Online Payments

Warning: The online payments are still new and being tested. Please contact the Finance Director with any issues.

The EUS provides its groups with an online payment service to facilitate ticket sales for events. The service could also be used for other purposes such as an apparel sale. The ticketing is done through Yapsody and the payment processing is done through Stripe.

Features

1. Online ticket sales
2. Multiple ticket types per event
3. Offer discounts on certain tickets
4. Customize the ticket's appearance
5. QR codes to scan at the event to verify tickets

Using Yapsody

Yapsody is where you'll manage the details of your event's ticket sales. To get an account, ask the Finance Director.

Creating an event

Ask the Finance Director to create an event for you. Due to a Yapsody limitation, the event has to be created for you and you will be given full permission to edit and manage the event. To find your event, click on the 'search' button on the top toolbar and type in your event's name. Then, fill in all the information for your event. You'll have to enter a 'performance' for your event in the 'performances' section. Keep in mind that Yapsody is made to sell tickets for shows and festivals. Performances are the times at which the event will take place. For most EUS event, this will simply be the time at which your event takes place.

Asking more information the the attendees

To ask event attendees more informations, such as t-shirt size or meal preference, there are a couple options. You could setup a Google Form and put the link on the registration page. While this approach is not optimal, it it the easiest and most flexible way of going about it. Another option is to create multiple ticket types to your event. For instance, MertW could have 5 types of tickets in order to ask for t-shirt sizes: 'MertW - XS', 'MertW - S', 'MertW - M', 'MertW - L', 'MertW - XL'. This approach has the advantage of ensuring that every participant chooses an option.

Finally, the third option is to use YAppSurvey. YAppSurvey is a form functionality that is integrated with Yapsody. It allows to create a form and to make attendees fill it when they buy a ticket. The only downside is that it's a bit harder to use. Ask the Finance Director if you're unsure.

Fees

There are two kinds of fees that apply when creating online events. They are Yapsody fees and Stripe fees.

Yapsody Fees

Yapsody started charging a bit of money per ticket sold. Since this happened suddenly and recently, the EUS will cover the fees, at least for now. Make sure that following bullet point is ticked. Otherwise, the yapsody fees will be charged to your customers instead of the EUS.

Stripe Fees

Stripe charges the following fees for the use of credit cards. These fees will be charged to your group ! Make sure to take them into account when planning your event's budget. Due to substantially higher fees, American Express cards have been disabled. In general, it it safe to assume that about 15% of people will pay with international credit cards and the rest, with canadian cards.

Canadian issued Visa / Visa Debit / Mastercard	2.2% + $0.30/transaction
International issued Visa / Visa Debit / Mastercard	2.7% + $0.30/transaction
American Express	3.5% + $0.00/tx

These fees are substracted from each transaction. Thus, for a canadian issued credit card, you need to multiply the ticket price by (1-0.022) and then subtract 0.30 from it to compute the amount of money you're going to get. For instance, if the ticket price is 20$, you will get 20*(1-0.022) - 0.30 = 19.26$ after Stripe fees.