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what needs to be done to start selling tickets ? well, not much, but it all depends on how specific your requirements are and how far you want to go to make your setup exactly the way you want it the only required step in order to go in production and start selling tickets, is to activate a license (yellow bar at the top in the backoffice) when activating a license, you will need to provide the legal information of the account owner choose the pricing you prefer provide the credentials of your payment service provider account (e g stripe, paypal), so make sure you have these at hand also, if you want to use a seating plan for selling tickets, obviously you need to seating plans docid\ ifukoa6qlospiugmpfqvg first all other configuration is strictly speaking optional as you get working defaults for everything however, there are many advantages in doing at least these three things design your ticket layouts docid\ w9n qrlgqo5qxo mey7 d design your web skins docid\ h dtn0wzgkmqvnzpezjsa (the layout of the tickets sales web pages) design your order mails docid\ cwb pdcptbfugtnkikojs doing these gives your ticket sales your own look and feel, which has a big impact on customer experience and improves conversion ticketmatic gives you full control over all aspects of your ticketing, so you can always start out with a pretty basic setup and build on that at any time improving ticket sales, marketing and productivity we know from experience that every organisation is different and has its own requirements there is no one size fits all setup that can bring you the many advantages of a well targeted setup, specifically tailored to your organisation to identify what setup is best to get the maximal benefits, it is usually a really good idea to have some discussions on marketing filters allow you to easily make targeted audience selections and combined with graphs and maps you get a better understanding of your audience so ask yourself what filter definitions docid 7 pkjdtjoyijbpb1l4txw do we want? do we want custom fields docid 9icpwhgxkat896hzo5o o for contacts, events, orders or tickets? (for example customer preferences, tag people as vip, genres for events, …) shall we link customer data to our email marketing docid\ s13cvsvqptnulamkln xx (mailchimp, campaignmonitor or others) so we can send targeted emails? what valuable customer and historical data do we have that we can import in ticketmatic? how exactly do we want the plug and play docid\ t2uqek2blpdqf8nbgiq0f to look like? widgets docid\ xy bxjznntsula bjnc v shall we ask our customers to fill in when registering? how should we integrate https //www ticketmatic com/docs/api/ in our website? (it is good that webmaster knows about ticketmatic and its many options as he or she might have some great ideas to improve the website using audience data ) what ticket sales process (check out flow) do we want? do we use widgets docid\ xy bxjznntsula bjnc v or build a custom checkout using the api https //www ticketmatic com/docs/api/ ? on operations which views docid\ kfyzmnbmfvgyj6x0pkhcx and filter definitions docid 7 pkjdtjoyijbpb1l4txw would be really handy at the box office? are we going to use really fast laser scanners for scan app docid\ izmfleappst2ykd6ewexg or scan directly with an android device? are we also going to sell tickets through partners using the external sales docid s mtax 4d2ntzi ec157 ? on finance what reports docid\ ngzgkxlc5kqt99lwls36p would be really handy for our bookkeeping? do we want the reports sent automatically? how often and to whom? do we want ticketing financials to be integrated with bookkeeping? through (scheduled) data exports or through api?