Sales Overview

SparqFest supports the online sales of a variety of items common in the film festival world. While this functionality naturally supports online ticket sales, we also make it possible for you to sell other things via your SparqFest site and manage the pricing based on membership levels you define. Understand Your Tax Situation SparqFest has no suppor...

Pricing

As mentioned in the Sales Overview document, pricing is something you define independent of the things you are selling. Two products can share the same pricing. If you make a single update to that pricing, all products that use that pricing are automatically changed. Pricing is not as simply as assigning a value to something. It's about setting rule...

Ticketing

SparqFest supports both free and paid access to online and in-person events and content. Our ticketing module has a number of features that are discussed elsewhere. For the purposes of this initial setup article, we will cover a couple of key scenarios: Free access to online events Basic ticket sales for access to in-person and online events A new S...

Memberships

If your festival has no concept of “members” or you want to keep your online sales simple, you can ignore SparqFest membership functionality. Memberships are simply a way of categorizing your audience that can be used in a variety of ways: SparqFest allows you to define different prices for the same product based on the user membership You can offer...

Discounts

SparqFest enables you to create discounts that people can use to make purchases at a discounted rate (or even for free). You configure festival discounts in the “Finance” section under “Discounts”. A sample listing of discounts in the “Discounts” subsection What Is a SparqFest Discount? The first thing you should notice about discounts is that they ...