How does a booking number work? HELP!

Hi everyone, I've been slowly piecing together the production and theatre rental side to our show 'Boy Banned' and there suddenly arose an interesting point. How will we sell tickets? Now quite often I see a booking number on a poster for a show and I was wondering exactly how this works. We don't have credit card facilities...and tickets would only be really cheap so is it just used to put tickets aside? What kind of number should I use- a mobile or a home phone? What happens after someone has booked tickets? Do they pick them up on the night...and pay there? In general I guess (as it's my first time at this) I want to know how ticket booking numbers work so I can set one up for the show. Any help is AWESOME! Sean

Sean, are you doing this production at your school? If so, it's more than likely that they could help you set up an answering machine/phone number through them. If not, then I suggest doing the following: Borrow a mobile phone (it can be yours, or anyone else's who is happy to give out the phone number) Set up an answering message, giving all the necessary details of the show (everything you would put on the poster for example) State on the message that the person can leave their details, how many tickets and for what night, a number to call them back on. Create a door list for each night. Write down each message as they come to your mobile/phone/answering machine. Call the person back to confirm the tickets have been booked. Either: ask for payment at the door, or find some other way of accepting money (an online service, such as Paypal?). Make sure that the FOH people have your booking lists. There are ticketing services in Melbourne, other than Ticketek, but they cost money. If I knew where you were performing, I could give you some more specific advice. Sticky Apple Legs www.freewebs.com/stickyapplelegs Puppets in Melbourne www.thepromptcopy.com/pip

Sean, are you doing this

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