Festivals and ticketing
Sell out the weekend. Scan everyone in at one gate.
ConfPro runs festivals on its own ticketing engine, built for festival-scale on-sales and gates. If your audience already buys on Quicket or Howler, we connect those channels so every ticket scans at the same gate.
Everything a big on-sale needs
Release phases
Early bird, phase 1, 2 and 3, moving on automatically by date or by quantity sold.
Add-ons and bundles
Camping, parking, lockers, VIP upgrades and merch, sold with the ticket or later.
Rotating QR codes
Codes refresh every 15 seconds so screenshots and forwarded tickets don’t scan. A static barcode is kept as a fallback.
Offline gate scanning
Scanners keep working when the signal drops and sync when it returns, without double entries.
Transfers and fair resale
Named tickets move between friends in the app. Official resale is capped at face value.
Groups, codes and promoters
Group tickets, presale and promo codes, waitlists and promoter tracking links with commission.
Age checks and capacity
18+ events check the SA ID number. Sales plus allocations can never exceed your licensed capacity.
Live sales reporting
Sales velocity, phase sell-through, channel mix and the scan-in curve on event day.
Keep the marketplaces. Lose the spreadsheet.
Some audiences prefer the big platforms. We connect each one, track its allocation cap and reconcile its payout, so you get one guest list and one settlement report.
Quicket
Connected by API key. Guest lists, barcodes, comps and promo codes sync every 15 minutes.
Howler
Orders arrive by webhook, with CSV import as a backup.
Webtickets and Computicket
Your allocation is tracked and their sales imported by CSV.
Box office
Door sales recorded with cash or card-machine payments on the same gate list.
What organisers pay elsewhere
Published organiser fees for the main South African platforms in 2026. Our per-ticket rate is quoted with your festival proposal.
| Platform | Published organiser fee |
|---|---|
| Quicket | About 4.9% plus a R7.50 buyer fee |
| Howler | 5% plus about 2.5% processing, minimum R5 a ticket |
| Computicket | 4.5% |
| Webtickets | 3.5% plus a R7.50 buyer fee |
Sources: platform pricing pages and published comparisons, 2025–2026. Check current rates with each platform.
Compliance comes with it
- Events over 2,000 people trigger SASREA. Our compliance engine builds the permit checklist with deadlines counted in working days.
- Refunds follow CPA section 17, with no fee where a buyer can’t attend because of death or hospitalisation.
- Buyer details are handled under POPIA, and marketing goes only to buyers who opted in.
Your event, our job
Planning a festival or concert?
Tell us what you’re planning and get a costed proposal with options, usually the same day. No obligation, and no sales calls unless you ask for one.