Portals
Private links for presales, sponsors and VIPs
A portal is a sales link with its own address, your-shop.byticks.com/p/CODE, for a sponsor, promoter or fan club. It can sell hidden tickets, open the sale early, ask for a password and count its own sales.
Early access
A presale before the public sale
Switch on Early access for this link and set when it starts. Visitors with the link can buy before the public sale, while everyone else keeps seeing the normal countdown.
- Early access ends when the public sale starts, or at a moment you choose
- It only opens a sale earlier: the public sale and sale end never move
- For a private presale, add a password: visitors enter it first
Hidden tickets
Tickets only the link can buy
Create a ticket, leave it switched off and add it to a portal. It stays hidden on your public event page, and only people with the portal link can buy it.
For a sponsor price or a free guest list, make a separate ticket type with that price.
- Portal type: the link opens the event page with only the portal's tickets
- Shop type: the link opens your shop and still counts visits and sales
- Works on normal events and on seating events
Seating events
Seats held back for one link
On a seating event a portal can hold seats. In the event's Channels tab, you select the seats, pick the portal and click Allocate.
The public sees those seats as taken. Visitors who come through that portal's link can book them, and the open seats as well.
- Channel cards show held, sold and free seats per portal
- On standing zones a channel holds a number of places
- Release seats any time to put them back on sale
Results per link
See what every link sells
Every portal counts Clicks, Unique visitors, Conversions and Tickets Sold. Admins also see Your Earnings: your share of the portal's sales after the byTicks split.
Want a sponsor to see their results? Create a read-only share link and choose what it shows. Switch it off or revoke it whenever you like.
Example
A fan club presale before the public sale
Your fan club should get the first chance to buy, while the public only sees the countdown.
- Early access soon
The link
Fridayearly access startsA portal with the presale ticket, a password and a start moment. You send it to your fan club.
- Selling early
Fans buy first
€ 20+ € 0.50 feeWith the link and the password they buy the presale ticket. Everyone else still sees the countdown.
- Early access ended
Public sale
€ 25+ € 0.50 feeEarly access ends when the public sale starts, and the regular ticket opens to everyone.
- Analytics
Results
377Tickets SoldEvery sale counts for this link, and portal orders appear in Orders like any other order.
Works well with
Give every partner their own link
Included in every byTicks shop. No setup fee, no monthly fee.