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February 10, 2022 at 9:35 am

Hi there,

For our events, we have attendees scan the barcode on their name badges multiple times a day. Could I use EE’s barcode scanner for this?

Possibly, but I need more details on how you are using them to know for sure, can you expand a little more?

And where do I find the barcode numbers to add them to my name badges?

Are going to be using the QR or Barcodes? (Different codes, lead to the same record)

February 16, 2022 at 6:35 am

Sure. We’re using the scan-ins for attendance tracking at a medical education conference. If they scan in every time over the weekend, they get the full number of hours on their certificate. This can be anywhere from 4-8 scans, depending on the schedule.

Hmm, so this is going to depend on how you have the Event/Datetimes set up.

If you have a single Datetime and you just want the users to scan in various times, they will need to check OUT before they can check IN again.

If you break down the event into multiple DateTimes and have a ticket assigned to all of those datetimes, you can check them into the individual datetimes without checking them out of the others.

Would that setup work for what you are trying to do?

I upload a CSV of attendees to the Avery website and create/print badges there. It generates Code 39 barcodes from my spreadsheet data. (It has options for other barcodes or QR codes.)

Oh, I see, I’ve posted details on how you can do this with Avery before, see:

https://eventespresso.com/topic/importing-qr-codes-into-avery-name-badge/

February 16, 2022 at 3:14 pm

Doing a single datetime ‘can’ work, in that you can scan in AND out of that datetime for this, then you would basically collate all the check-ins, but it does mean that you need to check the registrant OUT each time as we don’t have a way to add a check-in if the user is already scanned in.

It can toggle between in and out, but not as a single scan @ x, scan @ y, scan @ z setup if that makes sense.