Session tracking and check-in

Who actually walked
into the room.

QR check-in for individual sessions, workshops and meals — run from a link you hand to a volunteer, or by attendees scanning themselves in when nobody is on the door.

No account for scannersSelf check-in supportedEligibility rules

Why door counts are not enough

Registration tells you who was invited. Check-in tells you who came

A room booked for two hundred and filled by sixty is a fact worth knowing before you book it again — and for accredited sessions, catering and capacity limits, it is a fact you are required to have.

Attendance is the real number

Registrations flatter you. Scans do not. The gap between the two is the most useful figure your event produces.

Whoever is on the door is a volunteer

Session doors are staffed by students, volunteers and whoever was free. They cannot be given dashboard accounts.

Not everyone may enter every room

Workshops, VIP sessions and paid add-ons have rules about who is allowed in, and the door is where that gets enforced.

Sometimes nobody is on the door

Plenty of sessions have no staff at all. That should mean self check-in, not no data.

How check-in runs

Four ways in, one attendance record

Scan the attendee's badge

The badge in the app is scanned at the door — the ordinary path, and the fastest one.

Or the printed badge number

A physical badge can be scanned by its printed number, so an attendee whose phone is flat still gets counted.

Or type it in

Manual entry exists for the case every event has, where scanning simply will not work for one person.

Or let them scan themselves

The session shows its own rotating code and attendees scan in from their phones, with no scanner and nobody on the door.

The method is recorded

Every scan records how it happened, so “nobody staffed the door, they all self-scanned” is visible in the report rather than hidden in the total.

Rules about who may enter

Eligibility is checked at the point of scanning, so a session limited to certain ticket types enforces itself.

For the organizing team

Hand out a link, get attendance back

Scanning runs from shareable links that need no dashboard account, so the people on the doors never touch your console or your attendee data.

FAQ

Sessions Check-in questions

Do the people scanning need an account?

No. Scanning runs from a shareable link, so volunteers and door staff can check attendees in without a dashboard account and without access to your event data.

What if an attendee's phone is flat?

Their printed badge number can be scanned instead, or the check-in can be entered manually. Both are recorded as attendance like any other scan.

Can attendees check themselves in?

Yes. A session can display its own rotating code for attendees to scan from their phones, which means a room with nobody on the door still produces attendance data.

Can we restrict who is allowed into a session?

Yes. Eligibility rules are checked when the scan happens, so a workshop limited to certain ticket types enforces itself at the door.

Can we tell staffed check-in from self check-in?

Yes. Every scan records how it was made, so a session everybody scanned themselves into looks different in the report from a staffed door.

Is this the same thing as the digital passport?

It is the same engine. A tracked session can also be a passport stop, so attendance tracking and stamp collecting are configured once rather than twice.

For organizers

Find out who was actually in the room

QR check-in that volunteers can run from a link, and attendees can run themselves.