Ticket Broker & Event Payment Processing

Events are future-delivery businesses: fans pay now for a night months away, and cancellations hit acquirers hard. Roots sets up processing and reserve terms around your event calendar, for virtually any legal business, subject to underwriting.
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Payment solutions for tickets & events

How these solutions work for tickets & events

See what each option adds to the way your business takes and tracks payments.

High-Risk Merchant Account

For tickets & events: Present your model for advance ticket sales, event packages and booking fees to specialist processing partners, with product and fulfillment documentation prepared.
  • Pre-underwriting review of your website, checkout, and documents (resale licenses where required, inventory sourcing, and delivery policy)
  • Application packaged and submitted only to acquirers with appetite for your category
  • Plain-English walkthrough of pricing, reserve, and termination terms before you sign
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E-commerce Payments

For tickets & events: Add online checkout for advance ticket sales, event packages and booking fees, with order references carried through payment and fulfillment.
  • Check that your cart platform's own acceptable-use policy allows your products
  • Gateway setup, fraud-rule tuning, and test transactions before launch
  • Checkout disclosure review (refunds, shipping, age or eligibility limits)
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Chargeback Management

For tickets & events: Organize evidence for disputed advance ticket sales, event packages and booking fees, including customer authorizations, delivery details and service records.
  • Discuss your business goals on a free consultation
  • Coordinate your provider introduction and setup
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Payouts

For tickets & events: Distribute amounts owed to promoters, performers and ticket sellers, with payment references matched to event dates, ticket references and refund histories.
  • We design the payout flow and connect it to your software
  • We coordinate onboarding with our licensed partners
  • We support you after launch
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ACH Payments

For tickets & events: Offer bank-account payments for advance ticket sales, event packages and booking fees, with authorization and invoice matching built into the workflow.
  • ACH underwriting alongside your card account
  • Authorization language and receipt templates
  • Integration into invoices, checkout, or your CRM
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Transfer initiated

$5,438.00 · ref ACH-7731

Crypto Payments & Conversion

For tickets & events: Plan a digital-asset payment option for advance ticket sales, event packages and booking fees, with conversion and reconciliation mapped to the sale.
  • Introduction and onboarding support with our service partners
  • Checkout placement alongside card and ACH options
  • Customer-facing FAQ copy
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Marketplace Payments

For tickets & events: Collect customer payments for advance ticket sales, event packages and booking fees and allocate proceeds to promoters, performers and ticket sellers within the marketplace workflow.
  • We design the funds flow with our partners
  • We integrate with your platform
  • Roots Payments is not a bank or money transmitter
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Payment Gateway

For tickets & events: Connect online or remote checkout for advance ticket sales, event packages and booking fees to a gateway that fits your business systems.
  • We connect the gateway to your software
  • We set fraud and authorization rules for your business
  • We support you after launch
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Mobile Payments

For tickets & events: Collect payments for advance ticket sales, event packages and booking fees away from a fixed counter, with transactions recorded against the sale or job.
  • Device selection and setup
  • Field staff training
  • Receipt and evidence templates for disputes
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Roots POS

For tickets & events: Bring advance ticket sales, event packages and booking fees into a business-tools workflow, with setup, staff training and reporting for event dates, ticket references and refund histories.
  • Catalog import and SKU setup
  • Hardware recommendations and configuration
  • Staff training on age-verification and refund workflows
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Payment approved

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Tickets & Events we set up and support

Tickets & Events payment questions

Start with the workflows your business needs. Options on this page include Ticket Broker Merchant Account, Ticket Broker Payment Gateway, Ticket Broker Chargeback Management. Roots helps compare the setup, software and processing requirements around how you operate.
Yes. Bring your current POS, checkout or billing tools and recent processing statements. We review your product catalog, checkout, account history and processing application, then plan the changes your tickets & events business needs.
Request a quote for your business. The review covers your payment mix, locations, software, hardware recommendations and implementation work. Consultations and payment reviews are free.
Bring recent payment statements, the systems you use and a record of how a customer places an order, receives a service or pays a bill. Tell us which tickets & events workflows need to improve so we can scope a practical setup.

Payments for tickets & events, set up right

Talk to our sales team about your setup, or become a partner and bring us your merchants.
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