How We Built India’s Free Event Ticketing Platform with AI, UPI, and QR Infrastructure
Most Indian event organizers lose huge amounts of money to ticketing commissions.
Platforms often charge:
- 15–20% service fees
- monthly SaaS subscriptions
- expensive enterprise pricing
We wanted to solve this.
So we built Vihaya Events:
https://events.vihaya.app
A completely free event ticketing and event management platform designed specifically for Indian organizers.
Core Engineering Challenges
Building an event platform for India meant solving:
- Native UPI payment flows
- High mobile traffic
- QR ticket generation
- WhatsApp-first communication
- Mega-event scalability
- Sub-event registration systems
Razorpay + UPI Infrastructure
We integrated Razorpay for:
- UPI
- cards
- net banking
- wallet payments
The challenge was optimizing checkout for Indian mobile networks while keeping registration friction extremely low.
QR Ticketing Architecture
Every ticket generates:
- unique QR codes
- attendee metadata
- offline validation support
This allows check-in systems to continue working even during poor venue connectivity.
AI Form Builder
One of our most interesting systems is the AI form builder:
https://events.vihaya.app/features/ai-form-builder
Organizers describe an event in plain English and the system auto-generates:
- registration fields
- attendee workflows
- ticket categories
- team registration logic
AI Event Website Builder
We also built:
https://events.vihaya.app/features/ai-website-builder
This system generates complete event landing pages automatically.
Mega Event Infrastructure
Large college fests and hackathons required:
- multi-stage events
- sub-event registration
- attendee grouping
- sponsor management
- certificate workflows
We designed the architecture to support everything from 50-person workshops to large multi-day festivals.
Final Thoughts
India’s event ecosystem needs affordable infrastructure.
We’re trying to build scalable tooling that gives organizers modern event technology without platform commissions.
Website:
https://events.vihaya.app