Cashless commerce for live events
Guests tap a card, a phone, or the event wallet. Vendors sell on Tap to Pay on iPhone or a card reader. Operators see everything.
Trusted by operators at scale
Transactions processed
Events powered
Vendor partners
Take payment
Contactless cards and phone wallets, chip and swipe, or the event’s own wallet. No app or account needed to pay by card.
No extra hardware
Vendors accept contactless cards and phone wallets on the iPhone they already carry. Ring up, hand it over, done.
iPhone, iPad, and Android
A pocket Bluetooth reader for tap, chip, or swipe. Vendors pair it from the POS in a couple of minutes.
Your Fest 2026
$62.50 balance
Scan Payment Code
Web, iOS, and Android
Preloaded credit, VIP packages, and pour limits, scanned at the booth. Use it where it helps, skip it where it doesn’t.
Tap to Pay on iPhone requires a supported payment app and the latest version of iOS. Update to the latest version by going to Settings > General > Software Update. Tap Download and Install. Some contactless cards may not be accepted by your payment app. Transaction limits may apply. The Contactless Symbol is a trademark owned by and used with permission of EMVCo, LLC. Tap to Pay on iPhone is not available in all markets. Apple and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions.
The platform
For guests, staff, vendors, and the team running the show.
Attendees
Your event’s identity — maps, menus, sponsors, and pay. Guests join from a link or QR.
Vendors & staff
Built for peak volume. Works offline, settles fast, and keeps lines moving when the headliner lets out.
Operators
Live sales, vendor control, payouts, and reporting — one dashboard for the people running the event.
How money moves
Run it like any card-taking event, or add prepaid wallets where they earn their keep. The payment model is an event decision, not a platform limitation.
Guests tap a card or phone at the booth, in dollars, with no app or account. Familiar checkout, receipts by text or email, nothing to explain at the gate.
Festivals, sports, conferences, comedy clubs, venues
Cards at the bars and merch, prepaid credit for VIP and packages. Same POS, same Studio, different rules by zone or vendor.
Mixed-use sites and multi-experience productions
Prepaid wallets for pour limits, sampling, and spend committed before the gates open. An option, never a requirement.
Tastings, sampling, all-inclusive formats
For every team that signs off
Operations needs it to hold at peak. Finance needs the numbers to close. Marketing needs something to show sponsors.
Operations
Finance
Marketing & sponsorship
Integrations
Plugs into the stack you run →Where it runs
Festivals are where we proved the stack. The product is built for any high-volume on-site economy.
Built for operators
When tens of thousands of people want a drink at the same time, checkout still has to work — offline, at speed, at every booth.
The POS runs on the device through dead zones and outages, then syncs every sale the moment signal returns. Peak hour isn’t a connectivity gamble.
Invite staff, publish menus, and hand a booth a tablet in minutes — no multi-week rollout. Roles and permissions stay with the organizer.
Every sale breaks down by vendor, item, and hour — reconciled and ready for payout, not a week of spreadsheets after load-out.
One branded app guests recognize — maps, menus, sponsors, and payment under the event’s own name and look.
Operations data
Every tap is a point on the map. Heatmaps and journeys help you place vendors, brief sponsors, and plan the next site — not a science project.
Field notes
Payments, operations, and the work of running live events.
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Questions
EventPay is a cashless event payment platform for live events: a branded Wallet, an offline-ready POS, and Studio. Guests tap a card or phone or pay from the event wallet, vendors sell on Tap to Pay on iPhone or a card reader, and operators see live sales.
Yes. EventPay handles cashless payments for festivals and events end to end — attendees tap or scan to pay in a branded wallet, vendors run an offline-capable festival POS, and operators reconcile sales and vendor payouts in Studio.
Festival and event operators first — music, food, beer, tastings — plus conferences, comedy clubs, and other venues that need a reliable cashless payment system at volume. If you run vendors, bars, or F&B on a site, it is in scope.
No. Plenty of events run card and phone payments only, priced in dollars, like any other card-taking business. Tokens are there when they help: pour limits, sampling, and spend committed before the gates open. Many events run hybrid, with cards at the bars and prepaid credit for VIP.
Guests tap a contactless card or phone on the vendor’s iPhone with Tap to Pay on iPhone, tap, insert, or swipe on a mobile card reader, or scan a QR code from the event wallet. No app or account is needed to pay by card. Run card only, tokens, or a hybrid by zone or vendor on the same POS. Exploring RFID wristbands? Tell us and we’ll talk through options for your event.
The POS is built to keep selling offline and sync when connectivity returns. Outdoor sites and packed crowds are the expected environment, not an edge case.
The EventPay attendee experience is a branded webapp (a progressive web app) or branded app (iOS and Android). Maps, menus, sponsors, and pay — under your brand’s identity. Accessible to all smartphones.
Book a demo. We’ll show you Wallet, POS, and Studio set up for your floor plan, your vendors, and how you want to take payment.
See EventPay configured to your floor, your vendors, and how money moves — card, wallet, or both.