How it works
Four things
you actually do.
Avokindo is a community-powered platform that connects people, places, activities and commerce. Everything below is a flow that exists in the app you can download today — the same buttons, in the same order.
Before any of it
Looking around is open
Creating an account asks for your consent and a name. From there you can browse Discover and Near Me, read any public community's page, message people and hold a ticket without being asked for anything else.
The face scan is a door, not a gate at the entrance
It is asked for the first time you reach a door that needs it — joining or starting a community, or changing your profile photo. Plenty of accounts never meet it.
Ticket prices go through the app
A ticketed event is free, or it has a price you pay through Avokindo. Where a venue or an act charges instead — a deposit, a fee — you settle that with them directly, and the app says so on the screen.
Join a community
A community is the home for a set of events, a feed, a member list and the photos people bring back. Joining one is how you decide what reaches you.
- Open Discover. Communities near you come up first, each with what it is for and how far away it meets.
- Open one. Its page has four tabs — Feed, Events, Members and Memories — and you can read them before you belong to anything.
- Tap Join. A public community lets you in there and then. A private one shows Request to join instead, and its leaders approve or decline; you can withdraw the request while it waits.
- From then on its events reach you, and you can post, comment and react once your profile photo is up.
What it asks for. The face scan, the first time. It is the same check whether you are joining a community or starting one.
Get a ticket, or RSVP
Two kinds of event sit in the app and they behave differently. A ticketed event issues passes and scans them at the door. A community event takes an RSVP.
- On a ticketed event, tap Get ticket. The pass lands in My tickets, under the Tickets tab, and nothing is asked of you first.
- If every spot has gone you can join the waiting list instead, and if your plans change you can release your spot for someone else.
- At the door the organiser scans passes and admits people. They see the count issued, the count admitted and the guest list as it happens.
- On a community event, tap RSVP. Your place is confirmed straight away — there is no host approval step — and you can view or withdraw it whenever you like.
What it asks for. Getting a ticket asks for nothing. An RSVP to a community event asks for the face scan and a profile photo, because it puts your face on a guest list.
On money. A ticketed event is either free or priced, and the app labels which. A priced ticket is paid through Avokindo and the organiser is paid out afterwards. If an organiser cancels, everyone holding a pass is told immediately and every ticket bought through Avokindo is marked for refund.
Follow an artist
Artists have their own profiles here, separate from the person who runs them, so a room booker and a regular can both find the same act.
- Artists surface in Discover, and you can narrow the list by genre.
- A profile carries the act type — solo, duo, group or collective — genres, social and portfolio links, a gallery, and what the act has coming up.
- Tap Follow. The follower count moves, the artist is told, and they collect in your Followed Artists list.
- Two switches say what an artist is open to. Open for Collaborations lets communities and other artists see they are taking enquiries. Open for Residency lets venues see they want a recurring spot.
What it asks for. Following asks for nothing. Making your own profile asks for the face scan. An account gets one artist profile, it can be left as a draft until you publish it, and it can be archived but never deleted.
Request a venue booking
Spaces are the fourth thing in the app, and the only one you claim rather than create. A claimed venue can take booking requests and negotiate them in the open.
- A venue starts as a place anyone can add from Google so it can be found. Adding it does not claim it — the owner claims the listing afterwards, and can release it again.
- A venue that is open shows Request a booking. If it is not taking requests right now, the page says so instead of hiding the button.
- You choose who is asking: yourself, your community or your artist profile. Then dates and times, an alternative date, expected attendance, equipment, set-up and teardown, catering, accessibility, and a budget in plain words.
- The request negotiates in public between you and the venue: viewed, more info needed, new terms proposed, accepted, confirmed — with declines, cancellations and the full history kept on the booking.
- A venue open for residency takes applications for a recurring series from communities and artists, into the same inbox.
What it asks for. Sending a request can ask for the face scan first, depending on how the venue's door is set.
On deposits. A venue deposit is arranged with the venue directly — it is the one payment Avokindo does not handle in the app, and the booking screen says so rather than implying otherwise. Ticket payments are different: those are taken in the app and processed by toyyibPay.
Verification
What the app asks for, and exactly when
Verification in Avokindo is attached to actions, not to people. There is no check at the start and no badge that says a person has passed one. An account can browse, message and hold a ticket for as long as it likes without ever being asked.
| What it asks for | Where it is asked |
|---|---|
| Nothing No prompt of any kind | Browsing Discover and Near Me · reading a public community's page · messaging · getting a ticket and holding it · following an artist |
| A face scan A live selfie, checked for liveness | Joining a community · starting one · changing your profile photo |
| Face scan and photo The selfie, plus a profile photo matched to it | RSVP-ing to a community event · posting in a community · commenting · reacting |
Creating a ticketed event, publishing an artist profile, requesting a venue booking and applying for a residency sit behind the same face scan wherever that door is switched on. A government ID check exists as an optional extra for subscribers and unlocks nothing — see the FAQ for what it is actually for.
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