Setting up an event
Issue reusable event passes to crew and artists
Festival production managers and venue teams need crew, artists and contractors in and out all day without a fresh ticket for every trip through the gate. Issue named multi-entry passes that your door team scans in the same app as tickets, with a use limit you set for each pass type.
Give crew and artists named multi-entry passes. Your door team can scan them in the same app they use for tickets.
- For
- Letting your team in and out of an event all day
- Takes
- 6 minutes
Before you start
- You are an owner, an admin or a curator on the brand. We turn passes on for a brand, so ask us if Multi-Entry Passes is not in your menu.
- Your door team scans with our app. The same scanner accepts passes and tickets, and nobody has to switch it over between them.
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Open Multi-Entry Passes
Go to your brand and select Multi-Entry Passes. A pass made here works at every event that brand runs.
Note: An event can have its own passes too, under Interact when you have that event open, and those work at that one event only. Start at the brand for crew members who work across several events.
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Create a pass type
Select Create new entry pass type, then enter a name, such as Crew, Artist or Production, and any details such as the role, access area or shift in Description.
Note: A name can contain up to 100 characters. Type offers Member and Season, and the choice does not change where the pass works.
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Set the maximum uses per event
Set Maximum number of uses per event. The limit covers the whole event, not each day.
Note: Someone who enters six times and leaves six times needs at least 12 uses, and a higher figure leaves room for an extra trip through the gate. Set a number on every type you create.
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Add the people who get a pass
Under Create New Pass, pick the Type and add the person under Enter Recipient by first name, last name and email.
Note: For a whole crew, switch to Upload Recipients and select Add from CSV: the CSV takes first name, last name and email address, in that order, with no header row. Every row needs all three, and the rows appear in the dashboard so you can correct one before you send.
Tip: Enter who approved the access in Notes. The note goes on every pass you create from this form, and the pass list shows it beside the holder.
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Send the passes
Select Send or Send All, then confirm.
Tip: Use Send again if a crew member asks for another copy. Sending again sends the same code, so a crew member who lost the email receives the same pass again rather than a second one to keep track of.
Multi-Entry Passes, Existing Passes.
Crew passes at the door
Your door team scans a pass in the same app they use for tickets and checks the result. A pass shows the name of the person it belongs to and the type it is, the same way a ticket shows its ticket type. Give each entrance the list of pass types its team should accept, and tell them what to do with a refusal.
Note: Set the event check-in window to cover every time the pass should work, including load-in and breakdown where needed. Give public ticket types their own door times when staff access starts earlier than buyer admission.
Try these steps on your own event
Create a free account, build your event and follow the steps above in your own dashboard. It takes a few minutes and you do not need to book a sales call.
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Or have it done for you
Fai, the assistant inside your dashboard, can create the pass types, issue the passes and send them out. She asks you to approve each action first. You can also manage the passes in the dashboard. Review every recipient before sending, because an email that has gone cannot be recalled.
In your dashboard, with Fai
Create a Crew Member pass type for this brand with twelve entries per event, issue one to every person in the list I paste next, and show me the names before sending anything
Let Fai do it for you
Fai works inside your Ticket Fairy dashboard. Create your account, open Fai and paste the prompt above.
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Update a pass
Select Edit under Existing Passes, change the name, email address, pass type, number of uses or notes, then save.
Note: The pass keeps the same QR code. Use Edit only when the pass still belongs to the same person.
Fai can find the pass and update its holder, type, uses or notes after showing you the current details. MCP and the CLI do not manage entry passes.
In your dashboard, with Fai
Find the entry pass for <PERSON> on <EVENT OR BRAND>, show me its type, email address, uses and notes, then ask what I want to change
Remove a pass
Choose the delete button for the pass, check the person named in the confirmation, then confirm the removal.
Note: The pass stops scanning and its scan history remains available. Issue a new pass when access moves to another person.
Fai can show the pass holder, type and remaining uses, then remove it after you approve the change. MCP and the CLI do not manage entry passes.
In your dashboard, with Fai
Find the entry pass for <PERSON> on <EVENT OR BRAND>, show me its type and remaining uses, then ask before removing the pass
Questions you might have
- Does a pass take a ticket out of my allocation?
- No. Passes do not reduce ticket stock or appear in ticket orders.
- What is the difference between Member and Season?
- They are labels only. Where a pass works comes from where you made it: a brand pass works at every event that brand runs, an event pass at that one event.
- Can I upload a crew list rather than adding people one at a time?
- Upload Recipients takes a CSV of first name, last name and email address with no header row, and issues a pass to each row.
- Does my door team need a second app for passes?
- No. The same app scans tickets and passes and identifies each from its code.
- Can one person have more than one pass?
- Yes. Each pass has its own QR code and use limit, so a crew member working two roles can have a separate pass for each role.
- Can I give one person more entries than the rest of their type?
- Yes. Maximum number of uses per event appears again on the pass itself, and the number there is the one counted for that pass, whatever the type says.
- Why was a pass refused at the gate?
- A pass is refused outside the event's check-in window, for the wrong brand or event, after its use limit, or when its type has been removed. Removing a type stops every pass under it, however many uses each one had left, and the changes can take a few moments to reach the door app. Reissue those people on a type you are keeping before you remove the old one.
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