Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner
Sell event tickets with WooCommerce. Design seating plans, generate PDF tickets with QR codes, and scan them at the door. No per-ticket fees.
4.7
(23 ratings)Will this break my store?
What the WordPress.org registry says about keeping Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner running.
Tested to 7.0.2
Tested against the WordPress branch in use today.7 days ago
At least 12.0 releases a year since launch. WordPress.org only lists versions still available for download, so the real number may be higher.8.1
Your host must be running at least this version.6.0
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A single maintainer. Worth knowing if the plugin is load-bearing for your store.Maintenance & trust
Scored on how Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner is looked after — not on how many stores run it.
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out of 100Maintenance
35 / 35WordPress compatibility
20 / 20Support responsiveness
Not enough dataMerchant satisfaction
12 / 15Listing transparency
10 / 10Ratings
4.7
23 ratingsStop paying per-ticket fees. Own your entire ticketing workflow inside WordPress.
Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner turns any WooCommerce product into a scannable event ticket — complete with QR code, downloadable PDF, and a built-in mobile ticket scanner for your team at the door.
Unlike platforms like Eventbrite or Ticketmaster, you keep 100% of your revenue. Unlike other WordPress plugins, you get a visual seating plan designer and a ticket PDF designer included — not as expensive add-ons.
Used by 1,000+ event organizers worldwide — from small community events to large concert venues. Rated ⭐ 4.9/5 on WordPress.org.
Who is this for?
- Concert & festival organizers — sell general admission or assigned seats with interactive seat selection
- Theaters & venues — design your seating layout with drag & drop, let customers pick their seats
- Sports events & arenas — handle high volumes with offline fallback and team scanner access
- Clubs, spas, gyms & theme parks — sell multi-entry passes, family tickets, or memberships with expiration
- Community events & fundraisers — get started in minutes with the free version
How it works — 3 steps
- Install the plugin and create a ticket list under “Event Tickets”
- Enable “Ticket Sales” on any WooCommerce product
- Customers receive a unique QR code ticket — scan and redeem at the entrance
That’s it. No coding required. Watch the quickstart video
🎨 Visual Seating Plan Designer
Create professional venue layouts without any design tools:
- Drag & drop seats, shapes, labels, and text onto your canvas
- Upload venue floor plans as background images
- Rotate, duplicate, and bulk-edit elements
- Color-code seat categories and pricing tiers
- Customers see a real-time interactive seat map during checkout
- Seats are automatically blocked during checkout and released on cancel/refund
🎟️ Ticket PDF Designer
Design tickets that match your brand — not generic templates:
- Add your logo, custom colors, header and background images
- Position QR codes exactly where you want them
- Create event badges for staff and VIP passes
- Multi-page PDF support with attached documents
- Full bleed mode for edge-to-edge designs
📱 Built-in Ticket Scanner
No extra app needed. The scanner runs in any mobile browser — or install it as a PWA:
- Scan QR codes with your phone camera — works on iOS and Android
- Install as PWA — add to home screen for instant launch without browser chrome
- Fullscreen mode — immersive scanning with a single tap
- Haptic feedback — vibration confirms valid/invalid tickets instantly
- Grant team members scanner access via Auth Tokens (no WordPress login needed)
- See ticket details, seat position, and venue map instantly after scan
- Voice output confirms valid/invalid tickets for fast processing
- Protection against fake tickets, double redemption, and brute-force attempts
- Supports hardware barcode scanners for high-traffic entrances
- Customizable theme color to match your brand
📲 Vollstart Wallet — All Tickets in One App
Your customers can collect tickets from multiple shops in one free app:
- Vollstart Wallet at wallet.vollstart.com — a Progressive Web App that works on iOS, Android, and desktop
- Tickets are added with one click from the ticket page or order email
- QR code always available — even offline
- Privacy first — ticket data flows directly from your shop to the customer’s browser. Vollstart never receives or stores any data
- Learn more about security & privacy
Enable it in Settings → Digital Wallets. Free for all users.
🎓 Congress & Attendee Portal
Give ticket holders a private event portal — no extra login, no separate app. Assign a congress to any ticket product and buyers reach it straight from their ticket ID.
- Organize content into pages — a start page plus as many pages as you need (Speakers, Programme, Downloads, Sponsors …), with a sidebar on desktop and a hamburger menu on mobile
- Rich section types — formatted text, a day-by-day programme schedule, downloadable files, link lists, image galleries, single images, and embedded videos (paste a YouTube/Vimeo link or upload your own)
- Password-protect individual sections for VIP or speaker-only content
- Fast by design — the start page loads instantly and other pages are fetched on demand, so even congresses with dozens of speakers stay snappy
- Installable & offline-friendly — the portal ships as a mini Progressive Web App
- Time-controlled access — open the portal a set number of hours before the event and keep it available for a chosen number of days afterwards
- Recurring events — duplicate a congress as a “new edition” in one click
Build it under the Congresses menu, assign it in the product’s Event Tickets tab, and optionally add a portal link to the order email. Included free.
Powerful Ticket Types
- Single entry — classic one-time event ticket
- Multi-entry passes — allow multiple scans (configurable limit)
- Family tickets — generate multiple tickets per order item
- Memberships & season passes — set expiration dates
- Day chooser tickets — let customers pick their event date at checkout
- Purchase allowance codes — require a valid ticket or access code before a product can be bought. Use it for presale and access codes, or to require a ticket from an earlier event (for example a group-stage ticket in order to buy the final). Per product you decide whether a code unlocks one purchase or several
Built for WooCommerce
- Works with product variants (e.g., VIP vs. General Admission)
- Tickets auto-generate on order completion
- Refunded orders automatically recover and recycle ticket numbers
- Compatible with WooCommerce Subscriptions
- Works with WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips
- WPML compatible for multilingual stores
Free vs. Premium
The free version covers everything you need to start selling tickets:
- ✅ Ticket generation with QR codes
- ✅ PDF ticket download (via link in email)
- ✅ Built-in ticket scanner
- ✅ Interactive seating plan designer
- ✅ Seat selection at checkout
- ✅ Multi-entry and family tickets
- ✅ Day chooser for date-based events
- ✅ Congress / attendee portal (pages, programme, downloads, media, password-protected sections)
- ✅ Purchase allowance codes (presale/access codes, or require a ticket from an earlier event)
- ✅ Webhooks for third-party integrations
Premium adds professional features for larger events:
- 🔓 PDF ticket as email attachment (not just a link)
- 🔓 Team scanner access via Auth Tokens
- 🔓 Calendar invites (ICS files) in emails
- 🔓 Custom flyers and multi-page PDFs
- 🔓 CVV security check on tickets
- 🔓 Brute-force IP blocking
- 🔓 No ticket limits
- 🔓 Advanced shortcodes for ticket display and validation
Links
You need WooCommerce (free) to handle payments and orders. Everything else is included — no additional ticketing add-ons required.
WooCommerce is required for selling tickets. However, you can use the plugin to manage and validate ticket lists manually without WooCommerce sales.
Yes! Premium includes Auth Tokens that give your door staff scanner access via a simple URL — no login required.
The scanner is browser-based and requires an internet connection. For large events, the plugin includes offline fallback options to prevent interruptions.
Yes. Design your venue layout with the drag & drop seating designer, and customers will see an interactive seat map during checkout where they can pick available seats.
Single entry, multi-entry passes, family tickets (multiple tickets per purchase), memberships with expiration dates, and day-chooser tickets where customers pick their event date.
In the free version, the order confirmation email includes a link to download the ticket PDF and view the QR code. Premium allows attaching the PDF directly to the email and adding calendar invites (ICS).
The ticket is automatically deactivated, the assigned seat is released, and the ticket number is recovered for reuse.
Yes. WPML is supported for multilingual ticket sales. The plugin also ships translations for German, Spanish, French, Italian, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, and Chinese.
If you reach the limit, the plugin will display a message asking the customer to contact support. Your sales are never interrupted. Premium has no ticket limits.
Yes. The built-in scanner page accepts input from hardware barcode scanners in addition to camera-based QR scanning.
Every ticket number is unique. The scanner detects duplicate redemption attempts. Premium adds CVV verification and brute-force IP blocking for additional security.
It’s a private event portal you can attach to a ticket product — organized into pages (start page, speakers, programme, downloads, sponsors, etc.) with text, schedules, files, image galleries and embedded videos. Ticket holders open it directly via their ticket, no separate account needed. You can password-protect individual sections, control when the portal opens and how long it stays available, and the page works offline as a mini PWA. It’s included in the free version; build it under the Congresses menu and assign it in the product’s Event Tickets tab.
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