Spooky’s Y2K Rave

Event ticketing platform

Role: Full-stack
Year: 2025
Status: live

Ticketing for a live rave, built to take real money on the night. Paystack handles checkout, and a successful payment issues a QR-coded ticket the door can scan.

Secure ticket purchase through Paystack
QR-coded tickets generated as PDFs after payment
Account handling and registration with allauth
Responsive event pages for desktop and mobile

A server-rendered Django application in two apps, where the money path is the critical one: payment confirmation is what mints a ticket, and the ticket is generated as a scannable document rather than a row in a table.

Django
Python
Paystack
PostgreSQL
qrcode
ReportLab

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Source

The Spooky’s Y2K Rave ticket tiers with prices and remaining stock

How it is built

Stack

Django 5.1 backend
DRF 3.16 backend
django-allauth backend
django-crispy-forms backend
paystackapi integration
qrcode backend
ReportLab backend
django-user-agents backend

Architecture

Pages service Server-rendered event pages, no separate client
Party tickets service Tiers, stock, and QR-coded PDF issuing
- qrcode
- ReportLab
Paystack external
Database datastore

Flow

Pages Party tickets
Party tickets Paystack Checkout
Paystack Party tickets Payment confirmed
Party tickets Database

Data

The repository ships a SQLite database file and carries no PostgreSQL driver, so the deployed store is unconfirmed

Authentication

django-allauth

Registration and account handling delegated rather than hand-rolled

Integrations

Paystack Card and transfer payments in Nigerian naira

Technical capabilities

Ticket tiers with per-tier pricing and remaining stock
QR-coded tickets generated as PDFs after payment
Device and browser detection on requests

Infrastructure

PythonAnywhere

Notable decisions

Issue the ticket from the payment confirmation, not the checkout request

An unpaid or abandoned checkout can never produce a valid ticket