Cashless and access that clear at peak.
Festivals, stadiums, and arenas run on a few high-stakes hours. We build the wristbands, terminals, and settlement that keep taking payments when the crowd — and the network — are at their worst.
80,000 people. Six hours. One network that will drop at the worst possible moment.
The events problemThe network will drop mid-rush.
A venue loses connectivity at exactly the wrong moment, and the queue doesn't care. We build terminals that take payment offline, reconcile the instant the link returns, and never double-charge or lose a tap — so a dead cell tower is an inconvenience, not a shutdown.
- [ 01 ]Terminals that clear offline and reconcile later
- [ 02 ]Idempotent top-up — never a double charge
- [ 03 ]Access and payment on one credential
- [ 04 ]A live dashboard for a war-room operation
A festival day, engineered.
What the work returns.
From a cashless events platform we ran across a three-day festival.
What we build.
- Cashless wristbands & NFC top-up
- Access control & turnstile integration
- Offline-tolerant payment terminals
- Ticketing & validation
- Real-time settlement & reconciliation
- Vendor & cash-desk management
- Live operations dashboards
- Fraud & chargeback handling
- Refunds & post-event settlement
- Custom hardware & credentials
What operators ask us.
Terminals keep taking payment offline against the on-device balance, queue every transaction, and reconcile automatically the moment connectivity returns. No double charges, no lost taps.
Under 200ms tap-to-confirm at the terminal. Settlement happens in the background, so the queue keeps moving even at peak.
Yes — unspent balance and disputed transactions are handled through a post-event settlement flow that reconciles against the same ledger the terminals wrote to.
We can. We build the wristbands, terminals, and validators ourselves, or integrate with kit you already run — the software is the same either way.
Live venues, in production.
NFC payments for 80,000 attendees
Wristband top-up, offline-tolerant terminals, and real-time settlement across a 3-day festival.
AI document intelligence
Extraction and human-in-the-loop review over a million-plus shipping documents.
Building for one of these?
Tell us the constraints — uptime, compliance, field conditions. We'll come back with an architecture that fits.
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