The Ticket Sellers www.theticketsellers.co.uk are using SMS to deliver e-tickets to customer’s mobiles. The service is proving useful in providing customers with instant reassurance that their transaction was successful as well as providing a handy tool to store the e-ticket.
Customer’s purchase tickets from the website for concerts, nightclub entry, student nights and the ticket is sent directly to their phone.
Jonathan White, web developer for The Ticket Sellers was delighted with how easy the service was to set up saying “Integration of the service was easy and straightforward. The API coding works really well and unique codes are generated from the system.”
Mo Page, of The Ticket Sellers claims the service is a success stating “People carry their phones with them everywhere so they never forget their tickets…. no need to carry paper to nightclubs or gigs etc!”
Page also says that Textlocal allow credits to be purchased in bulk, which helps reduce cost. “We buy credits in bulk from Textlocal and the prices are very competitive.”
More and more ticket selling companies are integrating text into their service in an attempt to make life easier for customers and eliminate the need for paper.