Karata Events eyes ticketing revolution

Speaking to BusinessMonitor, Karata Events managing director, Tseme Tseme, said the platform was born out of frustration after repeatedly seeing organisers lose money and credibility because of duplicated paper tickets and outdated systems.

"Organisers would spend months preparing for an event only for things to fall apart at the gate because someone had duplicated a printed ticket. By the time genuine ticket holders were turned away, it was already too late," he said. To address this, Karata issues digital tickets stored in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet with QR codes that automatically change every 30 seconds, making screenshots and printed copies useless. Once a ticket is scanned, it is instantly marked as used across all devices, eliminating duplicate entry even at multiple gates.