Goodbye Spreadsheets and Paper Tickets: How SchoolTix and Sticitt Are Taking School Events Online

Picture this: If you’ve ever helped organise a school concert, you know how painful the old way usually works. The seat list lives in a massive, messy spreadsheet. Tickets are printed, sold at the school office, and reconciled by hand. Parents queue around the block at reception to pay, teachers spend countless evenings matching names to seat numbers, and by the time the curtain rises, the admin has taken as much energy as the show itself.

Sound familiar? We built SchoolTix to change that for good.

Meet SchoolTix: Built Specifically for Schools

SchoolTix (schooltix.co.za) is a South African online ticketing platform built specifically for school events: concerts, plays, sports days, fundraisers, and pageant shows.

Here is how seamless it is:

• For Schools: Schools create their event, design a seating plan that matches their real venue- whether it's a school hall, theatre, or sports field- and sell tickets online with real-time sales reporting.

• For Parents: Parents find the event, choose exactly where they want to sit, pay online, and simply show the QR ticket on their phone at the gate.

Result? No spreadsheets. No paper tickets. No queues at the office.

And here is one thing we’re especially proud of: SchoolTix charges 0% commission on ticket sales. School events, especially fundraisers, exist to raise money for the school, so we don’t take a single cent of your revenue.

Powered Behind the Scenes by Sticitt

Behind every one of those ticket sales is Sticitt.

Sticitt is the engine, the payment gateway, behind SchoolTix. Every ticket bought on our platform is paid through Sticitt. When a parent books seats for the school concert, Sticitt processes that payment securely in the background, and the school receives clean, reconciled ticket revenue without touching cash or chasing payments.

Why does this partnership work so well?

Because Sticitt is doing for the school campus what we’re doing for school events: replacing manual, paper-based processes with one simple digital experience. From tuckshops and school fees to fundraising collections — Sticitt brings it all into one cashless ecosystem built for how schools actually work. Let’s be honest: schools don’t want ten different apps and ten different reconciliation headaches; they want fewer moving parts and less admin for staff who already have full plates.

"Within two hours, the school was registered, the event was listed, and tickets were ready to go."

Real World Impact: From First Call to Sold-Out Sales in Under 24 Hours

Here’s what this looks like in practice.

A school recently approached us ahead of its 120-year celebration concert, asking if SchoolTix could help with ticket sales for the event. Our team got to work, and in record time, within two hours, the school was registered, the event was listed, and tickets were ready to go on sale the following morning.

When sales opened at 08:00 sharp, hundreds of tickets were sold in the first three hours. The system handled the volume with ease — parents selected their exact seats and paid online effortlessly, with every payment processed through Sticitt.

• For the school: It took the event and its branding to the next level.

• For parents: It was as easy as booking any other major concert ticket online — no waiting in line at the school reception desk.

That’s exactly the experience we set out to build: schools are our priority, and we’re here to support them every step of the way.

What’s Next for the Digital Campus?

This collaboration is just getting started. Together, SchoolTix and Sticitt are working towards a future where a school’s entire event, from the moment a parent books a seat to the moment they walk through the gate, runs on one simple, digital, admin-free journey.

Ready to Upgrade Your Next School Event?

If your school is still managing events on spreadsheets and paper tickets, we have good news: it doesn’t have to, and switching won’t cost your school a cent in commission. Every rand a ticket raises stays right where it belongs — with the school.

👉 Visit schooltix.co.za today to see how online ticketing works, and talk to Sticitt about what a cashless campus can do for your school.