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On-sale hosting

Ten minutes of traffic, handled.

An on-sale is a spike unlike anything else your site sees. We host and run your ticketing so it grows for those minutes, queues fairly when demand exceeds seats, and costs little the rest of the month.

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// what matters here

What is different in this industry.

Grows for the on-sale

Hosting scales up before an announced on-sale and back down after, in an account you own.

A fair queue

When demand exceeds seats, buyers wait in order rather than refreshing into errors.

Tested against your biggest show

We load test before a major on-sale, so the on-sale is not the test.

Run for you, visibly

Monitoring, alerts and backups you can see, and a named team that looks after it.

// example projects

Priced examples for this service.

Each one is hypothetical, labelled as such, and priced live from our rate card. Open any of them in the estimator and make it yours.

Example projectWeb appMobile app

Own ticketing with door scanning

Hypothetical. Not a client, not a result.

// The problem

A mid-sized concert hall sells through a third-party platform that keeps the buyers' details and adds fees, and its own site cannot hold an on-sale for a popular show.

// What we would build

The venue's own ticketing on its website and an iOS and Android app: seat maps, holds and presales, a queue that keeps an on-sale fair under load, and a scanning app for the doors that works when the network does not.

// What is in it

Seat maps, general admission, holds and presales
A fair queue for busy on-sales
Tickets in the app and in phone wallets
A door scanning app that keeps working offline
Your buyers' details in your own database
Hosting that scales for on-sales and shrinks after

// Stack

Next.js
React Native
PostgreSQL
Redis
Stripe
AWS

// estimate

Build: ≈ US$148,000 to US$226,000, delivered within 32 weeksCAD 210,800 to 322,400
Hosting: ≈ US$1,360 a monthCAD 1,940 a month
Support: ≈ US$5,010 a monthCAD 7,135 a month

Prices in your currency are estimates from today's Bank of Canada rate. All invoicing is in CAD or USD.

Timeline by milestone

Discovery: 2.9 to 3.4 weeks
Design approved: 9.4 to 16.4 weeks
Core features: 1.9 to 3.4 weeks
Full build: 1.4 to 1.9 weeks
First build on devices: 3.9 to 6.4 weeks
Testing and fixes: 0.4 to 0.9 weeks
Store submission: 0.9 to 1.9 weeks
Launch: 0.9 to 1.4 weeks

Outside our hands, and added to the calendar

App store review: 1 week

How it is paid

Deposit 20%: CAD 42,160 to 64,480
Discovery 9.2%: CAD 19,393.60 to 29,660.80
Design approved 9.2%: CAD 19,393.60 to 29,660.80
Core features 7.6%: CAD 16,020.80 to 24,502.40
Full build 5%: CAD 10,540 to 16,120
First build on devices 20.1%: CAD 42,370.80 to 64,802.40
Testing and fixes 2.5%: CAD 5,270 to 8,060
Store submission 6.7%: CAD 14,123.60 to 21,600.80
Launch 9.7%: CAD 20,447.60 to 31,272.80
Holdback, 30 days after launch (10%): CAD 21,080 to 32,240

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// questions

Questions we get about this.

Can you host ticketing we already have?

Often, yes. We review the code and hosting first and tell you what it would take before we quote.

Which cloud does on-sale hosting use?

Usually AWS, which scales quickly for a spike, in a Canadian region where that matters.

What does on-sale hosting cost between events?

Much less than during an on-sale, because it shrinks when traffic drops. We show both in the estimate.

Back to the industry: Events, venues and ticketing About the service: Cloud, DevOps and operations

// next

Not quite your project?

Tell us what you have in mind. We will come back to you with a range and the questions that would narrow it. Or book a call and talk it through.

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