A booking system for your events, from ticket to check-in
A ticketing fee on every event, and free seats lost to people who never come. We build booking systems for events, festivals, conferences and workshops: tickets and seats with capacity limits, payments and refunds, check-in at the door, with the code and attendee data owned by you.
The prototype and the quote are free, with no commitment.
- Prototype and quote
- 48 h
- Build time
- 2–3 weeks
- Fixed price, typically
- $15–50k
- Commission on bookings
- 0%
What the system looks like for events and festivals
Guests choose a ticket
The ticket in their pocket
In use
What do your people and customers see?
Sessions and stages
A multi-day programme with parallel sessions, so attendees book the talks and workshops they want.
A programme with parallel stages
Check-in at the door
Staff check guests in from a phone or a kiosk at the entrance, and the list updates live.
How the Booking kiosk module worksStaff scan at the gate
Admin panel
How does your team run it?
The organiser follows ticket sales, orders, guests and check-in live, and handles refunds from the same panel.
The admin panel for the organiser
What it can include
What can a booking system for events and festivals do?
You don't have to order everything at once. Start with booking and payments.
Tickets with capacity
Every event, session or workshop has its own capacity. Paid tickets go through Stripe Checkout, and sales stop when it is full.
How the Bookable events module worksFree events without no-shows
A free spot holds a small amount on the card. It is released at check-in and charged only if the guest doesn't come.
How the Bookable events module worksRefunds and cancellations
Refund one ticket or cancel a whole event, and every guest is refunded and told by email.
How the Bookable events module worksScreens at the venue
The programme, room changes and announcements on screens around the venue.
How the Digital signage module worksWorks when the venue Wi-Fi fails
A local server keeps check-in running when the internet drops, then syncs back.
How the Island-mode server module worksIntegrations
Your website, CRM, newsletter and invoicing, or any tool with an API.
When it makes sense
When is your own system worth it?
A ready-made platform is a good start. If it does all you need, stay with it. Your own system makes sense when:
- You run events often and pay a ticketing fee on every one
- Your sessions, seats or prices don't fit a ticketing platform
- Free events lose seats to people who never come
- You want the attendee data in your own database
Compared with SaaS
What do events and festivals gain over a SaaS platform?
A platform is rented and shared. Your own system is built for you and owned by you.
Cost
On a SaaS platform: A ticketing fee is added to every ticket.
With your own system: No ticketing fee and no commission on sales. Only your payment provider charges for cards.
Your event
On a SaaS platform: Sessions, seats and prices follow the platform's model.
With your own system: Parallel sessions, capacity per ticket and prices as your event needs.
No-shows
On a SaaS platform: Free events lose places to guests who never come.
With your own system: A small hold on the card, released at check-in and charged only if the guest doesn't come.
Attendee data
On a SaaS platform: The attendee list stays with the ticketing platform.
With your own system: Attendee data goes straight into your own database.
How we work
How do we start?
- 01
Brief
About 15 minutes, with our AI, whenever it suits you.
- 02
Prototype
A clickable prototype on your data and a quote within 48 hours.
- 03
Scope
Changes from your feedback, then a fixed price.
- 04
Build and launch
Code, documentation and 3 years of support.
Questions
What do owners ask first?
No. You pay once for the system and keep every ticket sale, apart from the card processing fee of your payment provider.
Often, yes. The prototype comes within 48 hours, and the festival in our case study had its booking system in two days. Tell us your date in the brief.
The price depends on the scope and is fixed before the build starts. Most projects fall between $15k and $50k. It is a one-time cost, with no subscription and no commission on bookings.
You get a clickable prototype and a quote within 48 hours of the brief. The build takes two to three weeks, and the system is live six to eight weeks after the first call, including migration and handover.
We move your customers, bookings and history into the new system, even when the current provider has no export. The old tool keeps running until the data matches, so bookings never stop.
You do. The code, the data and the documentation are handed over. It runs in your own cloud account or on our infrastructure, and 3 years of support are included.
Read more
Where can I read more?
- From Brief to Clickable Prototype in 48 HoursLeave a brief and get a clickable prototype of your booking flow and a quote within 48 hours. What is inside, what is not, and why it costs you nothing.
- Agent-Ready Payments: How Bookings Get Paid When Nobody Fills a FormDiscovery gets you found. MCP lets agents talk to your API. But most checkouts still assume a browser and a human thumb - agent-mediated payments, explained.
- Painless Data Migration and Zero-Maintenance HostingMove your bookings out of a SaaS with zero downtime, then never run a server. We maintain the Next.js, Vercel and Supabase or Firestore stack. You own it.
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See your events and festivals system before you decide
Describe how you take bookings. Within 48 hours you get a prototype and a quote.