I built a comprehensive event management platform for the Canadian Gujarati Community Association featuring ticket sales with PayPal integration, guest user registration, membership discounts, barcode/QR ticket generation, and real-time ticket validation at events.
Not every project is about profit margins. CGCANO is a non-profit community association for Gujaratis in Canada, and as a Gujarati developer myself, this one was personal. They needed a way to manage their cultural events - Navratri, Diwali celebrations, picnics, and community gatherings.
Before I built the platform, event registration happened through Google Forms. Payment was collected via e-transfer. Attendance was tracked with printed lists. For 500+ person events, this was pure chaos.
Volunteers would spend hours cross-referencing payments with registrations. People showed up claiming they paid when there was no record. Families registered once but brought extra guests. It was a mess.
The platform needed to be dead simple. Community volunteers managing events aren't developers. If the admin panel isn't intuitive, it won't get used.
FilamentPHP was the perfect choice - it provides a beautiful, functional admin panel out of the box. Volunteers can create events, set pricing tiers, track registrations, and validate tickets - all through a clean interface.
This was critical and one of my prouder solutions. Many attendees are elderly community members who don't have accounts (or want them). I designed the guest purchase flow to be seamless:
The auto-registration is invisible to the user. They just buy tickets and receive them. If they want to log in later to view their tickets, the account is there.
CGCANO has annual memberships. Members get discounted event tickets. The discount system is flexible:
// Calculate ticket price with membership discount
public function calculatePrice(User $user, Event $event): float
{
$basePrice = $event->ticket_price;
if ($user->hasActiveSubscription()) {
$discount = $user->subscription->package->discount_percentage;
return $basePrice * (1 - $discount / 100);
}
return $basePrice;
}
Different membership tiers get different discount percentages. Family memberships apply the discount to all family members linked to the account.
Every purchased ticket gets a unique barcode and QR code. The QR code contains a signed URL that links back to the validation system. Tickets are generated as PDFs using DomPDF with the event branding.
The barcode is the fallback - if QR scanning fails (poor lighting, cracked screen), volunteers can manually enter the barcode number.
Event day is where my system proves its worth. Volunteers at the entrance use their phones to scan QR codes. The system instantly shows:
A green screen means welcome, red means problem. No training needed.
PayPal was chosen because it's trusted by the community and supports Canadian dollars. The integration uses PayPal's Server SDK for secure server-side payment processing:
No tickets before confirmed payment. This eliminated the "I'll pay later" problem entirely.
The system sends targeted emails:
All emails are queued through Laravel's job system so the user experience isn't slowed by email delivery.
This project actually went through two versions. The first was a Next.js frontend with a Laravel backend - I'd overengineered it for the use case. Version 2 simplified everything into a single Laravel + FilamentPHP application. Less complexity, easier to maintain, and the community volunteers could manage it themselves. Sometimes the best engineering decision is simplifying.
Built with excellence in mind
Optimized for speed & scalability
Battle-tested with real users
Responsive across all devices
Maintainable & well-documented
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