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Festicket and tappit partner to bring cashless experience to festivals
Published by Gbaf News
Posted on September 26, 2018
2 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
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Published by Gbaf News
Posted on September 26, 2018
2 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Festicket, the world’s largest online booking platform for music festivals, is teaming up with cashless payments experts tappit to help festivals go cashless and deliver an even better experience for event-goers.
Festicket provides ticket booking services to more than 1,000 festivals worldwide, as well as accommodation and transfers.
By teaming up with tappit, Festicket is making it easier for festivals to integrate cashless solutions into their offering, improving the experience for revellers across the world.
Using tappit’s cashless technology, in the form of prepaid cards or payment wristbands, festival-goers will be able to experience faster and more secure transactions across an event. For event-goers, this means less time spent queuing, and more time with family and friends enjoying the party atmosphere. Festival organisers benefit too, as – the cashless system provides invaluable data about event-goer behaviour to help them enhance the fan experience at future events. This includes addressing health and safety challenges through improved crowd flow, as well as learning more about which food and drink outlets were hot and which were not in order to help create an even better festival next time.
tappit’s payment technology is already being used by several large festivals, including Bestival and Creamfields, where festival-goers are able to load up their cards or wristbands with cash before the festival starts.
Matt Ephgrave, Chief Operations Officer at Festicket, said: “We’ve seen the popularity of cashless services continue to grow at festivals, as many festival-goers are keen to avoid carrying large amounts of cash with them and yet still want to easily pay for services on-site. tappit have a great track record working with sporting and music events, so we’re very excited to be teaming up with them to help festivals offer more payment options to everyone.”
CEO of tappit, Jason Thomas, commented: “The benefits of a cashless system for festival owners are clear. You get a proven return on investment, better business insight and improved fan satisfaction. Going cashless isn’t as complicated or time-consuming as people think, either – the entire system can be set up in under a month. By partnering with Festicket, we’re looking forward to bringing these benefits to even more events across the UK and beyond.”
For more information, go to: justtappit.com.
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