CASE STUDY
OctoComps
A UK-compliant WordPress competition platform: wallet, referrals, gift cards, ticketing, a draw manager, customer reviews, and a responsible-gambling compliance suite, with admin tooling and live support.
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OctoComps sells competition tickets through WooCommerce, backed by a custom ticket management system and its own database table. On top of the storefront sits a wallet for user balances, referral and bonus systems, gift cards, and birthday and free-ticket coupons. The result is a full competitions business, not just a checkout.
Because this is a regulated, money-handling product, the compliance and admin surface is as important as the shopfront. A responsible-gambling suite, an admin draw manager, and a reviews manager all run inside the same platform, with live support during draws.
What it includes
- WooCommerce ticket sales with a custom ticket management system and database table
- Wallet system for user balances
- Referral and bonus systems, plus birthday and free-ticket coupons
- Gift cards
- Admin tools: Draw Manager, Reviews Manager, and Grant Tickets
- Responsible-gambling suite: time-outs, self-exclusion, spend caps, and a reality-check popup
- Customer communications, migrated from Mailchimp to Elastic Email
- Compliance-sensitive UX and security hardening across two adversarial review rounds
Stack
Live and hardened
The platform is live and fully operational. Payments and account flows were hardened through two rounds of adversarial security review, and the responsible-gambling controls are built in rather than bolted on, which matters for a product that handles real money under UK rules.