Who 1Venda is, where the group is going and the operator that proved the platform.
1Venda is the software company behind Tickito and the…
How Tickito, Botswana's second-largest ticketing company by…
What 1Venda and the 1Group are building next
1Venda is the software company behind Tickito and the white-label ticketing, cashless, marketplace, coupon and queue…
White-label ticketing your ecosystem can sell under your brand
Branded cashless wallets on tickets, cards, lanyards and…
Digital trade ports for your ecosystem
Cryptographically signed one-time coupons for relief payouts…
Virtual and physical queue management for the branches in your…
White-label ticketing your ecosystem can sell under your brand: events and transport, online, WhatsApp and outlet sales…
The back office, the apps, the platform and the protection behind every brand on it.
One platform, five parts
Their brand, our engine
How the 1Venda platform is built and protected
Six branded portals, each a progressive web app for Android and…
The back office behind your brand
One platform, five parts: a Django ticketing core behind a reverse proxy, a .NET web layer for the front end, portals…
Whoever your ecosystem is made of, there is a gate, a till or a counter where your brand belongs.
Wristbands, cashless bars, booklets for the cash market
Seat-by-seat plans, season tickets, mixed gates
Accreditation, lanyards as wallets, 1Connecta
Seat selection, scanned at the door
A closed campus wallet on the student card
Lanyard allowances, staff benefits as coupons
A store for every seller, paid to the phone
Wallet habits built one event at a time
Member passes, benefits and relief programmes
Queues, appointments and zero-rated coupons
Wristbands, cashless bars, booklets for the cash market
Unlocking fairness at every gate
Tickito is Botswana’s second-largest ticketing company by volume. 1Venda is the software underneath it. Founded with The Voice Newspaper, restarted in 2023, it has since sold more than P40 million of tickets for 90 organisers, from national stadium fixtures to boat cruises on the Chobe, without a single security incident.
Ultra secure. 0 security incidents.
Three seasons, more than 150 events, more than P40 million in tickets, national stadium gates and a World Athletics championship. Not one breach, not one duplicated ticket at the gate, not one hour lost to an attack.
2019: the build begins
Mr X starts building what becomes 1Venda. In December 2019 Tickito is founded with The Voice Newspaper and Contrast Marketing as the operator for Botswana.
2020 to 2022: paused
COVID closes the gates. The product keeps being built; the business waits.
2023: the restart
Tickito relaunches on the platform with five organisers. Printed booklets, wristbands and gate crews follow within the year.
2025 to 2026: second-largest by volume
1Venda v1 is finished and v2, the automation release, is under way. Tickito becomes Botswana’s second-largest ticketing company by volume and runs ticketing for the World Athletics Relays in Gaborone.
More than 150 events, one platform
A selection of the events Tickito has ticketed on the platform. The full list is on tickito.thevoicebw.com.
P9.4M of tickets, seat by seat
Won through a competitive bid, Tickito was the official access and ticketing partner for the World Athletics Relays on 2–3 May 2026. The National Stadium was digitised seat by seat, 25 agents a day ran the gates and desks, and P9.4 million of tickets went through the platform.
Everything at the gate, on one invoice
Printed booklets
Cheaper than secure hologram tickets, and as secure. Every ticket individually serialised and traceable from creation to scan. Booklets signed out to outlets and agents nationwide.
Wristbands
Tyvek, sequential numbers, optional QR, colour-coded by day and tier.
Lanyards and badges
Accreditation categories for conferences and expos; lanyards as wallets for corporates.
Cashless
Event wallets on ticket, card or lanyard. Fans buy, load, spend and refund; stall managers watch live sales in the Cashless Manager.
Portals and scanner
Organiser, agent, vendor and attendee portals, each a branded progressive web app, plus a scanner that reads tickets from any provider.
Back office
Work orders, print jobs, consignments, finance and marketing in the admin app. Event report minutes after the devices sync.
The real site, live today
Organisers who sold through Tickito
Botswana Football Association
Orange FA Cup
Mochudi Centre Chiefs
Township Rollers
Tafic FC
Jwaneng Galaxy
Orapa United
Morupule Wanderers
Clash of Legends
Pacers Events
Dithubaruba Cultural Festival
Mantswabisi / Sarona Kalahari 1000
Gaborone Motor Show
Global Expo Botswana / Pula Conference 2025 (BITC)
Their brand, our engine
Tickito is the brand Botswana sees: it lists events, serves promoters, prints and distributes, runs gates and cashless desks, reconciles and pays out. 1Venda’s role is the software: the branded platform, hosting, security, upgrades and support. Promoters, fans and vendors see Tickito only. The same arrangement is what a partner gets in a new market.
The gate is where the money goes missing. Every ticket accounted for. Whoever sold it.
Before Tickito we never knew how many people were actually inside the stadium. Now the gate count and the sales report agree before the final whistle.
The booklets are what made the difference for us. Our agents sell for cash in the villages and every ticket still scans at the gate.
We had the reconciled report on the night, not three weeks later. That is the first time in twenty years of running events.
The fairest ticket in town, in your market
The platform that runs Tickito can carry your brand.