We have just launched a new website for White Rose Festivals; a Yorkshire based Events Company that is organising a fantastic range of music festivals starting off with a Winter Festival at Ripley Castle in December.

It may seem early on in the year to be launching a winter festival but the website is the culmination of months of planning by the organisers. During the planning and the build of the website we have been surprised how much organising there needs to be with the venue, the performers, the facilities, even down to the seating plans. Every fine detail has been worked on including the decorations and the drinks being served.

The White Rose Festivals website has been built on the basis of an ecommerce platform with the functionality in the administrative backend to upload the different shows and the additional purchases such as hospitality, drinks packages and programmes. The ecommerce system needed to allow for each show to be set up with different categories of tickets which have a different price band, as well as stock levels for each category of tickets. There are a finite number of tickets available for each night so there needs to be extra controls in place. Along with each show there are optional extras available to enhance the evening which can be ordered along with the ticket.

The website integrates with a payment provider so that the customer can order their tickets fully online. Once the order for the tickets is complete there is full control in the backend for the ticket sales to be handled efficiently and for seat allocations to be made. The website also has a simple News section so that the latest announcements can be added to the site, along with a mailing list function.