Saffire vs. Rodeo Ticket

Running a successful rodeo involves many parts – sponsors, registration, volunteers, merch, concessions, … and ticketing.

While Saffire and Rodeo Ticket both offer an integrated ticket sales process, Saffire emphasizes branding and websites. These services tend to be paid in addition to its ticketing software.

In contrast, Rodeo Ticket offers a full suite of event management tools alongside its ticketing services, including sponsorship management, volunteer coordination, non-sanctioned event registration, and integrated merchandise and concessions sales.

Secure, Integrated Sales Process

Saffire and Rodeo Ticket both offer a fully integrated ticketing system that manages advance sales, online sales, and box office sales. Payment processing on both platforms is also secure.

Saffire and Rodeo Ticket also offer fraud prevention. Details on Saffire’s fraud prevention tools are limited online. However, Rodeo Ticket offers several key ways to combat chargebacks and scalpers. With Rodeo Ticket’s tools, you can limit cart order sizes, delay sending tickets until the day of your event, and block scalpers and chargeback offenders from buying tickets from you on Rodeo Ticket. Of course, Rodeo Ticket also fights chargebacks for you.

Both companies collect a service fee with their ticketing. Details on Saffire’s service fees are limited online. However, Rodeo Ticket’s fee is: 4.97% + $1.25 per ticket. This fee includes credit card fees. You can choose to cover the fee or pass it on to your attendees.

Reporting

Both Saffire and Rodeo Ticket offer real-time reporting and analytics. With Rodeo Ticket’s reports, you can see sales by box office, year-over-year performance, retention, and ticket scans by gate.

Ticketing

Both Saffire’s and Rodeo Ticket’s systems manage timed entry tickets, season passes, group tickets, VIP tickets, general admission, and reserved seating. You can even sell and manage parking passes. Rodeo Ticket can also be used to manage stall rentals.

Both systems also make it easy to use and scan both digital tickets and print-at-home tickets.

For assigned seating, you can create custom seating charts for your arena with both Saffire and Rodeo Ticket. 

Rodeo Ticket’s specialty is ticketing, and that’s where its services start to stand out from Saffire’s. Wth Rodeo Ticket, you can note where accessible seats are and even hold seats for sponsors. You can also add photos to show ticket buyers the view from each seat so they know what to expect when they come to your rodeo.

You can cut down time spent on customer service by allowing ticket holders to make changes to their seats themselves.

Rodeo Ticket’s software also makes it easy for attendees to forward purchased tickets to their friends and family. This makes it easy for families and friend groups that do group orders to coordinate ticket access.

You can also take control of your resale market by allowing ticket buyers to put their tickets for resale on Rodeo Ticket. You set the floor and ceiling for how much tickets can be resold for. 

Rodeo Ticket’s checkout process is quick and easy, which helps increase your conversion rate. You can customize your ticketing page with photos and your logo to match your branding. Your ticketing page is yours, so there won’t be any third-party offers. To sell tickets, you can either link to your ticketing page or embed it on your website.

Marketing

Both Saffire and Rodeo Ticket offer custom promo codes and email marketing capabilities. You can even use email designs offered by the companies in your emails.

Where the two companies differ is their approaches to marketing support. Saffire offers partnerships with marketing agencies and website design. These are generally paid services.

In contrast, Rodeo Ticket offers several marketing tools included with its services: referral program, social discount, abandoned cart reminders, email list creation, and even a loyalty program. These tools help you turn attendees into your marketing team, create a loyal audience, and add more people to your email list even when your ticketing is closed.

Rodeo Ticket also offers a free, customizable marketing page to its clients. This page makes it easier for people to find your rodeo in online searches.

You can even use Rodeo Ticket’s tools to manage and track your rodeo’s traditional marketing and sales methods. You can use the referral program for Rodeo Queen ticket sales and even for sales at local businesses.

Another advantage of Rodeo Ticket: you have full ownership of your data. You’ve worked hard to create and build your rodeo over the years, and your attendees shouldn’t be distracted by third-party offers. We don’t send your attendees third-party offers.

Support

You’ll also find customer support from both Saffire and Rodeo Ticket. Saffire offers customer support via phone, email, and chat. Similarly, you can get support from your dedicated account manager at Rodeo Ticket via phone or email.

Additional Services

Saffire focuses its additional services on design – you can get assistance with logo development, branding, and website design.

In contrast, Rodeo Ticket prioritizes event management tools that make your job easier. You can use Rodeo Ticket for non-sanctioned event registration, sponsorship management, concessions sales, merchandise sales, and even for organizing your volunteer teams.

Sponsorship Management

You can sell sponsorships online or via check. You can automatically display sponsors and offers on your marketing page and at the bottom of your emails. You can even include sponsor logos on your tickets.

Concessions and Merchandise

Rodeo Ticket also makes it easy to sell merchandise online, in the ticket purchase pathway, and in-person with its integrated POS app. You can also sell concessions at your rodeo using the same POS app.

Volunteer Management

Use an online form to get volunteers to sign up with access to Come Volunteer’s software for free. Create jobs and shifts, then track progress towards meeting your volunteer needs. You can also send emails to volunteers to coordinate training and share important information.

Multi-user Access

It’s easy to work with your committee with Rodeo Ticket’s multi-user access. You can even set permissions to restrict access to certain features and protect sensitive information.

Conclusion

While Saffire offers good ticketing software, its specialty is logo and website design to support your branding efforts.

On the other hand, Rodeo Ticket emphasizes ticketing and a full suite of tools to streamline every aspect of your rodeo from ticketing and registration to sponsorships and volunteers. Its marketing tools help you grow your audience through your attendees’ networks. And, you’ll have all the data you need to make smart decisions with Rodeo Ticket’s robust reports – you can even build your own custom reports.

Rodeo Ticket offers excellent support to clients through a dedicated account manager assigned to each rodeo in addition to a full suite of rodeo management tools.

It’s software designed for rodeo committees.