Looking for a PHP Programmer To Help Build Ticketing System
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:48 am
I run a website in London, England and try and organise free events for people to attend twice a month, like picnics, after work drinks, salsa dancing, etc
However in the Summer I try and do a coach trip for members of my website
This is my 2nd year of doing a Coach Trip.
The problem is I have to risk my own money setting up the event and hiring a Coach or Bus and then need to start selling places for the trip.
The problem is there's no Software I can find on the Internet specifically designed for Selling Tickets to Events. There's lots of free PHP shopping Cart programs out there but nothing specific for selling a non Tangiable goods like a ticket.
My most important concern is not to over sell tickets, like for instantance a Bus may have 44 Seats so it's really important not to sell more tickets then there are seats on the bus. Last year I did this manually and would just watch my website seeing when people bought tickets and then stop the sale when it got to the maximum number of seats but this also meant for 1 month I hardly slept at night worrying that inthe middle of the night I might oversell and have to face angry people. This year I am using eBay, ut eBay is not ideal either, you can only advertise tickets for a maximum of 10 days and these events are usually needed to start allocating seats about 1 to 2 months in advance.
The other thing I want is to have a price that increases daily, so tickets bought today at say £10 and tomorrow £10.25p and day after £10.50p this is because a small price increase like this helps encourage people to buy early rather then wait until the day before the event which happened last year.
I'm willing to work hand in hand with a good PHP programmer and help test the system on my own website. I designed my own website so I can do some graphics and design work but the actual programming isn't my strong point.
I think such a system has commerical appeal too and if I know it works for myself then I'd like to work with that person to perhaps promote it to other organisations I know that might find it useful so this could turn from a volunteer project into a little earner. I know exactly how the system should work to be useful but I'm no PHP programmer so need help in this area.
PM me if you think you'd be able to help get this project off the ground and be interested in commercialising it later. The ideal system would have to work with PayPal and NoChex to begin with. I'd also be more interested in working with coders that like to get things done then just raw coding. I know some people would rather raw code every single line from scratch and take 2 weeks to do something rather then use something like Code Charge and have 80% of the work done for them.
However in the Summer I try and do a coach trip for members of my website
This is my 2nd year of doing a Coach Trip.
The problem is I have to risk my own money setting up the event and hiring a Coach or Bus and then need to start selling places for the trip.
The problem is there's no Software I can find on the Internet specifically designed for Selling Tickets to Events. There's lots of free PHP shopping Cart programs out there but nothing specific for selling a non Tangiable goods like a ticket.
My most important concern is not to over sell tickets, like for instantance a Bus may have 44 Seats so it's really important not to sell more tickets then there are seats on the bus. Last year I did this manually and would just watch my website seeing when people bought tickets and then stop the sale when it got to the maximum number of seats but this also meant for 1 month I hardly slept at night worrying that inthe middle of the night I might oversell and have to face angry people. This year I am using eBay, ut eBay is not ideal either, you can only advertise tickets for a maximum of 10 days and these events are usually needed to start allocating seats about 1 to 2 months in advance.
The other thing I want is to have a price that increases daily, so tickets bought today at say £10 and tomorrow £10.25p and day after £10.50p this is because a small price increase like this helps encourage people to buy early rather then wait until the day before the event which happened last year.
I'm willing to work hand in hand with a good PHP programmer and help test the system on my own website. I designed my own website so I can do some graphics and design work but the actual programming isn't my strong point.
I think such a system has commerical appeal too and if I know it works for myself then I'd like to work with that person to perhaps promote it to other organisations I know that might find it useful so this could turn from a volunteer project into a little earner. I know exactly how the system should work to be useful but I'm no PHP programmer so need help in this area.
PM me if you think you'd be able to help get this project off the ground and be interested in commercialising it later. The ideal system would have to work with PayPal and NoChex to begin with. I'd also be more interested in working with coders that like to get things done then just raw coding. I know some people would rather raw code every single line from scratch and take 2 weeks to do something rather then use something like Code Charge and have 80% of the work done for them.