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Ticketing and Cashless Payments for Festivals
One system for the whole weekend: passes on sale, guests through the gates, wristbands at the bars, and the numbers in front of you while it is all still happening.
Why festivals run ticketing and cashless together
A festival is three operations at once: an on sale, a set of gates and a village of bars and vendors. Run on three tools, they give you three guest lists and a reconciliation job on Monday. On Blend they are one event. The guest who bought a weekend pass is the same record that scanned in on Friday and tapped a wristband at the bar on Saturday.
Everything below is part of the Blend platform for organizers, so you can start with ticketing alone and add cashless when the site is ready for it.
Passes, tiers and add-ons
Set up the ticket structure a festival actually sells.
- Day tickets and multi day passes on the same event, each with its own price and quantity.
- Tiers that open and close on dates you set, for early release, general sale and final release.
- Add-ons sold with the ticket, each with its own stock.
- Inventory is held while a buyer checks out, so a busy on sale does not sell the same ticket twice.
- Promo codes for partners, and a tracked code for every promoter. See the promoter dashboard.
How festival goers pay
Buyers pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, and on events priced in US dollars they can also pay with Whish. The ticket arrives by email and in the Blend app as a QR code. If you want the on sale to live on your own brand and domain, Blend can run it from a white-label ticketing website.
Gates that keep moving
Give each gate its own scanner by issuing a code per phone. On a multi day festival a scanner is set to a day: a Saturday ticket scans on Saturday, and a weekend pass scans once each day. A ticket that was already used is flagged.
Inside the site, zone readers check passes again at the doors that matter, such as a VIP deck or backstage, by ticket type and without using up the guest's entry. For anyone who turns up without a ticket, Walk-in Sale sells one at the gate from a phone. More on access control and check in.
Wristbands and cashless bars
Pair an NFC wristband to each guest at the gate and it becomes their ticket and their wallet. They load it by card from their phone or with cash at a top-up booth, then tap to pay at every bar and food stand. Guests without a wristband can pay with the QR on their ticket.
Each vendor sells from a phone paired to their booth, with their own menu. You see spend per booth live, take refundable deposits for cups, and settle every vendor from one Payouts tab after the event. How cashless payments work on Blend.
The numbers, during and after
Ticket sales are in the Finance page of your console with the processing fee separated out, so the revenue you see is yours, and payouts land in your account within days of the event. The processing fee is paid by the buyer at checkout. See how pricing works.
How to put a festival on sale
Create the event
Add the dates, the site and the artwork. Create an event to start.
Build your passes
Add day tickets, multi day passes and tiers with their sale dates, then your add-ons.
Brief your promoters
Give each promoter a code and link before the first release goes live.
Plan the site
Decide your gates, inner zones, bars and top-up booths with us, then pair the devices.
Run it live
Scan at the gates, sell at the bars, and watch both from the console.
Planning a festival in Lebanon or the UAE
Festival setups depend on the site, so the fastest route is a conversation. Contact us with your dates and expected crowd. You can also read about ticketing in Lebanon and see festivals on Blend.
Festival ticketing questions
Sell day tickets and multi day passes from one event page, release them in tiers with their own sale dates, and give promoters tracked codes. On Blend the same system then scans guests in and runs cashless payments on site.
Yes. Day tickets and multi day passes sit on the same event. At the gate a day ticket is admitted on its own day and a multi day pass on each of its days.
An NFC wristband is paired to the guest at the gate. They add money by card from their phone or with cash at a top-up booth, then tap the wristband to pay at bars and vendors.
Yes. A guest can show the QR code on their ticket and the vendor's till scans it to charge their event wallet.
Use zone readers. Each one stands at an inner door and admits only the ticket types you tick for that area, without using up the guest's entry to the festival.
Yes. Walk-in Sale turns a phone into a till that sells tickets at the gate, separate from the scanners.
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.
- Cashless paymentsNFC wristbands or the ticket QR, vendor tills and live sales.
- 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.
- 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.
Put your next event
on Blend.
Free to start, no card required. Most organizers are selling the same afternoon.