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Get started in 3 minutes

1. Create your free account

Visit boletra.com, tap Start free and enter your email. You receive a magic link (valid for 15 minutes), click it, and you’re in — no password, no card.

Your account starts with 50 free tickets every month, enough to run a monthly indie event without paying for the platform.

2. Create your venue

On your first visit we ask for:

  • Public name of the venue (what your buyers see).
  • Slug (the URL boletra.com/o/<slug>/...). Must be unique.
  • Default language — Spanish or English. You can add more per event later.

3. Connect Stripe

From the dashboard tap Connect Stripe. We hand you off to Stripe Connect Express where you fill in:

  • Bank details (CLABE in MX, CBU in AR, IBAN, US ABA, etc.).
  • Person or business identification.
  • Business information.

When you come back, your account is ready to publish events. Boletra never touches the money — buyers pay directly into your Stripe account.

4. Create the event (it lands as a draft)

In Events → New event fill in:

  • Banner image (JPG, PNG, WebP or AVIF, max 5 MB).
  • Title and description in the active language.
  • Start and end dates + timezone.
  • Venue / location.
  • Currency and service fee (added on top of the ticket price; routed to your Stripe account too).

The event is created as draft. It cannot be bought yet — you still need to add ticket types.

5. Add ticket types

Open the event. In the Ticket types section tap + Add ticket type and create one per tier you want to sell:

  • Kind — entry for general admission, combo for entry + extra, seat for a seat, or consumption for a consumption charge.
  • Name (General, VIP, Combo + Drink) and optional description.
  • Price in the event currency. 0 = free ticket.
  • Total capacity — how many tickets of this tier you can sell.
  • Hide from public — optional, for guest list or private promos.

You can add as many as you want, edit them any time and reorder them. After the first ticket sells, the kind becomes immutable and capacity can’t drop below sold (we warn you before submitting).

More detail: Event editor.

6. Publish the event

Tap Publish event. The public link (boletra.com/o/<slug>/<event>) goes live, the event lands in /discover and in the sitemap.

Any social network works. Your buyer:

  1. Sees the event page, picks their tickets.
  2. Pays by card or wallet (Apple Pay, Google Pay).
  3. Receives an email with the link to their ticket, which shows a rotating QR.

Your Sales page updates in real time: gross revenue, service fees collected, channel attribution (UTM) and the list of orders with buyer + tickets sold.

8. Validate at the door

Download the Boletra Scanner app (iOS / Android), scan the validator QR your dashboard generates, and start scanning. Works offline if you pre-sync the event with wifi before it starts.

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