the Fringe website and checking the appropriate box (you must be logged in as a project admin). Remember, though, that misleading your audience by making these specifications and not delivering can backfire.