As part of a new digital transformation strategy at Hampshire Cultural Trust, I recently completed the rollout of Vend POS across 15 arts and museum venues.
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Choosing a payments provider for your POS, ticketing, website or e-commerce project
Over the past 18 months I have been working as a digital transformation manager at Hampshire Cultural Trust, and I recently launched a new POS system across 15 of our venues. This project was implemented alongside two new ticketing providers for museum admissions and arts events, plus the launch of six new websites and an online donations platform.
Subsequently our payments strategy (or lack of) was thrown into the project mix. This article explores just a few of the technical and financial considerations you’ll need to explore when approaching a POS, ticketing, website or ecommerce project.
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Back in the summer of 2017 as a new digital transformation manager, I was tasked with implementing a new ticketing and box office platform for 3 arts venues at Hampshire Cultural Trust to coincide with the launch of 6 new websites.
Considerable research indicated two leading ticketing suppliers in the arts sector: Ticketsolve and Spektrix. Both platforms were promoted as arts ticketing solutions, evident from their own marketing material and respective customers.
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Digital asset management (DAM) is a new area of technology which aims to solve increasingly frequent workflow problems across a range of business departments.
A DAM platform is typically a centralised database of photos, videos, documents and other related media files, including design assets, branding assets and brand guidelines.
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