Recital ticketing for dance studios.
Recital ticketing for dance studios is selling showcase tickets to families on your own studio domain, with QR tickets and door check-in, where the studio is the merchant of record. Floorwork does this for $199 per month.
The recital ticketing problem
Recital season is the busiest week of a studio's year, and the ticket sale is where it most often goes sideways. A showcase draws far more buyers than a normal class: each dancer has parents, grandparents, and siblings who all want a seat, and they all try to buy in the same forty-eight hours after you announce the date. A paper sign-up sheet at the front desk cannot absorb that, and a generic event-ticket site sends families off to a third-party brand that has nothing to do with your studio.
The usual workarounds all leak. Selling tickets through a general marketplace means the buyer's card statement reads as that marketplace, not your studio, and the platform keeps the customer relationship and a cut of every sale. Free spreadsheet sign-ups have no payment attached, so you chase families for cash at the door. And a separate ticketing tool is yet another login, another brand, and another seam in the middle of what should feel like one studio experience.
What a studio actually needs is to sell recital tickets on its own website, take the payment cleanly, let a parent buy several tickets for the whole family in one checkout, and then check everyone in at the door without a clipboard. That is the gap Floorwork is built to close.
How recital ticketing works on Floorwork
Recital ticketing reuses the same inline booking and QR check-in engine that runs your regular classes, so there is no second system to learn. Here is the flow from announcement to the night of the show.
1. List the recital on your own site
The showcase appears as page content on your studio domain, alongside the class schedule, with the date, venue, call times, and ticket price. Families land on your address, not a vendor subdomain or a third-party marketplace.
2. Families buy tickets inline
A parent picks the number of tickets and checks out without leaving your site. There is no modal wizard and no redirect: the purchase is page content, the same inline flow students already use to book a class or buy a class pack.
3. Payment runs with the studio as merchant of record
Tickets are paid through Stripe Connect on direct charges, so your studio name is what appears on the family's card statement. Floorwork takes only an application fee, and the studio owns the customer relationship and the funds.
4. Each ticket becomes a QR code
Every paid ticket is issued as a scannable QR ticket, delivered to the buyer. A family that buys four seats gets four tickets they can show on a phone, the same ticket format Floorwork already uses for classes and room rentals.
5. Check families in at the door
On the night of the show, staff scan QR tickets from a phone or tablet to admit guests. No printed list, no manual cross-off, and no doubt about who has paid. Door check-in is the same tool you use for class attendance.
What is included
Recital ticketing is part of the platform, not an add-on with separate pricing. Everything below is included in the studio subscription.
- Ticket sales on your domain
- Families browse and buy recital tickets on your studio apex, with no vendor brand and no redirect in the middle of the sale.
- Multiple tickets per checkout
- A parent buys several tickets in one transaction for the whole family, rather than running checkout once per seat.
- QR tickets
- Every paid ticket is issued as a scannable QR code on the buyer's phone, the same ticket format used for classes.
- Door check-in
- Scan tickets from a phone or tablet to admit guests on the night, using the same check-in tool as class attendance.
- Studio as merchant of record
- Stripe Connect direct charges put your studio name on the family's card statement and keep the funds and customer with you.
- Simple, flat pricing
- Ticketing is part of the $199 per month per studio subscription. Additional locations are $49 per month each.
General admission today, reserved seating on the roadmap
To be straight about what ships today: Floorwork sells general-admission recital tickets, where a family buys a number of seats rather than picking specific chairs from a seating chart. For most studio showcases held in a school auditorium or a community theater, general admission is exactly how tickets are sold, so this covers the common case fully.
Reserved seat selection, where a buyer chooses a specific seat from a visual map, is designed for but not yet shipped. If your venue assigns numbered seats, plan on general admission for now and treat seat-by-seat selection as a future capability rather than a current one. We would rather tell you plainly than imply a feature that is not live.
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Recital ticketing FAQ
- How do dance studios sell recital tickets?
- With Floorwork, a studio sells recital tickets directly on its own website. The showcase is listed as page content on the studio domain, families buy tickets inline through Stripe with the studio as merchant of record, and each paid ticket is issued as a QR code that staff scan at the door. There is no third-party marketplace and no vendor subdomain in the flow.
- Can families buy multiple tickets at once?
- Yes. A parent can buy several recital tickets in a single checkout for the whole family, rather than completing the purchase once per seat. Each ticket is issued as its own scannable QR code, so a family that buys four tickets receives four codes to show at the door.
- Are recital tickets checked in at the door?
- Yes. Every paid ticket becomes a QR code, and staff scan tickets from a phone or tablet to admit guests on the night of the show. It is the same door check-in tool Floorwork uses for class attendance, so there is no separate system to learn and no printed guest list to cross off by hand.
- Can buyers choose specific seats?
- Today Floorwork sells general-admission recital tickets, where a family buys a number of seats rather than picking specific chairs. That covers the common case of an auditorium or community theater showcase. Reserved seat selection from a visual seating map is designed for but not yet shipped, so plan on general admission for now if your venue uses numbered seats.
- How much does recital ticketing cost?
- Recital ticketing is included in the Floorwork subscription at $199 per month per studio, with no separate ticketing fee. Additional studio locations are $49 per month each. Card processing runs through Stripe with the studio as merchant of record, and Floorwork takes only an application fee on each sale.