Scredit Crunch

Last weekend we launched a new cheap and easy ticket sales system for the Alternative Party. For us this is our first pilot of several technologies that we are developing, and builds on our fundamental accounting architecture.

Tickets can be reserved online at the ticket site, and then purchased with PayPal, bank transfer and (soon) credit card. Tickets are then sent to the user’s email account, from where they can be printed. The difference with this system is that the tickets are machine verifiable, with our own software. Many event sites only have non-verifiable tickets.

We are considering opening up this particular feature to third parties, and probably will do so as, to be honest, it’s actually a bit neater than what’s currently out there. Our main goal has, however, been to provide a pilot for the technologies that we are busy working on, bringing Scred forwards into new territories. Indeed, it is not something we just thought up overnight but one more step towards what we ultimately have in mind, and which will be revealed when the time is right.

Users need not fear, however. Debt tracking and shared expenses is still at our core and there will be more announcements for these areas in the coming weeks. Oh, and we also plan to remain a service which really is useful (and perhaps a bit fun), instead of being yet another place telling others what you do

Arctic Startup also wrote about this.

As a side note we’re really excited about this 10th anniversary Alternative Party. More than ever before it will be combining competitions with highly talented people creating incredible visuals for their computers, but also art, science and even a few Finnish startups. The real cream for me personally is the appearance of the legendary industrial pioneer Front 242. It is one of the bands which has had a huge impact on me personally and one I have listened to for many years. In fact, we still regularly play their tracks at the Scred office. I fully recommend buying tickets right now!