How it works
When someone books, they receive an email with a unique booking URL and QR code. At the event, authorised staff open the built-in scanner in their browser and scan the code. The system validates the booking and marks its entry for the event being scanned as checked in.
The scanner warns when a booking was already checked in or belongs to a different event. Check-in requires a network connection to the Chobble Tickets site. A manual name and token search is available when a camera cannot be used. That search offers only the people still to arrive, so nobody is checked in twice.
Check-ins are counted per ticket, not per booking. A booking with several places gets one bold Check in/out link, and the door can admit part of the booking, for example 2 of 5 places now and the rest later. At a large event, a paper list of who has half-arrived is not workable, so the count lives on the booking instead.
Door staff do not need an admin account. Give volunteers a scanner login and the only page they can open is the scanner. One scanner session can cover every listing in a group, so one door list serves a multi-day festival or a weekend programme.
The scanner shows what the attendee picked on the listing, such as a size or a session time, and check-in matches that option rather than the name alone.
