Open Solutions announces its
new digital ticketing system
No more having to deal with bits of paper if you don’t want to, and now
any club can tell the RFU exactly how many are attending its match days,
writes Charles de Haan.
Ticketing has come a long way since it was just a matter
of handling lots of bits of paper and hoping everyone was
honest … In a major step forwards for any rugby club
that hosts matches, Open Solutions, the market leader in
EPoS and membership solutions for rugby clubs, has now
developed its own proprietary ticketing system.
As you’d expect with a system that’s been developed
over two years in tandem with two major rugby clubs,
Henley RUFC and Cambridge RUFC, the result is a
comprehensively proven solution that deals with a variety
of different scenarios, from hard wired gate points using
laptops to WiFi-driven handheld devices.
Scans members’
transactions
cards,
and
deals
with
cash
The Open Solutions ticketing system assumes clubs
have one or more access control points or gates. It can scan
both members’ season tickets and because many clubs
now use membership cards to drive their EPoS systems as
well, it can scan those membership cards as well.
It can deal with simple ticket purchase transactions at
the gate or door, or via membership cards, and will always
identify who’s a member – and who isn’t, i.e. it can tell the
gatekeepers who’s a guest, or a member of the public
who’s a visitor.
bar codes that prevent ‘recycling’ of the valuable tickets for
someone’s ‘mates’...
Mobile ready, and RFU ready – NOW
The system’s also fully smartphone or mobile ready, as
it can enable the purchase of tickets both online and to be
scanned from the phone’s screen, just like airport gates do
for air travellers.
Most importantly, aside of what it can do up to and on
the match day itself, the system then reports to the club in
real time the head count and attendance data in accordance
with the RFU’s own reporting requirements, and can do so
prior to the beginning of the match or event.
For more information, or a demo of this proven solution
to any club’s ticketing operation challenges, just call
01732 367 227, or e-mail Open Solutions on info@
opensolint.com
VIP treatment, and printed tickets
As clubs are used to laying on entertainment facilities
for sponsors, the Open Solutions ticketing system is able to
deal with VIP passes as well as standard passes. So yes, it
can also handle tickets for access to privileged areas, and
help the club stop access by those that aren’t so entitled!
Some clubs want to print tickets out in real time, and this
brilliant new system can enable the club to do that as well,
if it wants, using standard till receipt printers and unique
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