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Percy Tucker (10 July 1928 – 29 January 2021) was a South African ticket booking agent and author. He launched the first electronic theatre booking system in the world in 1971. [1] He was regarded as a pioneer in the entertainment industry of South Africa. He was also nicknamed as South Africa's ticket master. [2]
Ticketer is the brand name for a range of electronic ticket machines provided by British company Corvia Ltd, primarily for usage on buses. [1] The cloud-based system, [2] first marketed on a small scale in 2008, has since developed into a rival to the three major ticket issuing systems used by bus companies throughout Britain.
The former AFC barrier gates at Southern Cross station in the Melbourne Metcard AFC System. An automated fare collection (AFC) system is the collection of components that automate the ticketing system of a public transportation network – an automated version of manual fare collection. An AFC system is usually the basis for integrated ticketing.
The Opal ticketing system replaced other tickets. The pre-existing magnetic-stripe system tickets were retired in stages: From 1 June 2014, Pensioner Excursion Tickets, MyMulti Daypass and Family Funday Sunday tickets were no longer available for purchase onboard all State Transit buses, and had to be pre-purchased before boarding. [42]
The Better Online Ticket Sales Act of 2016 (Pub.L. 114-274, S.3183, commonly referred to as the BOTS Act) was signed into federal law by President Barack Obama on December 14, 2016. [1] This act was created to thwart attempts by individuals and organization to automate the process of purchasing tickets en masse using ticket bots.
Electronic tickets can also be held in a smart phone and shown to the conductor using an app. Mobile tickets are common with operators of US commuter train networks (e.g. MTA LIRR and Metro North) but they are usually only offered on the US version of the App Store and only accept US-issued credit cards as the app's payment page asks the user ...
IBM IRES (IBM Retail Environment for SUSE LINUX) [6] retail functions such as those provided by IBM's 4690 features, including Server-based POS loading and booting, Industry-standard system-wide configuration and change management, Automatic problem determination with single-step dump button support, Combined server/terminal support, Client preload GUI and Remote Management Agent for systems ...
Critics of the industry compare the resale of tickets online to ‘ticket touting’, ‘scalping’ or a variety of other terms for the unofficial sale of tickets directly outside the venue of an event. The late 1990s and early 2000s saw the emergence of online ticket brokering as a lucrative business.