Operations

Who handles what: menta tech vs. the ticketing platform

When a ticketing platform uses menta tech for its resale market, two teams share the operation. This is the map of who owns which kind of problem — so nothing falls through the cracks.

One line keeps almost everything straight: the resale market is menta tech's responsibility, and primary sales, ticket issuance, and event access belong to the ticketing platform. Everything below is just that rule, spelled out.
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Why this exists#

When two teams run different parts of the same event, the slowest thing in the world is a problem that lands on the wrong desk and gets passed back and forth. This guide exists to stop that.

The idea is simple: agree up front on which team owns which kind of situation. That way support cases reach the right people the first time, incidents get resolved faster, and everyone — the platform, the ticketing system, and menta tech — has the same expectations.

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The one rule to remember#

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Anything that happens inside the resale market — buying and selling there — is menta tech's responsibility. Anything to do with primary sales, issuing tickets, event access, and entry control belongs to the ticketing platform. When in doubt, ask yourself: did this happen in the resale market, or in the primary one?
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What menta tech handles#

menta tech owns the resale market end to end — everything that makes it run, and the infrastructure behind it:

  • The resale market itself. Listing a ticket, editing or pulling a listing, buying a resold ticket, and anything that behaves oddly inside the resale flow.
  • Payments and payouts. The whole operational side of the money behind resale — collecting from buyers, paying out sellers, and the back office that keeps it running.
  • Trust & safety. Managing trust & safety controls, blocking or holding payouts when patterns look suspicious, and cross-checking history.
  • The Control Station. Using the panel, configuring rules, turning the market on or off, and closing the resale market.
  • menta tech outages. When a menta tech service or API goes down or errors out in a way that affects the resale market.
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What the platform handles#

The platform — and its ticketing system — owns everything around primary sales and running the event itself. Side by side, the split looks like this:

menta tech handles
  • Listing, buying, and selling in the resale market
  • Seller payouts and trust & safety holds
  • Rules, turning the market on/off, and closing it
  • Outages in menta tech services and APIs
The platform handles
  • Primary sales, primary pricing, and categories
  • Issuing and delivering primary tickets (PDF, Wallet, etc.)
  • Event access: scanning access codes, turnstiles, entry control
  • Running the event: date/venue changes, rescheduling, capacity, box office
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When both sides coordinate#

A few situations don't fall cleanly on one side, even though ownership is clear. Things like an urgent event change while the resale market is live, closing the market early because of an operational call, an event being cancelled or suspended, or a change to ticket categories or structure while the market is active.

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In these cases the rhythm is the same: the platform reports the change, and menta tech makes sure the resale market adapts to it correctly.
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So, who do you call?#

Reach out to menta tech when the problem is inside the resale market: a seller hasn't been paid in the expected time, a payout is held or blocked, the Control Station is erroring or not reflecting your changes, the market needs to be closed, adjusted, or turned off, or something smells like fraud.

Don't bring menta tech primary-sales issues, ticket issuance, getting into the event, access-code scanning, box office, or general ticketing-system trouble — those go to the ticketing system's support team or the platform's own people.

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