At a conference, an expo, or any event where people need to find each other, the badge is the handshake. It tells a room who someone is before they say a word. Geiger Events builds badge printing into check-in, so you design the badge once and print it for every attendee on the day — no separate design tool, no exported spreadsheet handed to a print vendor, no reconciling two lists.
Design the badge, then print the room
Start from a template — a classic full badge, a compact strip, a QR-forward layout, or a VIP style — then fine-tune what appears on it. Toggle the attendee's name, their company or role, a ticket code, and a QR code on or off, add an event-name header, and set an accent color for the band across the top. A live preview shows exactly what will come out of the printer, using real attendee data, so what you see is what prints.
Pulled from your real attendee list
Badges aren't typed by hand. Pick one of your upcoming events and the badge sheet is built from the people actually registered for it, straight from your attendee records. Print the whole set as a sheet or a PDF, and every badge carries that attendee's name, company, and code with no manual entry. Need the underlying data for a third-party printer or a check? Export it as a CSV in a click.
Printed at the door, not weeks ahead
Pre-printing badges means guessing your final headcount and eating the waste when plans change. On-site printing flips that: because the badge sheet reads your live list, walk-ups and last-minute registrations get a badge too, and no-shows don't leave a pile of unused cards. The same event that admits attendees through check-in can hand them a badge in the same moment.
One preset per audience
A speaker badge, a sponsor badge, and a general-admission badge often need to look different. Because layout is driven by simple toggles and a template, you can produce distinct looks without redesigning from scratch — turn the company line on for exhibitors, lead with the QR for scannable networking, or strip a VIP badge down to just the name.
Part of a complete on-site suite
Badge printing is one piece of how Geiger handles the door. It sits alongside QR tickets, wallet passes, the check-in app, and name-search lookup, all reading the same attendee list, so a person can be admitted, printed, and counted in a single pass. For expos where exhibitors need to capture who they met, that scannable badge also feeds lead retrieval — the QR on the badge is the same code a booth scans.
Everything you print is tied to a real registration, so the badge always reflects the attendee's actual ticket type and details. See how the full on-site toolkit fits together on the check-in page, and what's included per plan on the pricing page.
Why it matters
Badges are one of those on-site jobs that quietly consume a morning if the tooling is wrong — mismatched lists, a printer that won't talk to your spreadsheet, a stack of badges for people who never showed. Building printing on top of your live attendee data removes the reconciliation entirely: the list is the list, the design is set, and the printer just runs.
Geiger Events is actively shipping. Some capabilities described here are rolling out and specifics may change.