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Suspending a venue

Super Admin

Go to AdminSuperAll Venues and use Suspend / Reactivate on a venue's row.

What suspending a venue does

Suspending a venue is a status flag — it doesn't touch any of the venue's data (events, purchases, patrons, settings all stay exactly as they are), and reactivating restores full access immediately with no other change.

While a venue is suspended:

  • The public never sees it. Its page and events 404, and it's dropped from public listings, search, and the sitemap.
  • The venue's own owner and granted admins are locked out. The venue disappears from their venue picker, hub, and dashboards, and any admin page for it shows a blocking "This venue is suspended" message instead of the page — no venue data, no navigation into venue features. Every admin API route and server action for the venue refuses the same way (403). Box office checkout, the door POS PIN sign-in, and Tap to Pay all refuse to sell for the venue's events. Nothing about this requires a code change per surface — the check is one shared rule (owner/admin access requires the venue to be active) that every venue-scoped route and page already goes through.
  • You still have full access. Only a super-admin can still open the venue's admin pages and call its admin APIs while it's suspended — otherwise no one could ever reactivate it. The AdminSuperAll Venues list keeps showing a suspended venue (with the Suspended badge) for exactly this reason; it's the only place a suspended venue appears in the admin area.

Reactivating

Reactivate flips the status back to active and nothing else. The venue reappears everywhere it was hidden from — public listings, its owner/admins' picker and dashboards, checkout, and the door POS — on the very next request; there's no cache to clear or data to restore.

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Try it

On the demo environment, go to Admin → Super → All Venues, Suspend a venue, and confirm its public page 404s and it drops out of public listings. Then sign in as that venue's own admin and note the blocking suspended message, before returning to Super Admin and Reactivating it.

Checkpoint

Answer all 4 questions correctly to mark this lesson complete.

  1. 1. What does Suspend actually do to a venue's data?

  2. 2. A suspended venue's own owner tries to open their admin dashboard. What do they see?

  3. 3. Who can still reach a suspended venue's admin pages and APIs?

  4. 4. Where does a suspended venue still appear in the admin area?