Thread: Electronic ticketing system reccomendations?

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Our company has a total of seven haunted attractions on site. Up until now, once a customer pays, we give them a wristband with numbered tabs that are pulled off by each attraction. Each attraction only takes a certain number to ensure nobody is doing the same attraction over and over all night, as we have a problem with long lines already.

We would like to move to an electronic system next year, but have no clue where to start. Ideally this is how it would work:
1. Customer buys ticket at entrance to park (we would like to have multiple ticket options)
2. Customer is issued a wristband with a barcode or QR code on it
3. Wristband is scanned at the entrance to each attraction.
4. The system needs to keep track of which attractions the guest has gone through already, and let the person at the door to the attraction know if they have a valid ticket for that attraction or not
5. Ideally, we would like to be able to print reports at the end of the night showing the number of guests through each attraction.

We are open to buying any equipment/software necessary, but are hoping to find a system that can be scanned with smartphones as all house managers already have those. If there's an iphone/ipad/computer app that can do all this that would make life so much easier.
Anyone have any ideas or experience with this?

THis is a good idea as it will let you know which attractions are working and which ones you need to improve based on attendance.

The local amusement park here just hands you a card that lists all the attractions, and as you go through, they line them out with a marker. So the only way they can keep count is with one of those hand clicker thingies

I have seen New RFID wrist bands, they are paper with the chip, and you could get a bluetooth RFID reader, that would work with Iphones (as far as i know these do exsist)

The customer could walk up just wave there wrist over a reader, and it would log the unique number and with some software you could lock out the number after. and it would allow for reports.