Creating a complete high school ticketing platform

The Challenge

Printing over 150 million tickets to over 10,000 high schools across the United States, Huddle was interested in exploring opportunities to move beyond paper for high school event ticketing.

Digital Scientists worked with the team at Huddle to create a clean, easy-to-use consumer experience while also creating a comprehensive back-end that could be trusted by schools to handle a high volume of ticket transactions.

Jobs To Be Done

• Purchase tickets for sporting events using a mobile device
• Successfully validate admission even where cell reception is poor
• Accurately track disburse funds to school accounts
• Allow schools to create a branded presence for event marketing

What we did

After a rigorous design and development cycle of only 2.5 months, GoFan was originally released late in the Fall season as a limited test to four high schools inside the metro Atlanta area. High school ticket buyers showed a strong interest in adopting GoFan, with some schools showing as high as a 50% adoption rate with only limited advertising of the new platform.

For athletic departments, the ability to provide event reconciliation reporting quickly moved from being a ‘nice to have’ to a must.

engagements

• Innovation Research
• Product Design + Development

technology stack

• Ionic Framework
• Stripe Payment API
• ElasticSearch
• Google Firebase
• Ruby on Rails

experiences delivered

• Responsive Desktop & Mobile App
• Admin & Financial Reconciliation Applications
• Box Office Mobile Ticket Scanning App