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Processing Ticket Sales in the Box Office Portal

This article will walk you thru step by step how to process a Comp Ticket

Updated over a week ago

Why You’ll Want to Use the Box Office Portal for Ticket Sales

  • To sell tickets on-site — whether general admission or reserved seating — with a few clicks right from your device.

  • To offer discounts or comps easily, applying codes or price adjustments as needed.

  • To accept various payment types (cash, check, credit, comp) and issue immediate confirmations so patrons can check in right away.

👟 Walkthroughs

To process an order:

  1. Open the Box Office tab from the dashboard. Click on Purchase.

  2. Find the show you want to sell a ticket for using the Production and Event drop downs.

  3. Select a ticket.

    1. For General Admission, click the +/- button on any ticket type to add or remove ticket from the order. Items currently in your cart will appear in the Checkout box on the top right of the screen.

    2. For Reserved Seating, click on the desired seat and select the appropriate Ticket Types from the pop-up window.

    3. Selected seats will appear green and appear in the checkout box on the right. Click a seat again to remove or add it.

  4. Apply any discounts or manually adjust the price if desired.

    1. To apply a discount to an order, click the Add A Discount Code button on the bottom right. This will open a pop- up window with a dropdown of all available discount codes.

    2. Click on the appropriate discount code.

    3. Click the red Checkout button.

    4. Only one discount is allowed per order. To use more than one code, process the tickets in a separate order.

  5. Select a payment type.

    1. Click on the appropriate Cash, Credit, Terminal, Reserve, or Comp button at the bottom right of the screen.


Processing Cash

  1. Click the Cash/Check button.

  2. Enter the patron’s name and contact information.

    1. While it is advised that you collect an email address in order to include all patrons on your mailing list, not all information is required in order to check out.

  3. Click the Purchase button to process the order. This will direct you to a new cart ready for the next order.

  4. Your patrons will immediately receive an order confirmation/receipt to the phone number provided.

    1. They may use their name, confirmation code, or show the text to check in at the door.

  5. IMPORTANT: The order total will no longer be visible after it’s processed. Be sure to accept the cash payment and provide any change to the patron before you click the Purchase button.

Processing a Check

  1. For Check, input the check number in the Check Number field. This will appear in reports where individual order details appear.

🎭 Noteworthy: The per-ticket fee still applies to cash orders processed in the Box Office Portal.


Processing Credit Cards Manually

  1. Click the Credit button.

  2. Enter in the patron’s name and contact information, followed by their credit card details.

  3. Click the red Purchase button to process the order.

  4. Your patrons will immediately receive an order confirmation/receipt to the phone number or email provided. They may use their name, confirmation code, or show the text to check in at the door.

🎭 Noteworthy: Credit card purchases processed in the Box Office Portal will incur the same fees as tickets purchased online via your website.

If you are using an iOS8 device or above, you can enable your Safari settings to use your camera as a ticker scanner.

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Processing Credit Cards With a Reader

  1. After selecting terminal and proceeding, the user will be able to select the desired reader for the current checkout from the dropdown list.

  2. After selecting the reader, entering the information, and continuing - the chosen reader will receive a payment request. The box office portal will display a “Reader payment in progress” screen to signify the transaction has been sent to the chosen reader.

3. While waiting for payment flow to be completed on the reader, the pop up message on the box office portal can address some potential errors or unexpected situations:

  • Cancel Order - When you click this, it will cancel the current order and remove any selected tickets, the user can then retry it again from the beginning.

  • Check Payment - The user can use this button to check the status of the current payment in case it takes too long to complete.

  • Retry Payment - Resend the payment request to the reader.

When payment is taken successfully, you will get the following message:


Processing Comps

Select Comp at checkout. Enter patron information to finish the transactions.

🎭 Noteworthy: Comp tickets are facilitated by On The Stage at no cost for Platinum Plan Customers. All other plans are at a reduced fee, which will be automatically deducted from your ticket sales.

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Reserving Tickets

Select Reserve to set aside tickets a patron will pay for later.

Enter patron identifying information, including email and phone number.

You can Reserve the tickets, or Reserve & Send Payment Link.


🎓 Recap

From your On The Stage Dashboard, open the Box Office Portal for your show, choose the performance date, select tickets (using cart buttons or seating chart), apply discounts, then choose a payment method—Cash/Check, Credit, Reserve. or Comp. Enter customer info, finalize the sale, and an instant confirmation is sent—auto-updating your ticketing dashboard for seamless front-of-house operations.


🚀 Best Practices

  • Collect minimum contact info (name, email/phone) for confirmations and marketing follow-up.

  • Confirm cash/change before clicking Purchase—the order total disappears after processing.

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