Toutless Chooses Safe Seats to Power New Irish Ticket Exchange
Safe Seats has partnered with Toutless.com, Ireland's most popular ticket exchange community, to bring Irish sports and concert fans a safer, cleaner, and quicker way to buy and sell tickets.
Launched in 2008, Toutless was known as the go-to text based forum where fans could find each other and swap tickets directly at face value. That community is still at the core of what they do, but it now has a modern home. Toutless has launched a brand new transactional website built on Safe Seats' proprietary technology, so buying and selling can happen in one place with the payment and handover handled securely from start to finish. Payments and payouts are securely routed through Trustap via the Safe Seats integration.
This is a big moment for Safe Seats too. The Toutless launch marks the international debut of Safe Seats which opens the door for fans and partners well beyond where we started.
More of what made this launch stand out was how quickly it came together. Using Safe Seats' carefully constructed documentation and architecture, built on over six years of experience, the Toutless team was able to build a production-ready website from the ground up in less than four months. For a project that moves real money and real tickets, that is a fast turnaround, and it speaks to how straightforward the integration process has become. We would like to take a moment to give thanks to the patience and coordination of the Toutless team as they heavily assisted in perfecting the partner integration process.
A word from the Toutless founders
"The partnership with Safe Seats is huge. We've had to close our registration due to issues with scammers. The new platform allows us to re-open our site to the public while ensuring safe ticket trading for all of our users."
When asked about how Toutless users have felt about the transition, they say, "The feedback so far has been fantastic. Toutless is a brilliant community of event lovers, and in Ireland, events are woven into everyday life. Football, music, GAA, whatever it is, there's always something worth going to. Getting to help fans get tickets to other fans is a genuinely great feeling, and that's what we think people will respond to."
The Toutless team doesn't plan on launching the site and going laissez-faire. They plan on maintaining and improving their platform for years to come: "We will be implementing further security features, a mobile app, and community driven updates to help shape the future of Toutless."
Simple and fair fees
Buyers pay a small fee of ~8% per order. Sellers pay nothing at all. There are no listing fees and no selling fees, so if you are passing on a ticket you cannot use, you keep the full amount you agreed on.
Are you a business interested in integrating?
If you run a ticketing community, marketplace, or event business and you are reading this thinking you would like something similar, we would love to hear from you. The same technology that powers Toutless is available to partners who want a secure transactional platform of their own. You can reach out to us through our contact form and we will be happy to talk through what an integration could look like for you.
A closer look coming soon
This is only the start of the Toutless story. We will be publishing a full case study at the end of the year that digs into how the partnership came together, how the launch performed, and what both teams learned along the way. Keep an eye on the blog for that one.
We are proud to help bring a safer ticket exchange to Ireland, and even prouder to take Safe Seats international while doing it.
Buy and sell your Irish event, concert, and sports ticket on Toutless.com now!