This page only exists on the demo environment (demo.noctern.com) — it 404s on dev and prod. Go to AdminSuperDemo Venues to create, reset, and tear down synthetic prospect venues.

What a demo venue is

A demo venue is a fully-populated synthetic venue — performances, patrons, purchases, gifts, memberships, artists and a deal — generated deterministically by the demo pack (src/lib/demo/pack.ts). Every document it writes is tagged, so it can be reset or deleted without touching anything else on the project. Nothing it does ever reaches real money or a real inbox: Stripe runs in TEST mode, and all outgoing mail is redirected.

Create from pack

Click Create from pack and fill in:

• Venue name and slug — the venue id is always demo-<slug>, and training logins are <role>@<slug>.demo.noctern.com.
• Logo (optional).
• Prospect name / email — who you're demoing to. Shown in the venues list so you can tell venues apart at a glance.
• Pack size — Full (~2,000 patrons, the realistic option for a real walkthrough) or Small (a quick smoke test).
• Nightly reset — turn this on for a venue you'll leave running for a few days, so it always looks freshly seeded when the prospect logs back in on their own.

Seeding a full pack writes thousands of documents, so it does not happen in the single request that creates the venue — the page shows a progress bar while it seeds in the background. You can navigate away; progress resumes automatically if you come back before it finishes.

The three training account passwords are shown once, in a dialog, right after you click Create — Noctern never stores them. Copy them into your password manager or straight into an email to the prospect before closing that dialog; there is no way to see the original passwords again (use Regenerate passwords if you lose them).

Reset

Reset wipes everything a prospect clicked around on — test purchases, edited settings, anything — and reseeds the venue fresh from the same pack. It also rotates the three training account passwords, shown once again in the same way as creation. Use this between prospect calls, or any time a demo has gotten messy.

If a venue has Nightly reset turned on, this happens automatically every night — you generally only need to click Reset by hand for an off-schedule refresh.

Delete

Delete permanently removes the venue, every document it seeded, and its three training accounts. This cannot be undone. Use it once a prospect relationship is over.

Show logins

Show logins lists the three training account emails (owner / box office / door) without needing to touch a password — a prospect can always sign back in with a password you already handed them. If a password was lost, click Regenerate passwords for a fresh set (shown once, same as create/reset).

One demo job at a time, per venue

Only one create/reset/delete can run against a given venue at a time — the buttons disable themselves while a job is in progress, and a second attempt is refused rather than colliding with the first.