CASE STUDY
OctoComps
A WordPress competition platform: wallet, referrals, gift cards, ticketing, a draw manager, customer reviews, and player-control tools, with admin tooling and live support.
- My role
- Sole developer of the platform.
- System status
- Was live in production when reviewed in July 2026.
- Scope
- A full WordPress and WooCommerce competitions business: wallet, referrals, gift cards, ticketing, a draw manager, reviews, and player controls.
- Key constraint
- The product handles money, so the admin surface matters as much as the shopfront.
- Verifiably working
- WooCommerce ticket sales with a custom tickets table, wallet, referrals and coupons, gift cards, Draw, Reviews and Grant admin tools, player controls, and Elastic Email communications. Hardened across two adversarial review rounds.
- Mocked or unmeasured
- No revenue, user-count or uptime figures are claimed, and no regulatory compliance conclusion is asserted.
Overview
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 the product handles money, the admin surface is as important as the shopfront. Player controls, an admin draw manager, and a reviews manager 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
- Player controls: time-outs, self-exclusion, spend caps, and a reality-check popup
- Customer communications, migrated from Mailchimp to Elastic Email
- Security hardening across two adversarial review rounds
Stack
Live and hardened
The platform was live in production when reviewed in July 2026. Payments and account flows were hardened through two rounds of adversarial security review, and the player controls are built into the platform rather than bolted on.