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How to sell tickets in person using the Check-in app

Take in-person orders with Stripe Tap to Pay.

Written by Rhio

Keep all of your ticket sales, reporting and event revenue in one place by selling tickets and checking in at the door with the same free Ticket Tailor Check-in App.

To sell tickets and take in-person orders at your event, you will need to set up your device and take payment for in-person orders via Stripe Tap To Pay, or by an external method (e.g. cash) recorded as an operator payment.


What you will need to take in-person orders

  • An iPhone (not iPad) iOS version 18.0.1 or higher, or Android device version Android 13 or higher, with Near Field Communication (NFC) capability and NFC enabled, and the Ticket Tailor Check-in app installed. Tell me more

    • Your device must have a passcode set up for Tap To Pay to work properly.

  • A Stripe account connected to Ticket Tailor, which has a ‘location’ set up. Tell me more

  • ‘Tap To Pay’ enabled as a payment method in Ticket Tailor’s Stripe settings. Tell me more

  • At least one check-in app user with access to in-person orders and Tap To Pay. Tell me more

  • A Check-in App with ‘Tap To Pay’ enabled from ‘Settings’. Tell me more


How to get started

Download the Check-in app


How to set up your box office to accept in-person orders

Set a location in your Stripe account

  • Log in to your Stripe Dashboard.

  • Go to Manage locations, and then click + Create Location.

    • You may need to click 'view all locations' to find the option to create a new location.

    • Your location currency must match your event currency and your Stripe account location.

Set up ‘Tap To Pay’ payments in your box office

  • Head to your box office Settings, then select Payment systems from the left-hand menu.

  • Click the three dots next to Stripe to edit your Stripe settings.

  • Tick the box which says Tap To Pay (check-in app only).

  • Save your Stripe settings.

A screenshot of the Stripe settings, with an arrow pointing to the 'Tap To Pay (check-in app only)' tickbox.

How to set up your team to take in-person orders

  • Create your check-in app users.

    • Make sure you enable the Place in-person orders (all events) setting when configuring your user.

    • Choose whether the user is allowed to accept payments for in-person orders, and which type of payments.

      • None selected – this check-in app user will only be able to create free orders, where no payment is required.

      • Operator – a way to indicate that the payment was taken outside of Ticket Tailor. Eg. you could record "cash", or maybe a transaction reference to a third-party payment system.

      • Stripe Tap To Pay – for compatible iPhone and Android devices. This allows you to accept card and mobile wallet payments with just a phone.


How to sell tickets in-person

Setting up Tap To Pay for the first time

  • Open your Check-in app.

  • From the home screen, tap the person/profile icon in the top right, then click Settings.

  • Toggle on Tap To Pay.

  • Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the setup.

Screenshot showing the 'Tap To Pay' toggle within the Ticket Tailor Check-in app. There's an arrow pointing to the toggle for clarity.
  • When your Check-in app users log in, and choose an event, they should now see a new Sell tab at the bottom of the Check-in app.


How to sell a ticket and take a ‘Tap To Pay’ payment

  • From the Check-in app, click the Sell tab at the bottom of your screen.

Screenshot showing the 'Sell' button within the Ticket Tailor Check-in app. There's an arrow pointing to it for clarity.
  • Add the tickets and products you want to sell to your customer to the basket by clicking the '+' or '-' icons.

  • If you want to add products to their order or edit your customer's details e.g. taking their email to send them a ticket directly, use the tabs at the bottom of the screen (Products and Details tabs).

A screenshot of a 'Food Festival' event in the app, with two adult tickets being added to the basket.
  • When you're happy with your selection, click Review.

  • Click Take payment.

    • If you have multiple payment processors set up to take payments for in-person orders you may have to click to expand the menu to see the button.

  • You will see a Stripe payment screen.

A screenshot of a ÂŁ30.00 payment screen in the app.
  • Ask your customer to tap their card on your device to take the payment, and wait for confirmation.

An image of a black credit or debit card being tapped on an iPhone to pay $17.25
  • A ticket will be issued to your customer, and appear in your event doorlist on the check-in app and in your list of orders in Ticket Tailor. If you've entered your customer's email in the Details section it will be emailed to them too!


💡 Things to note

  • Your event must have Stripe set in the payment settings for tickets to be sold via Tap to Pay in the check-in app.

  • Order management (cancelations, refunds etc.) for Tap to Pay orders will need to be managed via your Orders page on www.tickettailor.com, and not in the app.

  • If you leave the app running in background for long time (causing it to lose connection with NFC) and then immediately try to take payment, the payment will not go through because the device won't be able to reconnect to the NFC. Please close the app when you're not using it.

  • If your ticket types have a minimum order requirement, you need to tap on the number (0) to adjust the quantity, you cannot use the +/- icons.

  • You can't take in-person store orders. If you want to sell products and merch, these will need to be upsold with a ticket.

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