Partiful Is Putting Ticket Payments on Its Platform
It can’t be all party all the time. Eventually, somebody’s got to pay the piper.
That looks to be the case for Partiful, the popular social events platform that people use to plan parties big and small. On Tuesday, Partiful announced its first major monetization plan in its six-year history: tickets that attendees can buy directly on Partiful.
Collecting payment for tickets wasn’t something the platform offered before; instead, hosts who used Partiful to plan paid events could include links that took guests off the platform to process ticket purchases elsewhere. The app will now let hosts of paid events handle the ticket-selling process directly in the app. That means processing different ticket tiers, setting capacity limits, handling payments, and verifying ticket QR codes at entry points when people show up for events. In return, Partiful gets a cut of the sales, which the host can either factor into...
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