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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
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Skärmdumpar
Ticket on Mobile — Customers see their ticket details optimized for any device, with QR code and PDF download. 
Ticket Details Desktop — Configure exactly which information appears on the ticket detail page. 
PDF Ticket — Professionally designed PDF ticket with QR code, ready for print or mobile display. 
Ticket Scanner — Built-in mobile scanner for your team at the entrance. No app required. 
Event Badge — Print name badges for conferences, VIP events, or staff credentials. 
Admin Options — Comprehensive settings to configure ticket behavior, formats, and delivery. 
Ticket Management — Overview of all generated tickets with status, redemption info, and filters. 
Ticket Number Formats — Pre-generate ticket numbers or let the plugin create them automatically. 
Event Flyer — Generate promotional flyers for your event directly from the plugin. 
PDF Designer — Customize every area of your ticket PDF: logo, images, QR position, colors. 
Product Settings — Enable ticket sales on any WooCommerce product with one checkbox. 
Flyer Settings — Configure flyer content, images, and event details. 
Order Ticket View — Quick-scan tickets directly from the WooCommerce order detail page.
Installation
Requirements
- WordPress 5.0 or greater
- WooCommerce 6.0 or greater
- PHP 8.1 or greater (PHP 8.4 compatible)
- PHP extensions: php-curl, php-imagick
Installation
- Go to Plugins Add New in your WordPress admin
- Search for ”Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner”
- Click Install Now, then Activate
- Go to Event Tickets in your admin menu and create your first ticket list
- Edit any WooCommerce product open the Event Tickets tab enable ticket sales
Quick Setup
The plugin extends WooCommerce so any product can become a ticket. Enable the checkbox on your product, assign a ticket list, and you’re ready to sell.
Tip: Set the product as ”Virtual” so WooCommerce auto-completes the order and triggers ticket generation immediately after payment.
To test: Create a manual order in WooCommerce, set it to ”Completed”, and check the order email for the ticket link.
For a step-by-step walkthrough, watch the quickstart video.
Vanliga frågor
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Do I need any other plugins?
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You need WooCommerce (free) to handle payments and orders. Everything else is included — no additional ticketing add-ons required.
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Does this work without WooCommerce?
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WooCommerce is required for selling tickets. However, you can use the plugin to manage and validate ticket lists manually without WooCommerce sales.
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Can my team scan tickets without a WordPress account?
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Yes! Premium includes Auth Tokens that give your door staff scanner access via a simple URL — no login required.
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Does the scanner work offline?
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The scanner is browser-based and requires an internet connection. For large events, the plugin includes offline fallback options to prevent interruptions.
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Can customers choose their own seats?
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Yes. Design your venue layout with the drag & drop seating designer, and customers will see an interactive seat map during checkout where they can pick available seats.
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What ticket types can I create?
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Single entry, multi-entry passes, family tickets (multiple tickets per purchase), memberships with expiration dates, and day-chooser tickets where customers pick their event date.
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How are tickets delivered to customers?
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In the free version, the order confirmation email includes a link to download the ticket PDF and view the QR code. Premium allows attaching the PDF directly to the email and adding calendar invites (ICS).
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What happens when an order is refunded?
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The ticket is automatically deactivated, the assigned seat is released, and the ticket number is recovered for reuse.
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Is the plugin compatible with WPML?
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Yes. WPML is supported for multilingual ticket sales. The scanner also supports multiple languages including German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, and Chinese.
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What if I exceed the free ticket limit?
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If you reach the limit, the plugin will display a message asking the customer to contact support. Your sales are never interrupted. Premium has no ticket limits.
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Can I use my own QR code or barcode scanner hardware?
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Yes. The built-in scanner page accepts input from hardware barcode scanners in addition to camera-based QR scanning.
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How do I prevent ticket fraud?
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Every ticket number is unique. The scanner detects duplicate redemption attempts. Premium adds CVV verification and brute-force IP blocking for additional security.
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Ändringslogg
2.8.10 – 2026-02-18
- Fix: Premium license recovery — license revalidation now runs even when local license data is stale, preventing permanent premium lockout
- Fix: Stale ”notvalid” flag is now cleared when the license server confirms a valid subscription
2.8.8 – 2026-02-18
- Fix: Option ”No login required to access scanner” (wcTicketScannerAllowedRoles) now works correctly again for non-authenticated users
- Fix: PHP 8.4 compatibility — explicit nullable type hints for deprecated implicit nullable parameters
- Improved: Updated translations for all 11 languages (DE, ES, FR, HU, IT, JA, NL, PT-BR, PT-PT, ZH) with 16 new strings from v2.8.6 and v2.8.7 (PWA, scanner options, format warnings)
- New: Ticket scanner shows timestamp of last scan for better tracking
- New: Admin notice when PHP version is below the required 8.1
- Improved: Corrected library version display in system info (FPDF 1.85, Twig PHP requirement note)
2.8.7 – 2026-02-16
- New: PWA (Progressive Web App) support — install the ticket scanner as a home screen app on mobile devices (optional, enable in settings)
- New: Fullscreen mode button for the ticket scanner — immersive scanning without browser chrome
- New: Haptic feedback (vibration) on scan result — different patterns for success and failure
- New: Customizable scanner theme color — affects PWA status bar, loading spinner, and scanner buttons
- New: Expanded FAQ with 7 categories and 21 questions covering scanner setup, PDF design, WooCommerce, webhooks, and more
- Improved: Scanner HTML now uses proper DOCTYPE, charset, and viewport meta tags
- Improved: Scanner assets (JS libraries, CSS, images) cached by service worker for faster loading
- Security: Hardened premium license revalidation with independent subscription verification
- Security: Added HMAC checksum protection against license data tampering in database
- Fix: Resolved infinite recursion during plugin initialization when premium plugin is active
- Fix: Translation loading no longer triggers WordPress 6.7+ ”too early” notice
- Fix: License checksum verification now stable across CLI and web contexts
- Fix: License server response now correctly overrides local data (fixed array_merge order)
- Fix: API connection failures are now tracked; premium deactivates after 5 consecutive failures
- Fix: Admin page loads now trigger license check if last check was >24h ago (cron fallback)
- Fix: License key input field now always visible when premium plugin is installed
2.8.6 – 2026-02-11
- New: Full bleed mode option for ticket designer — removes ALL margins for edge-to-edge background images.
- New: Separate full bleed option for test ticket designer.
- New: Ticket background color option — set a custom background color for PDF tickets, badges, and flyers.
- New: Ticket number format exhaustion warning — alerts admin when ticket format is running out of combinations (counter-based detection).
- New: Automatic email notifications when ticket format reaches 50% capacity or is exhausted (once per day).
- New: Admin notice with dismiss button for format warnings, includes direct link to edit ticket list.
- New: Format warning auto-clears when ticket list is manually saved (user likely adjusted formatter).
- Security: Fixed unauthenticated REST endpoint that exposed admin dispatcher (CVSS 9 — reported by Patchstack).
- Security: REST permission callback now requires authentication (login or authtoken) by default.
- Security: Added capability guards for sensitive admin actions (defense in depth).
- Security: Removed wp_rest nonce fallback from admin action handler.
2.8.5 – 2026-01-26
- Fix: Fatal error on non-premium installations when SASO_EVENTTICKETS_PREMIUM_PLUGIN_VERSION constant is undefined.
- Improved: VollstartValidatorDebug URL parameter now passed through to AJAX requests for easier debugging.
2.8.4 – 2026-01-26
- New: Seating plan visualization in ticket scanner — view venue map with highlighted seat position.
- New: Option to enable/disable seating plan button in scanner.
- New: Option to enable/disable venue image button in scanner.
- Improved: Seating plan data loaded on demand (lazy loading) for better scanner performance.
- New: Shortcode parameter
order_idfor [sasoEventTicketsValidator_code] to display tickets from a specific order. - New: Shortcode [sasoEventTicketsValidator_ticket_detail] to display ticket detail view on any page.
- Fix: Date localization now correctly displays translated month/day names while maintaining correct timezone handling.
- Fix: Fatal error in removeUsedInformationFromCode() when changing order status.
2.8.3 – 2026-01-22
- New: Seating Designer — Element rotation (0-359°) with preset buttons.
- New: Seating Designer — Group rotation (rotate multiple selected elements around their common center).
- New: Seating Designer — Bulk property editing when multiple elements are selected.
- New: Seating Designer — Duplicate selection for groups (copy multiple elements at once).
- New: Seating Designer — Enhanced visual feedback for multi-selected elements.
- Improved: Seating API now uses unified bulk operations for better performance.
- Fix: PDF QR code compatibility with third-party FPDI libraries.
- Fix: Event times displayed incorrectly due to double timezone conversion in ticket templates.
2.8.2 – 2026-01-21
- New: Clone/duplicate seating plans with all seats and layout.
- New: Batch operations for seats (activate, deactivate, delete multiple seats at once).
- New: Premium subscription expiration check with admin warnings and grace period.
- New: Lifetime license support.
- New: Delete All Tickets button on ticket list with double confirmation.
- New: Shortcode parameter download_all_pdf for downloading all user tickets as one PDF.
- New: Safety check when deleting ticket lists — warns if list is still assigned to products.
- Fix: Restored deprecated methods for backward compatibility with older premium plugin versions.
2.8.1 – 2026-01-20
- Fix: PHP 8.4 compatibility — explicit nullable type for REST API parameter.
2.8.0 – 2026-01-20
- New: Interactive seating plan designer with drag & drop editor for creating venue layouts.
- New: Let customers choose their seats during checkout with visual seat selection.
- New: Seat information displayed on PDF tickets, in emails, and in the ticket scanner.
- New: Automatic seat blocking during checkout with configurable timeout.
- New: Seat release on order cancel or refund.
- New: Seating plan support on shop/archive pages.
- New: Voice output for the ticket scanner.
- Improved: Security checks for admin area access.
- Improved: Public ticket number now displayed in emails instead of internal ticket number.
- Fix: Ticket list description slashes.
- Fix: Customer search in admin backend.