PDF tickets
PDF tickets with a unique QR code
Every byTicks ticket is an A4 PDF with your event artwork and a unique QR code for your door staff to scan. Buyers get a personal download link by email and need no account.
On the ticket
Everything the door needs on one page
Your artwork and the event name sit on top. Below them: the ticket holder, type, price, ticket code, the start and end time in the event's time zone, the location and the QR code.
- Seated events print SECTION, ROW and SEAT as separate fields
- Multi-day events print the day name and the day times
- The labels follow the language the buyer ordered in: English, Dutch or Spanish
- An order with several tickets is one PDF with one page per ticket
Ticket designs
Your artwork, per ticket type
A ticket design is a name and a header image. Make one for your regular tickets and one for VIP, then pick the design per ticket type. The Ticket Preview matches the PDF buyers get.
- Image Position sets which part of the image shows
- Keep key parts away from the edges, where printers cut them off
Delivery
A download link, now or later
With Immediately after payment buyers download on the success page and get an email with a link to their download page. With Scheduled delivery that email goes out at a moment you choose.
- Change the subject and add your own message to the emails
- Also works in the Instagram, Facebook and Gmail browsers
At the door
One QR code, one entry
Every ticket has its own code. Your door staff scan it with the byTicks scanner app, which also works offline. Only the first scan of a ticket is valid.
- Set Valid from and Valid until per ticket type
- With TicketSwap resale on, a resold ticket gets a new code and PDF
After the sale
Lost tickets and guest lists
A buyer lost the email? Click Resend Ticket on the order, or let them help themselves with Find My Ticket. Guests you add with Send Free Tickets get the same PDF.
- Regenerate Download Link makes the old link stop working
- Guest tickets can print an optional price that never counts as revenue
Example
A festival that releases tickets the day before
You want regular and VIP tickets to look different, and no QR codes going round weeks before the gates open.
- Setup
Two designs
Main with the event flyer, VIP with gold artwork. Delivery is set to 24 hours before the event.
- A buyer pays
Confirmation
The Order Confirmation Email arrives at once. The download page shows a countdown.
- 24 hours before
Download link
The Ticket Download Email goes out. Buyers download one ticket or all of them.
- At the gate
One valid scan
The first scan of each QR code is valid. A copy shows Already scanned (duplicate).
That way there are no screenshots circulating weeks ahead, and every guest still has their ticket a day before the festival.
Works well with
Send tickets that get people in
Included in every byTicks shop. No setup fee, no monthly fee.