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Cashless payments
Cashless Event Payments with NFC
Faster queues at every booth and live sales data for every vendor.
What cashless means on Blend
Every guest gets a wallet for your event. They put money in it once, then pay at every bar, food stand and shop with a tap of an NFC wristband or a scan of the QR code already on their ticket. No change to count, no card machine to pass around, and no guest leaving the queue to find a cash machine.
The wallet belongs to the event and sits on the same system as your ticketing and door scanning, so the person who bought the ticket, walked through the gate and bought three drinks is one guest in your records, not three separate lists.
How guests pay
There are two ways to carry the wallet, and an event can use either or both.
- NFC wristband or card. Staff pair a band to the guest at the gate. From then on the band is the ticket and the wallet together: one tap gets them in, one tap pays.
- The ticket QR. A guest shows the QR on their ticket and the till scans it to charge their wallet. Nothing extra to hand out.
- Top up by card from their own phone, wherever they are standing.
- Top up with cash at a top-up booth on site. Each booth runs on its own paired device.
- Any balance left at the end can be returned to the guest from the organizer console.
How bars and vendors sell
Each bar, stand or shop is a booth with its own menu and prices. You add it in the console, give it a pairing code, and its staff type that code into a phone to turn it into a till. They pick items, the guest taps or shows their QR, and the sale is recorded against that booth.
A bar can run from a structured drinks menu, and a bar with table mode can charge drinks to a table on your seat map. Tills can also record cash sales, so a booth's whole take lands in one report. You can pause or close a booth at any time.
Top-up booths and vendor tills are different devices on purpose. A booth can add money and cannot charge. A till can charge and cannot add money. Losing one device does not open both doors.
Live sales data while the event is running
The live view shows spend per booth and each tap as it lands, so you can see which bar is slammed and which one needs stock before anyone radios you. After the event, each vendor's sales, your commission and what they are owed are worked out in the Payouts tab instead of counted by hand.
- Refund a sale back to the guest's wallet when a vendor makes a mistake.
- Require a second approval for money going out above a threshold you set.
- Hold a refundable deposit for cups, radios or other gear, and release it on return.
- A ledger check proves that every wallet balances, with every top up and every sale accounted for.
How to set up cashless payments for an event
Turn on the wallet
Open the Cashless tab of your event and switch the wallet on. Create an event first if you do not have one yet.
Add your booths
Create a booth for each bar, stand and shop, with its menu and prices.
Pair the devices
Give each booth its pairing code for the till phones, and set up your top-up booths the same way.
Open the gates
Pair wristbands as guests arrive, or let them pay with the QR on their ticket.
Watch it live, then settle
Follow sales per booth during the event and settle vendors afterwards from the Payouts tab.
Who it is for
Cashless pays off wherever many people buy many small things in a short time: festivals, large concerts, club nights and food events. See how it fits a festival, and browse festivals on Blend.
Cashless is part of Blend's paid plans. See how pricing works, read about ticketing in Lebanon, or contact us to plan the setup for your venue.
Cashless payment questions
Each guest has a wallet for the event. They add money to it, then pay at bars and vendors by tapping an NFC wristband or showing the QR code on their ticket. Every sale is recorded against the vendor that made it.
No. A wristband is one option. Guests can also pay by showing the QR code on their ticket, which the vendor's till scans to charge their wallet.
By card from their phone, or with cash at a top-up booth on site. Top-up booths run on their own paired devices and cannot charge a guest.
The organizer can return a guest's remaining balance from the console, and can refund an individual sale back to the wallet.
A phone. Each vendor till is a phone paired to its booth with a code from the organizer console. Tapping a wristband needs a phone that can read NFC; scanning a ticket QR only needs a camera.
Yes. The live view in the organizer console shows spend per booth and each tap as it happens.
More for organizers
Selling in Lebanon and the UAE
- Ticketing in LebanonUSD pricing, card and Whish checkout, door scanning and payouts.
- Ticketing in the UAEAED pricing, card checkout, Apple Pay and Google Pay, QR entry.
- Pricing and feesNo setup cost, free events free, buyer paid processing fee.
- Compare platformsBlend next to ihjoz, Platinumlist and Tick'it, feature by feature.
- Accept Whish paymentsBuyers approve in their Whish app; tickets issue on confirmation.
- Access control and check inDoor scanners, zone readers, rotating barcodes and live counts.
- Promoter dashboardA code and a tracked link per promoter, with sales and commission.
- FestivalsPasses, gates, wristbands and cashless vendors on one system.
- ConcertsSeat maps, ticket waves, promoter codes and door scanning.
- ConferencesRegistration questions, group sign up, passes and room check in.
Guides for organizers: How to Sell Out an Event in Lebanon, How to Price Event Tickets: Early Bird and Waves, How to Track Promoter and Affiliate Ticket Sales, all organizer guides.
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