Support

December 8, 2015 at 9:53 am

Hello Richard,

We have discussed it, however, we don’t have anything planned at the moment, as there are a few things, like the REST API and hiring a mobile development team, that need to be completed first. In the meantime we have released the bar code scanner add-on that accomplishes pretty much the same tasks.

Hope that helps. Please let us know if you have any further questions.

December 9, 2015 at 3:35 am

Hi Richard,

I just wanted to add some additional details to Seth’s reply for yourself and other readers as there is an alternative to waiting for a dedicated ticket scanning app.

The barcode scanner add-on can currently be used with any mobile app that can pass the barcode information through to an input field. Most apps automatically do a search for you or copy the contents to the clipboard which makes it very awkward to use, however we found 2 apps that work well for this:

Android
Barcode Scanner Keyboard (Deme version here)

iOS
Scan to web

Both basically allow you to switch out the standard keyboard for one that has a barcode scan button, so within your browser you can navigate to the barcode scanner (same as you would on a pc/mac) tap the input field for the scanner and then tap the barcode icon to use the devices camera.

Take a look here for a demo of the Barcode Scanner Keyboard in use on a Nexus 7:

https://eventespresso.com/wiki/how-to-use-a-mobile-device-to-scan-ee4-tickets/