Building Confidence Through Better Ticket Sales Software

Fox Tucson Theatre switched to Spektrix for the opening of their 2019-20 season. In their first six months, team members focused on learning the new software, revisiting booking fees and donations, and better tracking audience behaviors.

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Fox Tucson Theatre

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Tucson, Arizona

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Arts Centre
Switched to Spektrix from TicketForce in 2019

With 1200 seats and over 75,000 patrons every year, Fox Tucson Theatre hosts a wide spectrum of events and concerts featuring a variety of performing talent ranging from ballets, to jazz, contemporary pop, world music and rock acts.

They made the switch to Spektrix was driven by their belief that ticketing and CRM software could do more to support audiences and teams.

Customer confidence

Emily Pratt is Director of Audience Services at Fox Tucson. Since they went live with Spektrix in summer 2019, she's seen a visible increase in the number of customers purchasing theater tickets online, buying for multiple events, and making donations along the way. With a split level auditorium and up to five price bands for some events, it still proves easy for patrons to select seats and find the information they need.

With Spektrix, the entire purchase pathway stays on the theater's website, with live event information displayed using embedded iframes. That's reassuring for patrons, who know they're sharing their data with an organization they trust - and for the box office team, it means far fewer customers needing help with their transactions. When the occasional call does still come through to them, they can pick up a live transaction and complete the ticket sale from the box office, providing a great customer experience.

For development and marketing team members, the onsite purchase pathway makes it easier to track audience behavior all the way from homepage to payment. That insight can inform personalized campaigns to drive ticket sales and donations, with automated customer lists and a choice of 45 standard reports to target content and track success.

"My favorite thing is that I can take over transactions - whether it's a customer or one of my colleagues because we're trying to work through something."

Software support that's an extension of your team

"It just always comes back to the extraordinary willingness to problem solve, and problem solve together as a team.

It's not just us that's ever going through anything, we're going through it together."

 

Smooth setup

Six months after their go live, many of Fox Tucson's casual box office team were furloughed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When they returned after 13 months for the 2022 season launch, they were able to pick up the software and begin selling tickets again almost instantly.

"It was over a year for most of my staff, and it took less than 30 seconds for any of them to reintegrate themselves with Spektrix."


Emily's equally delighted with the ease of using Spektrix and the speed of setting up and amending events. By building up events in a series of layers, from seat maps to price lists, she can make universal changes to fees, layouts, or seat holds in seconds.

"If I make a change to a standard hold map or masked seats I can update every single show in an instant. That saves not just minutes but potentially hours."

 

Even when Emily's changing price bands or holds for a single show, she loves how the selection tool in Spektrix makes it easy to "scoop up" rows or blocks and apply changes, rather than clicking seats on one.

 

Committed to customer service

"I've definitely been with other customer service opportunities and other ticketing systems, and the customer service was the reason that we were looking for other things, because when you need help, you need help.

And you find it at Spektrix, even if it's not the answer that you thought you were looking for."

 

Honest and supportive

When Fox Tucson gave notice to their previous event ticketing software supplier, they were allowed only a very small window in which to complete the switch to Spektrix.

"And the entire team at Spektrix just rose to the challenge, and were honest and supportive and determined at every step of the way. It's very comforting to know that kind of determination is behind you."


That level of determination and support has continued since the transition, as team members have weaned themselves away from the idea of separate marketing and ticketing systems, and learned to work more collaboratively with Spektrix. Training, support, and consultancy is all-inclusive for Spektrix users, and the Client Success team has worked with Emily and her colleagues to empower the team with training and efficiencies, proactively suggesting opportunities to achieve even more.

"They don't only direct us to certain training resources, but look at the project we're trying to figure out and suggest what we might need. And when that brings up new questions, the team is constantly there to suggest an answer."

 

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