# Gruve — Web3 Event Tickets & Bookings

> Gruve is a Web3-native event ticketing platform. Users discover, host, and pay for events using either fiat (Paystack, Squad) or crypto. Tickets are issued on-chain (Arbitrum Nova, Polygon) so they can't be forged or duplicated. Built for conferences, meetups, weddings, festivals, and online workshops worldwide.

## What Gruve does

- **Event discovery**: search and browse public events by category (live events, weddings, conferences, meetups), location, and date.
- **Ticket purchase**: buy tickets via fiat (NGN/USD) or cryptocurrency. On-chain provenance prevents fake or duplicate tickets.
- **Event hosting**: organizers create paid, free, voting, or invite-only events with rich detail (multi-day schedules, multiple ticket tiers, early-bird pricing, custom registration questions).
- **Event management**: dashboards for stats, attendees, messaging, team management, discount codes, and revenue withdrawal.
- **Creator stories & blog**: editorial content highlighting Gruve organizers and event-industry guides.

## Key links

- Home: https://gruve.events/
- Discover events: https://gruve.events/home
- All categories: https://gruve.events/categories
- Event creators landing: https://gruve.events/event-creators
- Attendees landing: https://gruve.events/attendees
- Pricing: https://gruve.events/pricing
- About: https://gruve.events/about
- Contact: https://gruve.events/contact
- Blog: https://gruve.events/blogs
- Creator stories: https://gruve.events/creator-stories
- FAQs: https://gruve.events/faqs
- Terms: https://gruve.events/terms
- Privacy: https://gruve.events/privacy-policy
- Sitemap: https://gruve.events/sitemap.xml

## Use-case landing pages

- Live events: https://gruve.events/live-events
- Weddings: https://gruve.events/weddings
- Conferences: https://gruve.events/conferences
- Meetups: https://gruve.events/meetups
- Event planning toolkit: https://gruve.events/event-planning

## Event-detail pages

Every event has a public, indexable URL pattern:

- Canonical: `https://gruve.events/event-details/<event-address>`
- Custom tag (when set by organizer): `https://gruve.events/<custom-slug>`

Each event page exposes JSON-LD `Event` structured data with name, description, image, start/end date, location (Place or VirtualLocation), organizer, and performer. Sample fields surfaced in `<meta>` and JSON-LD: event name, full HTML-stripped description, banner image (1200x630), date range, start time, location label or "Online", organizer/performer name and avatar.

## Technical surface

- Framework: Next.js 16 (App Router) with server-rendered Open Graph + Twitter Card meta + JSON-LD
- Sitemap: dynamic, regenerated hourly, includes static marketing routes plus all public events, blog posts, and creator stories
- Wallet: RainbowKit + Wagmi (Arbitrum Nova, Polygon)
- Payments: Paystack and Squad for fiat (NGN); on-chain transfers for crypto
- i18n: English and French

## Editorial / writeable content

Crawlers may freely index:
- All marketing pages (`/about`, `/pricing`, `/contact`, `/terms`, `/privacy-policy`, `/faqs`, etc.)
- All blog posts (`/blogs/<slug>`)
- All creator stories (`/creator-stories/<slug>`)
- All public events (`/event-details/<address>` and custom-tag slugs)

Crawlers should NOT index:
- Per-user dashboards (`/events`, `/saved`, `/profile/settings`)
- Checkout flows (`/checkout`, `/create-event`, `/create-invite-only-event`, `/create-plan`)
- Admin surfaces (`/dash-board`, `/financials`, `/settings`, `/users`)
- API routes (`/api/*`)

See `/robots.txt` for the authoritative allow/disallow list.

## Contact

- Support: support@gruve.events
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/G_Event_Systems
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gruvetickets
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gruve-tickets
- Discord: https://discord.com/invite/J73m5QeAUb
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@gruveevents