Sold, scanned, and collected have to agree afterwards.
Events, ticket batches, signed QR tickets, scanner devices, scan logs, and gates — for businesses that sell entry, where the argument after the event is never about whether people came, but about what it was worth.
To be explicit about availability, because the rest of this page reads like a product page: Events & Ticketing is not in the current NoxOrigin application and is not included in any NoxOrigin plan. It is part of the architecture and is available as a scoped dedicated or white-label deployment, quoted on its own scope. Everything below describes that deployment. If you need ticketing to come with a plan, it does not.
Entry operations fail at the reconciliation, not at the door. Tickets are issued in a batch from a spreadsheet, scanning is done on whatever phones the crew owns, the connectivity at the gate is whatever it happens to be that evening, and the duplicate-entry rule is decided — if at all — an hour before doors open. Then the organiser asks three questions that nobody can answer from what was used on the night: how many were sold, how many actually came through, and how much was collected. The scan log is a piece of paper, the sold count is in someone’s head, and the money is in a bank deposit slip. Unless all three are kept in one place, the outcome of every event becomes a negotiation about which of those three numbers to believe.
Works with: Customer → Opportunity → Quote → Project → Work → Invoice → Payment
How you use it
A working day, start to finish.
01
Set up the event and issue ticket batches
An event is created with its dates, venue, gates, and the ticket types being sold, and tickets are issued in batches rather than as a loose pile of codes. A batch has a known count and a known issue, so when something goes missing you know which issue and how many — not simply that the number is wrong. The credential itself is a signed QR ticket that carries its own validity rather than referring back to a live lookup on every scan.
02
Validate at the gate when connectivity drops
Scanning does not stop because the venue’s network does. Validation is performed against the signed credential, and anything that cannot be confirmed at the moment is queued for sync recovery once a connection returns. This is the honest description — a resilient offline path, validated during rollout for your specific venue and devices, not a promise that no event will ever be affected by connectivity.
03
Register the scanners and assign them to gates
Each device is registered and approved against the event, and assigned to a gate with a staff identity attached to it. Device management is a deliberate setup step rather than a consequence of whoever turned a phone on, because an unattributed scanner produces scan logs that cannot settle an argument. Removal at the end of the night is the same action in reverse, and it is the one teams most often forget.
04
Block duplicates and handle exceptions deliberately
A second scan of the same ticket is refused by default rather than admitted quietly, and exceptional outcomes — wrong ticket type, wrong gate, unknown code, or a supervisor override — are distinct recorded results rather than a generic failure. Overrides are part of the operational workflow and are recorded in the audit trail, which matters because the override decision is usually the one that gets argued about later.
05
Reconcile sold, scanned, and collected value
After the event, the three figures are read against each other: issued and sold against scanned, and collected value against sold. Their differences are the reconciliation — unsold tickets, admitted-but-unscanned entries, exemptions, and payments still to settle. Disagreements show up as a specific line item to explain rather than as a vague feeling that the evening did not add up.
What changes
What is different in practice.
01A duplicate entry is blocked by policy rather than by whether the gate staff noticed.
02Ticket counts are known by batch, so a missing ticket is a question with an answerable scope.
03The gate can keep validating through a connectivity outage instead of turning into a paper list.
04Exceptions and overrides are recorded outcomes, so the post-event argument is about facts.
05Sold, scanned, and collected become three numbers that can be compared, which is what makes an event accountable.
Gate staffA scan result they can read at a glance, in poor light, in a queue — including a clear message when a ticket is refused.
OwnerTo see issued, sold, scanned, and collected side by side after each event rather than receiving a verbal report.
FinanceThe money side of the reconciliation, and a clear list of what was sold but not collected.
AdminTo set up the event, gates, and ticket types, and to manage which scanner devices are approved.
Scenarios
Three ordinary situations, described honestly.
These are illustrative workflows, not customer results. We do not publish outcome claims without approved customer material.
The second scan of the same ticket
A guest’s ticket is scanned at the main gate, then their phone is scanned again at the VIP gate because two people from the same booking went through together. The duplicate is blocked and recorded as a refusal, and a supervisor can override it if it is genuinely a second admission. Because the outcome is logged, the count at the end of the night explains itself instead of being quietly corrected by whoever reconciled it.
The network that dropped at the busiest gate
Connectivity fails while the queue is longest. Scanning continues against the signed credential and the unconfirmed results are queued, then recovered once a connection is available. The evening finishes and the recovery is completed afterwards — which is why the offline behaviour has to be validated against your actual venue and devices during rollout rather than assumed to work anywhere.
The batch that did not add up
A batch of tickets was issued for a walk-up allocation and the closing count is short. Because tickets were issued by batch with a known count, the question is which batches were opened, which were closed, and which were carried to the next event — rather than a general uncertainty about how many exist. The answer takes an afternoon instead of an argument.
Before you start
The parts that need a decision.
Every part of NoxOrigin has awkward edges. Naming them now is cheaper than discovering them in month two.
Scanner devices come back late, wrong, or not at all. Device registration and approval is a real inventory problem: agree in advance who is accountable for collecting them, and what happens operationally if one is not returned for the next event.
The duplicate-handling policy is often agreed too late. Decide before doors open whether a second scan is refused, whether a supervisor can override, and who counts as a supervisor — because a policy invented at the gate is a policy applied inconsistently.
Reconciliation disputes are usually about exemptions and comps, not about scanning. Have a way to record a ticket admitted without value, and be explicit that it is a decision someone made rather than an error in the count.
Multi-gate and multi-venue means device registration, staff permissions, and clock accuracy have to be consistent across sites. Venue time drift quietly corrupts the order in which scans are treated as having happened.
Offline behaviour is validated during rollout for your actual scanners, Android version, camera performance, and connectivity. Device compatibility and operational resilience are confirmed at onboarding rather than promised as a universal guarantee.
Questions
What people ask before they start.
Is Events & Ticketing part of a NoxOrigin plan?
No. It is not in the current NoxOrigin application and is not included in Starter, Growth or Agency. It is available as a scoped dedicated or white-label deployment, quoted on its own scope. Nox-Tickets is the name that deployment is sold under; it is not an area of NoxOrigin and subscribing to NoxOrigin does not include it.
Does the gate keep working without internet?
Validation runs against the signed QR credential and anything unconfirmed is queued for sync recovery, so a network drop does not turn the door into a paper list. How that behaves on your scanners, Android version, and venue connectivity is validated during rollout onboarding.
Can a ticket be scanned twice?
Duplicate scans are blocked by default and recorded as a distinct outcome. Supervisor overrides are part of the workflow and are written to the audit trail, so an override is always reviewable afterwards.
Can I run several gates or venues?
Yes — multi-gate and multi-venue operations are supported, with gates, devices, and permissions configured per site. Consistent device registration and correct venue time settings are part of that setup.
Which devices do the scanners need?
Scanner devices are registered and approved as part of onboarding, and Android version and camera performance are checked during rollout. We would rather confirm device compatibility for your specific hardware than imply any phone will do the job.
Is this a public ticketing marketplace?
No. It is entry operations for teams running their own events — issuance, credentials, gate control, and reconciliation. It is not a marketplace where anyone can list and sell a ticket, and it is not a customer self-service portal.