No per-ticket fee
Competitors skim $1–$3 per ticket. We don’t. You keep your ticket revenue — that’s the whole point.
No per-ticket fees — you keep your ticket revenue.
Ticketing & ops for
Ticketing & ops for
after-dark attractions.
Darland builds the ticketing and operations platform behind haunts, drive-through light shows, and festivals — so you sell tickets, run your crew, and keep every dollar you earn.
Haunts · drive-throughs · festivals · corn mazes · escape rooms
- $0 Per-ticket fees, ever
- ~2 wks Typical launch time
- 6+ Modules on one platform
- 100% Your Stripe, site & data
Why Darland
Operator-first, by design.
We build for the people running the gate at 9pm — not for a billing department that wants a cut of every ticket.
One platform, not five
Tickets, staff scheduling, HR, maintenance, and payroll in one place — instead of stitching together six tools.
Built on Cloudflare + Stripe
Fast pages that don’t fall over on your on-sale night. Payments run through your own Stripe account.
You own it
Your domain, your Stripe account, your customer data. No lock-in, no holding your list hostage.
What we build
The whole attraction — not just a website.
Ticketing & timed entry
GA or timed slots, capacity rules, QR scan-in, mobile box office.
Staff portal & scheduling
Roles, shifts, time clock, and a login your crew actually uses.
HR & onboarding
Applications, hiring, documents, and seasonal re-staffing.
Operations & maintenance
Asset logs, inspections, work orders, and incident reports.
Payroll (Check)
Run payroll, taxes, and filings without leaving the platform.
Email & SMS
Reminders, confirmations, and blasts to your buyer list.
Selected work
See all work → Running real seasons.
Haunted attraction Hollow Acres
Eliminated per-ticket fees, smoothed the gate with timed entry, and cut scheduling chaos with a single staff portal.
Drive-through light show Glow Drive
Sold by the carload with paced time slots and automatic SMS reminders that cut no-shows and kept the route flowing.
Festival Harvest Nights Festival
Unified five attractions, passes, ops, and payroll on one platform — and ran the whole festival from a single dashboard.
In their words
Operators who stopped paying per ticket.
“We were handing a third-party platform thousands every October for basically a checkout button. Darland built us the whole thing — tickets, the gate, the schedule — and we keep our money now.”
“The timed-entry pacing alone paid for the build. Cars stopped backing up onto the highway and the reminder texts cut our no-shows way down.”
“Five attractions, season passes, sixty staff, and payroll — all in one place. I run the whole festival off one dashboard now instead of five browser tabs.”
Good questions
The short answers.
Do you really charge no per-ticket fees?
Correct — $0 per ticket, ever. You pay a one-time setup plus a flat monthly for the platform and the modules you turn on. Every ticket dollar stays with you, whether you sell 1,000 tickets or 100,000.
Whose Stripe account does the money go to?
Yours. We build on your own Stripe account, so payouts land directly in your bank — we never touch your funds. You also keep your domain and your full customer list. No lock-in.
How long does it take to launch?
A typical build runs about two weeks once we have your dates, branding, and Stripe connection. Larger multi-attraction setups with HR, operations, and payroll take a bit longer. We'll give you a firm timeline with your quote.
What kinds of attractions do you work with?
After-dark and seasonal attractions: haunted houses and trails, drive-through light shows, festivals and fairs, corn mazes and pumpkin patches, escape rooms, and holiday events. If you sell timed or dated tickets and run a crew, you're a fit.
Can I start small and add modules later?
Yes. Plenty of operators launch with ticketing, then turn on HR, Operations, Payroll, SMS, or Email Blasts in a later season as they grow. Each module is a one-time setup plus monthly, added whenever you're ready.
Let’s talk
Tell us what you’re running.
Haunt, light show, festival, maze — send the details and we’ll map the platform to your season.