Services · Mobile app development · Ticket booking apps
We offer ticket booking app development Edinburgh operators can use all year and not just in August: festival venues that appear for a few weeks, concert halls with fixed seating, Hogmanay events and match days at Murrayfield. The app sells the ticket, puts it on the buyer's phone, scans it at the door and gives you the data afterwards.
Edinburgh swings from a quiet winter programme to a month when the population of the city seems to double. A ticketing app here has to cope with both, without paying for August capacity in February. It also has to suit visitors arriving at Waverley with a suitcase and locals who have bought from the same hall for decades.
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What the app can include
In August an Edinburgh buyer may see four shows in a day, in rooms a few streets apart, some of which are lecture theatres or church halls for the rest of the year. Outside festival season, the same city runs a normal calendar of concerts, theatre, comedy, rugby and tours. The features below answer both sides of that pattern.
We do not assume you need all of them. A permanent concert hall needs a fixed seat map and a subscriber scheme; a festival producer needs to set up temporary venues fast and close them down cleanly. In discovery we look at your programme, your venues and your past sales, then pick the capabilities that make a difference for your next season. The admin system is built so your own staff can add shows, venues and price bands without our help.
Festival rooms change every year. Your team creates a venue in minutes from a simple plan: unreserved benches, a small raked block or standing space. Capacities come from the licence for that space, and the app refuses to oversell beyond them.
A new temporary venue is on sale the same day it is confirmed.
Festival audiences build a day around several performances. The planner warns when two shows overlap or when the walk between venues is too tight, using real walking times across the Old Town, the Royal Mile and the South Side.
Buyers book more shows because they trust the timing works.
A buyer adds shows from several producers to one basket and pays once. Behind the scenes, each sale is attributed to the right producer and venue, so settlement after the festival does not depend on spreadsheets.
One checkout for the buyer, clean splits for you.
Outdoor events in Edinburgh live with the weather. Push messages tell ticket holders about delays, gate changes or what to wear, and a cancelled outdoor show can trigger refunds or exchanges from the dashboard in one action.
Fewer angry emails when the weather turns.
Old stone buildings and underground vaults block mobile signal. Tickets are stored on the phone and in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet, and the scanning app checks codes on the device itself, syncing when it reaches a connection again.
Doors open on time in rooms with no signal.
For rugby at Murrayfield, concerts in large outdoor spaces or a Hogmanay celebration, each ticket names its gate and its opening time. The steward dashboard shows scans per gate minute by minute, so supervisors can move staff to the busiest entrance before a queue forms on the pavement.
Crowds spread across every gate instead of piling up at one.
Steep closes, cobbles and stairs make some venues hard to reach. Each venue page lists step-free entrances, lift availability and the route from the nearest tram or bus stop, and buyers can request access seating while booking.
Disabled visitors know before they book whether a venue suits them.
Visiting companies see their own sales, comps and audience counts by performance, while the venue manager sees the whole building. Permissions are set by role, so nobody sees another producer's revenue.
Producers stop emailing the box office for sales figures.
For halls and theatres that run all year, members get priority booking windows before tickets go on general sale, saved seat preferences and member pricing applied automatically at checkout.
Your most loyal audience books directly with you.
If you sell show and stay packages, the app keeps the overnight part as its own line, because the City of Edinburgh Council visitor levy applies to accommodation from July 2026 and not to tickets. Your accommodation partner can report the levy on their share.
Packages stay simple to sell and simple to account for.
Who this is for
We see four broad groups of Edinburgh clients. Some run a venue that exists only in August. Others run halls or theatres with a year round programme and a strong local audience. Some promote large outdoor or stadium events where gate scanning is the hardest part. And a growing number run tours and visitor experiences that sell by time slot. Each group needs a different first release, and we plan for that rather than selling one package to all four. Event ticket booking app development Edinburgh clients bring us rarely fits one group neatly, and the plan reflects that.
You turn non-theatre buildings into several performance spaces for a few weeks, host dozens of companies and sell thousands of tickets in a short window. You need fast venue setup, many producers on one system and reliable settlement. The first release usually covers the venue builder, the multi-producer basket and offline scanning, so you can retire hand-built spreadsheets before the next August.
Most of the value is in the admin side, not the buyer screens.
Your audience is mostly local, books ahead and comes back often. You want a direct channel with saved preferences, memberships and accessible booking that does not require a phone call. We focus first on a precise seat map, member priority windows and wallet tickets, then add donations or gift vouchers once the basics are trusted.
Your crowd arrives in a short window, often in poor weather, through many gates. Scanning speed, offline checks and clear gate allocation matter more than anything else. We build the scanning app and gate dashboard first, with tickets that tell each holder which entrance to use and when it opens.
We test scanning with your stewards by video call before the event.
Ghost walks, whisky tastings, castle tours and underground visits sell by slot, often to visitors deciding the same day. You need simple slot booking, group sizes, multilingual descriptions and a check-in list your guide can use on a phone. The first version is deliberately small, so it can be live for the next tourist season. Reviews and guide notes can follow in a later release.
How we work together
We do not have an office in Edinburgh. Codeeo is a team of 80+ based in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and we work remotely with Scottish clients, running discovery, reviews and launch checks by video call. Festival operators often prefer a fixed scope build finished well before August, followed by a seasonal support plan. Year round venues usually move to a monthly retainer for steady improvements. Larger groups can take a dedicated team. We have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US and are rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. If you are comparing ticket booking app developers Edinburgh venues have used before, ask each for a written scope; ours lists every feature and what it depends on.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
The technology is chosen around your peaks. Edinburgh traffic is uneven, so we favour cloud infrastructure that scales up for festival on-sales and back down for the quiet months, plus scanning apps that work with no connection at all. Your box office keeps working even if the venue broadband fails mid performance.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Mostly the admin side: venues, producers, capacity and settlement.
Buyer screens matter, but festival venues live or die on how quickly staff can set up rooms, add companies, adjust performance times and settle with producers afterwards. We spend the first part of discovery on those workflows. Then we design the buyer side around short visits, impulse bookings and phones in crowded streets. Offline scanning comes next, because many festival rooms sit in old buildings with weak signal. The result is one system for the whole venue rather than a separate tool for each job.
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