A conference platform, phone first
Registration, the ticket, the agenda and the door, in one app every attendee already has: the browser on their phone. Built for the hall where the Wi-Fi gives up, and priced per event with everything in it.
The demonstration is Beacon Summit, a two-day conference with made-up speakers and sponsors. Register for it, get the ticket by email and look around as an attendee would.
Where it sits
The large platforms do everything, take months to learn, charge per registrant on top of a licence and sell the useful parts as add-ons. The smaller ones each do one slice well. This is the whole list in one product, and every card says how much of it is built.
The attendee app is a web app that installs from the event's own address. It keeps the ticket and the agenda on the phone, so both still open when the network does not. The Android and iOS store apps come later, from the same code.
The scanner runs in the browser of any phone with a camera. It keeps the event's tickets, decides at the door when the connection is gone, and sends its scans when it is back. Several doors, each with its own capacity, and badges printed from a browser on the printer the venue already has.
Any television with a browser shows now and next in its room, arrivals as counts, the sponsors and the leaderboard, live within seconds. It pairs with a six-character code, so nobody types a password with a remote.
Every rule pays once per attendee and per thing, enforced by the database, with limits and time windows. Challenge codes are signed and only work when scanned. A prize draw among everybody above a threshold is recorded with who drew it.
Paid tickets through your own Mollie or Stripe account, with the payment methods it offers. The money goes to you, not through us, and whether it was paid comes from the provider. Next: invoices with VAT, refunds and paying later by bank transfer.
In Customer Insights - Journeys, the event QR code carries a registration ID and check-in is left to custom development. AttendBeacon is meant to be that development: contacts, registrations and check-ins kept in step, with every delivery visible.
One price for an event, by its size, with everything in it. No fee per registrant, no add-ons, and a free plan for small community events. The amounts are published on the pricing page before launch.
For attendees
Nobody downloads anything and nobody makes a password. Attendees open the event's address, register, and the app is theirs. A six-digit code by email signs them in on another phone.
At the door
Open the event in the workspace, choose Scanner and point the camera at the queue. The screen answers in a colour visible from two metres and says why in a word. Anything that is not green waits for a tap, so nobody is waved through a red screen. When the venue's network goes, the scanner carries on.
On the roadmap A kiosk for checking yourself in, and walk-ins paying at the door.
How it works
Four steps, each one in the workspace an organiser already has open.
A name and a date are enough to start. Then rooms, tracks and sessions in the venue's time, speakers and sponsors, and the event's colours and font.
Ticket types with a capacity and a sale window, free or paid through your own Mollie or Stripe account. Ask only what you need; every answer is checked on the server.
A QR code by email and in the app. They sign in with a code, build their own agenda and have the ticket on their phone.
The scanner on any phone at each door, online or not, badges from the browser, and the list of who came, exported when you need it.
The demonstration is a real event in the real app. Register for Beacon Summit on your phone, or open the workspace and look at the event from the organiser's side.