offline-first
A door that never stops
The phone keeps the night's list as SHA-256 fingerprints, never the tickets' secrets, and decides with the server's own rules. Each scan carries its own ID, so a batch sent twice counts once.
Case study · Nightlife SaaS
Aforena: the whole night, in one platform.
Aforena is the management and ticketing platform for clubs, venues, promoters, beach clubs and festivals. We designed and built it end to end: tickets, guest lists, tables, door, bar, payments and the team's whole back office, on phones and computers.
- 6languages, emails included
- 12modules in one platform
- 7team roles, checked by the server
- 2Android apps
The challenge
The night doesn't do retakes.
Clubs and promoters often run each night across separate tools: one for tickets, another for guest lists, a spreadsheet for tables and a door that depends on the phone signal. Nothing talks to anything else, and at 1 am there's no time to fix it.
The goal: one platform for the whole night, from announcing the party to Monday's numbers, built so the door never stops.
What we built
Everything a night needs in one platform, sharing one database, one login and one design.
Venue back office
Events, sales, team, reports and settings on a phone or a computer, with seven roles checked on every request.
Staff admin panel
Approvals, support, finance and a full history of every action, behind two-step verification.
Website with its own CMS
Drafts, preview, versions and a media library, so the team edits the home page in six languages without code.
Venue pages and embeddable calendar
Each venue's events on its own address, plus a calendar any website can embed with a short snippet.
Tickets and checkout
Prices that rise by date or quota, add-ons, discount codes and QR tickets by email.
Door app
QR scanning, live capacity and box office on the team's own phones, even without signal.
Guest lists and promoters
Personal links, quotas, attribution and commissions for every promoter.
Tables and bar
A drag-and-drop floor plan, deposits, minimum spend and a bar till that charges each table's tab.
Wallet with Stripe Connect
Each venue sells on its own Stripe account, set up in three steps without leaving Aforena.
Customers and campaigns
Customer history and tags, CSV export and email campaigns only to people who said yes.
Partner API
Hotels and agencies sell from their own websites, with revocable keys and safe retries.
Android apps
Aforena and Aforena Scanner: the back office and the door, full screen on the phone.
A night with Aforena
Every part of the product, at the moment of the night it's used.
- 8 pm
Sales open
The event goes up on the venue's page with tickets that rise in price by date or quota. Every promoter sells with their own link, and the venue sees live who's bringing whom.
- 12:30 am
Doors open
The team scans tickets, guest lists, tables and passes with their own phones. Every ticket works once, capacity updates itself and, if the signal drops, the door keeps working.
- 2 am
The floor is full
Every table has a name, a deposit and a minimum spend. At the bar, each sale goes on its table's tab: the door knows who's arrived and the bar knows what they've spent.
- Monday
The numbers are ready
Sales by day, channel and promoter, real attendance and the customers who come back, ready to export or to invite to the next night.
Product mock-ups with sample data, as shown on aforena.com.
Technology that sets the bar in its sector
Nine decisions, all of them in the code, that keep Aforena fast, secure and dependable when the night is at its busiest.
transactional locks
No overselling
Every purchase locks the event's price tiers in the database, so two buyers can't take the same last ticket. Tested with five simultaneous checkouts for the last three.
2FA · audit log · CSP
Security in layers
Two-step verification for staff, an append-only history of every staff action with its reason, a Content Security Policy with a nonce per page, and limits per IP and per email on every public form.
GDPR
Privacy by design
Customers belong to each venue. The legal representative's ID details go straight to Stripe and are never stored, a buyer's location is kept as a country, never an IP, and campaigns only reach people who said yes.
Stripe Connect
Payments done right
Direct charges: the buyer's money goes straight to the venue, with Aforena's commission as the application fee. Refunds and chargebacks keep tickets and money in step.
SSR · WebP
Fast on any connection
Pages rendered on the server, images in WebP, effects only on computers and posters instead of videos on phones. It respects reduced motion and data saver.
i18n · SEO
Six languages, easy to find
Spanish, English, French, Italian, Dutch and German everywhere, emails and legal pages included, picked by the visitor's country. Events carry schema.org data with their tickets.
PWA · Android
Installable on any phone
The door installs as an app that opens offline, and two Android apps wrap the same back office, so every improvement reaches them the moment it's published.
Docker · staging
Built to move and to last
Its own containers, database, backups and domain, designed to move to its own server in an afternoon. Checked backups every night and a full staging copy to try every change first.
Built with
The result
Live, and built for the busiest night.
Aforena runs in production on its own addresses: the website at aforena.com, each venue's pages at go.aforena.com, and the back office and admin panel at app.aforena.com. Venues join by invitation during the private beta.
- aforena.com
- go.aforena.com
- app.aforena.com
What JG Webs did
- Market research and product design
- Brand and logo
- Website, back office and admin panel
- API, database and payments
- Servers, backups and deploys
- Android apps
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From the first sketch to the app on your phone: we design it, build it and keep it running with you.