Ticketopolis tickets now work with Apple Wallet and Google Wallet

Every Ticketopolis ticket can now be added directly to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet, one more way to make sure a ticket is exactly where an attendee needs it to be on event day, without digging through an inbox or a WhatsApp thread to find it.

One tap, and it's on the phone's lock screen

Tickets delivered by Ticketopolis already arrive by email and WhatsApp. Now, from that same ticket, attendees can add it straight to their phone's wallet app with a single tap: no separate app to download, no account to create. Once it's added, the ticket sits alongside boarding passes, loyalty cards, and payment cards, ready to open from the lock screen without unlocking a phone, searching an inbox, or scrolling through old messages.

Why this matters at the door

A ticket buried in an email thread is a ticket that takes longer to find at exactly the moment a line is moving and a gate scanner is waiting. Wallet tickets solve that by putting the QR code one tap away, and they even work without an internet connection, useful at venues where cell service gets overloaded the moment a crowd shows up. For organizers, that means a faster-moving line and less time spent helping attendees dig up a ticket they know they bought but can't immediately find.

It also means fewer lost tickets

Screenshots get buried in camera rolls. Emails get deleted by accident. A ticket saved to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet stays put: reachable directly from the wallet app any time between purchase and the event, without depending on a specific message thread still being there.

How it works

There's nothing new to set up. When a buyer receives their ticket from Ticketopolis, an "Add to Apple Wallet" or "Add to Google Wallet" option appears automatically, matched to their device. Tapping it saves the ticket's real QR code to the wallet app, the same code used for check-in, so scanning it at the door works exactly the same as scanning a ticket from email or WhatsApp.

Built for every kind of event

This isn't limited to a specific ticket type or event category. General admission, numbered seats, or zoned tickets all support wallet integration the same way, which means the feature works whether it's a concert, a conference badge, a sports ticket, or a community fundraiser entry.

What this means for organizers

Faster check-in isn't just a convenience for attendees: it's fewer bottlenecks at the gate, fewer manual lookups from staff, and a smoother start to the event overall. Combined with QR code check-in and real-time analytics, wallet integration is one more piece of making entry to an event as close to frictionless as possible.

Try it now

Apple Wallet and Google Wallet support is live today for every event on Ticketopolis, automatically, at no extra cost. The next ticket a buyer receives will already have the option waiting for them.

Find it. Book it. Live it. And now, carry it in your wallet too.

Check-In: How to eliminate lines at your next event

Nothing sours an attendee's mood faster than standing in a line before the event has even started. For organizers, that same line represents something else: a bottleneck that can delay a show, frustrate staff, and create the kind of chaos that shows up in reviews afterward. Bar/QR code check-in exists to solve exactly this problem, and it's one of the simplest upgrades an event can make.

How Check-in works

When a ticket is purchased, it's issued with a unique Bar/QR code, delivered by email and by WhatsApp. At the door, staff use a phone or tablet running the check-in tool to scan each code. The system instantly confirms whether the ticket is valid, whether it's already been used, and which ticket type or zone it corresponds to. The whole interaction takes a second or two per guest: no manual list-checking, no radio calls to a supervisor, no guesswork.

Why this beats a printed guest list

A printed or spreadsheet-based guest list requires a staff member to search a name, confirm identity, and manually mark attendance; a process that gets slower as the line grows and more error-prone as staff get tired. Check-in removes the search step entirely: the code itself carries all the information needed, and duplicate or already-scanned tickets are rejected automatically, which is also your first line of defense against ticket fraud.

It also scales in a way paper never does. Whether you're running one entrance for 200 guests or twelve entrances for 20,000, adding another scanning station is as simple as adding another phone with the a browser: no additional printed lists to reconcile afterward.

What to plan for

A few practical details make the difference between a smooth check-in and a stalled one: staff at every scanning point instead of one shared device, so a bottleneck at one entrance doesn't back up the entire line; and zone-specific scanning for events with general admission plus VIP or backstage areas, so each ticket type routes to the right entrance automatically.

Real-time visibility for organizers

Beyond speeding up the door, Bar/QR check-in gives organizers something a paper process never could: a live count of who has actually arrived, updated in real time as scans happen. That's useful well beyond crowd control: it tells you when to start the show, whether a marketing push actually converted to attendance, and how your no-show rate compares to your ticket sales.

Getting started

On Ticketopolis, Bar/QR check-in is included as part of the core platform, with scanning available from any phone or tablet and results syncing automatically with your real-time analytics dashboard. There's no separate hardware to buy and no extra setup beyond generating your event's tickets.

If your last event involved a clipboard and a line out the door, it's worth trying the alternative. Sign up free and set up check-in for your next event in minutes.

How to accept Crypto Payments for event tickets

Cryptocurrency has moved well past its early-adopter phase, and event organizers are increasingly asked a simple question by their audience: "Can I pay with crypto?" For festivals, conferences, and community events with an audience that already transacts in digital currency, saying yes can mean the difference between a completed sale and an abandoned cart.

Why offer crypto as a payment option

The case for accepting crypto isn't ideological: it's practical. Some attendees, particularly in tech, gaming, and international communities, simply prefer it, and international buyers may find crypto easier than navigating currency conversion and card decline issues with a foreign bank. The broader principle holds regardless of the payment method: the more ways your audience can pay, the fewer people abandon checkout because their preferred option isn't available.

How it works in practice

On a modern ticketing platform, accepting crypto doesn't mean an organizer has to personally manage a digital wallet or track exchange rates. The platform handles the conversion and settlement, so from the organizer's side, a crypto sale looks the same as any other transaction in the dashboard: a ticket sold, a payment confirmed, funds accounted for in your reporting.

For the buyer, the experience is just another checkout option alongside card, cash, and installment payments: they select crypto, complete the transaction from their wallet, and receive their ticket exactly the way any other buyer would, including WhatsApp and email delivery.

What organizers should know

A few things are worth understanding when crypto payments for an event:

Settlement currency matters: funds land in your account as local currency, so there are no surprises around volatility. Refund policies should be spelled out clearly, since reversing a crypto transaction isn't identical to reversing a card payment. And it's worth flagging the option clearly on your event page if part of your audience is choosing your event because crypto is accepted, so make sure they know it's there before they start checkout.

Who benefits most

Crypto payment support tends to matter most for tech and gaming conferences, international events drawing attendees across borders, and community or grassroots events built around audiences already active in crypto and Web3 spaces. For the right event, it removes a real barrier to purchase.

Setting it up

Ticketopolis includes crypto as one of several built-in payment methods, alongside card, cash, and installment options, so you don't have to do anything special to start using it.

If your audience has been asking for it, there's no reason to keep leaving that sale on the table. Sign up free and add crypto as a payment option on your next event. 

How Nonprofits can raise more at fundraising events with the right ticketing platform

Fundraising events run on tighter margins than concerts or corporate conferences, in a way that changes what "the right software" even means. Every dollar spent on setup fees, printing, or high transaction rates is a dollar that doesn't reach the cause the event exists to support. For a nonprofit or community organizer evaluating an event ticketing platform for nonprofits, the real question isn't just whether the software works: it's how much of what gets raised actually survives the process.

Tiers for every need

Many ticketing platforms are built with large commercial events in mind, and their pricing reflects that: recurring subscription fees, minimum monthly commitments, or setup costs that assume a certain scale. For a one-time gala, a school fundraiser, or a community 5K, that math rarely works. Ticketopolis's Free plan is built for exactly this case: a nonprofit can create a branded event page, offer free tickets, and manage check-in without paying anything upfront, with costs only appearing as a small percentage on paid tickets sold through the Professional or Premium tiers if the organization later needs more advanced tools and process payments.

Make giving easy, not just ticket-buying

A fundraising event usually isn't only about the ticket price: many organizers want to offer suggested donation tiers, sponsor packages, or add-on contributions alongside standard admission. Flexible ticket types (general, numbered, or zoned) let you structure an event as simply or as elaborately as it needs to be: a flat donation-based entry for a community dinner, or tiered sponsor levels with different perks for a larger gala.

Payment flexibility also matters more for donor-facing events than people expect. Some supporters want to pay by card, some prefer cash at the door, and increasingly, some want the option to pay by installment for a higher-ticket sponsorship level. A platform that accepts card, cash, and installment payments out of the box means fewer supporters get turned away at checkout because their preferred payment method wasn't available.

Reach supporters where they already are

Nonprofit events often depend on word-of-mouth and personal networks more than paid advertising, which makes ticket and update delivery especially important. Sending confirmations by WhatsApp, in addition to email, tends to reach supporters faster and with better open rates than email alone, particularly for community and family-oriented audiences who may not check email daily.

Keep the door moving without extra volunteers

Fundraising events are often run by a small team of staff and volunteers wearing multiple hats. QR code check-in reduces how many people you need stationed at the door checking names against a list, freeing volunteers to focus on hosting guests instead of managing entry logistics. Real-time analytics also mean an organizer can see ticket sales and attendance as they happen, without waiting for a post-event report to know whether the fundraiser hit its goal.

Protecting the funds you've already raised

Fraud matters just as much for a charity gala as it does for a stadium concert, arguably more, since every fraudulent or duplicated ticket represents money that should have gone to the cause. Built-in, automatic fraud detection catches duplicate tickets and suspicious purchase patterns without requiring a volunteer to review transactions manually, which most small organizing teams don't have the bandwidth to do anyway.

Getting started

If your organization runs even one or two fundraising events a year, the software behind them shouldn't be the thing eating into what you raise. Ticketopolis gives nonprofits, schools, and community groups a real ticketing platform: event pages, flexible ticket types, WhatsApp delivery, and fraud protection, without a subscription fee standing between you and your mission.

Sign up free and set up your next fundraising event in minutes.

How Ticketopolis helped verify Monterrey's Guinness World Record for largest folk dance

Today, 1095 dancers filled Plaza Zaragoza in Monterrey, Nuevo León, and set a new Guinness World Record for the largest Mexican folk dance ever performed. Ticketopolis was there too, not on stage, but behind the scenes, providing the registration and headcount system that helped support the official Guinness verification.

A record built by the whole city

The event was organized by the Monterrey city government in collaboration with Conarte, with choreography led by maestro Jaime Guerrero and more than 40 different dance groups performing together. The routine ran for roughly 30 minutes and wrapped up around 7:00 p.m., with Guinness World Records officials completing their verification by 8:00 p.m. Carlos Tapia of Guinness World Records confirmed the result on-site, alongside official witnesses Alejandro González and Francisco Torres: an official count of 1095 participants: a new world record.

Why a record like this needs more than one count

A Guinness World Records attempt of this size doesn't rest on a single headcount taken by a judge glancing across a plaza. Official witnesses validate the attempt against Guinness's guidelines, but an event with over a thousand simultaneous participants also benefits from an independent, documented registration trail: proof of exactly who showed up, when they checked in, and how the final number was reached.

Where Ticketopolis came in

For this event, Ticketopolis provided the registration and check-in system used to track participating dancers as they arrived, generating a real-time, timestamped count that stood alongside the official witnesses' tally. It's the same underlying capability Ticketopolis provides for any large event: QR-based check-in and real-time analytics, applied here to a use case a little different from a typical ticketed show: supporting documentation for a Guinness World Record attempt, rather than admission to a concert or conference.

What this shows about handling scale

Most events Ticketopolis supports involve getting a crowd through a door efficiently. This one required something slightly different: an accurate, defensible count of participants gathered in an open plaza, produced fast enough to hand off to Guinness officials the same evening. The same real-time check-in infrastructure that tells a festival organizer how many people are inside their venue right now was put to work here to help document a genuine world record.

A record worth being part of

Monterrey's folk dance record is a point of civic pride, built by dozens of dance groups and a choreographer who spent months preparing a routine meant to be performed by over a thousand people at once. Being the platform trusted to help document that moment, accurately, and on a tight timeline, is exactly the kind of large-scale coordination Ticketopolis is built for.

Built for events of any size

Whether it's 200 people at a community fundraiser or over a thousand dancers attempting a world record, Ticketopolis's registration, check-in, and real-time analytics scale to match. Sign up free and see how the same tools that helped verify a Guinness World Record can support your next event.

Find it. Book it. Live it. However big "it" turns out to be.

Ticketopolis now delivers tickets by WhatsApp, in addition to email

Starting today, every ticket sold through Ticketopolis can be delivered by WhatsApp, alongside the email delivery organizers already rely on. It's a small change on the surface,one extra delivery channel, but it solves one of the most common complaints event organizers hear from their attendees: "I never got my ticket."

The problem with email-only delivery

Email has been the default way to deliver tickets for years, and for a lot of buyers it still works fine. But it isn't the whole story. Confirmation emails land in spam folders, get buried under promotions, or simply go unread until the day of the event, if they're opened at all. For organizers, that means a share of attendees show up without their ticket in hand, creating avoidable friction at the door and putting extra pressure on check-in staff who have to look up orders manually.

Why WhatsApp

WhatsApp is where a large share of Ticketopolis's audience already spends their time: checking messages throughout the day, not just when they think to open their inbox. Delivering a ticket there means it arrives somewhere a buyer is actually likely to see it, with none of the extra steps of searching an inbox the night of an event.

How it works

There's nothing new for organizers to configure. When a buyer completes a purchase on Ticketopolis, their ticket is generated and delivered automatically by email as before, and now by WhatsApp as well, sent to the phone number provided at checkout. The ticket itself works exactly the same way whether it's opened from an email or a WhatsApp message: the same unique code, ready to be scanned at check-in.

For buyers, that means one less thing to worry about. For organizers, it means fewer "I can't find my ticket" messages in the days leading up to an event, and fewer holdups at the door from guests who genuinely never saw their confirmation.

Who benefits most

This matters for every kind of event Ticketopolis supports, but it's especially useful for community events, family-oriented gatherings, and any audience that leans on messaging apps more than email.

What's next

WhatsApp delivery is live now for every event created on Ticketopolis, at no extra cost and with no setup required: it's simply part of how tickets are delivered going forward. As always, the goal is the same one behind every feature we build: fewer obstacles between a ticket being bought and an attendee actually making it through the door.

Find it. Book it. Live it. And now, get it on WhatsApp too.

Ticketopolis now generates attendee badges with built-in networking QR codes

For congresses, conferences, and expos, a ticket isn't really the end goal: getting into the room is just step one. What happens once attendees are inside, and how easily they can connect with each other, matters just as much. Starting today, organizers running this kind of event can generate attendee badges instead of standard tickets directly on Ticketopolis, with a QR code built in specifically to make networking easier.

Badges instead of tickets, where it makes sense

Not every event needs a badge, a concert or a community fair still works best with a standard ticket. But for conferences, congresses, and expos, a badge is what attendees actually wear and reference all day: name, role, company, and event access all in one place. Organizers running these kinds of events can now switch a ticket type to generate a printable badge instead, without changing anything else about how registration or check-in works.

A QR code that does more than check someone in

Every badge includes a QR code, and instead of only encoding a check-in reference, it also carries the attendee's contact information as a standard vCard: name, title, company, email, and phone, exactly as they provided it at registration. That means any other attendee can scan someone's badge and instantly save their contact to their own phone, no app required, no manually typing an email into a new contact card between sessions.

Why this matters for conferences specifically

Networking is one of the main reasons people attend a conference in the first place, and it's usually the part that depends the most on chance: whoever happens to be next to you at lunch, or whoever you manage to catch before they rush to the next session. A scannable badge removes the friction of exchanging contact information in the moment: no business cards to keep track of, no "let's connect on LinkedIn later" that quietly never happens.

Set up alongside everything else

Badge generation isn't a separate system bolted onto Ticketopolis: it works through the same registration and ticketing flow organizers already use. Attendees register the same way they always have; the organizer simply selects badge-style tickets, and Ticketopolis handles generating each attendee's badge with their networking QR code included, ready to print or display digitally at check-in.

Works with check-in you already have

Badges are fully compatible with Ticketopolis's existing QR code check-in, so staff scanning attendees in at the door use the same process as always: the badge's QR code still confirms entry, in addition to carrying the attendee's contact card for use throughout the event.

Who this is for

This is built specifically for organizers running congresses, professional conferences, trade shows, and expos: any event where attendees are there to learn from and connect with each other, not just watch something happen. If your event has ever needed a "networking hour" to manually solve this problem, badges with built-in vCard QR codes solve it automatically for every attendee, all day.

Getting started

Badge-style tickets are available now for any event on Ticketopolis. Sign up free and switch your next conference or expo over to badges in just a few minutes.

Find it. Book it. Live it. And now, connect while you're there.