Sell Tickets and Run QR Check-In for Your Event — Without Expensive Software
If you have ever organised an event — a college fest, a weekend workshop, a community meetup — you already know what the week before feels like. A shared Google Sheet that three people are editing at once. A WhatsApp group where someone inevitably asks "bhai link bhejo" for the fifth time. A payment screenshot that lands in your personal DMs at 11 pm. And then, on the day itself, a queue at the gate while you frantically ctrl+F names in that same spreadsheet on a laptop that keeps losing Wi-Fi.
This is not a niche problem. It is the standard way most small and mid-sized events in India still run — not because organisers want chaos, but because the alternatives feel out of reach. Ticketing SaaS platforms are either too expensive for a 200-person college send-off, require a business account to unlock basic features, or take so long to onboard that your event date has passed by the time the support ticket closes.
There is a better path, and it is already live.
The Real Cost of "Free" Event Management
Before we get into the solution, it is worth naming the hidden costs of the spreadsheet-and-DM approach.
Your time. Manually confirming attendees, chasing payments, copy-pasting names into a gate list — these are hours that should go into making the event itself better.
Attendee trust. When someone pays into a personal UPI ID and receives no confirmation, they spend the next week anxious about whether their spot is actually booked. That anxiety is a bad first impression for your event.
Gate chaos. A printed list with 200 names, two volunteers with highlighters, and a queue of 50 people is a recipe for arguments, duplicates, and late starts.
No data. Once the event is over, you have no clean record of who came, what ticket type they had, or how fast you sold out. Next time, you start from zero.
What Boni Event Ticketing Actually Does
We built Boni Event Ticketing to solve this end-to-end, for events of the kind we actually see in India — colleges, community organisers, independent workshops, small festivals. It is live in production with real bookings happening today.
Here is the full flow, from first thought to last scan.
1. Create Your Event and Define Ticket Types
You publish your event on the platform: name, date, venue, description, and cover image. Then you create ticket types — and this is where it gets flexible.
- Free tickets work exactly as you'd expect: attendees register, get a confirmation, get a QR code.
- Paid tickets connect to Razorpay for payment collection. You can have multiple ticket tiers — Early Bird, General Admission, VIP, whatever your event needs — each with its own price and inventory cap.
Capacity is tracked at the ticket-type level. When a tier sells out, it closes automatically. No manual intervention, no "sorry we're full" awkwardness after the fact.
2. Share a Hosted Booking Page
Every event gets a hosted booking page — a clean, shareable link that works on mobile, works in WhatsApp, and works without the attendee needing to download anything. You share it once. It does the rest.
No app required on your side either. The organiser dashboard is web-based.
3. Attendees Book and Pay
For free events, the attendee fills in their details and confirms. For paid events, they complete payment via Razorpay — UPI, cards, net banking, all the usual options. The platform handles payment confirmation automatically.
4. QR Ticket Delivered by Email
Once a booking is confirmed — whether free or paid — the attendee receives an email confirmation with a QR code ticket. This happens without you doing anything. No manual PDF generation, no forwarding confirmations one by one. The QR code is unique to that booking.
5. Scan at the Gate — With Duplicate Rejection
This is the part that actually changes the day-of experience.
At the venue, your team uses the check-in interface to scan attendees' QR codes. Each valid ticket scans through. If someone tries to use the same QR twice — whether by screenshot-sharing or honest mistake — the system rejects the duplicate. You see it, they see it, no confusion.
You always know, in real time, how many people have checked in versus how many are expected. If you have multiple entry points, multiple devices can scan simultaneously.
No spreadsheet. No highlighter. No arguments.
The ONDC Entry-Pass Angle
Here is something that goes beyond what most ticketing tools offer.
Boni Event Ticketing integrates with the ONDC network's entry-pass standard. This means your event can be discoverable not just through your direct booking link, but also through buyer applications on the ONDC open commerce network.
Think of it as the difference between having a shop and having a shop that is also listed on a public marketplace — except the marketplace here is a government-backed open network with growing consumer reach.
For most small events, your direct booking link will do everything you need. But if you want to extend your reach — especially for ticketed experiences, community festivals, or recurring events — the ONDC integration means you are already set up for it, with no extra integration work on your end.
Who This Is For: Three Illustrative Scenarios
The College Send-Off or Annual Fest
A student committee is organising a 300-person farewell dinner. Ticketing is charged per head. Historically, this means: Google Form, manual payment follow-up, a chaos list on the day.
With Boni Event Ticketing: the committee creates the event in an afternoon, sets up a paid ticket type, shares the booking link in the batch WhatsApp group, and watches registrations and payments come in without touching anything. On the day, two volunteers with phones scan QR codes at the door. Done.
The Weekend Workshop
An independent trainer runs a two-day product design workshop — 25 seats, paid. They need a simple page to collect registrations, take payment, and ensure only confirmed attendees show up.
The hosted booking page handles the registration and Razorpay handles the payment. Attendees receive their QR ticket by email. On Day 1, the trainer scans everyone in. The system caps at 25 — no overbooking, no awkward conversation.
The Community Meetup
A tech community runs a free monthly meetup — sometimes 60 people, sometimes 120. They want to track attendance accurately without making it feel like a corporate process.
Free ticket registration takes 20 seconds for the attendee. Everyone gets a QR code. Check-in at the door is clean and fast. After the event, the organiser has an actual headcount, not a gut estimate.
Straight Talk on Cost
We want to be direct: Boni Event Ticketing is our product, built by the team at Boni — this is not a neutral review. What we can tell you plainly is that free events are fully supported — QR tickets, email confirmations, and gate check-in all work for free events, not locked behind a paywall. For paid tickets, payments run through Razorpay, so Razorpay's standard transaction fees apply, as with any payment gateway.
For current organiser pricing and any platform fees on paid events, reach out and we will give you the exact numbers for your event — no surprises.
Get Started
If you are planning an event — a workshop next month, a college fest this semester, a community gathering, a small festival — and you want to run it without spreadsheet chaos, Boni Event Ticketing is ready for you today. The platform is live. Real events are being booked on it right now.
Reach out via bino.bot to get your event set up, or ask us anything about how it fits your specific use case. We are a small team and we respond personally.
Your attendees deserve a clean booking experience. Your volunteers deserve a gate that actually works. And you deserve to spend the week before your event on things that matter — not on spreadsheet archaeology.