I would like to have your opinion. I have a travel website and I’m thinking of setting up a section to sell Shows/Events Tickets. I want the customer to be able to select Mail Delivery for his tickets or Electronic tickets.
I thought that the Bar Code addon Cs-Cart uses could be useful for that purpose. Do you guys know what information that bar code stores and can it be scanned at the entrance of an event to verify it’s legit?
Well, if you buy 2 tickets, you get one barcode… where one should have gotten a barcode for each purchased ticket.
I don’t think the barcode is legit, you would probably have to have some custom programming to do what you want, your much better off using a confirmation number - Sno
I have write here in the forum that i have contacted in the past a company who have test it the code for me with an scanner, but the code doesnt include datas from the order or something. 
[QUOTE]Well, if you buy 2 tickets, you get one barcode… where one should have gotten a barcode for each purchased ticket.
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True, that’s the difficulty I wanted to tackle after confirming that the bar code included information about the product, the buyer, etc… which apparently does not. So it’s pretty much useless for what I’m trying to set up.
[QUOTE]I don’t think the barcode is legit, you would probably have to have some custom programming to do what you want, your much better off using a confirmation number - Sno
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I really like the bar code option and would like to find a freelancer to help me develop that solution : assign a bar code for each sold ticket and have this bar code contain the related product information… Can any of you guys give me an estimate on how much this would cost?
Here is an example of how it would work (it’s in French but I’m sure you’ll get the point with the snapshots 
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[url]Fnac Tickets Suisse | Achat et réservation de billets de spectacles
[quote name=‘gugga7’]I really like the bar code option and would like to find a freelancer to help me develop that solution : assign a bar code for each sold ticket and have this bar code contain the related product information… Can any of you guys give me an estimate on how much this would cost?[/QUOTE]
I would be willing to give it a go. It’s an hourly rate though. I have experience modifying CS-Cart and develop industry specific features and web sites.
Let me know if you are still in need and exactly what you are looking for and we’ll get it rockin!
GuruWebDev, you can always PM your offers to the person, I think it is more proper if you are not giving a free advice.
[quote name=‘gugga7’]I would like to have your opinion. I have a travel website and I’m thinking of setting up a section to sell Shows/Events Tickets. I want the customer to be able to select Mail Delivery for his tickets or Electronic tickets.
I thought that the Bar Code addon Cs-Cart uses could be useful for that purpose. Do you guys know what information that bar code stores and can it be scanned at the entrance of an event to verify it’s legit?[/QUOTE]
So you are looking to sell tickets to events like Ticketmaster and Stubhub do? In cases like this the barcodes have venue id’s, section, seat and other identfiers. Your barcode would have to exactly match the barcode on the original ticket which isn’t uniform throughout the industry. Any venue that sells through ticketmaster would be uniform for instance but those venues which don’t use ticketmaster and sell their tickets directly could possibly use a different process to create the characters of the barcode.
Hello Whiplash,
This won’t be a problem in my case, I will have somebody cross check the bar code and the customer name at the entrance of the venue.
Here are the features I’m looking for:
1- option to turn on and turn off the bar code feature depending on the product (I don’t sell just tickets…)
2- populate one bar code per ticket, if 10 tickets bought, then 10 bar codes. Ask for a customer name for each barcode/ticket (at the checkout level?)
3- The bar code will contain this info about the purchase : Customer name, venue, product options selected by customer : (date, time, etc…)
4- In the printout, all the info will show along with the bar code : name of customer, venue, options he chose (date, time, etc…) + bar code. Also, if 10 tickets bought, then 10 printouts…