The platform handles the entire event lifecycle: ticket sales (single and 3/6-person bundles), checkout with coupons, automatic QR generation, confirmation/refund emails, mobile-friendly staff validation portal with integrated scanner, multi-day program management with parallel sessions, speaker profiles, and session preference tracking. The admin CMS provides full control with detailed dashboards and data export.

Key features

• Flexible ticketing: single tickets and bundles (3/6 people) with participant management.
• Embedded Stripe checkout: payment without redirect, coupon/invoice support, real-time pricing.
• QR code system: automatic generation per order, validation token with expiry and attempt limits, entry tracking (not_entered, entered).
• Staff validation portal: dedicated login (/staff/login), in-app camera scanner (html5-qrcode), identity verification workflow, entry confirmation with timestamp and audit trail.
• Automated emails: order confirmation with attached QR, refund notification, React Email templates bilingual (EN/IT), job queue with retries.
• Event management: multi-day events, ProgramBlocks with time slots, parallel Sessions with speakers/capacity, preference selection (max 2 per block).
• Speaker profiles: bio, company, photo, animated carousel (GSAP).
• B Corp integration: B Corp company verification, certificate and employee tracking.

Data layer & integrations

• Payload CMS 3.73 with MongoDB adapter for collections (orders, customers, qrcodes, tickets, bundles, bundle-assignments, events, program-blocks, sessions, speakers, session-preferences, companies, media, users).
• Stripe for embedded checkout, webhooks (checkout.session.completed, charge.refunded, payment_intent.failed), idempotency.
• tRPC 11 + React Query for typed calls (checkoutRouter, qrcodeRouter, staffAuthRouter, eventsRouter, programRouter, ticketsRouter, speakersRouter).
• Zod 4 for validation.
• Resend 6 + React Email for transactional emails.
• Vercel Blob for media storage.
• Background jobs Payload with retries (send-confirmation-email, send-refund-email).

Security & access

• admin, editor, event_staff roles with granular RBAC.
• Stripe webhooks with signature verification and idempotency keys.
• Rate limiting on checkout (10 req/15min per IP).
• QR validation with time windows, attempt limits, status tracking.
• Audit trail for staff validations with user ID and timestamp.

UI/UX and performance

• Tailwind CSS 4 + Radix UI for accessible components.
• GSAP for smooth animations (speaker carousel).
• html5-qrcode for in-app camera scanner.
• next-intl 4 for full i18n (EN/IT).
• Sonner for toasts, Lucide for icons, next-themes for dark mode.
• Pino 10 for structured JSON logging (production-ready).
• Mobile-optimized staff portal, responsive design, tuned LCP/CLS.

Technical highlights

• Next.js 16 + React 19 + TypeScript 5.
• Payload 3.73 (MongoDB), Vercel Blob media.
• Stripe 20 (embedded checkout, webhooks, idempotency).
• QR system (generation, validation, entry tracking, camera scanner).
• Staff portal with dedicated auth and validation workflow.
• tRPC 11 + superjson + React Query.
• React Email + Resend 6 with background jobs.
• next-intl 4 (EN/IT), GSAP, Pino logging.
• Zod 4, Tailwind 4, Radix UI, Biome, pnpm.