Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner
Stop 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
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 — restrict who can buy specific products
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
- ✅ 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