We're proud to have powered the guest side of Cosmo Gate II at Akti by Zahra, on Egypt's North Coast, from 14 to 16 August. Across the festival we issued more than 10,400 tickets, each one sent to a guest on WhatsApp.

Cosmo Gate describes itself as the largest skincare and cosmetics event in the MENA region. Cosmo Gate II is its second edition, presented by Yasmine Sarwat, owner of Posh Management, and Dr Shady Ismail, owner of Cosmo Gate. It was an invitation-only event, and Posh Management brought us in to run the guest list.

Every guest was invited over WhatsApp with a video invitation made for the festival. They confirmed or declined with a single tap in the conversation, and guests who confirmed could tell us if they were bringing someone, with plus-ones ticketed alongside them. The client sent us their own guest lists, and we loaded them straight into the platform.

Because the festival ran for three days, we built multi-day tickets for it. A guest holds one ticket with a separate QR code for each day, so an entry on one day can never be used on another. The ticket opened straight from the message, with nothing to download and nothing to print.

We also designed the ticket page for Cosmo Gate II as its own look, taking its purple and pink colours from the festival's artwork, so the ticket felt like part of the event rather than a generic pass.

The festival's second night, 15 August, was headlined by DJ Rodge. It had its own guest list and its own invitation, which we ran alongside the main festival, so the same guests could be invited to both without any mix-up.

Thank you to Yasmine Sarwat and the Posh Management team for trusting us with it, to Dr Shady Ismail and the Cosmo Gate team, and to Elevent for the collaboration.