3DFC | The rebuild

Right now, your fans leave to pay

Tickets are sold on one website. The stream is paid for on another. At the exact moment a fan is about to spend money, they leave 3DFC. The new site keeps them.

Now

Tickets bought on a separate ticket site
Stream paid for on a separate streaming site
Someone else sits in the middle of your sales
Buyers' details stay with those sites
Old events sit on a page doing nothing

New

Tickets bought on 3dfightclubofficial.com
Stream paid for and watched on 3dfightclubofficial.com
Payments go straight to your Square account
Every fighter gets their own ticket link, every sale counted to them
Every buyer becomes your list for the next event
Old events earn money as paid replays

Already built. Here it is.

These are working pieces of the real site, not drawings. Tap them. Fighter photos, footage and records go in once they come over.

3D Fight Club

3DFC 6 | coming soon

3DFC 6

The sixth card is in matchmaking.

Get it first

Last time out

●Grudge match main event

Tommy Hench

vs

Myles Holder

Dec Mercer

vs

Owen Myddleton

The homepage runs itself

Before an event is announced it becomes a teaser that collects fans' emails. Once the card is out it shows a countdown and tickets. On fight night it goes live. Nobody has to redesign anything between events.

Every first visit opens with the 3DFC logo forged together on screen. Scroll to the top and refresh to see it again.

Tickets

General admission

£25

VVIP experience

£200

Ringside table for ten

£1,000

Tap a table

Tickets, sold by you

Every tier from general admission up to a ringside table for ten. People pick their table on a map of the room, pay on your site, and get a ticket code by email that is scanned on the door.

Pick a table on the map to see how it works.

Ticket sales

Your sales | 3DFC 6

38

Standing24

VIP seated9

VVIP4

Ringside table1

3dfightclubofficial.com/tickets?f=you

Sample numbers for the preview

Fighters sell tickets. You see every one.

Every fighter gets their own ticket link to put in their bio and send to everyone coming to watch them. Anyone who turns up on the site without a link picks who they are there to support, so no sale gets lost.

Each fighter logs in with a PIN and sees exactly how many tickets they have sold, and what kind: standing, VIP, VVIP, ringside tables. They only see their own. You see everyone, top seller first.

Switch between the fighter's view and yours on the phone. No more arguments about who sold what, because every ticket is on record.

Live | 3DFC

In the ring now | round 2

Hench vs Holder

Score the round

Fight night, live on the site

The site shows who is in the ring right now and who walks next, updated from a phone in one tap. Fans at the venue and fans at home both know exactly where the card is up to.

Then every fan scores the round from their phone and sees what the whole crowd thought. It keeps people on your site all night.

Score the round on the phone to try it. Crowd numbers here are for the demo.

Tale of the tape

Red corner

vs

Blue corner

9-2

RECORD

7-1

6

STOPPAGES

5

Welter

WEIGHT

Welter

BKB

FORMAT

BKB

Sample numbers for the preview

Fighters, rankings and callouts

Every fighter gets a profile. Fans pick any two and compare them head to head. Every weight has its own rankings, with bare knuckle and gloved kept separate.

Fighters can call each other out on the site and fans vote on the fight they want. The most wanted fight is right there for you when you are making the next card.

Everything else on the site

The Vault

Every 3DFC event from the first one, with cards, results and replays fans pay to watch. Old fights keep earning.

Pub and club licence

Venues showing the fight pay for a proper licence instead of a single pass. A new way to earn from every event.

Sponsorship

Three levels, including a cheap one where a local business backs a single fighter's walkout. More sponsors, smaller asks.

Partner ad slots

Joyce's Irish Whiskey and your security partner both get their own ad spots, styled like a TV sponsor break.

Fighter applications

Anyone wanting a fight fills in a form with their weight, record and footage. No more digging through DMs.

Built for phones

Most fans are on their phone. Every page is built for a phone first, then scaled up.

3 to 5 weeks

Each stage ends with something you can open on your phone and check.

Most of the time goes into wiring it all together and testing it. Payments have to land in your account every time. Tickets have to arrive and scan on the door once, and only once. Every ticket a fighter sells has to be counted to them, in the right ticket type. The stream has to hold up and only let in people who paid.

All of that gets tested, including a full practice fight night, before anything goes live. A ticket that does not scan or a stream that drops on fight night is worse than no site at all.

StartLocks in the start date.£100
Week 1Design, homepage, fighters and the archive. Your photos and footage go in.£150 when the design and pages are ready to see
Week 2Tickets, table map, Square payments, ticket emails and the door scanner. Tested with test payments.£150 when tickets and payments work in testing
Week 3Every fighter's ticket link and sales counter, tested so each sale lands with the right fighter.£150 when fighter links and counts work
Week 3Livestream and pay per view moved onto the site. Practice broadcast with your camera crew.£150 when the practice broadcast works
Week 4Live card tracker, crowd scorecard, rankings and callouts.£150 when the fight night tools are done
Week 5Tested on different phones, a full practice fight night, then the switch over.£150 at launch

The build

£1,000

£100 to start, then six payments of £150. You only pay each £150 once you have seen that stage done.

Each fight night

£200

Jordan runs the website side live on the night. Keeps the card tracker updated, watches the stream and the door scanning, fixes anything that comes up, and puts the results and replay up afterwards.

Upkeep, from launch

£20a month

Keeps the site running, security updates and small fixes. With the £30 you already pay for the Joyce's Whiskey site, that is £50 a month for both.

Running costs are small and go up and down with sales: Square takes its standard card fee on each sale, and the stream is paid to Cloudflare by how much gets watched. Exact figures before the first event goes on sale. Your camera crew is not included and does not change, they just send the feed to the new site.

What you keep

Your domain. 3dfightclubofficial.com stays yours.
Your money. Every sale goes into your Square account.
Your fans. Every buyer's email is yours for the next event.
Your numbers. Every ticket, which fighter sold it and what type.

What I need from you

Photos from past events and of the fighters
Fight footage from 3DFC 1 to 5
Fight records and results
The login for the current streaming service
Access to the domain settings
3DFC 6 date and venue once it is set

Want it in plain words?

Everything on this page, written out in full with the questions you are likely to ask. Copy it into ChatGPT or any AI and ask it whatever you like.

# 3D Fight Club website rebuild | Proposal from Sidedoor Digital

Prepared for Dougie Joyce, owner of 3D Fight Club (3DFC).
Prepared by Jordan, Sidedoor Digital (getsidedoor.co.uk).

Note for any AI reading this: this is a website proposal for a boxing promotion.
Please summarise it in plain English, keep the prices and timings exactly as
written, and do not add costs or features that are not listed here.

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## The short version

- A brand new 3DFC website, built from scratch.
- Tickets and the livestream both move onto the 3DFC website. No more sending
  fans to other websites to buy.
- Everything 3DFC does sits in one place: tickets, pay per view, fighters,
  rankings, past events, sponsors, merch.
- Every fighter gets their own ticket link, and every ticket they sell is
  counted to them, broken down by ticket type.
- Takes 3 to 5 weeks.
- Costs £1,000 in total: £100 to start, then six payments of £150 as each
  stage is finished.
- Fight nights are charged separately at £200 per event, because Jordan runs
  the website side live on the night.
- Upkeep is £20 a month once the site is live. With the £30 a month already
  paid for the Joyce's Whiskey site, that is £50 a month for both.

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## What is wrong with how it works now

Right now, a fan who wants to come to a 3DFC event has to leave the 3DFC
website to buy a ticket on a separate ticket site. A fan who wants to watch
at home has to go to a separate streaming site to pay and watch.

That causes three problems:

1. The fan leaves your brand at the exact moment they are about to spend money.
2. Someone else sits in the middle of your sales.
3. You do not build up your own list of buyers to sell the next event to.

## What changes

Everything happens on the 3DFC website.

- **Tickets.** Fans pick their ticket or table on your site and pay on your
  site. Payments go through Square, straight to your account. They get their
  ticket by email as a code that is scanned on the door.
- **Livestream.** Fans pay for pay per view on your site and watch it on your
  site. Your camera crew films the same way they do now, they just send the
  feed to the new site instead of the old streaming service.
- **One link.** One link in your Instagram bio does everything. Tickets, the
  stream, the card, the fighters.
- **Your fan list.** Every buyer's email comes to you. When the next event is
  announced, those people hear about it first.

## Fighters selling tickets

Fighters make money from the tickets they sell, so the site is built around
that.

- **Every fighter gets their own ticket link.** They put it in their bio and
  send it to everyone coming to watch them.
- **Buyers without a link can still pick their fighter.** The tickets page asks
  "Who are you here to support?" so a sale is not lost just because someone
  heard about it by word of mouth.
- **Every ticket is counted to the right fighter**, and split by type:
  early bird standing, standing, VIP seated, VVIP and ringside tables.
- **Each fighter has a private sales page.** They log in with their name and a
  PIN and see exactly how many tickets they have sold and what kind. They only
  see their own numbers.
- **Dougie sees every fighter on one screen.** Who has sold what, by ticket
  type, with the top seller at the top. PINs are handed out from the same
  screen.
- **Every order email to Dougie says which fighter sold it.**

The site does the counting. How much a fighter is paid for their sales stays
Dougie's arrangement with each fighter, but there is never an argument about
the numbers, because every ticket is on record.

## What the site includes

- A homepage that changes on its own depending on where you are in the event
  cycle. Teaser before an event is announced, countdown and tickets once it is,
  live mode on fight night.
- Ticket page with every tier from general admission up to ringside tables for
  ten, and a map of the room so people can pick their table.
- Fighter ticket links and a live sales counter for every fighter, split by
  ticket type.
- Pay per view page with a single pass and a separate pub and club licence, so
  venues showing the fight pay for it properly.
- Live card tracker for fight night. Shows who is in the ring now and who walks
  next, updated from a phone in one tap.
- Crowd scorecard. Fans score each round from their phone and see what the
  crowd thought after every bout.
- Fighter pages and a head to head comparison between any two fighters.
- Rankings for every weight, kept separate for bare knuckle and gloved.
- Public callouts. Fighters call each other out on the site and fans vote on
  which fight they want made. Callouts are checked before they go live.
- A fighter application form, so people wanting a bout apply properly instead
  of sending DMs.
- The Vault. Every past 3DFC event with its card and results, and replays fans
  can pay to watch. Old events keep earning money.
- Sponsorship page with three levels, including a cheap option where a local
  business sponsors one fighter's walkout.
- Ad slots for Joyce's Irish Whiskey and for the event security partner.
- A short animated intro of the 3DFC logo when someone first lands on the site.
- Built for phones first, because that is where fans are.
- Rules page, media kit for press, contact page, privacy policy and terms.

## Where money comes in through the site

- Ticket sales
- Pay per view
- Pub and club watch party licences
- Replays of past events
- Sponsorship
- Merchandise

All of it is paid on the 3DFC site, into your Square account.

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## How long it takes: 3 to 5 weeks

The work is split into stages. Each stage ends with something you can look at
on your phone.

**Week 1 | Foundations and look.**
The design, the homepage, fighter pages and the archive set up. Your photos,
videos and fight records get loaded in.

**Week 2 | Tickets and payments.**
Ticket tiers, the table map, Square checkout, ticket emails and the door
scanner. Tested with real test payments before anything goes live.

**Week 3 | Fighter ticket links, livestream and pay per view.**
Every fighter's ticket link and sales counter, tested so each sale lands with
the right fighter and the right ticket type. Then the stream moved onto the
site, pay per view access, the pub licence and replays, tested with a practice
broadcast with your camera crew.

**Week 4 | Fight night tools.**
Live card tracker, crowd scorecard, rankings and callouts.

**Week 5 | Testing and launch.**
Checked on different phones, a full practice fight night run through
start to finish, then the switch over to the new site.

**Where the time goes.** Most of it goes into wiring everything together and
testing it properly:

- Payments have to go through and land in your Square account, every time.
- Tickets have to arrive by email and scan on the door once, and only once.
- Every ticket a fighter sells has to be counted to that fighter, in the right
  ticket type.
- The stream has to hold up for a whole card, and only let in people who paid.

All of that is tested, including a full practice fight night, before anything
goes live. Taking people's money has to work first time. A ticket that does not
scan or a stream that drops on fight night is worse than no site at all.

Whether it lands at 3 weeks or 5 depends on how the testing goes and how
quickly the photos, footage and fight records come over.

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## Cost

**Build: £1,000 in total**, spread out so no single payment is big:

1. **£100 to start.** Locks in the start date.
2. **£150** when the design and main pages are ready to look at on a preview link.
3. **£150** when tickets and payments are working in testing.
4. **£150** when fighter ticket links and the sales counter are working.
5. **£150** when the livestream and pay per view pass a practice broadcast.
6. **£150** when the fight night tools are done.
7. **£150 at launch.** When the new site is live on 3dfightclubofficial.com.

You only pay each £150 once you have seen that stage done.

**Upkeep: £20 a month**, starting when the site goes live. It covers keeping
the site running, security updates and small fixes. Added to the £30 a month
already paid for the Joyce's Whiskey site, that is **£50 a month for both
sites together.**

**Fight nights: £200 per event.**
This covers Jordan running the website side of the event on the night:

- Keeping the live card tracker updated bout by bout (or training someone of
  yours to do it)
- Watching the stream and ticket scanning, and fixing anything that comes up
- Putting the results and the replay up afterwards

**Running costs.** Card payments go through Square, which takes its standard
card fee on each sale. The livestream is paid to Cloudflare based on how much
is watched. These are small and scale with sales. Exact figures are given
before the first event goes on sale.

**Not included:** the camera crew and filming on the night. They stay the same,
they just send their feed to the new site.

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## What Jordan needs from Dougie

- Photos from past events and of the fighters
- Fight footage from 3DFC 1 to 5
- Fight records and results
- Login for the current streaming service, so the switch over is smooth
- Access to the domain settings for 3dfightclubofficial.com (the domain stays
  Dougie's, it just gets pointed at the new site)
- 3DFC 6 date and venue when it is confirmed

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## Common questions

**Do I lose my domain?**
No. 3dfightclubofficial.com stays yours. The new site goes onto it.

**Who gets the money from tickets and streams?**
You do. It goes into your Square account.

**Who owns the customer list?**
You do. Every buyer's email is yours to use for the next event.

**How do fighters get paid for the tickets they sell?**
The same way you pay them now. The difference is you have an exact count of
every ticket each fighter sold and what type it was, so there is nothing to
argue about.

**Can a fighter see another fighter's sales?**
No. Each fighter only sees their own. Only you see everyone.

**What does the monthly £20 cover?**
Keeping the site running, security updates and small fixes. With the Joyce's
Whiskey site's £30, it is £50 a month for both.

**What if something goes wrong on fight night?**
That is what the £200 fight night fee is for. Jordan is on it live, and the
site is tested with a full practice run before the first real event.

**Can I still sell tickets another way as well?**
It is best not to. Two systems selling the same room can sell the same seat
twice. Everything in one place avoids that.

**Do fans need to download an app or make an account?**
No. They buy, get an email, and that is it.

**Is 3DFC 6 affected if it is announced during the build?**
The best plan is to launch before 3DFC 6 tickets go on sale, so the whole
event runs on the new site. If tickets have to go on sale sooner, they stay
on the old ticket site for that one event so no seat gets sold twice, and the
new site still handles the stream, the card and everything else.

Ready when you are

Say the word and the first stage starts. The sooner the photos and footage come over, the sooner it is live.

Sidedoor Digital

Your fight night.All in one place.