Timed entry ticketing.
Sessions with a room capacity that holds: generate a day of time slots from your door hours, let buyers pick their day and session, and the checkout closes each slot the moment it fills. Timed entry is part of Crowd, the end-to-end technology for exhibitions, events and festivals.
- Capacity management that holds. a room capacity per session, enforced by the checkout on the server. When a slot is full it closes itself, and nobody argues with the fire plan.
- A day of time slots in one press. set the session length, gap and capacity, press Generate, and the day fills itself from its own opening hours.
- The session rides the ticket. on the ticket, in the Apple and Google Wallet passes, and on the scanner screen with early and late arrivals flagged.
Session 10:30 selling212 of 250 seats leftTicket sold10:30 to 12:00 · $18Session 09:00 sold outClosed itself at 250Every payment settles directly to the organiser’s own Stripe account.
Time slots, caps and the door.
Sessions, first class
Each show day carries its own sessions: 09:00 to 10:30, 10:30 to 12:00, every one with its own capacity and an Active toggle to rest it without deleting it.
The generator
Session length, gap, capacity, Generate. A day fills from its opening hours, a shorter Sunday makes fewer slots, and a three-day show is three presses.
Server-enforced caps
The cart is bound by the session’s remaining seats and the checkout re-checks the cap on the server. A full room cannot oversell, even in a rush.
Per-type session scope
A ticket type can apply to every session or only the ones you pick, so the member preview stays members-only and the public sessions stay public.
One session per order
Buyers commit to their slot at checkout, which is what makes the seats-remaining numbers true and the door predictable.
Free, paid and mixed
Free timed entry for the school morning, paid for the weekend, on the same day grid.
- US$29
- per seat a month on Starter, pay as you go, or US$399 on Growth with no sales fees
- Unlimited
- sessions, scans and tickets on the one licence
- 1 press
- generates a full day of sessions from your door hours
The check-in app and badge printing are included with every event.
Setting up timed entry, click by click.
- Step 1
Create the event
Name, dates, venue, branding, and the door hours per day. The hours you set here are what the generator fills.
- Step 2
Generate the sessions
Pick the session length, the gap and the room capacity, and press Generate per day. Edit any capacity inline afterwards.
- Step 3
Add the tickets
Ticket types apply across sessions or to the ones you choose: general admission on every slot, the member preview on Friday morning only.
- Step 4
Sell and scan
Buyers pick a day, a session and their tickets. The door scans on any phone, with the session and an early-or-late flag on every scan.
Photography Expo
Timed entry · pick a day, pick a session, then your tickets.
1. Pick your day
2. Pick your session
General admission
Fri 18 Sep · 10:30 to 12:00
The cart is bound by the session’s remaining seats, and the checkout enforces the cap again on the server. Nobody buys into a full room.
Pick a day, pick a session, buy in under a minute.
Time slots sell like tickets, not like paperwork. Your event page shows each day, then each session with its seats remaining, and a sold-out session greys itself out and sends the buyer to the next one. One session per order keeps the door honest, and the whole flow runs on your own page or embedded in your own website.
- Seats remaining update live, and Almost full does the urgency work a countdown never earns
- A full session closes itself the moment the cap is reached, enforced on the server
- Ticket types can apply to all sessions or only the ones you choose, so a member preview stays members-only
- Apple Pay, Google Pay and card, with the session printed on the ticket and both wallet passes
A day of time slots, generated from your door hours.
Set the session length, the gap and the room capacity, press Generate, and the day fills itself from its opening hours. A shorter Sunday makes fewer sessions on its own. Capacity is editable inline per session, an Active toggle rests a session without deleting it, and a session that has sold tickets cannot be deleted at all, so a fat finger never strands a buyer.
- Ninety-minute gallery slots, twenty-minute Santa photos, three-hour tasting seatings: length is yours
- Change a capacity on the day and the checkout follows immediately
- Free sessions for the member preview, paid for the public, on the same day grid
- Recurring days generate in one press each; a three-day show is three presses
Sessions
Sell entry in sessions with a room capacity each. Ticket types apply across sessions.
Friday 18 September · 9:00 to 18:00
Generate fills a day from its opening hours; days keep their own hours. Sessions with sales cannot be deleted.
On the ticket, in the wallet, on the scanner.
The session is not a note in an email. It is printed on the ticket, carried in the Apple and Google Wallet passes, and shown to your door team on every scan, with early and late arrivals flagged inside the grace window you set.
The wallet pass
General admission
Session: Friday 18 September 2026 · 10:30 to 12:00
Sarah Chen · 1 of 2
The pass surfaces on the phone as the session approaches, with the time on its face.
The scan, on time
Sarah Chen
Every scan shows the ticket’s session beside the live check-in count for the hour.
The scan, early
Liam Ford
An early or late arrival is flagged, not refused. The advisory is on the screen and the door decides.
Maximise attendance with automated time-slot management.
Never over capacity, always over targets.
Built for every event that sells the clock.
Exhibitions and fan expos
Entry sessions keep the aisles walkable on the big Saturday, and the exhibitor bump-in runs on its own desk.
Galleries, museums and open days
Ninety-minute slots at the room number the fire plan says, with the quiet Tuesday free and the launch weekend paid.
Food, drink and tasting events
Seatings are sessions with a kitchen-sized cap, and the 6 pm sitting stops selling when the tables are spoken for.
Seasonal and holiday events
Santa photos in twenty-minute slots, the light trail in timed waves: high demand spread across the evening instead of one crush.
Pricing
We sell you the technology end-to-end, forever.
Starter
US$29
per seat a month
Pay as you go. Pay only for what you sell and use.
- Pay as you go
- From US$0.99 a ticket
- Booths: US$15 per booth sold
- Sponsorships: US$20 per sale
- Customer service agent: US$0.50 per resolution
- Outreach emails: US$1 per 50 sent
- Email checks: US$2 per 50
Growth
Most popularUS$399
per seat a month
No sales fees. Sell the floor and fill it.
- No ticket, booth or sponsorship fees
- Included per seat, pooled
- 250 customer service resolutions
- 500 email checks
- 2,000 outreach emails
- 500 contact finds
- 1 LinkedIn account
Enterprise
US$999
per seat a month
Big shows, many teams, full volume.
- No ticket, booth or sponsorship fees
- Included per seat, pooled
- 1,000 customer service resolutions
- 2,000 email checks
- 10,000 outreach emails
- 1,500 contact finds
- 2 LinkedIn accounts
Integrated into your business, end to end, in 6 weeks.
All prices are in US dollars (USD), per seat a month. Annual billing gets 2 months free. Stripe card processing applies on every plan, paid from your own Stripe account.
Everything included
- Ticket sales: paid and free tickets, promo codes, and passes that land in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet.
- Booth sales: a floor plan exhibitors buy from, in full or by instalments.
- Sponsorship sales: sponsorship packages sold online, with payment plans.
- Finance automation: revenue tracking, invoice review and reconciliation.
- Customer service agent*: answers buyer questions at your event’s own address.
- Payables and budgets: budgets, supplier invoices and scheduled payments.
- CRM: exhibitor lists, contacts, imports and invitation sequences in one place.
- Exhibitor and partner portal: payments with pay early, to-dos, named passes, company profile and terms in one link.
- Payments and terms: deposits, instalment plans charged automatically, refunds that cancel the rest, and versioned terms accepted at checkout.
- Connections: Gmail, Google Calendar, Xero, Meta Ads and Google Ads from one page.
- Registration: a door desk with scan and search check-in, and one-tap undo.
- Scan-in: the door scanner checks attendees and exhibitors in.
- Badge design and printing: design your badges, then print them one at a time or in batches.
Outreach engine, on every plan (pay as you go on Starter)
- Prospect board by audience
- Follow-up cadence across email, LinkedIn, Instagram and phone
- Automatic email sequences from approved templates, with warm-up and daily caps
- Send guard: the right name for the address, verified addresses, no unfilled tags
- Reply detection that stops the sequence
- Apollo contact finding by role, and email verification
- Google Calendar booking link and meeting tracking
- KPIs, Today page and morning digest
- LinkedIn steps (optional add-on)
Integrated into your business, end to end, in 6 weeks.
* The customer service agent runs on Crowd's own Claude allowance, metered per resolution. Every conversation and all your data stay yours.
Timed entry on Crowd
What is timed entry ticketing and why use it?
Timed entry sells your event in sessions, each with its own capacity, instead of one open door. You use it when the room has a number: a gallery that holds 250, a tasting with 40 seats, a Santa set that photographs one family every twenty minutes. The cap is enforced by the checkout, so the crowd arrives spread across the day instead of all at 10 am.
How do I know if my event needs timed entry?
If your venue has a capacity limit, your experience has a natural duration, or your busiest hour is unpleasant while your quietest is empty, timed entry fixes all three. If your event is one continuous festival day with no room limit, ordinary tickets are simpler.
Does timed entry cost extra?
No. Sessions, the generator, capacity enforcement, the wallet passes and the scanner are part of every Crowd event. Crowd starts at US$29 per seat a month on Starter, pay as you go. Growth is US$399 per seat a month with no ticket, booth or sponsorship fees.
How do I create a day of time slots?
Set the session length, the gap between sessions and the room capacity, then press Generate on each day. The day fills from its own opening hours, so a 9-to-6 Saturday makes six 90-minute sessions and a shorter Sunday makes fewer. Every capacity stays editable inline.
What happens when a session sells out?
It closes itself the moment the cap is reached, greys out on your event page, and buyers are guided to the sessions with seats left. The cap is re-checked on the server at checkout, so two buyers racing for the last seats cannot oversell the room.
Can an attendee arrive early or late for their session?
The scanner flags it rather than refusing it: an early or late arrival inside the grace window you set shows an advisory beside the check-in, and your door team decides. The session and time are on the ticket and both wallet passes, so most people arrive on time.
Can an attendee change session?
Refund the session ticket from the order and they buy the slot they want; the freed seat goes straight back on sale. Self-service changes are not offered, because the cap is yours to hold.
Can I mix free and paid sessions?
Yes. A free members’ preview on Friday morning, paid public sessions all weekend, on the same day grid, with ticket types scoped to the sessions they belong to. Free tickets carry no fee.
A day of time slots in one press, caps that hold themselves, the session on every ticket.
Timed entry is part of every Crowd event, with the check-in app and badge printing at the door.