Sell the ticket at the window. Check it at the lift.
Day tickets, season passes and event admissions on one barcode, validated in front of the guest — with the same answer whether or not the internet is up.
- Hands-free gates read a card from a pocket
- Returning guests re-authorise, they don't re-queue
- Prints and issues tickets with the link down
An add-on module, on top of the base plan.
Hands-free at the lift, the way the big resorts do it
A rider walks up and the gate reads the RFID card in their pocket. No glove comes off, no ticket is presented, and the line keeps moving at walking pace — which is the whole point on a Saturday at nine in the morning.
- A weatherproof display at the gate shows the rider's photo as their card reads, so the attendant confirms a face instead of inspecting a ticket
- Barcode scanning still works alongside it — a day ticket, an event admission or a roving spot check runs on the same system, at the same gate
- The attendant is watching riders rather than reading barcodes, which is where you actually want their attention
The card is theirs, and the second visit skips the window
Guests keep their card. It carries their name and their photo, and it stays valid as a piece of media — so when they come back you re-authorise the card they already have instead of issuing another ticket.
- A returning guest can buy online and go straight to the lift; there is no wicket to collect and no queue to stand in for it
- Your ticket window handles first-timers and problems rather than re-printing the same regulars every weekend
- The printed name and photo make a shared or borrowed pass obvious to the attendant before the gate even reads it
- Cards are biodegradable and last a season or two, so a card that does wear out composts instead of adding to the pile of plastic wickets every area accumulates
Ticket types that match how you actually sell
A ticket type carries its own validity window, so a twilight ticket that runs 20:00 to 02:00 is a rule the scanner understands rather than something the lift operator has to remember.
- Season passes and day tickets are separate kinds, not a flag — passes skip the daily window, day tickets don't
- Windows that cross midnight work correctly; a 01:00 scan still belongs to the night before
- A per-day scan cap catches a pass being handed back down the line
- Revoke, blacklist, reprint and replace, with the replacement chain kept intact
A scan screen a seasonal hire can run on day one
The operator gets one large, unambiguous result. When something is wrong, the screen says which thing is wrong rather than just refusing.
- A duplicate shows when and at which terminal it was first scanned, and how many times — so the conversation is about facts, not suspicion
- A velocity check flags the same barcode appearing at a different terminal within three minutes
- Outside its window, not yet started, already ended and blacklisted are four different refusals, not one
The word of the day is a fallback, not the lock
Tickets are validated by looking the barcode up, not by reading a code off the ticket. The word of the day is printed on the ticket purely so a human can eyeball a freshly-issued ticket that a just-restarted scanner hasn't cached yet.
A gateway on site issues barcodes, renders and prints tickets, and validates every scan out of its own database. Nothing about the ticket window or the lift line waits on the cloud; scans and issued tickets reconcile the moment the link comes back.
How that worksReports, and all of them export
Our gates read and verify; they don't physically stop anyone. There is no turnstile arm or barrier relay — the attendant sees the result and the rider's photo, and makes the call. On a lift line that is usually what you want anyway, because a jammed turnstile stops everybody and a person doesn't.
It doesn't run on its own
One customer record, one employee record, one set of reports. These are the parts of the system this one touches most.