A festival is a hundred small operations pretending to be one event. Weekend passes, day tickets, camping add-ons, and VIP all have to sell without stepping on each other. Thousands of people arrive at once across several gates, and your scanners need to keep up when the field has no signal. And underneath it all is one number you cannot get wrong — capacity — because oversell it and you have a safety problem, undersell it and you left money on the table.
Why multi-day events overwhelm normal tools
Single-event ticketing buckles here. It can't cleanly model a weekend pass alongside single days and add-ons. It assumes one entrance, not a main gate plus camping plus a VIP zone. It falls over the moment the connection drops in a field. And it treats capacity as a soft cap instead of a hard limit you're accountable for. Every one of those gaps turns into a queue, a radio call, or a spreadsheet reconciliation at 2am.
Ticketing that scales to a field
Geiger Events is built for the shape of a multi-day event: layered tiers and bundles, many gates and zones, check-in that survives no signal, and capacity you actually control.
Tiers, bundles, and passes
Model weekend passes, day tickets, camping, and VIP as distinct tiers and bundles through ticketing and payments, powered by Stripe. Move early-bird into later pricing automatically, and layer dynamic pricing so tiers step up as they sell. Fees are transparent and kept low across your whole run — the numbers are on the pricing page, not hidden in a per-ticket line.
Many gates, many zones
Scan thousands of arrivals across multiple entrances at once with the check-in app and multi-gate, multi-zone control — so a weekend pass opens the right areas and a day ticket doesn't. Staff on every gate see the same live picture instead of running separate lists.
Offline when the field has no bars
The check-in app works offline and syncs when it reconnects, so a dead zone at the back gate never stops the line. Scanning keeps working whether or not the signal does — the single most important thing a festival gate needs.
Capacity you can defend
Hold each ticket type and the overall event to a hard number, with real-time attendance updating as people flow through the gates. You always know how many are inside, per zone and overall, so capacity is a fact on a screen — not a guess on a radio.
After the gates close
Every attendee lands in your attendee CRM, so next year's on-sale starts with a real audience instead of a cold post. Pull sales, attendance, and gate flow into analytics and reporting to see what sold, when, and where the pressure was — then plan the next edition on numbers, not memory.
What changes
The festival stops feeling like a stack of tools duct-taped together. Passes and add-ons sell without conflict, every gate reads from the same live count, offline stops being a crisis, and capacity is something you hold rather than hope for. The weekend runs on a system instead of on radios and adrenaline.
For festivals and multi-day organizers who need layered tiers, multi-gate and zoned entry, offline check-in, and capacity control that holds under real crowds.
See how the fees work across a full run on the pricing page, or start building your festival today.
Geiger Events is actively shipping. Some capabilities described here are rolling out and specifics may change.