Sell tickets for your event

The gate is the part worth choosing a platform for

Selling a ticket is easy until the door opens. That is where a venue with a weak signal, a screenshot of somebody else’s ticket and a queue that will not move decide whether the night works. Tickus is built around that hour: each attendee has their own signed pass, the gate admits it exactly once, and the phone scanning them keeps working with no network at all.

The list of passes is downloaded to the phone before the doors open and verified on the device. When the signal comes back, the admissions taken offline are replayed to the server, which applies the same one-admission rule it would have applied online. The guide to offline check-in explains what that means for the way you staff a door.

What you get

• A public event page with the venue, the date, the lineup and your own colour. Nothing is visible until you publish it, so an event can be set up long before it is announced. List it as public and it also joins the directory, where buyers search by city, date, category and price.
• Ticket types with their own price and stock, including a free ticket, so an early bird, a standard price and a guest list can all live on one page. A free ticket still issues a named pass and still needs no payment step.
• One signed QR pass per attendee, emailed to them, with the venue, the date and a Plus Code a driver can use. Buyers need no account and install nothing, and an attendee can hand their pass to somebody else from the pass page when you allow transfers for that event.
• A gate that works offline, opened in a browser by staff with an access code, with a manual name search for a phone with a dead battery.
• Numbers while the event is running: admissions, online versus offline, duplicates and refusals, each with the reason it was refused.
• Payouts to your own bank account, from the wallet the ticket sales settle into, plus a downloadable statement for any finished month.

The directory also has a Featured strip above the list. It is not a ranking and it is not for sale: somebody at Tickus chooses an event and gives it a run of a set number of days, and when the run ends the event drops back into the ordinary order by itself. Only a published, listed event can be chosen.

If the room has seats

You lay the room out once: sections, rows and individual seats, or whole tables if that is how the room is sold. A buyer then picks from the seats you opened, and if they would rather not choose, the checkout allocates one for them. A seat taken between choosing and paying is refused with the seat named rather than sold twice, and you can move a pass to another seat afterwards from the attendee list.

When a ticket sells out

A buyer who arrives at a sold-out ticket type can leave an email instead. When a ticket comes back (a refund, a released hold, a transfer nobody accepted), the first person in that queue is emailed a link and the ticket is held for them for a short window, then offered to the next person. The window is a platform setting, so this page does not print it as a fixed number.

Discounts, and one message to the room

A discount code can be published with its own price reduction, a cap on how many times it is used and a minimum spend. The buyer enters it at checkout and the server reprices the order, so the amount on the button is the amount charged.

Once people have bought, you can send one announcement to everyone holding a paid ticket for the event: the message is not a mailing list, and it is confined to the people already coming. The dashboard shows what was delivered and what failed, with a retry for the failures.

Cash at the door, if you want it

Door sales are a per-event switch and they are off unless you turn them on. Once they are on, anyone working the gate can record a cash or transfer sale from the same phone that scans, and the sale is an ordinary order: the buyer is named, a pass is issued, the money is credited to your wallet, and it appears in the same books as an online sale. Nobody has to give an email address, because a walk-up is admitted by name from the gate's guest list, and the sale carries no processing fee because nobody processed a card.

What it costs

Listing is free. There is no setup fee, no monthly fee and no charge for check-ins, so an event that sells nothing costs you nothing.

The only charge is a processing fee a buyer pays at checkout, on top of the ticket price, shown as its own line in naira before they pay. You are credited the full ticket price. A free ticket has no fee, and a cash or transfer sale recorded at the door has none either. How the fee is calculated, and why this page does not print a percentage, is on pricing.

If more than one person runs the account

An account can stay with one login, or add two kinds of staff. A manager can build and publish events, see attendees, send announcements and manage gate staff, and cannot see the money at all. An accountant can see balances, ledger, statements, payouts and refunds, and cannot publish or delete an event. Only the owner can invite or remove somebody.

What it does not do

• It does not run the event. The venue, the lineup, the doors and the safety of the people inside are the organizer’s.
• There is no resale market. A ticket can be handed to somebody else only when you allow it, and the handover is explicit rather than a forwarded email.
• It does not store card details. Payment happens on OPay’s checkout, and the card number never reaches Tickus.

Start

Create an organizer account and the first thing you make is a draft. If you would rather see the whole route first, how it works walks it in order, and the guides cover the decisions that are easy to get wrong.