Ticketing

On-chain concert venue and ticket management with SPL token payments

Pending Anchor 0.32

Program ID 2bmGLNZ1dXFiWcS7x8DffzQVHUuPhhJ4vRKLw2SSdBNB

Repository ExpertVagabond/solana-ticketing

Cluster Devnet

Instructions

IX create_venue

Creates a new venue PDA that holds ticket inventory and payment configuration.

Parameter	Type	Description
`venue_id`	`String`	Unique identifier for the venue (used as PDA seed)

IX create_tickets

Adds a new ticket tier to a venue. Only the venue owner can call this.

Parameter	Type	Description
`venue_id`	`String`	Venue identifier
`ticket_name`	`String`	Name of the ticket tier (e.g. "VIP", "General")
`price`	`u64`	Price per ticket in token base units
`available_tickets`	`u64`	Total supply for this tier

IX purchase_tickets

Purchases tickets by transferring SPL tokens from the buyer to the venue owner. Creates a purchase receipt PDA for the buyer.

Parameter	Type	Description
`venue_id`	`String`	Venue identifier
`ticket_name`	`String`	Name of the ticket tier to purchase
`quantity`	`u64`	Number of tickets to buy

Accounts

Venue

Field	Type	Description
`owner`	`Pubkey`	Venue owner wallet
`available_tickets`	`Vec<Ticket>`	Array of ticket tiers
`token_mint`	`Pubkey`	SPL token mint for payments
`owner_token_account`	`Pubkey`	Venue owner's token account for receiving payment
`bump`	`u8`	PDA bump seed

Ticket (nested)

Field	Type	Description
`name`	`String`	Ticket tier name
`price`	`u64`	Price per ticket
`available`	`u64`	Remaining tickets

PurchasedTickets

Field	Type	Description
`ticket_name`	`String`	Tier purchased
`price`	`u64`	Price paid per ticket
`quantity`	`u64`	Number of tickets purchased
`date_of_purchase`	`i64`	Unix timestamp of purchase
`bump`	`u8`	PDA bump seed

PDA Derivation

venue

seeds = [b"venue", venue_id]

ticket (purchase receipt)

seeds = [b"ticket", venue_id, buyer]

Error Codes

InvalidTicketName The ticket tier name does not exist on this venue

TicketsNotAvailable Insufficient tickets remaining for the requested quantity

InvalidSub Arithmetic underflow/overflow

Usage Example

import { getProgram, findVenuePda, findTicketPda } from "./src";

const ticketing = getProgram("ticketing", provider);

// Create a venue
const venueId = "solana-hacker-house-2026";
const [venuePda] = findVenuePda(venueId);

await ticketing.methods
  .createVenue(venueId)
  .accounts({ venueAccount: venuePda, authority: wallet.publicKey, tokenMint, tokenAccount })
  .rpc();

// Add VIP tickets at 10 USDC each, 100 available
await ticketing.methods
  .createTickets(venueId, "VIP", new BN(10_000_000), new BN(100))
  .accounts({ venueAccount: venuePda, owner: wallet.publicKey })
  .rpc();

// Purchase 2 VIP tickets
const [ticketPda] = findTicketPda(venueId, buyer.publicKey);
await ticketing.methods
  .purchaseTickets(venueId, "VIP", new BN(2))
  .accounts({ venueAccount: venuePda, buyerAccount: ticketPda, buyer: buyer.publicKey })
  .rpc();

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