DEC19–20
DemoFest Weekend 2026
Sat and Sun, Dec 19 and 20
Huntsville, Texas · Saturday, Sunday and Weekend passes
For event promoters
Run your own ticketing. Keep the fees.
Festivals, venues, and independent promoters use FreeholdIP to sell tickets on their own payment account, deliver passes fans hold on their phones with nothing to install, and run gates that answer in about a second with no wifi and no cell signal. The per-ticket fees you send a ticketing platform today stay in your event instead.
Sales go to your own Stripe accountTickets check in with no signalNo app for your guests
What you get
Get paid directly. Check in anywhere.
Sell on your own page, take the money in your own Stripe account, and run the gate from any phone, signal or not.
- $Paid directlySales land in your own Stripe account. FreeholdIP never holds your money.
- ✓A gate that works anywhereAny phone scans passes, and it keeps working with no signal, so a dead zone does not stop the line.
- ✕Fakes don't scanEvery pass carries your signature. An altered or made-up ticket fails at the gate.
- ▢No app for your guestsThey buy and show their pass in the phone's browser. Nothing to download.
- ↺A box office for walk-upsLook up a buyer, reissue a lost pass, or hand a walk-up a ticket from one screen.
Each promoter's page wears that promoter's own colors and logo, with "powered by FreeholdIP" at the bottom.
Your money
Your money never passes through us
Sales go straight to your bank
Ticket sales check out on your own Stripe account, straight to your bank on Stripe's normal schedule, or through any checkout you already use. We supply the software: the event page, the pass, and the gate.
We never hold a dollar of ticket revenue, and nothing is deducted when a ticket sells: our fee is one number agreed with you beforehand and invoiced separately, so it never touches the money moving between your buyer and your bank.
No attendee database to leak
Fans claim passes to keys generated on their own phones. We never collect their names, emails, or payment details, so there is no honeypot of attendee data sitting in our system, or yours, waiting to be breached.
Your buyers' payment details live where they already do: with your payment processor.
The gate
A gate that holds the line
Your crew scans with an ordinary phone. Volunteer-friendly: sign in once, point, scan.
- Green for a genuine, unused pass.
- A screenshot of someone else's pass fails.
- A pass that already went through comes up ALREADY USED, with who punched it, when, and at which gate.
- A pass code expires seconds after it appears.
- The gate keeps working when connectivity dies, because it carries everything it needs.
A box office for walk-ups
Look up a buyer, reissue a lost pass, or hand a walk-up a ticket from one screen.
Pricing
One flat number, agreed before the event
50¢ against the tickets you realistically expect to sell, usually last year's actual number, agreed as one flat fee before the event, with a $150 minimum.
Expect 3,000 and it is $1,500; expect 900 and it is $450. It is priced on what you actually sell, not on seats you might not fill, and once agreed it does not move: if you have a great year, the number stays put and the upside is yours.
Your first selected event is free. We're currently running a free pilot program for a small number of selected promoters.
| Tickets you expect to sell | Our flat fee |
|---|---|
| 3,000 | $1,500 |
| 900 | $450 |
| The minimum | $150 |
| Your first selected event | Free |
See the platform slice on your next event
Card processing exists either way. The number that should move is the per-ticket cut a ticketing platform takes. Numbers here are planning estimates, not an invoice.
Platform slice today
$0
Card processing (either way)
$0
FreeholdIP
$0
one flat number, known before the first pass sells
Card processing shown at Stripe's standard U.S. online rate (2.9% plus 30¢ per order), estimated on face price. Eventbrite preset uses their published U.S. service fee (Eventbrite also charges 2.9% per order for payment processing, the same kind of cost as the card processing above); Ticket Tailor is a flat per-ticket fee (pay-as-you-go about $0.85, prepaid credits about $0.30 to $0.70). Your contract may differ. Ticket Tailor, Eventbrite and Stripe figures are as each company publishes them, checked October 2, 2026.
For your fans
What a pass gives them
Nothing to install
The ticket link opens on their phone and becomes the pass. There is no app, and never will be. First-time buyers spend about a minute setting up a free profile that is theirs to keep; after that the link just opens.
A copy fails at the gate
The pass can prove, live, that the phone showing it holds its key, and its code expires seconds after it appears.
Whole family, one phone
Buy several tickets in one payment and carry every pass on one phone: the kids walk in beside it.
Works with no signal
The pass and the gate both keep working when the cell network gives out in a field.
A free permanent name, on us
After a paid ticket, your buyer is offered their own permanent .alg name at our cost: a public profile that is theirs for life, with no renewal fees. It is a gift to your buyers, never a charge to you or them, and you can switch it off for your events if you prefer.
Try it
See it work right now, on your phone
The pass lives on a phone, so try it there: scan this code with your phone's camera, buy a demo ticket, claim the pass, even scan it at a demo gate.
If you would rather be walked through it, freeholdip.com/demo takes about five minutes and says what to watch for at each step. Then read the organizer guide: payments, events, selling, and the gate, start to finish.
The gate scans and answers with no sign-in; punching passes uses the demo crew sign-in from the guide.
Get set up
Want your next event on it?
We're currently running a free pilot program for a small number of selected promoters. If you run a gate and want your next event on it, apply and tell us about your event.
- Apply and tell us about your eventWe set up every organizer personally, the same vetting we give credential issuers, so fans can trust that a pass wearing your name really comes from you.
- We email you one setup linkIf we approve you, we email you one setup link. It works once, for 14 days, and takes about five minutes: you choose a password and save two things, your organization's sign-in file and a recovery sheet with your 24 recovery words.
- Sign in and start sellingThen you sign in, and you land on your Events & Ticketing page.
Questions first? support@freeholdip.com.
The Office · for event promoters
Run the people side of your event
Tickets are half the job. The other half is the crew, the volunteers, the vendors, the artists and the sponsors. The Office keeps all of them in one place, next to every event you run.
Volunteer shifts
Post your gate, parking and setup shifts. Volunteers sign up through a link, and you see who is covering what.
Sponsors who pay online
Set your sponsor levels. A sponsor signs up on your event page and gets a link to pay, straight to your account.
Vendors, artists and crew
Everyone tagged by the part they play, with their agreements sent to sign online and kept on file.
An outreach list that remembers
Every sponsor and vendor you asked, what they gave last year, and who is due a call back.
Each event's money
Income and costs for every event from your own books, side by side with last year.
Next year in one step
Copy this year's event, with its ticket types, sponsor levels and questions, and change only what is new.
Run your own ticketing
Free pilot for a small number of selected promoters. Tell us about your event.
Or email support@freeholdip.com