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​NEW YORK, NY (PRWEB) NOVEMBER 05, 2015
Shubert Ticketing announces today the acquisition of Choice Ticketing Systems, an innovative, fast-growing company based in Boulder, Colorado.
“Choice Ticketing Systems has emerged as a significant player in the industry,” stated David Andrews, Senior Vice President of Shubert Ticketing. “We are thrilled to have them onboard. The potential innovations we can quickly achieve by merging our technologies are very exciting.”
Shubert Ticketing is a leading provider of high speed, transaction based ticketing services for entertainment venues across the country. The combination of ChoiceCRM with Shubert Ticketing’s advanced integrated platforms and partners — Telecharge, FIT Sales, Plum Benefits/Tickets at Work, and Audience Rewards — will create a comprehensive ticketing solution meeting the needs of multiple entertainment verticals and venues.
Doug Crothers, founder and past president of Choice Ticketing Systems said “With 25 years of service to performing arts nationwide, it’s gratifying and an honor that Shubert has chosen us to join forces to expand market reach and integrate Choice’s key technologies into the Shubert STAR system.”
The integration of Shubert and Choice technologies will accelerate advancements in customer relationship management, increase customized platform options for season subscription operations and offer comprehensive fundraising tools. An added benefit is the capability to leverage geographical location to service niche marketplaces.
Robert Sandford, CEO of Choice Ticketing stated, “Working directly with David Andrews and Shubert’s key strategists is a great match for us. Together we will expand nationally into adjacent verticals and raise the bar in the creation of greater patron relationship platforms.”
Shubert Ticketing’s annual Interactive Summit draws ticketing industry leaders and major ticketing clients from around the country to New York City’s New World Stages. This year’s well-attended October 27th event was a dynamic presentation of comprehensive overviews of the state of the industry, featuring panel discussions with representatives from prominent digital players including Google, Yelp!, Facebook, Twitter and others. Shubert Ticketing welcomes greater numbers of attendees every year at this business and networking event, which showcases Shubert’s Annual New Product Rollout.
About Shubert Ticketing:
Shubert Ticketing is a leading provider of ticketing services nationwide. At the forefront of the ticketing industry, Shubert Ticketing delivers innovative solutions for private label clients and users of its box office services, call center, and an array of marketing technologies. Drawing upon over 100 years of experience in live entertainment and venue management, Shubert Ticketing provides users of its ticketing systems with unrivaled flexibility and client support. http://www.shubertticketing.com
About Choice Ticketing:
Choice Ticketing Systems was founded in 1990 and has been a leader in providing innovative solutions, in particular to performing arts organizations. Choice Ticketing’s flagship product, ChoiceCRM, is a cloud based CRM, offering advanced technology capabilities for box office, fundraising, marketing and ticketing operations.
http://www.choiceticketing.com
Contacts:
Bill Evans
Director of Media Relations
The Shubert Organization
225 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
212-944-3780
bille(at)shubertorg.com
Brian Roberts, Sales
Senior Vice-President, Corporate Development & Strategy
broberts(at)choiceticketing.com
West Coast Office: (714)316-0567
Cell: (714)269-9740

As part of their “We are YOUR Choice” initiative, ticketing company implements NFC payment methods, including Apple Pay and Google Pay, to provide customers with touchless ways to pay during COVID-19 and beyond.


GOLDEN, COLORADO, October 7, 2020 -- Choice Entertainment Technologies today announced the launch of a contactless payments initiative for our clients using Bluefin, allowing customers to use their mobile device for a more seamless checkout experience. The implementation includes the acceptance of Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, mobile banking apps and contactless chip cards, enabled by near-field communication (NFC) technology.
"Choice is truly delighted to be able to offer contactless payments, providing the customers of our clients with an additional, touchless way to pay for their event tickets," said Mary Ann O’Rourke, Vice President of Operations at Choice. "The contactless payment solution will help make life easier for many of our customers and provide the freedom of choice among various payment options at our clients’ box office locations. In this time of COVID-19 we want to provide a way for customers to interact safely at the Box Office and feel that our partnership with Bluefin will help provide both customers and box office personnel a new measure of safety."
Choice’s technology team recently enabled touchless transactions at all box office locations that use Bluefin. The NFC technology eliminates physical contact by using a radio frequency field to transmit data between a mobile device or contactless chip card and PIN pad. When customers place their mobile device or contactless chip card near the PIN pad, payment data is transmitted from the device or card to the terminal to process the transaction. There is no need to clean credit cards or the terminal in between transactions.
"At Choice our goal is to continue to invest in the kind of innovative technologies that advance the customer experience. Today, we see this with our payment systems," said Brian Roberts, Choice’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy. "This new move shows our commitment to not only personalizing the ticket buying experience for each customer, but also for reacting quickly to the times we find ourselves in and implementing new strategies to ensure the safety of all involved in the ticket buying experience. We want to make it clear that even when faced with a pandemic of these proportions, we are YOUR Choice for now and the future.”
This “We are YOUR Choice” initiative supports the many software and process changes Choice has implemented since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to promote social distancing and safeguard associates, customers and communities. Other solutions implemented by Choice include:

• Ticketing services for event streaming, including unique access codes that help gate entry to your event and prevent sharing of admission purchased
• Seating charts that help venues display social distancing guidelines
• Terms and Conditions checkbox that help communicate required safety guidelines to customers
• Simplified, One Step ticket refunds

About Choice Entertainment Technologies
ChoiceCRM provides an all-inclusive ticketing, marketing, and fundraising solution built on the backbone of strong customer relationship management software. Our customer relationship management software allows you to create and define an ongoing relationship with your customers, while keeping all your system information together in one easy to access location.
In October of 2015, ChoiceCRM was acquired by Shubert Ticketing, a division of The Shubert Organization, Broadway’s largest theatre owner and operator, with additional venues in Boston and Philadelphia, and one of the leading forces in American theatre over 100 years. Drawing upon its vast experience as a Broadway theatre owner and producer, Shubert Ticketing delivers innovative solutions for both private label clients and users of our Telecharge box office, call center, and online services.  
The integration of Shubert and Choice technologies accelerates advancements in customer relationship management, increases customized platform options for season subscription operations and offers comprehensive fundraising tools. An added benefit is the capability to leverage geographical location to service niche marketplaces. Both Shubert Ticketing and ChoiceCRM are committed to offering the best ticketing system available with unlimited support, training, and educational resources at your fingertips. For more information, visit https://choiceticketing.com/ or email [email protected].
About Bluefin
Bluefin specializes in payment and data security technologies that protect point-of-sale (POS) and online transactions. Our security suite includes PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) for contactless face-to-face, call center, mobile and unattended payments, and our ShieldConex® data security platform for the protection of personally Identifiable Information (PII), Personal Health Information (PHI), and payment data entered online.
Bluefin provides both integrated and stand-alone solutions for retail, higher education, healthcare and more, and our partner network includes 130 processors, gateways and ISV’s serving 32 countries, with over 100 P2PE devices/applications and 14 KIFs. Bluefin holds 25 patents in the U.S., EU and Japan on our P2PE Decryption as a Service (DaaS) and P2PE Manager solutions, with an additional 15 payment and data security patents pending. Bluefin is a Participating Organization (PO) of the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC) and is headquartered in Atlanta, with an office in Waterford, Ireland. For more information, visit https://www.bluefin.com/

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GOLDEN, Colo., Nov. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Choice Entertainment Technologies today announced the launch of their new virtual event/live streaming ticketing service. Content creators and promoters needing a professional ticketing service with best-in-class support, branding and IP protection for artists now have a system for both the virtual and in person event ticketing.


(PRNewsfoto/Choice Entertainment Technologies)"When Covid-19 hit," said Mary Ann O'Rourke, Vice President of Operations at Choice. "We realized that events were going to need to go virtual, and that those virtual events would bring a whole new set of challenges when it comes to protecting artists and content creators, while enabling scale of viewership.  The "We are YOUR Choice" initiative was born to provide best-in-class ticketing with new realities of a virtual performance world – one ticket one household viewership gating."
This virtual ticketing platform is now available to all Choice clients, with new features being released at a rapid pace. "We think virtual events are here to stay," continued O'Rourke. "Our clients are finding new ways to engage with existing audiences, as well as discovering new completely new patrons.  A combination of live and virtual attendees is the way of the future. At Choice we are willing to invest in the technology to support those future audiences and help make the arts more accessible to all."
Shubert Virtual Studios, part of the Shubert Organization, a Manhattan-based theatrical producer and venue owner, has partnered with Choice to grow the pipeline of quality live streaming content. The stage-studios focus on co-locating talent on stage, and streaming live content, merging high quality studio technology with the electricity of live performance.
Choice Entertainment Technologies and Shubert Virtual Studios are committed to growing the live entertainment industry through increased access to high quality content while maintaining the protection of artists and content creators.
About Choice Entertainment Technologies
ChoiceCRM provides an all-inclusive ticketing, marketing, and fundraising solution built on the backbone of strong customer relationship management software. Our customer relationship management software allows you to create and define an ongoing relationship with your customers, while keeping all your system information together in one easy to access location.
In October of 2015, ChoiceCRM was acquired by Shubert Ticketing, a division of The Shubert Organization, Broadway's largest theatre owner and operator, with additional venues in Boston and Philadelphia, and one of the leading forces in American theatre over 100 years. Drawing upon its vast experience as a Broadway theatre owner and producer, Shubert Ticketing delivers innovative solutions for both private label clients and users of our Telecharge box office, call center, and online services.  
The integration of Shubert and Choice technologies accelerates advancements in customer relationship management, increases customized platform options for season subscription operations and offers comprehensive fundraising tools. An added benefit is the capability to leverage geographical location to service niche marketplaces. Both Shubert Ticketing and ChoiceCRM are committed to offering the best ticketing system available with unlimited support, training, and educational resources at your fingertips. For more information, visit https://choiceticketing.com/ or email [email protected].
About Shubert Events
Shubert Events, a part of the well-known Shubert Organization, is a team of theatre lovers whose passion for putting on a show naturally led them to the world of events. They believe that, like theatre, every event tells a great story that will engage attendees long after the load-out has ended. Their background in theatrical design, management, performance and production perfectly positions them to turn your next event – no matter the size – into a show-stopping performance. Additionally, their Shubert Studios arm provides exclusive use of their turn-key broadcast-quality live event studios, venues scalable to meet your needs, and industry-leading streaming platforms and platform management as well as adherence to all CDC and Government health and safety guidelines. For more information visit https://www.shubertevents.com/.
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