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For organizers in Saudi Arabia
Event ticketing platform for Saudi Arabia
Sell tickets online for events in Riyadh, Jeddah and across the Kingdom, scan guests in at the door from any phone and follow every sale in one console. Read the limits first: prices are in US dollars or UAE dirhams, not riyals, and buyers pay by international card.
Ticketing for events in Riyadh, Jeddah and the rest of the Kingdom
Blend is an online ticketing platform: an event page, a checkout, tickets with a QR code and a console that shows who bought and who came. The events on sale on Blend today are concentrated in Lebanon and the UAE. An organizer in Saudi Arabia can use the same tools for a concert in Riyadh or a conference in Jeddah, and can set the event to the Riyadh time zone.
What is not there yet is the local money side. The next section lists exactly what is missing, so you can decide before you build anything.
What Blend does not offer in Saudi Arabia today
None of these is hidden in small print. If one of them rules Blend out for your event, it is better to know now.
- No riyal pricing. Ticket prices are set in US dollars or UAE dirhams, and the buyer is charged in that currency.
- No mada and no STC Pay. Buyers pay with a Visa, Mastercard or Amex card that works for international online payments.
- No local payouts. Blend has no Saudi company and no Saudi payout rail today, so how you are paid is arranged with Blend before you go on sale. Payouts land within days of the event.
- No help with permits. You are responsible for any permits and licensing your event needs in the Kingdom. Blend does not obtain them, check them or advise on them.
- No Arabic console. Buyers can browse in Arabic, but the organizer console and this page are in English.
How buyers in Saudi Arabia pay
You choose US dollars or UAE dirhams for your tickets. At checkout the buyer sees the ticket price, the processing fee as its own line and the total before paying, then pays by card. Card details are tokenized by Stripe, so they never touch your laptop or ours. The charge is made in the currency you priced in, not in riyals.
The ticket arrives by email as a QR code, ready to scan at the door. How fees work is on the pricing page.
Arabic pages for your buyers
Blend's buyer pages have Arabic versions with their own addresses: the home page, the events catalogue, and each event page, city page and category page, at /ar followed by the usual path. A buyer who prefers Arabic gets the labels, buttons and menus of your event page in Arabic. What you write yourself, such as the title and description, appears as you wrote it, so write it in the language your audience reads. The organizer console is in English.
Door scanning and check in from any phone
Every ticket carries a QR code. You issue a pairing code for each door in the console, a staff member types it into a phone, and that phone scans tickets from its browser with the camera. A ticket that was already scanned is flagged, so one code cannot let two people in, and the guest list shows who has arrived. More on access control and check in.
Seat maps, promoter codes and reports
For a seated venue, draw the room once and let buyers pick their own seats or tables. A seat is held while the buyer checks out, so it cannot be sold twice. Discount codes can be an amount or a percentage, capped and limited to certain tickets, and every promoter gets a code and a tracked link that counts their sales. See the promoter dashboard.
Sales, revenue and the processing fee are laid out in the Finance and Analytics pages of the console, and the guest list exports as a CSV file. If you want buyers to stay inside your brand, checkout can run on a white-label ticketing website on your own domain.
Blend also runs cashless payments for bars and vendors. Ask us before planning it for a venue in the Kingdom, so we can tell you what applies there.
How to start selling tickets for an event in Saudi Arabia
Talk to us first
Contact us to agree the currency and how you will be paid before anything goes on sale.
Create your event
Add the name, date, venue and a cover image. Create an event to start.
Add your tickets
Set prices in US dollars or UAE dirhams, quantities and sale dates. Add a seat map if the room is seated.
Publish and share
Share the event link, in English or Arabic, and give each promoter their own code.
Scan at the door
Pair a phone for each door and scan guests in on the day.
See the rest of the platform
Read everything Blend does for organizers, or go straight to concerts, festivals and conferences.
Questions organizers in Saudi Arabia ask
No, not today. Ticket prices on Blend are set in US dollars or UAE dirhams, and buyers are charged in the currency you choose. There is no riyal pricing.
No. Blend has no mada or STC Pay checkout. Buyers in Saudi Arabia pay with a Visa, Mastercard or Amex card that works for international online payments.
Blend has no Saudi payout rail today, so how you are paid is arranged with Blend before you go on sale. Every sale shows in the Finance page of your console with the processing fee separated out. Payouts land within days of the event.
There is no setup cost and free tickets are free. On paid tickets the buyer pays a processing fee at checkout and you receive your ticket price. Rates depend on volume, so contact us for yours.
No. You are responsible for any permits and licensing your event needs in the Kingdom. Blend is a ticketing platform and does not obtain, check or advise on them.
Yes, for the pages buyers browse. The home page, the events catalogue and each event, city and category page have an Arabic version at an address that starts with /ar. Your own event title and description appear as you wrote them, and the organizer console is in English.
No. Any phone with a camera can be paired to a door with a code from the console and then scans tickets in its browser. A ticket that was already scanned is flagged.
More for organizers
Selling in Lebanon and the UAE
- Ticketing in LebanonUSD pricing, card and Whish checkout, door scanning and payouts.
- Ticketing in the UAEAED pricing, card checkout, Apple Pay and Google Pay, QR entry.
- Pricing and feesNo setup cost, free events free, buyer paid processing fee.
- Compare platformsBlend next to ihjoz, Platinumlist and Tick'it, feature by feature.
- Accept Whish paymentsBuyers approve in their Whish app; tickets issue on confirmation.
- Cashless paymentsNFC wristbands or the ticket QR, vendor tills and live sales.
- Access control and check inDoor scanners, zone readers, rotating barcodes and live counts.
- Promoter dashboardA code and a tracked link per promoter, with sales and commission.
- FestivalsPasses, gates, wristbands and cashless vendors on one system.
- ConcertsSeat maps, ticket waves, promoter codes and door scanning.
- ConferencesRegistration questions, group sign up, passes and room check in.
Guides for organizers: How to Sell Out an Event in Lebanon, How to Price Event Tickets: Early Bird and Waves, How to Track Promoter and Affiliate Ticket Sales, all organizer guides.
Put your next event
on Blend.
Free to start, no card required. Most organizers are selling the same afternoon.