Aforena
Clubs and venues
Several nights a week with a full room, the same team and one system: sales, lists, door, tables and bar.
Private betaCapacity: 0%. Doors opening.
Management software for clubs, venues, promoters, beach clubs and festivals: tickets, guest lists, promoter links, door, tables and bar, connected live. Your brand, your customers and your payments stay yours.
- Event The line-up is out, sales are open
- Promoter A sale through their own link
- Tickets First tier gone, the next one opens
- Guest list On the list, and the door knows
- Door Valid. Once.
- Signal Gone. The door keeps scanning.
- Box office Sold on the spot, already counted
- Capacity 80% and rising
- Table 105 Another bottle, on the tab
- Report Real attendance, ready to read
0%Doors closed
The line-up drops. Sales open.
Publish the event on your own page, with tickets that go up in price by date or as each tier sells out, ticket packages you set up once, guest lists and discount codes. You can also sell from your own website with the calendar, and from hotel and agency sites through the API. Every promoter sells through their own link, and you see live who's bringing whom, commissions already worked out. Nobody's inside yet, and the night has already started.
- Event page
- Tiered tickets
- Ticket packages
- Guest lists
- Promoters and commissions
- Calendar for your website
- Channel API
+1At the door
Getting in is quick. Sneaking in isn't.
Your team scans tickets, guest lists, tables and passes with their own phones, and every scan adds one to the live count. Each ticket only works once, the door sees each ticket's minimum age and the box office sells on the spot. If the signal drops, the door keeps scanning and syncs when it's back.
- QR scanner
- Works offline
- Box office
- Live capacity
- Age per ticket
- Passes and members
100%Full house
Every table, with a name and a tab.
Draw your floor plan and take VIP table bookings with an online deposit and a minimum spend. At the bar, every sale goes on its table's tab. The door knows who's arrived, the bar knows what each table has had, and you follow every table from your phone, even when the room is packed.
- Floor plan
- Online deposit
- Minimum spend
- Bar till
- Table tabs
0%After closing
The room empties. The numbers stay.
Sales by day, channel and promoter, real attendance counted at the door and who keeps coming back, with commissions already worked out. Export your sales and customers whenever you like, and email the next event only to people who opted in. The next night starts here.
- Reports
- Real attendance
- Commissions
- Returning customers
- Export
- Email campaigns
The night is measured in aforo.
Aforo is Spanish for a venue's capacity, and there's a reason we're called Aforena. Every venue opens at its own time, but every night starts at 0% and ends at 0%. What happens in between is management: tickets, guest lists, tables, passes, box office and exits in one count, at every door, signal or not.
Who it's for
Every night is different
One account for your whole team: owners, managers, promoters, door and bar staff, each with their own role and seeing only their part.
Promoters
A different venue every weekend, with your page, your promoters and your customers always with you.
Beach clubs
Daybeds and tables on your own floor plan, booked online with a deposit, and every bar order on its own tab.
Festivals
Big crowds, several days and a door that can't fail: lots of phones scanning at once and capacity updated live.
Why Aforena
The system is ours. The night is yours.
Your account, not ours
Every online sale is paid straight into your own Stripe account: the buyer's money never passes through Aforena. If a payment is disputed, its tickets are blocked automatically.
Your crowd isn't ours
They buy on your page with no Aforena account or app, and get tickets and emails with your logo. No marketplace: we never show them another venue's events.
You set the fees
You decide the booking fee, per ticket type: it's zero unless you add one, and buyers see it before they pay. No surprises at the last step.
Nothing to install or buy
Door, box office and bar run in the browser on your team's own phones, with no app store and no hardware to buy from us, in six languages. Everyone sees only their part.
Frequently asked questions
What is Aforena?
Aforena is management software for nightclubs, venues, promoters, beach clubs and festivals. It brings together in one dashboard online ticket sales with price tiers, guest lists, promoter links with their commissions, QR door scanning that works without signal, VIP table bookings with deposits and minimum spend, the bar, memberships, reports and emails to your customers. It's in private beta.
How is it different from a ticketing platform?
Aforena isn't a marketplace: your events sell on your own page, under your brand, and buyers don't need an account or an app. Online payments go to your venue's Stripe account, you decide the booking fees, and your customers' data is yours. And it goes beyond tickets: guest lists, promoters, the door, tables and the bar all share the same live capacity count.
How do I join the beta?
Request access with the form. A real person on our team reads every request and replies by email; if you're in, you get a key to create your account.
How much does it cost?
There are no public prices during the beta. We'll walk you through the terms before you sell anything, with no small print, and requesting access doesn't commit you to anything.
How do I get paid for online sales?
Through your own Stripe account, which you set up from the Wallet in your dashboard. Each sale goes straight into your account: the buyer's money never passes through Aforena.
What if the signal drops at the door?
The door keeps working. Each phone keeps the night's tickets and lists, checks them offline and syncs when the signal is back.
Will you help me get started and move my data over?
Yes. We open the beta one venue at a time so we can help each one: tell us what you use now when you request access and we'll work out with you how to bring your data over. Once you're in, write to us from Support in your dashboard.
Do my promoters and staff need an account?
Yes. You invite them by email and give each one a role: promoters see only their own link, list and sales; door staff only the door; bar staff only the till.
Who owns my customer data?
Yours. We don't share them with other venues or use them for anything of our own. Export them whenever you like, and your campaigns only reach people who said yes, with an unsubscribe link in every email.
What languages is it available in?
Six: Spanish, English, French, Italian, Dutch and German. The dashboard, sales pages, tickets and emails are all translated, and everyone sees them in their own language.
The lights come on.
The room is back at 0% and the next night is already taking shape. Request access: we're opening Aforena one venue at a time, and a real person reads every request.