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TicketSource
Type of businessPrivate
Type of site
Ticket sales, event management
Headquarters
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Area servedEurope, United States
URLticketsource.co.uk
Launched2004
Current statusActive

TicketSource Ltd is a box-office management system provider based in Penarth, Wales. The company was founded in 2004 by Alex McLauchlan and Simon Wilsher, a theatre enthusiast, to help amateur theatre groups with their online ticket sales and booking.[1] The TicketSource system still supports a free version of the software based on the original offering.

It joined the Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers in 2012.[2] It has sponsored events including the National Rural Touring Awards,[3][4] the Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival[5] and Pride Cymru's Big Weekend.[6]

In 2014, the company launched TicketSource in the United States and the Eurozone.[7]

In 2016, The Times included it in a list of companies making excessive charges for credit-card payments.[8]

In 2017, the website had been used by more than 20,000 organizers of events, and was ranked 20th in a list of the 50 fastest-growing companies in Wales.[9][10][11]

References

  1. ^ "Penarth Based TicketSource Celebrates 15 Years". Business News Wales. 22 February 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Full Members". Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012.((cite web)): CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) Archived 15 April 2012.
  3. ^ "first rural touring awards announced". Penarth Times. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  4. ^ "Winners of the Inaugural TicketSource Rural Touring Awards Announced". sardinesmagazine.co.uk. 1 July 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  5. ^ "Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival". Archived from the original on 9 July 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  6. ^ Mainwaring, Rachel (21 August 2017). "All you need to know about Cardiff's Pride Cymru 2017". walesonline.
  7. ^ "Interview: Alex McLauchlan, co-founder of TicketSource". Tech Dragons. 25 July 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  8. ^ Andrew Ellson (10 December 2016). "The great credit card rip–off". The Times. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  9. ^ Sion Barry (21 June 2017). "The expanding Welsh firm whose online technology sells tickets for thousands of events globally". Wales Online. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  10. ^ Anthony Lewis. "Penarth ticketing company named in top 20 fastest growing businesses in Wales". Penarth Times. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  11. ^ Nicholas Fearn (6 July 2017). "High-growth online ticketing firm opens new office in Penarth". techdragons.wales. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
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