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. 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
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in 2012. It has sponsored events including the National Rural Touring Awards, the Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival and
Pride Cymru's Big Weekend.
In 2014, the company launched TicketSource in the
United States
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and the
Eurozone
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.
In 2016, ''
The Times
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'' included it in a list of companies making excessive charges for credit-card payments.
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.
References
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Companies based in Cardiff
Ticket sales companies