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Sell tickets and scan them at the door, in 30 days.
Your events, your ticket fees, your attendee list. Scanning at the door included, because that is the bit that goes wrong at 8pm.
Quick answer
An event and ticketing platform can be designed, built and selling tickets in 30 days for a fixed $2,500, covering event listings, ticket types and pricing, checkout, QR tickets, door check-in and an organiser dashboard. It removes the per-ticket commission an external platform charges.
The plan
Day one to day 30, written down.
You get this schedule before you commit, not after. If a phase slips, that is mine to absorb — the price and the date were agreed before anything started.
- 1
Days 1–3
Scope lock
Ticket types, pricing rules, capacity, and exactly how the door works on the night. The door is the part most ticketing builds under-think.
- 2
Days 4–12
Design
The buying flow first — it has to work on a phone, from a social link, in seconds — then the scanner and the organiser dashboard.
- 3
Days 13–24
Build
Listings, ticket inventory, checkout, QR generation and the scanner. Capacity and double-sell protection get real attention, because overselling is unrecoverable.
- 4
Days 25–28
Dry run
A full rehearsal: buy, receive, scan, refund, re-scan the same ticket. Including with bad signal, because venues have bad signal.
- 5
Days 29–30
Launch
Payments live, your first event published, and staff walked through the scanner before they need it.
What $2,500 gets you
Everything needed to launch — nothing padding the invoice.
Who books this
Built for
Organisers losing 5–10% of every ticket to a platform
Venues and promoters running a recurring programme
Communities and conferences with their own audience already
Real situations
Five ways this shows up, and what actually fixes it.
Not hypothetical — the shape of the problem before someone books this sprint, and the specific part of the build that resolves it.
Situation 1
Losing 5-10% of every ticket to a platform
An organiser sells tickets through a third-party platform that takes a meaningful commission on every sale, including to an audience that already knows and follows the organiser directly.
A ticketing platform with checkout, QR tickets and door scanning removes that commission on an audience the organiser already owns.
Situation 2
The door is where every ticketing system actually breaks
A previous event used a ticketing tool that worked fine online but fell apart at the door — slow scanning, no offline support, confusion during entry.
The door check-in scanner works on a phone with offline support included, because venues have bad signal and scanning has to work anyway.
Situation 3
A recurring events programme still tracked manually
A venue or promoter runs a regular series of events but tracks sales, capacity and attendee lists separately for each one with no shared system.
An organiser dashboard shows sales, remaining capacity and attendee lists across events, replacing the manual tracking per show.
Situation 4
Worried about overselling capacity with a manual process
An organiser currently tracks ticket inventory by hand across multiple sales channels, risking overselling a capacity-limited event.
Capacity and double-sell protection are built in and tested deliberately, since overselling an event is effectively unrecoverable once it happens.
Situation 5
Refunds and transfers generate a wave of manual emails
Every ticket refund or transfer request currently means an email exchange and manual processing, consuming a disproportionate share of an organiser's week.
Attendees can transfer or refund within rules the organiser sets, removing most of that email traffic entirely.
The honest part
When 30 days is the wrong answer.
A fixed deadline only works when the scope genuinely fits inside it. These are the cases where I will tell you so rather than take the booking.
Reserved seating with an interactive seat map for a large venue. Genuinely complex inventory, and worth building properly as its own project.
Secondary resale marketplaces, which bring fraud, identity and regulatory questions with them.
Access control hardware — turnstiles, RFID wristbands, printed-badge kiosks. The software can talk to them; specifying and supplying them is not this sprint.
Inside the 30 days
- Event listings with dates, venues, images and descriptions
- Multiple ticket types, tiers, early-bird pricing and capacity limits
- Checkout through Stripe, with discount and promoter codes
- QR tickets delivered by email and saved to the phone
- A door check-in scanner that works on a phone, offline included
- An organiser dashboard: sales, capacity remaining, attendee list
- Refunds, transfers and cancellations handled without emailing you
- Source code, design files and 30 days of support at handover
Quoted as one number before day one. A week running long is mine to absorb.
Outside the line
- Reserved seating with an interactive seat map for a large venue. Genuinely complex inventory, and worth building properly as its own project.
- Secondary resale marketplaces, which bring fraud, identity and regulatory questions with them.
- Access control hardware — turnstiles, RFID wristbands, printed-badge kiosks. The software can talk to them; specifying and supplying them is not this sprint.
Real work, sized and priced separately. You hear it before you book, not at handover.
Questions
Before you book
Yes, for general admission and tiered tickets with QR check-in. What does not fit is reserved seating maps and resale. The month covers everything from listing an event to scanning the last person through the door.
Other sprints
30 days from now, this could be live.
A 30-minute call decides whether the scope fits. If it doesn't, I'll tell you what would.