Demos

Funny Little Shows is software purpose built for the Australian live comedy industry. It’s a triple threat. A website with custom domain, ticketing engine, and marketing tools combined to make an end to end platform so you spend less time doing admin.

Website features include scheduled event listings and delisting, custom templates to suit your brand, and the published websites are mobile friendly and fast.

Integrated ticketing means no more copy and paste between systems and trying to keep track of things.

With capabilities for different categories, discount codes, presales access, and even wait lists, Funny Little Shows is powerful but easy to use.

On the day of your gig, scan ticket QR codes with our mobile apps.

To save you time, we make it easy to create reusable templates for ticketing scenarios, custom questions, and even marketing email content.

Rounding it all out are detailed reports that are also exportable.

Our mission is to get the most laughs to the most punters. If you’re a comedy promoter, why not come on board and join Funny Little Shows?

Okay. Let’s have a look at how we set up a new event for sale in Funny Little Shows.

From the home page, we’re gonna go into the artists area, and an artist is effectively the show listing or the event listing that you wanna have. I’m gonna go and do a new artist.

Optionally, a show title.

And from here, we can see we can provide a detailed description with rich formatting.

We’ve got the URL that’s been auto suggested by the system.

The artist itself has a number of statuses, and we’re gonna default to draft for now before we set this up and then eventually go on sale.

We can provide tags, either custom or ones that are preloaded in the system.

We’re gonna save that.

I wanna have a look at what it’s gonna look like on the website before we go live. Let’s hit preview changes.

This gives us a real time preview of the information that we just put in for that artist listing. Now you’ll see that there’s no images and there’s no sessions. So that’s no good. Let’s go back and fix that.

We’re gonna go to the images tab. And with the template that we’re currently using on this website, there’s two different types of images. There’s a banner image, which is a landscape format, and there’s a profile image for the home page.

We’re gonna upload both of those images. The system will take care of optimization so that it performs fast and loads fast for your users and your website.

We’ll go back to the overview, have another preview, and there we can see on the individual artist listing page, we’re using that banner image there, and we can see the tags that we’ve applied.

But we don’t have any sessions listed yet.

Before we get into that, quick tour through here. Optionally, we can define other information about the artist. We could put links to their various social media channels.

We can also store some internal information such as who the management of this artist is.

We’ll go back to the overview, and let’s add a session. When is this comedian actually performing?

We’ll click the new session.

We’ll select the venue that the performance is going to be in.

Similarly, each session has its own status. We’re gonna set this to on sale, which won’t matter until we set the actual artist on sale.

Let’s set this up for Saturday night.

The default time is seven PM in the system. We’ve got a default value set for that and sixty minutes. We’re gonna use Funny Little Shows for ticket management. Now for some reason, we had to use external, such as the venue has a contract with a different ticketing provider, you would simply switch to external, put in some text to describe the ticket prices, and a link to their ticketing system.

But for today, let’s do an internally managed ticketing event with Funny Little Shows.

So now that we’ve listed the first session, let’s go and set the pricing.

We’ll have an initial price of forty five dollars.

The system will show you how much as a promoter you’re paying to Funny Little Shows the platform fee, the booking fee that the punter will pay, and so what they’ll pay at the checkout for this.

The initial capacity comes from the room itself, the venue that we’ve configured, so we don’t have to keep typing that in. We’ll hit save, and this takes us to the pricing page. If I expand this, you’ll see that by default, it took that forty five dollars and set up a general admission or a full ticket, and you’ll see those same breakdown of fees across here.

With this room, I’ve also set up some comp tickets. So I’ve automatically withheld four comp tickets for the artist, four comp tickets for the producer. You know, we can release those for sale later, but we’ve deducted them from the pool immediately just to hold them in reserve for various reasons.

We’ll collapse that.

And so we can see here now an overview of where this show is set up, and we can adjust things like presales. We might wanna enable presale access with a special code that we give out to VIP people, but we’re not gonna do that today.

We could set a sale schedule. So, automatically, it could go on sale as soon as I publish this. Well, let’s say we want this to go on sale tomorrow.

That records when the show will go on sale. It’s automatically going to close at the show time, and you’ll see down here a little timeline of history of events that are going to happen as populated to show when sales are starting.

Now if for some reason we had to change the capacity, like we increased it by adding additional seats or adding a different section, we could increase that there, but we’ll leave it. At the moment, we have no bookings because, of course, we haven’t gone on sale yet.

Similarly, we have no tickets that have actually been sold. We can see the comps that are being held, so this is this pool of comp tickets that we can take and assign to various friends or VIPs or whoever they might be.

A waitlist is configured. So if this show does sell out, the waitlist will automatically be shown. You can capture punters’ details in here.

Sales reconciliation is where you would see after sales where the various tickets have been sold. And check-in events will obviously show where you have checked in people with the mobile app.

Go back to the pricing.

We can go and view the tickets page by clicking on that link, or you can copy that link and put it into your website if you needed to or your social media. But from here, we’re gonna go back to the artist.

There’s a few steps in that. What if I wanted to do a second session? Do I have to repeat all that? No.

You don’t. You come back to that session that we just set up with all the ticketing and the comp tickets and the scheduling all good. We’re gonna copy that. That automatically fills in the room, copies the status.

We just need to simply change the date. When is this second session? So let’s say that Jess is gonna have a second show on the Sunday, seven PM. Everything else is the same, and that’s simply how we’ve cloned that.

We’ll go and check that.

All the details for all the ticket categories and things are in here. We can still add a new category if we wanted to. We could add a student, for instance, set a different price, set time limited. So think about early bird sales. You could set all that stuff up if you wanted.

And this is all at the individual session level. So we set up one up right first, and then we saved it. I’ll go back to the artist.

We can also copy again. Let’s say that there’s a plan for an encore.

So you don’t necessarily know if you wanna use this one yet. We could simply set that as draft. Have that set up for the Monday night.

So all the details have been copied through for the pricing.

Let’s preview the changes.

And you’ll see here now we’re listing the sessions that we have for this particular show.

And we don’t see that third one because it was in draft, so it’s the encore that we’ve held in reserve.

Now let’s say that we wanna set that to be on sale. We’ll click save.

Go back to our preview and refresh.

Now we actually see a buy tickets button.

And our buy tickets button with the template that we’re using for this particular website gives the user the ability to select which session they wanna buy tickets for and go straight into it.

So let’s click that one.

Remembering that we set the sales to open at nine AM tomorrow, this is the user experience that they would see if you went through to try to buy a ticket right now. Tells them to come back.

We’ll go back to our artist listing for our website before we publish. If I go back to home, I’ll just show you.

We have to publish this website. While we’ve set everything on sale and, technically, it’s live, the website itself hasn’t been updated. And so this is actually showing us that we’ve added Jess. The two images haven’t been published yet.

We could publish that now. But before we do that, we’ll go back to the artists tab here, and I wanna actually make Jess more prominent. I’m gonna drag and drop and change the sort order. So this allows me to check the sort order and control that manually on the website.

I can also if I set up a large number of shows, come into my quality check, and the system will then give me a range of things that I should be looking out for with all the artists that we have in the system. You see here, we actually have a couple of draft artists that are not published yet. We see them under the draft tab.

So these are artists that are still in negotiation. We haven’t got all the details. We don’t have the artwork for them yet, so they are under the draft tab. We’ll go back to the public.

That’s all really good. We’re happy with that. We’ll go and hit publish.

We could publish it now, or we could schedule it so that the website itself is updated in the future, for instance, at nine AM when those shows go on sale.

We’re just gonna publish now, And that’s it. We’ve just listed an entirely new show, set up two sessions and a third for a reserve for an encore, publish and update in our website, and we’re on sale. Easy as that.