We proudly present: Ticket Sharing

An easy way to give and share tickets safely.

It is with great pride that we announce the public release of our new Ticket Sharing feature. Every updated GUTS Tickets app now supports this feature.

Smart Tickets sold by GUTS could of course previously already be sold (anonymously), using the GUTS Tickets platform as a ‘mediator’. However, this did not cover all use cases and consumer needs. This was for example tricky in the case of someone wanting to gift a ticket to a friend. Another potentially difficult moment of usage would be if large groups of people arrive at different times (at a festival for example), who would then have to wait for each other before entering the event.

If you don’t share, you don’t care.

Although these are somewhat edge cases, our focus on mainstream adoption means that our system should be as user-friendly and effortless as possible. (That helps take some of the pressure off our dear support team as well!)

It also means we take suggestions and demands from our users seriously.

We want to not only make ticketing honest, but also more fun and easier for everyone.

This feature was a tricky one nonetheless, as it loosens the way people can move around tickets, which in turn opens up the potential for scalping and fraud. We had to find a way to give this freedom to users, without exposing them to the risks of fraud and reselling we eliminated in the first place.

With this in mind, we have designed ‘Ticket Sharing’; Instead of transferring tickets specifically between people, you invite your friends / family members to the event you have tickets for. Anyone you invite and accepts your invitation will FULLY OWN all tickets of that event, just like you.

This means that everyone in the group can use the tickets, put them up for sale (within the GUTS Tickets platform) and receive money for this. This core principle ensures that there must be trust within all people in the group, and places the responsibility for this on the original owner and the invitees.