Festival Websites, Ticketing & Apps with Real-Time Updates
A festival is the hardest version of the booking problem: thousands of people across a site, a schedule that changes by the hour, weather that can stop everything, and a crowd that finds out about all of it from whoever is standing nearest. The app is not a nice-to-have at a festival. It is the public address system.
We build the festival's site, pass sales and app so that a set-time change reaches every attendee in seconds, a lightning hold is a push and not a rumor, and the cashless wristband balance is one tap from a top-up. Passes sell direct or through the platform you already use.
- Your appnowSet time changeThe 6:30 set moved to the River Stage, 6:45. Your saved schedule is updated.
- Your app31m agoWeather holdLightning within 8 miles. Head to the shelter areas on the map. Sets resume when clear.
- Your app2h agoWristband balance: $12Top up before the 9pm rush — the line at the bar is 3 minutes right now.
The gap between the ticket and the gate
What goes wrong now, and what the fan never hears about.
A set moves stages and half the crowd walks to the wrong one
Weather holds are announced by staff with megaphones, and the resumption is announced by nobody
Tiered pass sales, payment plans and add-ons are spread across three vendors
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Two ways to do it for music festivals.
Both end with the fan holding a ticket in your app and hearing from you the moment something changes. They differ in who sells the seat and who pays the fee.
Connect what you already sell on
Keep the ticketing platform your fans know. We build the site and the app around it — pulling live inventory, pushing real-time updates, and owning the fan relationship the platform never gives you.
- Live availability and pricing on your own pages, not a redirect
- Fan accounts, notifications and history that are yours, whichever platform sold the seat
- Presales, waitlists and announcements under your brand
- One place for the fan; the platform stays behind the scenes
Best when the platform's reach matters more than its fees, or a contract runs for years yet.
Own the booking end to end
A booking web application, iOS and Android apps, and a back office you control. No per-ticket fee to a middleman, no fan data held by someone else, no waiting on a platform to add the feature you need.
- Seat maps, general admission, tables, passes and season packages
- Checkout with cards, wallets and installment options
- Real-time push to every phone the moment something changes
- Scanning, entry, and reporting built for your doors, not a generic venue
Best when fees are eating the margin, or the fan relationship is the business.
The fan app
What the phone does for music festivals.
iOS and Android, built from one scope, with a back office your team runs from the office or from the floor. The first list is specific to your kind of event; the second is in every build.
- Front Gate Tickets
- Tixr
- See Tickets
- Eventbrite
- DICE
- Square
Platforms these businesses commonly sell through. Naming them says what we connect to, not that they endorse us.
- For music festivals
- Tiered passes, payment plans, add-ons and camping in one checkout
- A personal schedule that updates itself when set times change
- Site map with stages, water, medical and shelter — works offline
- Weather and safety pushes to everyone on site, instantly
- Cashless wristband balance, top-ups and vendor lines
- Post-festival: recordings, photos and next year's presale to the same fans
- In every build
- Real-time push notifications — presales, gate times, delays, changes
- Tickets in the app, on the wallet, and scannable offline
- Live seat maps and availability, updated the moment a seat moves
- Accounts that remember the fan: seats, history, favorites, payment
- Transfer and resale under your rules and your fee
- A back office for pricing, holds, comps, scanning and reports
Start now. Pay monthly. Add nothing for interest.
Put 25% down at signing and spread the rest in equal monthly payments. The total you pay is the price on the proposal.
- Up to 12 months on any project
- 24 months from $15,000
- 36 months from $20,000
Financed projects are hosted on the DataCram platform for the length of the plan.
Questions
Music Festivals, answered.
Pushes are small and queue until the phone has signal; the schedule and map are stored on the phone so they work with no signal at all. We also design the site's Wi-Fi and cell plan into the build when a festival controls its grounds.
Yes. Every attendee is an account, so next year's presale is a push to the people who were there this year — no list to buy, no platform to ask.
No. The first path keeps it. We build the site and app to read its live inventory and sell through it, while the fan account, notifications and marketing become yours. Many clients start there and move to their own booking later, once the fan base is in the app.
Your team posts an update once — from the back office or a phone — and it reaches every fan who holds a ticket for that event within seconds, on iOS and Android, with a copy by email or text for anyone without the app. Updates can be scheduled, targeted by section or ticket type, and triggered automatically by events like a presale opening.
Card processing, hosting, and app store accounts in your name — that is the running cost. There is no per-ticket platform fee, which for most venues is the entire reason to do it. We show you the break-even against your current fees before you decide.
Yes. Owning the booking does not mean leaving the listings. Events can still be listed where fans discover them, with the purchase happening on your own system. Discovery and checkout are separate decisions.
A site connected to your existing platform is weeks. An owned booking web app is a few months; adding the iOS and Android apps runs alongside it. Every project is fixed-price and phased, so you can launch the web booking first and add the apps when the numbers say so.
Tell us how you sell tonight. We’ll show you both paths with numbers.
What you pay in fees now, what each path costs to build and run, and the monthly payment if you finance it. Usually within days, not weeks.
- Booking web applications
- iOS and Android fan apps
- PPC advertising
- Email marketing
- 0% financing for mobile apps