TicketSource
{{Short description|Ticketing agent and box office provider}}
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| company_type = Private
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| area_served = Europe, United States
| location_city = Cardiff, United Kingdom
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| url = {{url|ticketsource.co.uk}}
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| launch_date = 2004
| current_status = Active
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| website_type = Ticket sales, event management
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TicketSource Limited{{Cite web |date=2004-02-13 |title=Ticketsource Limited overview - Find and update company information - Gov.uk |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05043301 |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=Companies House |language=en}} is a box-office management system provider based in Penarth, Wales. The company was founded in 2004 by Alex McLauchlan and Simon Wilsher, a theatre enthusiast, to help amateur theatre groups with their online ticket sales and booking.{{Cite web|url=https://businessnewswales.com/penarth-based-ticketsource-celebrates-15-years/|title=Penarth Based TicketSource Celebrates 15 Years|date=2019-02-22|website=Business News Wales|access-date=2019-07-01}} The TicketSource system still supports a free version of the software based on the original offering.
It joined the Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers in 2012.{{Cite web|url=https://www.star.org.uk/starmembers/full-members/ticketsource|title=Full Members|publisher=Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415182353/https://www.star.org.uk/starmembers/full-members/ticketsource|archivedate=15 April 2012|df=dmy-all}} Archived 15 April 2012. It has sponsored events including the National Rural Touring Awards,{{Cite web|title=first rural touring awards announced|url=http://www.ruraltouring.org/latest/first-rural-touring-awards-announced|website=Penarth Times|accessdate=20 July 2017}}{{Cite web|title=Winners of the Inaugural TicketSource Rural Touring Awards Announced |url=http://www.sardinesmagazine.co.uk/atd/profiles/blog.php?blogID=947&castingID=77|date=1 July 2017|website=sardinesmagazine.co.uk|accessdate=21 July 2017}} the Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival{{Cite web |url=http://www.cardifffringetheatrefestival.co.uk/ |title=Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival |access-date=20 July 2017 |archive-date=9 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709150955/http://www.cardifffringetheatrefestival.co.uk/ |url-status=dead }} and Pride Cymru's Big Weekend.{{cite web |last1=Mainwaring |first1=Rachel |title=All you need to know about Cardiff's Pride Cymru 2017 |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/pride-cymrus-big-weekend-2017-13505418 |website=walesonline |date=21 August 2017}}
In 2014, the company launched TicketSource in the United States and the Eurozone.{{Cite web|url=http://techdragons.wales/interview-alex-mclauchlan-co-founder-of-ticketsource/|title=Interview: Alex McLauchlan, co-founder of TicketSource|date=2017-07-25|website=Tech Dragons|access-date=2019-07-01}}
In 2016, The Times included it in a list of companies making excessive charges for credit-card payments.{{Cite news|author=Andrew Ellson|title=The great credit card rip–off|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/the-great-credit-card-con-5zbp2d28h|work=The Times|date=10 December 2016|access-date=20 July 2017}}
In 2017, the website had been used by more than 20,000 organizers of events, and was ranked 20th in a list of the 50 fastest-growing companies in Wales.{{Cite web|title=The expanding Welsh firm whose online technology sells tickets for thousands of events globally|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/business-news/expanding-welsh-firm-whose-online-13218295|website=Wales Online|accessdate=19 July 2017|author=Sion Barry|date=21 June 2017}}{{Cite web|title=Penarth ticketing company named in top 20 fastest growing businesses in Wales|url=http://www.penarthtimes.co.uk/news/14841452.Penarth_ticketing_company_named_in_top_20_fastest_growing_businesses_in_Wales|website=Penarth Times|accessdate=19 July 2017|author=Anthony Lewis}}{{Cite web|title=High-growth online ticketing firm opens new office in Penarth|url=http://techdragons.wales/high-growth-online-ticketing-firm-opens-new-office-in-penarth/|website=techdragons.wales|accessdate=21 July 2017|date=6 July 2017|author=Nicholas Fearn}}