Gate Access

Every gate scans
for its own zone.

Main Hall, VIP Lounge, Day-2 Auditorium, Sponsor Zone. Each has its own scanner URL. Attendee passes are checked against the zones their tier is allowed into. Green means enter. Red means point them to the right gate. Every scan is logged.

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VIP Lounge

Product Summit 2026 · Day 1
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Zones + Tiers

Draw the map. Set the rules. Let the gates do the rest.

Create as many zones as your venue has entries that matter. Attach ticket tiers to each zone. A VIP tier can be allowed in three zones. A media tier can be allowed in one. Anyone with a valid pass tries every gate anyway — you just decide who gets through.

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Unlimited zones per event
Main Hall, VIP Lounge, breakout rooms, sponsor stalls area, media room, Day-2 auditorium. Give each one a name, a colour, and the tiers it accepts.
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Tier-to-zone rules
Many-to-many. VIP can enter three zones, General can enter one, Media can enter the Media Room only. Common areas can be marked "open to all tiers" so you don't have to enumerate every combination.
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One URL per gate
Every zone gets its own gate URL. Copy it, open on the phone of the staff at that door, done. No app to install, no configuration screen mid-shift.
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Green means enter
Attendee QR scans, tier is checked, allowed banner shows with their name and tier. Vibration on the phone confirms it visually and haptically for the staff member.
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Red means "you're at the wrong gate"
Denied scans show a clear reason: "This pass does not include VIP Lounge" or "Not yet approved, see accreditation desk." Staff can point the guest to the right door without a scene.
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Every scan logged
Allowed and denied. With gate label, staff who scanned, timestamp, and reason for denial. Post-event you get one CSV that answers "who entered which room when."
Gate flow

Staff opens the URL. Guest holds up their QR. Done.

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Copy the zone's gate URL
From the admin panel, hit "Copy gate URL" on the zone card. Send it to the staff who'll man that door. They open it in Chrome or Safari.
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Camera opens, zone colour floods the screen
The whole screen turns the zone's colour so it's obvious at a glance which gate this is. Staff enter their gate label (A / B / 1). Scanner is live.
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Scan, allow or deny, log
Green banner or red banner. Vibration confirms. 2.5-second lockout so a stationary QR doesn't fire repeatedly. Guest walks in or gets redirected. Every scan is in the audit log.
Why we built it this way

A Bengaluru expo where the wrong people kept wandering into the VIP dinner.

A trade expo in Bengaluru in 2025. Two-day event, roughly 5,400 attendees, three ticket tiers. General attendees paid ₹2,500 for the exhibition floor. VIPs paid ₹18,000 which included a curated dinner on day one. Media had free press passes, exhibition floor only.

The dinner was in a partitioned section of the same hall. One evening the client's ops lead came out and said 40 general attendees had walked into the VIP dinner because the partition curtain wasn't obvious and the badge check at the dinner door was two staff eyeballing lanyard colours. VIP dinner ran ₹4 lakh short of budget on food.

We added zones next quarter. Each physical door became a zone with its own gate URL. Staff at each door opened the URL, camera on, scanned every QR. VIP dinner tier had access to the VIP Zone; general and media didn't. Denials that evening: 27. Zero freeloaders got in.

The colour-flood UI came from the same event. Staff kept getting confused about which URL was open on which phone. So each zone got a colour, and when the gate URL opens, the whole screen turns that colour. From ten feet away you can tell which gate a staff member is running.

How it works in practice

A 3,000-person two-day summit, six zones, twelve gate stations.

  1. Day before, 4 PM. Ops lead creates six zones in the admin panel: Main Hall (all tiers), Day 1 Sessions (all tiers), Day 2 Sessions (all tiers), VIP Lounge (VIP only), Sponsor Zone (Sponsor + Media), Media Room (Media only). Each gets a colour.
  2. Day before, 5 PM. Copies six gate URLs into a WhatsApp group with the twelve door staff. Each staff knows which URL to open when they arrive.
  3. Day 1, 8:30 AM. Doors open. Twelve phones live on the correct URL. First 200 attendees scan in 12 minutes with zero manual eyeball checks. Two denials: general attendees at the VIP Lounge gate. Politely redirected.
  4. Day 1 lunch. 300 attendees leave for lunch. All return. Each re-entry is logged as a new zone_checkin. Real-time occupancy on the admin dashboard shows Main Hall dropping to 4% during lunch, back to 87% at 1:45 PM.
  5. Day 2, 10 AM. Day-1 tier attendees try the Day-2 Sessions gate. Denied politely, "This pass was for Day 1 only." One-day tier had cheaper price by design. Client sees the numbers on the entry log, confirms the pricing gate held.
  6. Post-event. Zone log exported to CSV. 18,400 entries across the two days, 41 denials logged with reasons. Sponsor asks for a breakdown of Media entries into Sponsor Zone. Filter by zone, hand over.

Time spent per gate scan: about 1.5 seconds. Time saved arguing at doors: many hours.

Pairs with

Modules that plug into zones.

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Accreditation Approval
Pending applicants are denied at every gate until a human approves them. Your VIP Lounge doesn't accidentally admit an unapproved application.
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Onsite Kiosk & Badges
The badge printed at the door already has the attendee's tier stripe. Staff can eyeball VIP versus General, and the zone gate is the authoritative check behind it.
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Admin Dashboard
Live zone occupancy on the ops dashboard. Ops lead sees which room is filling up and can redirect staff. Post-event export gives the zone log per attendee.

Questions we get

How many zones per event?
No hard limit. Most expos run 4 to 12. Multi-day summits often use one zone per day plus one per hall.
Can one tier access many zones?
Yes. Tiers-to-zones is many-to-many. Or mark a zone "open to all tiers" for common areas.
Do I need a special scanner app?
No. Each zone has a gate URL. Open it in any phone's browser and you have a camera-based scanner with vibration feedback.
What if the venue Wi-Fi drops?
Each gate needs a live connection to log scans in real time. If Wi-Fi is unreliable, use a phone on 4G. Offline gate scanning is on the roadmap and slots into the same UI.
Can I count re-entries separately?
Yes. Every scan logs an entry, so lunch break returns and multi-day re-entries all show up in the log. Post-event you can filter unique versus total.
What about RFID wristbands?
RFID and NFC wristband access is on the roadmap through a hardware partner. The zone data model already supports it; the input device is what changes.
Stop letting the wrong badge into the right room.
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