Coordinate your event activities with ease using Zoho Backstage. Manage all your ticket orders in one place before the event. Then, during the event, communicate last minute changes like speaker substitutions, session delays, and much more, and ensure that speakers are ready with their presentations. With these tasks taken care of, you can focus on hosting your event, where attendees revel in the experience as the day unfolds.
Managing orders
Oversee the orders for your event as people book their spot online. Access tools to forward, transfer, and revoke an attendee's ticket, and modify details in the attendee's profiles in an instant.
View an order
Access the ticket orders for your event, view a summary of each, view a list of those who are part of an order, and much more.
- Go to Registrations > Overview > Orders from the dock.
- Here you will see the following details for each order:
- The order ID
- The purchaser's name
- Number of tickets in the order
- The total amount received from the ticket sales
Note: You can hover over the Amount to get more information on individual ticket costs and the amount of discount availed.
- Click
to expand an order to view the following details:
- The ticket ID and type
- The attendee's name and email address
- The source of registration
- Click the View button for the order to see all order details in the Order details panel.
Note: To preview each ticket click
for any ticket in the order.
- Click the View link to view attendee and their ticket details.
Note: To access the list of your attendees, go to the Registrations > Overview > Attendees and click the Attendees tab. You can view and edit attendee details here. You can also reassign an attendee's ticket from this tab.
Edit an order
Modify details collected during registration from all fields in the ticket registration form. This includes the custom form fields you've added.
- Go to Registrations > Overview > Orders from the dock.
- Here you will see the following details for each order.
- Click dropdown menu associated with an order and click the Edit order option. The Edit order details panel will display.
- Modify the necessary details.
- Click Save.
Note: When editing an order, the billing address, purchaser's email address, and the tax details fields can't be modifying.
Download a ticket
Download ticket details registered by someone in your event from Registrations.
- Go to Registrations > Overview > Orders from the dock.
- All registered orders for your event will be displayed.
- Click
to expand an order.
- Click the
icon to download the order to your local system.
Print a ticket
Procure a printed copy of an attendee's ticket from Registrations.
- Go to Registrations > Overview > Orders from the dock.
- Click
to expand an order.
- Click the
icon to print it.
Resend a ticket to an attendee
Forward an attendee's ticket if they lost the original email, or want quick access to their ticket.
- Go to Registrations > Overview > Orders from the dock.
- Click
to expand and view the tickets in an order.
- Click
to resend the ticket via email to the attendee who currently holds that ticket.
Add an order
Keep your registration history up-to-date and have it accessible in one place by manually adding offline purchases to Backstage.
- Go to Registrations > Overview > Orders from the dock.
- Click the Add order link in the top-right corner.
- Select the tickets purchased from the Choose your tickets section.
- Enter the promo code used in the Promo Code textbox.
- Click the Apply button.
- Click the Continue button in the bottom-right.
- Add the details of the ticket buyer, such as the name and email address.
- Check the Use buyer information checkbox to use the buyer's information for all the tickets in the order.
- Click the Continue button.
- Click Done.
Mark an offline registration payment as paid
If a ticket order is paid through offline means like cash, cheque, or bank transfer, you can confirm the order payment manually after you receive the amount from attendees.
- Go to Registrations > Overview > Orders from the dock.
- Click the dropdown to the right of an offline order.
- Select the Mark as paid option. The Mark as paid panel will display.
- Optional: Add more information regarding the payment in the Additional notes textbox.
- Click the Mark as paid button. The Payment successful pop-up will display.
- Click the Done button.
Cancel a free order
Update your order list by canceling orders of purchasers who do not want to attend the event.
- Go to Registrations > Overview > Orders from the dock.
- Click the dropdown menu for an order, then select the Cancel Order option. The Cancel Order panel will display with the order details.
- Enter a reason for cancellation.
- Select the checkboxes associated with the tickets that you need to cancel.
- Click the Cancel Order button.
Refund a paid order
Issue a refund of the amount you collected when you cancel paid orders of attendees who do not want to attend your event. For online orders, payouts will be processed automatically through the payment gateway that you linked with your Backstage portal. For orders that were done with offline methods, ensure that the amount is refunded manually.
You can refund an order in full or you can make a partial refund for instances like when your ticket price includes any non-refundable fees, or if there is a drop in ticket prices. You can also issue a refund without canceling the ticket, if needed.
- Go to Registrations > Overview > Orders from the dock.
- Click the dropdown to the left of the order you want to refund, then select the Cancel and Refund option. The Cancel Order panel will display with the order details.
- Enter a reason for refunding the order.
- Select the checkboxes associated with the tickets that you need to cancel, refund, or both.

- Enter the amount that is to be refunded in the Amount text box that is associated with the selected ticket.
- To provide a full refund, enter the maximum amount indicated below the Amount text box.
- To partially refund the ticket amount, enter an amount lower than the maximum.
- To cancel a ticket without refund, enter the number 0.
- Click the Cancel toggle for a selected ticket to revoke it and access to the event and its website from the ticket holders.
- Click the Offline refund radio button to repay the purchaser manually. Alternatively, click the Online refund radio button to automatically issue the amount through the payment gateway that is linked to your portal.
Note: Orders made through the website can be refunded offline as well as online. For offline orders, you can only make an offline refund.
- Click the Proceed button.
Note:
- Orders that you added manually to Backstage can only be refunded offline.
- Orders that are refunded are not automatically canceled. To cancel, ensure that you select the Cancel toggle button for any ticket in the Orders tab or Attendees tab under Registrations > Overview.