Event Ticketing Platform for Nigeria
Sell event tickets online in Nigeria with bank transfer, Verve and card. Competitive commission per ticket sold, realtime settlement in naira, and capital advanced before your on-sale so the venue and talent are paid before you sell a single ticket.
Competitive commission rate
No monthly subscription, no setup fee, no charge to list an event and no per-payout fee. Settlement is realtime and payouts are in NGN — no international wire step and no FX spread.
Go to the organizer portal →How your buyers pay in Nigeria
- Bank transfer
- The dominant rail for Nigerian buyers, settling in seconds at low interbank cost. Most buyers trust it more than entering card details.
- Card (Verve, Visa, Mastercard)
- Including Verve, which international platforms routinely decline — and which a large share of your audience carries.
- USSD
- For buyers completing a purchase without a data connection.
- Mobile money
- Growing steadily as cashless adoption increases.
Collect anywhere in Africa, get paid anywhere in Africa
Our payment infrastructure runs on Fincra and Maplerad, so we collect and disburse right across Africa rather than only in Nigeria.
Sell beyond Lagos. A Nigerian artist touring Accra, Nairobi or Johannesburg can sell every date from one platform, with each market's buyers paying on the rails they already use — Ghanaian mobile money, M-Pesa, South African cards — rather than being pushed through a Nigerian checkout.
Settle in the currency you want. Payouts reach you in naira locally, or in another African market if that is where your costs sit. No international wire step and no FX spread taken on the way out and again on the way back.
Why global platforms underperform in Nigeria
Nigeria is the market where international ticketing platforms lose the most sales, and the reasons are structural rather than incidental.
Verve cards get declined. A large share of Nigerian debit cards are Verve, which most global processors do not accept. Every one of those buyers hits a decline at checkout and does not come back. We accept them.
Bank transfer is treated as an afterthought. It is the primary way Nigerians move money. A platform that buries it behind a card form is fighting its own audience.
FX takes a cut twice. Pricing in naira, settling through a dollar-denominated system and converting back loses money on the spread in both directions — invisible in the headline rate and material at volume.
Payout friction. International wires into Nigerian accounts are slow and expensive. We settle in naira, locally, with no wire step.
Funding an event in Lagos
Venue deposits and talent advances in Lagos are large, and they are due long before your on-sale. Most promoters carry that entirely on personal capital, which caps the size of show anyone is willing to attempt.
We advance capital before the on-sale and recover it from ticket revenue as it sells — no property collateral, no separate repayment schedule. The event is the asset being financed. How event prefinancing works.
Where several promoters are backing one show — common at Lagos scale — split payments pay each party automatically from the same event, so nobody is holding everyone else's money and settling up afterwards.
Where organizers sell
Events run on SoldOutAfrica across Nigeria, including Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Benin City, Enugu and Calabar.
Common questions
- How do I sell event tickets online in Nigeria?
- Create the event, set your ticket tiers and share the link. Buyers pay by bank transfer, card or USSD and receive a QR ticket instantly. There is no setup fee and no charge to list an event — you pay commission only when a ticket sells.
- Do you accept Verve cards?
- Yes. Verve is supported alongside Visa and Mastercard, which matters because a large share of Nigerian debit cards are Verve and most international platforms decline them outright.
- What does it cost to sell tickets in Nigeria?
- A competitive commission per ticket sold, with no monthly subscription, no setup fee, no listing fee and no per-payout charge. Payouts are in naira with no international wire step or FX spread.
- How fast are payouts in Nigeria?
- Settlement is realtime — revenue reaches you as tickets sell rather than after the event, so ticket money can fund the production instead of the other way round.
Start selling in Nigeria
Tell us what you are planning for the next six months and we will tell you what we can front — before you commit your own cash to it.
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