Your event, your money.
Run free RSVPs or sell paid tickets, with revenue that settles straight to your own account. Ardent gives you the tools, the tickets, and the reach, and never sits between you and your attendees.
Paid tickets settle directly to you, via your own payment keys
One flat listing fee, never a cut of your ticket sales
QR tickets, door check-in, and a venue map in every receipt
Sell, host, and check them in
From a free community meetup to a paid conference, Ardent handles the whole lifecycle, with the money model tilted entirely in your favour.
Free RSVPs or paid tickets
Run a free event with RSVPs, or add paid ticket tiers with capacity limits. Mix and match: you decide how people get in.
Your money, your account
Paid ticketing uses your own Paystack or Hubtel keys, so buyers pay you directly and funds settle into your account. Ardent never holds your ticket revenue.
QR tickets & fast check-in
Every attendee gets a scannable QR ticket by email. At the door, check people in within seconds and watch your guest list update live.
Tickets that find the venue
Ticket and receipt emails embed a signed map of the venue, so nobody gets lost on the way to your event.
Discover on the map
Attendees browse in-person events on an interactive map and a 'near me' view, so your event is found by the people closest to it.
One flat platform fee
Listing an event costs a single, flat platform fee, never a percentage of every ticket. What you sell is what you keep.
Embed your event anywhere
Drop a live event and ticket widget onto your own website with one line of code, or use our official WordPress plugin. The same public event data flows through our API and SDKs, so your listing stays in sync everywhere.
A programme people can book
Publish your talks, workshops and breaks with times and rooms. Cap a session to make it separately bookable, gate it to a ticket type, and scan attendees in at its own door.
Badges and self check-in
Print name badges with a QR for everyone registered, and set a tablet to kiosk mode so guests check themselves in. Both keep working if the venue wifi drops.
A guest list you can actually work
Search, filter and tag your attendees, open any one of them to see their answers and check-in history, message a segment, and export the lot to CSV.
Your payment account, your takings, one flat fee
Most ticketing platforms sit between you and your buyers and take a percentage of every ticket. This one does not sit there at all.
Buyers pay you, through your own provider
Connect your own Paystack or Hubtel account and ticket money settles into it directly. Ardent never holds it, never routes it, and cannot release or withhold it, because it never arrives here in the first place. That is not a policy we could quietly change: there is no account for it to sit in.
Paystack or Hubtel, whichever you already use
Your secret key is encrypted and never shown again, on any device
Set it up on the web or from the app
One flat fee, on paid events only
A ticketed event carries a single flat platform fee, paid once before it goes live. There is no per-ticket commission and no cut of your sales, so the fee is the same whether you sell forty tickets or four thousand. Free events cost nothing at all.
Charged once per paid event, never per ticket
Free events have no fee
Payable from the web or the app, then publish
Refunds come out of your account, not ours
If you enable refunds, an attendee requests one and you approve or decline it. A Paystack refund reverses on your own key and can never exceed what was paid; Hubtel and cash refunds are recorded and settled by you. The platform fee is never part of a refund, and it is not refundable.
You decide, on every request
Never more than the buyer actually paid
Sponsors and exhibitors are yours too
List your sponsors and their tiers, and your exhibitor stands, and both appear on your event page. Ardent does not process sponsorship money and takes no cut of it: you agree it directly and mark it confirmed here for your own records.
Sponsor tiers and logos on the page
Linked to an Ardent organisation profile where one exists
Live in four steps
01
Create your event
Add the details, date, and venue (with a map), then set free RSVPs or paid ticket tiers.
02
Connect your payouts
Add your own Paystack or Hubtel keys so paid-ticket revenue lands directly in your account, not ours.
03
Sell & RSVP
Share your event. Attendees reserve or buy, and receive a QR ticket plus a venue map by email.
04
Check them in
Scan tickets at the door, manage your guest list in real time, and welcome your crowd.
Built for a hall with bad signal and a queue at the door
The signal at the entrance of a venue is usually the worst signal at the event, and a queue does not pause while a phone waits for a server.
A scanner that works with no connection
Download the guest list once while you still have signal, and every scan after that is answered from the phone itself, instantly, with a colour and a vibration. Check-ins are sent up in the background whenever the network comes back. Somebody with a cracked screen can be found by their six-character code, or by name.
Answers instantly, offline, from the list on the device
Syncs in the background, and a failed batch is replayed whole
Rotating QR codes, so a screenshot passed to a friend stops working
Selling at the door
Somebody who turns up without a ticket can be sold one on the spot, and a guest you want to let in free can be given a complimentary place. Both mint a real ticket with a real QR, so the door count stays honest.
Cash sales settle off platform, and are recorded here
Complimentary places, issued properly rather than waved through
Give a colleague scanning access without handing over your event
Seating, tables and the programme
Lay out areas and tables, seat people, and let attendees pick their own place from a public map that shows availability and nothing about who took what. Sessions have their own times, rooms, tracks and capacity, and attendees book the ones they want.
A seating map that does not leak who is sitting where
Session capacity and booking, with a personal agenda
Speakers, sponsors and exhibitor stands on the page
Telling people when things change
Announcements reach everybody coming. Cancelling, postponing or moving an event online notifies every registered attendee, which is the difference between that and unpublishing, and the reason both exist. A reminder goes out before the event without you doing anything.
Cancel, postpone and move online all notify; unpublishing does not
An automatic reminder before the day
Ardent never sits in the middle of your ticket money.
Paid ticketing runs on your own payment keys. Ticket revenue settles straight to you, and the only money Ardent ever collects is one flat listing fee.
Paid tickets use the organiser's own Paystack or Hubtel keys: funds settle directly to you, never to Ardent.
Services and off-platform arrangements settle between you and your attendees; Ardent custodies nothing.
The only fee Ardent charges is a single flat platform fee to list an event, with no per-ticket percentage.
Every ticket is a verifiable QR pass with a check-in trail, and receipts even embed a map to the venue.
Free RSVP events cost nothing and need no payment keys at all.
Refunds and disputes run on your own payment account. Ardent is never a party to the transaction.
What changes when you charge
Almost nothing does. The difference is one fee and one connected account.
| A free event | A ticketed event | |
|---|---|---|
| Platform fee | None | One flat fee, once, before it goes live |
| Commission per ticket | None | None |
| Payment account needed | No | Your own Paystack or Hubtel |
| Where the money lands | Not applicable | Your account, directly |
| Registration form | Yes | Yes |
| Door scanner and box office | Yes | Yes |
| Seating, sessions, sponsors | Yes | Yes |
| Refunds | Not applicable | Yours to approve, on your own key |
Everything in Events
What is built and switched on, grouped by what you would be trying to do.
Setting it up
- In person, online, or both at once
- A venue with a map, Plus Code and Ghana Post GPS
- Capacity, dates and timezone
- Public, unlisted or private visibility
- Ticket tiers with prices, quantities and sales windows
- Promo codes, percentage or fixed
- A registration form you design
- Approval mode, so you decide who comes
- A waitlist that offers places with a deadline
- Recurring events as a series
Taking money
- Your own Paystack or Hubtel keys
- Card and mobile money at checkout
- A published fee schedule you can read before signing up
- Refunds you approve, reversed on your own key
- Box office sales at the door
- Complimentary tickets
The programme
- Sessions with times, rooms, tracks and capacity
- Session booking and a personal agenda
- Speakers with photographs and biographies
- Sponsors with tiers and logos
- Exhibitor stands, with badge scanning and asked consent
- Seating areas and tables
- A public seating map that hides who sits where
On the day
- An offline-first QR scanner
- Rotating ticket codes that defeat a screenshot
- Check in by six-character code or by name
- Door staff you add by email
- Live attendance as it happens
The guest list
- Search, filter and tag attendees
- Export to CSV
- One attendee's seats, answers, table and refunds in one view
- Approvals, waitlist offers and refund requests in one queue
- Private invitation links for a guest list
- Announcements by email to everybody coming
For the person attending
- Register or buy in the app
- Your ticket as a QR you can show at the door
- Add to calendar, and share
- Ask the organiser a question in public
- Request a refund
- Review the event afterwards
- Follow an organiser and hear about the next one
Questions, answered
Through your own Paystack or Hubtel keys, which you connect to your event. Buyers pay you directly and the revenue settles into your account exactly like any other sale on your provider. Ardent is not in the payment flow, so there is no waiting on a platform to pay you out and no risk of your money being held.
A single, flat platform fee to publish an event, and nothing more. There is no percentage taken from your ticket sales, no per-attendee charge, and no payout fee. If you sell a thousand tickets or five, the platform fee is the same, so the more you sell, the more the model works in your favour.
Yes. Free RSVP events are free to run and free to attend, and they need no payment keys at all. You only connect a payment account (Paystack or Hubtel) if and when you decide to add paid ticket tiers, so a community meetup can go live in minutes with nothing to configure.
No app required. Every attendee receives a scannable QR ticket by email, and that same email embeds a signed map to the venue. At the door you scan tickets to check people in within seconds, and your guest list updates live as they arrive.
You do, on your own Paystack or Hubtel account, because that is where the money went. Since Ardent never held the funds, refunds and chargebacks are settled directly between you and the buyer through your payment provider, on your terms.
In-person events appear on an interactive map and a 'near me' view, so people physically close to your venue can find it, alongside standard browsing and your own shareable event link. Discovery is built to connect you with the crowd most likely to actually turn up.
Yes. Using the address they registered with, they get a confirmation with a link to their ticket, a reminder the day before, and an update if you cancel, postpone or move the event online. That reaches guests who registered without an account, which at most community events is a large share of the list. Reminders and your announcements can be turned off by the attendee; confirmations and cancellations always go through.
No, and that is deliberate. You can list your sponsors and exhibitor booths on your event page, but sponsorship is agreed and paid directly between you and your sponsor. Ardent does not process sponsor money and takes no cut of it. You just mark a sponsorship confirmed once your own arrangement is done.
Put your event in front of the right crowd.
Beautiful listings, QR ticketing, live check-in, and a map to your door, with every cedi of ticket revenue landing where it belongs: with you.