All-in ticket prices for fans, QR check-in at the door, and a statement every artist can read.
All-in ticket prices for fans, QR check-in at the door, and detailed statements showing the breakdown of every penny. Start selling on tix.tooq.ca today, or choose to deploy our system on your own instance. Built for Canadian bands, agencies, festivals, and venues.
Fans pay the ticket price plus tax. That's it.
Service and platform fees are included in the ticket price, not added at checkout. No facility charges or no service fees hiding until checkout. The artist sees every fee, card processing too, before the show goes on sale.
Your fans, your money.
Payments go straight to you when using Stripe Connect on our platform or your payment processor on your own instance. Fans who opt in join your own mailing list, ready to export. On your own site, tickets also sell under your own name, with no other shows beside yours.
Same tickets, same door scanner, same all-in prices for fans. You choose to run on our instance or your own.
| Sell on tix.tooq.ca | Your own instance | |
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| Best for | Bands, promoters, small venues and one-off events | Agencies, venues with a full calendar, festivals |
| Where fans buy | Your show's page on tix.tooq.ca, listed with other local shows, plus your own organizer page and a list you can put on your band website | Your own website, under your own name, only your shows |
| How fans find you | The main show list, plus the weekly email, RSS feed and calendar for your city | Your own website, your own mailing list and your own city feeds |
| Who gets paid | You, straight into your own Stripe account | You, into your own payment account |
| Fees | Service and platform fees, included in the ticket price and taken off each payment | Platform fees included in the ticket price |
| Setup | Sign up and connect Stripe yourself | We set it up on your domain with you |
| Next step | Start selling | Contact Us |
Not sure which option to choose? Start on tix.tooq.ca and talk to us when you outgrow it.
Fans pay the ticket price plus tax. That's it.
Service and platform fees are included in the ticket price, not added at checkout. No facility charge, and no order fee appearing on the last screen. The artist sees every fee, card processing too, before the show goes on sale. Transparency for the seller on where the money goes and the buyer doesn't get a last minute markup. When our pricing is sorted, we'll publish it.
Your fans, your money.
Payments go straight to you when using Stripe Connect or your own instance of the platform. Shows using our payment system see payment within 3-5 business days of the show completion. Fans who opt-in join your own mailing list, ready to export. On your own site, tickets also sell under your own name, with no other shows beside yours.
Pricing.
What's Tix.Tooq cost? Honestly, I don't know yet. For the beta and remainder of 2026 we'll commit to no more than $0.80 per ticket for the platform, and processing fees that I can't change (2.9% + $0.30 per transaction). At this point, I'm more interested in seeing full shows and testing the system than making a buck. After that? Let's talk - I need to figure out how much support and time things will require. There's no contracts or subscriptions, so you're never locked in so if pricing goes up and you don't like it, you can move on without any loss . I think I can provide more features at one of the lowest price points in Canada but I need to exercise the system to know for sure.
If you're a non-profit or doing a fundraiser in 2026/27 - reach out through the contact form and it we can waive or reduce the fees, we will.
Privacy, Data, and Ads.
The site requires data to work and we're dealing with names, emails, and some other data. Credit cards are never collected by the site so that's not a worry. We don't sell anyone's data, but we do pass some data to bands and organizers so that the tickets can work and checkout offers an option to join a band's email list if they have a privacy policy in place. There's no ads or other bullshit to deal with.
An Inclusive Platform.
We don't platform hatred, intolerance, or discrimination. All events are monitored but if something slips through, please let us know through the contact form.
Bands and organizers usually start on tix.tooq.ca. Agencies, busy venues and festivals usually want their own instance. A venue can go either way.
Bands and organizers (on tix.tooq.ca)
Sign up, connect your own Stripe account and add your shows. Fans pay you directly; the fees come off each payment automatically, so there's no invoice at the end of the month. See your sales, add your band and crew passes, and download the list of fans who asked to hear from you, once you've added your privacy policy (or made a basic one here). Your shows also get their own page, and a widget you can paste into your band website.
Agencies (your own instance)
Run every client's shows from one dashboard. Set your service fee once and it comes out of every ticket automatically. Artists log in to see their own sales and a settlement that matches yours to the cent, so nobody argues about the numbers on Monday.
Venues (either path)
Your door person doesn't need an account. Text them a link and their phone becomes a scanner for tonight's show only, so they can't open the wrong one. Sell walk-ups for cash from the same phone and count the box at the end of the night against what the system says it should hold. Give your box office, door staff and managers their own logins, each seeing only what their role needs.
Series and one-day events (either path)
Presale codes for the fan club, named tickets with ID check for the shows scalpers chase, and guest lists that close at doors so the band can't add twelve cousins at 9 pm. Every guest counts against capacity. Free shows work too: free tickets with a QR code and no fees, or a listing with no ticket needed.
Festivals (either path)
Day tickets, weekend passes, pick-your-days passes and camping or parking add-ons, each day with its own cap, with free passes beside paid ones if you like. Build the lineup venue by venue, and let any show sell its own tickets alongside wristband entry. At the pickup tent the scanner shows which wristband to hand over, and gives out the whole order's bands in one tap. No signal in the field? It keeps checking tickets and syncs when the signal comes back. Import the whole schedule from a spreadsheet, and issue crew and volunteer passes that are picked up at their own desk, with printable lanyard badges.
Fans pay the ticket price plus tax. Service and platform fees are included in the price, never added on top.
Sell walk-ups from the scanner. Each door person sees the cash they should be holding, then counts it out.
One code for the fan club, another for the radio contest, each with its own cap.
Every fee shown, by channel, matching the agent's books to the cent.
Each phone keeps a copy of the show's tickets, checks them offline and syncs later. Doubles show up in the report.
Organizers sign up on their own. Give each person a role: owner, manager, box office and door, crew coordinator or viewer.
Send one ticket or a whole order to a friend. Accepting issues new codes, so the old ones stop working.
Refunds go back through Stripe and every ticket holder is emailed. Moved shows keep their tickets valid.
Daily sales and a pace line against your past shows, so you know early if a night needs a push.
Every band and organizer gets a page of only their shows, and a snippet that puts the list on their own website.
Each city's shows in a calendar, fans subscribe to once, or in a feed reader. It updates by itself.
No app to install. Two doors can't let the same ticket in twice.
Six to a page, numbered by seller. Settle up with the record shop in two minutes.
Optional: The name on the ticket must match photo ID. Official transfers deactivate and re-issue new codes.
Day, weekend and pick-your-days passes with daily caps. The pickup desk sees the band colour for every ticket.
Tickets saved to the phone's wallet.
On sold out shows, fans who can't go list their ticket. It sells at face value once the show is sold out, and the new buyer gets a fresh code.
Discount codes with caps, or tracking codes that credit each promoter with their sales.
Names, roles and colours for crew, volunteers and band personnel, picked up at a separate desk. Print lanyard badges.
Upload the festival's schedule spreadsheet and the lineup, venues and set times fill themselves in.
Free tickets with a QR code and no fees, a listing with no ticket needed, or free passes beside paid ones.
Organizers see what they'd keep from each ticket before they sign up, using the live rates.
Text the door person a link. It opens the scanner for that one show and stops working after the night.
Caps per list, plus-ones per show, lists that close at doors. Every late add is flagged.
Per-buyer limits, checkout rate limits and an invisible CAPTCHA.
Tax follows the venue. One statement shows what to remit.
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Bands and organizers connect their own Stripe account. Fans pay them directly and the fees come off each payment. |
When it's sold out, fans join a waitlist. Tickets that come back are held for the next person in line: a day when the show is weeks away, an hour on show day. Then they go to the next person automatically.
Sell several shows as one bundle. Each show still gets its own share and its own statement.
Fans opt in at checkout. Each band, venue or organizer exports its own list, with unsubscribes kept.
Every change, refund and export is recorded with who did it.
Fans pick their cities and get the next two weeks of shows by email every Thursday. Shows with room left come first.
Sort every show by date, venue or city, or see the month on a calendar you can add to your phone.
Which path is right for me? If you sell a few shows a year under your band or promoter name, start on tix.tooq.ca: no setup, no contract, and the money goes to your own Stripe account. If you sell a calendar of shows or run a festival and want fans buying on your own website, ask about your own instance.
Are there fees? Yes: a service fee and a platform fee, plus card processing. They're included in the ticket price instead of added at checkout, and they come out before the artist's share. The artist sees each one before the show goes on sale.
Where does the money go? Into your own payment account, the day the order is paid. Or, when a band or organizer connects their own Stripe account, straight to them, with the fees taken off each payment. We never hold it.
Do fans need an account or an app? No. They get their tickets by email and can add them to Apple or Google Wallet. The door scans the QR code from a phone screen or a printout.
What if the door has no signal? The scanner keeps working. Each phone holds a copy of the show's tickets, checks them with no signal, and syncs when the signal comes back. If two offline phones let in the same ticket, the report shows it.
Can the artist sell tickets themselves? Yes. Print numbered tickets for them, and settle up when they bring back the unsold ones and the cash.
Can a venue run its own shows? Yes. In venue-run mode the venue sells, keeps the money and handles its own tax. We print and scan the tickets.
Can a band sign up on its own? Yes. They create an account, connect Stripe in a few minutes and add their shows. You decide whether their shows go on sale right away or wait for your approval.
What happens if a show is cancelled or moved? Refunds go back to each buyer's card through Stripe, and every ticket holder gets an email. When a show moves, tickets stay valid for the new date.
Can fans resell tickets? On the platform, only at face value, and only once the show is sold out. The seller gets back what they paid and the new buyer gets a fresh ticket, so screenshots of the old one stop working. A ticket sold privately can be transferred - the existing ticket is cancelled and a newly coded ticket is issued.
Can I run a free event? Yes. Give out free tickets with a QR code and no fees, or just list the show with no ticket needed. Free events are checked by us before they go on sale.
How do fans hear about my show? It's on the main show list and in the weekly email for its city, which fans sign up for themselves. Fans can also follow a city's calendar or RSS feed, and you can put your own list of shows on your band website.
What if someone on the waitlist misses the email? The tickets are held for a set time: 24 hours when the show is weeks away, with a shrinking window, down to an hour on show day. Then they go to the next person automatically, so they don't sit unsold.