Active Sounds Truck Fest.
An event site that sells tickets, recruits vendors, and counts down to gate open
Design · Engineering
2025
Events
The
problem
on the table.
Active Sounds was launching Truck Fest 2026 at Rockingham Speedway and needed more than a static event page. They needed a real ticketing storefront with QR-coded admission, a vendor and food-truck application pipeline, sponsor recognition, and enough atmosphere on the homepage to actually sell the festival to truck enthusiasts.
How we
built
the answer.
We shipped a custom Next.js event site with Stripe-backed ticket checkout, QR code generation for gate scanning, separate intake forms for vendor booths and food vendors, dedicated trucks/sponsors/rules pages, and a live countdown to gates open. The hero leans into the brand: oversized Truck Fest mark, speedway backdrop, and a single 'Get tickets' CTA. Event and Offer schema markup, North Carolina event SEO, and AI-search-ready copy push the festival into Google's event pack and AI search answers for 'truck festival NC'.
Ticket Checkout + QR Entry
Stripe-powered ticket sales with auto-generated QR codes for gate scanning on event day
Vendor Application Pipeline
Separate intake forms for vendor booths and food vendors with email confirmations and a review SLA
Live Countdown Hero
Days, hours, minutes, seconds countdown over the speedway hero, with a single dominant CTA
What
shipped.
QR Scan Methods
Stripe-backed ticket checkout issues a QR code with two scan paths at the gate for fast, redundant entry on event day
Audience Surfaces
Dedicated sections for tickets, trucks, vendors, sponsors, and rules, each with its own conversion goal
Sign-in Methods
Email, Google, and Facebook auth on a reCAPTCHA-protected account system, so attendees, vendors, and sponsors share one login
The
toolkit.
Production-grade choices, picked for fit, not fashion.
Next.js
TypeScript
Tailwind CSS
Stripe