POCtix for Honolulu venues.

Flat $2.00 per ticket. Built in Honolulu by Port of Cams. Already powering AlohaCalendar, PortOfCams Pro, and a growing roster of Oʻahu venues.

Local team · Local support · HST hours

We're not pitching you from a sales floor in San Francisco. POCtix is run from Waikiki — same time zone, same cost-of-living math, same understanding that a $20 cover for a Friday at a Chinatown bar isn't the same as a $20 Coachella ticket. The platform was built for the way Honolulu venues actually run shows: tight margins, mixed-locals-and-visitors crowds, late-night door scans where the bouncer's phone is the only piece of tech you're going to trust.

Neighborhoods we work in

Why Honolulu venues care about flat $2.00

Hawaii's cost of living math is brutal. Your overhead is 30-40% higher than the same venue in Phoenix or Austin. You can't afford to give away an extra 3-7% on every ticket to a mainland ticketing platform. On a $25 Friday cover with 200 tickets, the difference between POCtix ($300/month in fees) and Eventbrite ($1,158/month) is the entire labor cost of one more bartender shift per week. Real money.

The other piece: Hawaii guests don't tolerate surprise fees the way mainland markets do. The "service fee" Eventbrite stacks on the buyer side — typically $2-4 per ticket — gets read as gouging by both kamaʻāina regulars and visitors who came expecting aloha. POCtix doesn't add a buyer fee by default. Your listed price is the price.

Already running on POCtix in Honolulu

• AlohaCalendar — multi-venue events calendar selling tickets across O'ahu venues. Source for many of the events you see at tickets.portofcams.com/site/alohacalendar.
• PortOfCams Pro — our flagship for premium streaming + events.
• + a growing list of small bars and pop-up venues — once a venue signs on, we keep them anonymous unless they explicitly want to be listed.

Things we understand about Honolulu that mainland platforms don't

• Time zones matter. Our support is HST-native. We're not asking you to wait 6 hours for an East Coast engineer to look at why your scanner didn't load.
• Event flow is bimodal. Lunch crowds, sunset crowds, late-night. We don't assume your "doors at 8 PM" means anything specific — every venue's schedule is different.
• Hawaii TAT + GET. If you sell tickets that include food/beverage, you need to know which portion is taxable and at what rate. We don't auto-calc taxes for you — that's your accountant's job — but we don't pretend Hawaii's tax system is the same as a state without GET either.
• Inter-island travel. If your touring act is doing Honolulu + Maui + Hilo on different nights, each is a separate event with its own capacity. We don't try to bundle inter-island runs into one weird umbrella ticket.
• Hurricane season. Aug-Oct, weather can cancel events. Our refund flow voids QRs instantly when you process Stripe refunds. Don't get caught with active passes on a postponed event.

What it looks like to switch

15 minutes per event:

1. Apply at tickets.portofcams.com/for-venues — same-day approval, usually within 4 hours during HST business hours.
2. Connect your Stripe (10 min if you don't have one — you'll need your EIN and a bank routing # for direct deposit).
3. Create your event. Set ticket tiers, capacity, upload your venue logo + event image.
4. Share your event link wherever you currently promote — Instagram bio, mailing list, posters at the door.
5. Friday night: door staff opens tickets.portofcams.com/scan on their iPhone, scans QRs as people arrive.

Common questions from Honolulu operators

Do you support Hawaiian language characters (ʻokina, macrons) in event names?

Yes — full UTF-8 support. Hālau Mele, ʻUkulele Night, Lūʻau pricing all render correctly in event titles, ticket types, and emails.

What about insurance / liability for ticketed events?

Out of scope for POCtix — you need your own liquor + general liability policy same as always. Hawaii ABC-licensed venues should already have this. We don't sell insurance.

How fast does money land in my Stripe?

Standard Stripe payouts are next-business-day after a 7-day initial hold for new accounts. Once established, money clears overnight Sun-Thu (Stripe doesn't run weekend payouts). HST means a Friday-night sale typically lands in your bank Monday morning.

Can I run events at Hawaii Convention Center, Blaisdell, or Hilton ballrooms?

Yes — the venue is whatever you list. POCtix doesn't have an exclusivity deal with any venue and isn't restricted by venue size. If you're booking the room, you can sell the tickets through us.

Do you handle visitor traffic from booking sites (Expedia, Viator)?

POCtix is for direct-to-buyer sales. For OTA traffic you'd need to list separately on those platforms (they take 20-25% commission). Most operators we work with use POCtix for direct + their own marketing, and keep OTAs separate for incremental visitor reach.