How to Sell Tickets for a Concert in Dhaka

Selling tickets for a concert in Dhaka used to mean a Facebook post, a bKash number and a spreadsheet that never quite matched the gate. It still works for a fifty person show. Past that, it breaks: payments get lost in screenshots, people turn up with forwarded tickets, and you spend the night before the show answering DMs instead of checking sound. This guide walks through how to set up a concert so the selling, the payments and the gate all run from one place.

Start with the shape of your show

Before you open any ticketing tool, decide three things.

• Capacity. How many people can the venue actually hold, and how many tickets will you hold back for artists, sponsors and guests?

• Seated or standing. An open-air show or a club night is usually general admission. An auditorium concert usually sells specific seats. Some shows mix both, with a seated balcony and a standing floor.

• Price tiers. Most concerts sell better with two or three clear tiers, such as Regular, Front Zone and VIP, rather than one price for everyone.

If you are still deciding between seats and standing, our guide on seated vs general admission covers the trade-offs.

Set up ticket categories with real limits

On Quicket each tier is a ticket category with its own price and its own quantity. When a category sells out, it shows as sold out on the event page, and you can choose to hide it instead. You can also keep a category hidden from the public page and share it by direct link, which is useful for an artist guest list or a sponsor allocation.

Two limits are worth setting on every concert:

• A sale window. Registration opens and closes at the times you set for the event, so you are not still selling at the gate when the venue is full.

• A per-buyer cap. You can limit how many tickets one buyer can get for the event. It slows down people buying in bulk to resell.

Plan your price changes before the on-sale

An early bird tier is the easiest way to get money in early and judge demand. On Quicket you do not have to remember to change prices by hand at midnight. Event automations can change a ticket price at a set time or when stock runs low, and can show or hide a category on a schedule. There are ready-made templates for common patterns such as a tiered on-sale, a presale before the public sale, and a last call.

Coupons work alongside this. You can create percentage or fixed discount codes, limit them to chosen categories, cap how many times they can be used, and give them an expiry date. A code for a band's fan club or a college cultural club is a good way to see which partner actually brings buyers.

Let people pay the way they already pay

In Bangladesh, most concert buyers pay from their phone. On Quicket, buyers paying in taka can check out with bKash, Pathao Pay or a card. Every payment is confirmed by the payment provider before a ticket is issued, so there are no screenshots to check and no transaction IDs to match by hand. We wrote a separate post on taking bKash and Pathao Pay for event tickets if you want the details.

Make the event page do the selling

Your event page is where every social post, story and WhatsApp forward ends up, so treat it as your main ad. A few things help:

• A clear poster and a short description that answers the obvious questions: date, gate time, venue, line-up, age limit.

• Your own colours. Quicket lets you theme the event page with your own primary and accent colours, with a contrast check so text stays readable.

• Add-ons. If you sell merchandise, parking or a food combo, add-ons let buyers add them to the same order, each with its own stock.

If you already have a band or venue website, you can also put a ticket button on it. See embedding a ticket widget on your own website.

Prepare for the rush

A popular concert sells a big share of its tickets in the first minutes. That is when weak systems oversell. On Quicket, when a buyer adds tickets to the cart, that inventory is held for them while they pay and released if they do not finish. Stock is checked atomically, so the same ticket is not sold to two people at once.

On your side, announce the exact on-sale time in advance, post the event link rather than a phone number, and have one person watching the sales dashboard and one person answering messages.

Run the gate from your phone

Every ticket is a QR code. On the day, your gate team scans with the Quicket web scanner on their phones. A ticket that was already scanned shows as already scanned, with the time and who scanned it, so a forwarded screenshot only gets one person in. Refunded or cancelled tickets are flagged so staff know not to admit them.

You decide who can scan. Add your gate staff by email on the event's scanner page, and you can choose whether each person is allowed to undo a scan. If you have several gates, give each team its own staff and watch scan counts per person in the scan activity feed. For more on gate fraud, read our guide on avoiding fake tickets.

After the show

Once the lights are off, your attendee list is your best asset for the next concert. You can download it as a CSV with names, contact details, ticket type, scan status and any custom questions you asked at checkout. We cover this in who owns your audience.

A simple checklist

• Capacity, holds and tiers decided.

• Categories created with quantities, a sale window and a per-buyer cap.

• Price changes scheduled with automations, coupons created for partners.

• Event page themed, add-ons set up, link shared everywhere.

• Gate staff added to the scanner list and tested a day before.

Quicket has sold more than 450K tickets across 250+ events for 200+ organizers, including Bangladesh national football team home matches. If you are planning a concert in Dhaka, start selling on Quicket or read our full guide on how to sell tickets online in Bangladesh. For pricing, talk to us.