This article will show you how to choose the correct pass design for your digital Event Ticket.
Terminology
Pass Design:
The common theme design for for the Event Ticket.
Digital Event Ticket:
A virtual representation of a traditional event ticket, used to gain entry to a venue
Event Ticket Pass Type:
A specific type of digital pass used to represent Event Tickets.
Basic Event Ticket:
A starting point for creating a digital pass from scratch.
Production Name:
The name of the project/production set by you.
Occurrence:
A date, time and venue where the event it taking plave
Schedule:
A list of Occurences.
Project:
A project refers to the either a Program (Membership/Loyalty), Campaign (Coupons) or Production (Event Tickets).
Project Overview:
The project overview provides a summary of your digital pass project in PassKit. This is the first page you see when clicking into the project.
What Kind of Pass Would You Like to Create?
Choose the pass type
From the project overview click on the "Create New" button.
Now shown is a selection of pre-designed options for you to choose from. We will be creating an Event Ticket.
In this case I want to create an event ticket from scratch and not use a pre-defined template so I'm going to choose the Basic Event Ticket option.
Name the Campaign
The next step is to rename the Production to something more relatable to you.
Add a schedule
We can edit the default schedule to a more appropriate date and time, and so we can issue tickets for testing.
Note: You can add as many date/times as you like, to fit with your event/venue schedule.
Click on "Event Setup" and click on the "Schedule" tab
First use the delete icon to delete the default occurrence, then click on the +Occurrence button.
Change the dates and times to suit your event.
Next add the venue
Select a venue from your list of saved venues, or add a new venue. If you have a set number of seats you can add this also, leaving it blank will allow unlimited seats.
Click "Save" when done
Test
You can issue yourself an Event Ticket to install into your Apple or Google Wallet and follow the progress of your design, and see how each change affects the card in your wallet.
Issue an Event Ticket
Navigate to the Tickets list and click on "Add"
Add the details to the form and click "Add" when done. We just need to select the Event Time and Ticket Type for testing.
Add your test pass to your Wallet
When looking at the ticket list identify your test ticket, scroll right and click on "Other Actions"
Click on "Pass URL"
Scan the QR code to add the test pass to your wallet.
View the test pass in your wallet
