Stadium websites, at match-day scale

Yes. Booka is a booking and venue management platform we built and run, now live across the Venues NSW stadium network — availability, bookings, access and the operational reporting behind them. See the Booka case study.

Yes — Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes for memberships, tickets and access, with QR gate entry. We built this for the Sporting Club of Sydney and run Shakewell Wallet as a product for exactly this purpose.

That is the only load pattern that matters for a venue: long quiet periods and then everyone arriving within the same twenty minutes. Systems are designed and tested against that peak rather than average traffic, because average traffic never breaks anything.

We integrate them, and we would push back on building one. Booking and ticketing get conflated because both put people in venues, but they are different transactions: booking sells the space, ticketing sells admission. A booking has an owner, an allocation and an approval trail; a ticket has a holder, a gate and a scan. They meet at the event, which is why the integration matters — and why merging them into one system usually serves both badly.

A booking system answers who has the space, when, and on whose authority — it carries an owner, a conflict model across a space hierarchy, and usually an approval trail. A ticketing system answers whether this person may come in — a holder, a gate, a scan. The booked space is where the ticketed event happens, so they need to talk to each other, but the data models are genuinely different.

Yes — that is the admission side of the line. The Sporting Club of Sydney members app does QR gate entry and wallet passes, fed by the systems that already know who is entitled to be there. The hard part is rarely the scan; it is entitlement staying correct when a membership lapses, upgrades or is shared.

Usually, and the first question is what it is actually doing rather than what it was bought to do. Most venue booking replacements fail on the workflows nobody documented — the approval someone does by email, the recurring hire that breaks the conflict rules, the spreadsheet that is the real source of truth for one venue. Those surface in discovery or they surface at cutover.

The shape is the same and the emphasis moves. Courts, fields and community venues lean harder on recurring bookings, seasonal allocation to clubs, and an approval trail that will be asked about later — governance matters more than throughput. A commercial venue usually has the reverse balance.