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Android/Web Check in?

Posted: August 12, 2013 at 1:19 pm

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Lisa Richardson

August 12, 2013 at 1:19 pm

I already love EE. I have a client who would love you too if there’s a way to manage manual check-ins without an iPad. This will be a fresh WP install on 3.6 with all updated everything. I’m recommending Tickets & WP User Integration add-ons, since the attendees will all be organization members. Since the age and tech-savviness of the members varies greatly, we need a way to check people in by name as an alterantive to scanning the QR code. Nice to have: pulling someone up to check in pulls up their stored user information – including profile photo/gravatar. User info will be captured by Gravity Forms & managed by User Profiles Made Easy.


Dean

August 12, 2013 at 2:16 pm

Hi Lisa,

Firstly, thanks for the love! We appreciate it a lot.

Regarding your query, it can be done via iPhone and Android phones as well but perhaps is a little long winded, you would need to search for the person by name and then tap that person.

Or were you thinking of something on a laptop/desktop?


Lisa Richardson

August 12, 2013 at 3:13 pm

Yay for Android check-in! Yes, they’re actually looking for laptop check-in by name or id#. If that’s doable, we’re good to go. They can always have the member profiles list in another browser window for member identification with photo.


Dean

August 13, 2013 at 1:23 am

Right, well there is nothing in place currently that will do that. I submitted a prototype shortcode/function to the developers with a laptop checkin system, but it hasn’t been looked at yet and to be honest will probably need a more seasoned developer than I to work on it.

It is on Github but note it isn’t supported or in fact endorsed by Event Espresso https://github.com/Apina/ee-checkin

In short, there isn’t anything formal yet to check in via laptop.


Jonathan Wilson

August 13, 2013 at 9:00 am

Hi Lisa,

While you can’t scan tickets from a laptop, you can still search for the attendees’ names and mark them as attended in the Event Espresso backend.


Lisa Richardson

August 13, 2013 at 9:31 am

Thanks guys! Jonathan, that will work for the client. Dean, I’m going to give your shortcode solution a whirl on my test site. ๐Ÿ™‚


Jonathan Wilson

August 13, 2013 at 10:51 am

Great! I’m glad we could help. Note that they will still need the ticketing add-on in order to mark an attendee as “Attended” in the system.

Let us know if we can answer anymore questions. ๐Ÿ™‚

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