# Crowder Cashless

> All the food and drink at your event in one system: bars, stalls, roaming vendors and kiosks take payment by cashless wristband, card, QR or PIX.

Page: https://www.getcrowder.com/en/cashless/
In other languages: [Español](https://www.getcrowder.com/cashless.md) · [Português](https://www.getcrowder.com/pt/cashless.md)

## All the food and drink at your event, in one system.

Bars, stalls, roaming vendors and self-service kiosks take payment by cashless wristband, card, QR or PIX, and every sale reaches your revenue the moment it happens. You see everything; each vendor sees their own.

## Every event gets paid its own way.

Choose the payment model that fits your event. Revenue and control stay the same in all of them.

### Cashless wristband or card

Guests pay by tapping their wristband or card, with balance loaded in advance. In nightclubs they can also run a tab and pay on the way out (postpaid).

**Best for**: festivals, parties and long events, where each guest buys many times.

- **One-tap payment**: Guests pay with a tap of the wristband, no wallet and no change: the line keeps moving.
- **Works offline**: Bars keep selling even if the network goes down.
- **Revenue up front**: Online top-ups come in before the gates open.
- **Online refunds**: Leftover balance is refunded online.
- **Age and alcohol**: Age checks and alcohol limits on the same wristband.
- **Entry and payment**: The ticket wristband can be the same one used to pay.

**You need**: wristbands or cards, plus booths to top up and refund balance (or to settle tabs at the exit, for postpaid).

### Direct payment

Guests pay on the spot by card or with a wallet QR, with no wristband and no top-up.

**Best for**: stadiums, concerts and short events, where each guest buys only a few times.

- **Nothing to hand out or load**: Everyone pays with what they already carry.
- **Each country’s payment methods**: Credit and debit cards, PIX, Mercado Pago, MODO and more.
- **The same control**: Every sale lands in your revenue, just like with wristbands.

**You need**: an internet connection at the points of sale.

### Combined

Wristbands and direct payment side by side at the same event.

**Best for**: events with a mixed crowd, where not everyone tops up a wristband.

- **Guests choose**: Wristband, card or QR at the same bar.
- **All revenue in one place**: Everything goes into the same system and the same reports.

**You need**: wristbands and top-up booths, plus a connection for direct payments.

**What about cash?** You can accept it at bars, cashiers and roaming vendors, and it works offline.

## A festival doesn’t take payments like a stadium.

Your payment model and points of sale are set up around how your audience buys.

### Festivals

Sales across the grounds all day long, peaking between sets.

- **Payment model**: Prepaid cashless wristband
- **Points of sale**: Bars, Self-serve beer taps, Main cashiers, Roaming vendors, Top-up kiosks

### Stadiums

Short sales peaks, at halftime or before the show. People pay directly, with nothing to top up, and vendors sell in the stands.

- **Payment model**: Direct payment: card, QR or PIX
- **Points of sale**: Bars, Roaming vendors with stock, Main cashiers, VIP boxes, Self-order kiosks

### Parties and clubs

Parties use a prepaid cashless card instead of a wristband. Clubs can also run open tabs that are paid on the way out.

- **Payment model**: Prepaid card; at clubs, postpaid too
- **Points of sale**: Bars, VIP box with table service, Main cashier, Top-up kiosk

### Food fairs

Many stalls on the same grounds. A main cashier takes payment for several, and each vendor gets their own payout and invoices under their own tax details.

- **Payment model**: Wristband, direct payment or both
- **Points of sale**: Stalls, Main cashiers, Beer taps, Roaming vendors, Top-up kiosks

### Sales formats

- **Bars and food trucks**: Every bar with its own menu, and every sale prints a receipt.
- **Central cashiers**: One cashier sells for several bars and shows which bar each item is from.
- **Roaming vendors**: They head out with assigned stock, sell where the crowd is and settle their cash on return.
- **Self-service**: Kiosks to top up or order by card or QR, and beer taps where guests serve themselves.
- **Boxes and VIP**: Waiters take the order at the table and top up balance on the same device.
- **Pre-sale**: Guests buy online before the event and pick up with a QR, without paying at the bar.

## All your revenue, under your control.

Every register, every vendor and every wristband in one dashboard: what your finance team needs to close out the event.

- **Centralized revenue**: Everything sold at the event goes through you, with any payment method, and you see it live.
- **Payouts per vendor**: Reports per point of sale to settle each vendor, who invoices with their own tax details.
- **A link for every vendor**: Each one follows their own sales on their phone, with no login or spreadsheets.
- **Cash counts with variances**: Each register closes against what it sold, with any variance in plain sight. Supervisors approve openings and withdrawals.
- **Blocked wristbands**: A lost or suspicious wristband is blocked from the dashboard and connected devices reject it instantly.
- **Protected balance**: The balance is encrypted on the wristband chip: a cloned or tampered wristband won’t work.

## The hardware and the support, at your event.

Crowder or a local partner brings the hardware and the tech support to your event. Your team and each vendor handle the selling; we make sure the system works.

- **Before**: Devices set up with your points of sale, products and prices.
- **During**: On-site tech support, remote monitoring of every device and a help button on each terminal.
- **After**: Closing reports and online refunds of leftover balance.

Selling the tickets too? With Crowder Ticketing, tickets and on-site spending live in the same system. More information: https://www.getcrowder.com/en/ticketing.md

## Frequently asked questions

### What is a cashless system?

It’s the system that runs sales inside an event without the money staying at each stall. It started with prepaid wristbands or cards that replace cash. Crowder Cashless adds cards, QR, PIX and cash to the same system.

### Do I need wristbands?

No. You can run only direct payments, only wristbands, or combine both. We’ll help you choose for your event.

### What happens if the internet goes down?

Cashless wristband or card payments and cash keep working offline, and everything syncs when the network is back. Credit or debit cards, QR and PIX need a connection to authorize the payment.

### How does postpaid work?

Guests buy with their wristband or card without loading balance, up to a limit you set, and pay the total at a booth on the way out. It’s mostly used in nightclubs.

### How are vendors paid out?

With sales reports per point of sale. Each vendor can also see their own sales through a dedicated link.

### How do guests get their unused balance back?

Online, by bank transfer or PIX, or at the event’s refund booths.

## Book a demo

See how payments would work at your event. Tell us how many bars, stalls and roaming vendors you have, and we’ll suggest the payment model and the hardware.

Contact form: https://www.getcrowder.com/en/#contacto