With vyb, you can sell your own ticketed events. We have several different types of events:
Virtual Events: this is the simplest, a live stream you record anywhere, and fans from around the globe purchase and watch. During the Virtual Event, your fans can message you and tip you
In-Person: Generate QR codes for tickets and use the vyb scanner app to check in fans at the door. Supports multiple ticket tiers.
Hybrid: A combination of Virtual and In-Person, the hybrid lets you add a live stream recording to the event. By default, all fans who purchase In-Person tickets also get access to the recording after the event, which is a big benefit.
Below are the steps to create the event:
Step 1: Event Details
To start creating your event, click on the “Launch” button in the upper menu and select “Create Event”
Enter something descriptive for the event title and description.
You can set if the event is available to all ages or has an age restriction
Now add thumbnail and a cover image. You can simply click on the blocks and then select a file from your files.
Once you select “Upload” from the file selector, you’ll get a popup that lets you position the file, zoom and rotate the image.
Hit “Save” on the image to get it added for your event.
If you change your mind about the image, you can simply hit the “X” in the image corner, deleting the image
Select “Continue” to go to the next step
Step 2: Date and Location
Set the date and time of the event, the duration and the timezone.
It is very important to set your timezone to the timezone where you are doing the event. If you are doing a virtual livestream, then setting the timezone correctly will let your fans across the globe what time it will occur in their timezone.
Next select the Event Type:
Select In-Person if you are selling tickets to a physical event with no livestream
Select Hybrid if you have both in-person tickets and a livestream
Select Virtual if you will have a livestream for your worldwide audience with no in-person tickets
If you choose either In-Person or Hybrid, you’ll have an additional location to enter. Enter the address information and the venue name. Those will be displayed in the tickets to help your fans find the event location.
Step 3: Ticket Tiers and Pricing
If you have selected an in-person or hybrid, you can set multiple ticket tiers for the in-person tickets. A Virtual Event currently only has one ticket tier. For each ticket tier you can set a number of options
Configuring a Virtual Ticket:
Audience: An event ticket can be set to be “Subscribers Only” or “For Everyone”. Choosing Subscriber only rewards your subscribers with exclusive access
Number of Attendees: For a virtual stream, you can choose to have an unlimited number of tickets sold, or limit the number. Limit the number of tickets if you want to give a more intimate performance where you even chat more with the audience.
Pricing:
Fixed Price: With the Price Option you can set the price per ticket and Day of Event Pricing. If the Audience is For Everyone you will also get an additional field to set the Subscriber Discount. By default vyb will use the Subscriber Discount you set in your Profile, but you can also change this either in percentage or dollars.
Minimum Price: With the Minimum Price option, you specify the minimum amount that fans will pay for a ticket. Industry data shows that most people will pay a little extra, it is like a built-in tip.
The Free option is only available for Subscriber only events.
Configuring an In-Person Tier
The In-Person tiers have all the same options for Audience, Number of Attendees and Pricing.
In-Person Tiers also have a Name and and Optional Description. If there is only only In-Person Tier, simply name the time. If you have more than one tier, add a description to tell your more fans about that Tier.
To add another tier, click “Add Ticket Tier”
Configuring Additional Tiers
Each additional tier can be edited in the same way.
Additional tiers can be deleted, but you must always have at least one In-Person tier if you have selected In-Person or Hybrid as your Ticket Type.
Step 4: Privacy and VIP Tickets
Recording Available: By default this should be left on as it allows your ticket purchasers to watch the video anytime from their library
Sell Event Recording: If this is enabled, then your fans can purchase the event days even years after the livestream. Note that the purchase options are still governed by the limitations you put on it before. For example, if you set your Audience as Subscribers, then only Subscribers can purchase it. If you limit the audience size to say 300 tickets, then only 300 fans total can ever purchase this recording.
Enable Chat availability to allow your audience to chat with you during the show.
You can add a guest list here, click +Invite. Don’t worry if you don’t have all your guest emails, you can always add them anytime. See this tutorial for adding guests to an existing event.
Step 5: Publish
Review everything, and then hit “Publish”
Your event is now published and ready for sale.
You can track ticket sales in your dashboard.
You can also edit your event or easily add to the guest list in your dashboard
You can add more guests to your guest list anytime up until the event time. Please see this tutorial: Editing Event Guest List
With vyb, you can embed your merch store onto your own website. This way your fans can discover your merch from your website and you can still let vyb take care of all the checkout and order fulfillment. The best part is that once you’ve embedded your vyb store onto your website, whenever you add new merch on vyb it automatically shows up on your website without doing anything.
This tutorial assumes you already know how to make merch and have your store setup. If you need a tutorial on doing that, simply go here: Creating merch in vyb.
To allow you to sell merch from your own website, we are going to make use of a web feature called an embed code. An embed code is a snippet of HTML that allows you to display content from one website onto another.
Here are the steps:
To start off, first go to you vyb artist account, “My Dashboard”, “My Merchandise”
2. Now click on button “Get Embed Code”
3. You’ll get a popup that shows the code. Click the copy icon
4. Now go over to your web design software. In this example I’m using a simple WordPress site. You are going to insert a block or module, and you are looking for something called “Code”
5. Add the Code module or block, open it and paste in the code that you copied. It should start with <iframe
6. Now hit save and you should see all your vyb products on your webpage
And that’s it! Your fans can now find your merch from your website. They can scroll through the list of products and simply select one, that will take them right to your vyb store for checkout.
Merch collections are a way to group together merch with common design elements for an easier shopping experience as well as set exclusive access to merch.
As you design your merch, you should put common themed items into a collection. You can create either create the merch items and add them to a collection, or make the collection first and then as you create merch items add them into the collection.
Either watch this video or read below how to add items to a collection and make that collection exclusive for your subscribers.
Create a Collection from Collections Menu
In My Merchandise, Make at least one product with your design
Click Collection and then +Create Collection
Give your collection a name, select the product, and then select the access
When you create the collection, you have three choices for access:
Available for Everyone: Use this selection for when you want to simply group a set of merch with common designs and make it available to everyone
Exclusive to Subscribers: With this you make the collection only available for purchase for your subscribers. All fans can browse it, but they will be prompted to subscribe before they can purchase it
Exclusive to Event: Use this selection to make a set of merch only available to people who have purchased tickets for an event.
Add products to a collection as you create them
When you create a product, you can automatically add it to a collection
Simply select a pre-existing collection from the pull down.
Creating a Collection with existing products
To create a collection with existing products, do the following steps:
Navigate to My Dashboard/My Merchandise
Select the products you want to group into a collection
Select “+Add to Collection”
Either select an existing collection or select “Create Collection” to make a new one
Give your Collection a name unique to your store.
If you choose, you can add/remove additional products to the collection.
Subscriber Exclusive Merch
When a fan browses your merch store, if you have made a collection exclusive to a subscriber or an event, now that will be shown to the fan. They can still browse everything, they just can’t purchase if they don’t have access
When a subscriber clicks on that item, they see the subscriber discount price and the “Add to Cart” is active. They can purchase it.
When a non-subscriber clicks on that item, they can view the item, but notice that they cannot Add to Cart, instead they are promoted to subscribe
When they click on ‘Subscribe”, they go through the subscribe flow
And after subscribing they are able to purchase the item
Artists can order their own merch at steep discounts. While each individual product is slightly different, you can save as much as 30-50% off the base price by ordering 100 or more of an item.
The great thing is that discounts are computed based on the individual product type and design. Discounts are added across all sizes.
For example:
For a given T-Shirt with your design, if you order 100 shirts: 25 Small, 25 Medium, 25 L and 25 XL, you get the same discount if you instead decide to order 15 Small, 25 Medium, 30 Large, 30 Xl. The 100 shirt discount applies the same, no matter how you split them up across the sizes.
To learn how to order your own merch in bulk, either watch this video below, or read the instructions:
Step by Step process
First navigate to “My Dashboard” and select “My Merchandise”
For the item you want to order, select “Bulk Order in the action menu”
We will automatically add 5 items in each size. If you don’t want to order 4XL for example, simply delete the item.
In the top left is the total number of items
Enter your shipping address to get shipping and state taxes.
Once you have decided the number you want for your order, simply proceed to checkout and pay
In vyb you can create and sell merch with no upfront fees and no cost. We have curated the most popular products for you. Some features of merch in vyb:
Print-on-Demand – You simply upload the designs, your fans buy them, and you get paid! No more shelling out thousands of dollars for merch and sitting on inventory of odd sizes
Worldwide low-cost shipping – merch is produced at one of a dozen facilities around the globe. The fan simply enters their address and the system automatically selects the nearest facility. This means you can sell internationally without worry that the shipping cost puts your merch out of reach of your fans
Easily try different designs – as it costs you nothing to try a new design, you can easily try different designs and color variants to see which ones your fans want. Those are the designs you should take on tour.
Multiple color options – For every design, you can easily give the fan the ability to choose a different color variant. Like the T-Shirt in black, but think it pops in pink? Give your fans both options.
Designing your Merch
To learn how to design your own merch you can either watch this video or read below
Step 1: Start by going to your artist profile and selecting “My Merchandise”
Step 2: From My Merchandise, select “Create Product”
Step 3: Choose the type of products you want to create
Step 4: Now select the specific one that you want to create
The price listed below each item is the base price including the garment cost and printing on one surface
Step 5: Now you are in the designer. Clicking on “Product” in the left toolbar lets you choose the colors you want in your design. Choose one or more color. Make certain to uncheck any colors you don’t want as a variant
You choose the design locations, then click the blue circle to upload artwork
Anything you have previously uploaded will be saved into your file library. In this way you only need to upload artwork once and use it across multiple merch items
Upload artwork or select from previous artwork.
One you’ve selected the artwork, you can resize and position it.
When you are done designing, simply “Continue”
Step 7: Set the product name, it will need to be unique within your store.
Also set the price your fans will pay. The fees and profit will automatically recalculate.
Press “Save” when you are done
After saving, you will be returned to the My Merchandise dashboard. Your newly created product will be “pending” for a minute or so while we generate all the views and publish to your store.
In the Action menu you can find the ability to View, Edit, Delete, and Bulk Order your merch.
