TicketSource

TicketSource

Type of business	Private
Type of site	Ticket sales, event management
Headquarters	Cardiff, United Kingdom
Area served	Europe, United States
URL	ticketsource.co.uk
Launched	2004
Current status	Active

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. 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.