Event day is the moment that makes or breaks the year. But most teams show up with a printed guest list, a borrowed scanner, and three group chats. When something goes wrong, whether a scanner dies, a VIP gets stuck in the general line, or walk-ups pile up at the box office, nobody has the full picture.
krowd is built for the ground. Every scanner, every gate, every sale flows into one live view. The floor manager sees it. The box office sees it. You see it on your phone from wherever you are.
Built for the people at the door.
Mobile ticket scanning
Any staff member with an iPhone or Android can scan tickets at the door — QR, barcode, or manual lookup by name. Scanner sessions are scoped to the device, so nobody is sharing a password on a venue phone.
Multi-gate check-in
Run multiple scan points at the same event without double-scans. One check-in per ticket is enforced on the server, so it holds no matter which device reaches it first.
Live attendance dashboard
Watch the room fill in real time. Scan throughput per minute, capacity utilization, and attendance compared to prior events, all on one screen.
Before-doors readiness check
Twenty-four hours before doors, krowd emails you to download your attendee list — automatically, for any event expecting 25 or more people. The fallback that works with no signal is the one you prepared in advance.
Live headcount
Every device shares one running count of who's in, so you always know your real attendance as the doors move — no radios, no guessing.
Staff roster + roles
Each staffer gets the right permissions: scanner-only, box office, or full floor manager view. No shared passwords, no accidental changes.
One screen that tells you how the event is going.
Capacity, arrivals per minute, scan errors, staff online, walk-up revenue. The war room is the single view you leave open on a laptop at the production table, the one that tells you, at a glance, whether the night is on track.
When something trips a threshold, krowd pings the right person. When everything's smooth, the numbers just tick up and you can actually enjoy your own event.
The honest answer about venue wifi.
Venue wifi drops and cell dead zones happen. Here is the part most vendors bury: krowd's scanner needs a live connection. If the signal goes, scanning stops — including manual lookup by name, because it runs through the same connection. Offline scanning is on our roadmap and is not shipped, and you should plan around that rather than discover it at the door.
So we do the half we can do well: krowd makes sure you never arrive at doors without a fallback.
What krowd does about it
- An email 24 hours before doors telling you to download your attendee list
- Sent automatically for any event expecting 25 or more people
- A printable list — the only fallback that works with no signal at all
- One check-in per ticket enforced server-side, so no double-admits across gates
- Device-scoped scanner sessions, so no shared password on a venue phone
Walk into the next event with the floor in your pocket.
krowd was built by people who have worked the door. Start free and find out what event day feels like from the other side.