About
Built from
the door up.
KwikTix is an independent ticketing platform built by event organisers. We got tired of the tools available, so we built our own. Everyone here still runs their own events.
A small team, profitable by design, answering to organisers.
Our first gig. A barbers. 35 capacity.
Belfast, 2015
The backstory
Frustration, turned into something useful.
It started with sound engineering. Years behind desks, rigging PA, working the technical side of live events. Eventually that turned into running our own shows. Gigs, club nights, small festivals. The kind where you're selling tickets in the morning, setting up in the afternoon, and working the door at midnight.
The ticketing platforms we used were slow, clunky, and built by people who'd never stood behind a scanner at 2am. So we started building the tools we actually needed. It wasn't a startup pitch. It turned out other organisers wanted exactly the same thing.
"KwikTix wasn't a business plan. It was the tool we needed on our own shows. Everyone on this team still runs their own events. That's why it works."
Mark O'Donnell
Co-founder, still on the door
The journey
From basements
to festivals.
KwikTix was shaped by every room size, every capacity, every door problem. The platform grew because the events grew, and each one demanded better tools.
Where it started.
Fifty-cap rooms with no Wi-Fi, one person on the door, and a guest list scribbled on a phone. This is where we learned that ticketing has to load fast, work in a basement, and never get in the way.
Where it scaled.
Multi-tier pricing, street teams pushing their own links, door splits across two entrances, and sales that spike at 11pm on a Friday. This is where we built real-time numbers, team access, and a checkout fast enough for impulse.
Where it proved itself.
Thousands of attendees, multiple stages, box office on-site, and organisers who need answers at a glance. This is where the dashboard, payouts and scanning had to be bulletproof.
What we stand for
Not aspirations on a wall. Decisions we make every week.
What to build, what to charge, and who to answer to.
Operator-first
Every feature starts with one question: does this make the organiser's life easier? We don't optimise for platform stickiness. We optimise for the person on the hook when things go wrong.
No lock-in
Export everything, move anytime. We don't hold your audience hostage or bury your data behind paywalls. If you leave, you leave with everything. We'd rather earn loyalty than trap it.
Transparent pricing
One fee per ticket. No monthly plans, no premium tier, no "contact sales for pricing". Every organiser gets every feature. We make money when you sell tickets, and only then.
Ship from feedback
Our roadmap comes from organisers, not product committees. No six-month planning cycles, no requests that vanish into a backlog. If it matters at the door, it ships.
Small and fast
We're a small, independent team and we intend to stay that way. Everyone at KwikTix runs their own events, so we use what we build. Small means personal support and weekly updates.
Full lifecycle
KwikTix covers the whole event, not just the sale. Pages, checkout, wallet passes, door scanning, live numbers, payouts. You shouldn't need five tools duct-taped together to run a show.
We're organisers
who build software.
Three friends, events that grew from 35 people in a barbers to 400, and all the problems that came with it: guest lists on phones, payouts on spreadsheets, no clean way to know your own crowd. So we built something better. No venture capital, no committee. Just a small team that still runs its own events and still sweats the details.