About this plugin
Orange Cat QR Event Tickets turns any WooCommerce product into an event and handles the whole ticketing flow: sell tickets, email a QR code for every seat, and validate attendees at the door by scanning with a phone — no dedicated app required.
There are no ticket limits: unlimited events, unlimited tickets, no per-ticket fees.
Perfect for concerts, workshops, talks, fairs, screenings and meetups — any event where you sell a seat and check people in at the door.
How it works
- Mark a product as an event and set the start date, optional end date and location.
- Customers buy tickets through the normal WooCommerce checkout (guest checkout works).
- When the order is paid, one QR ticket per seat is generated and emailed, using your store’s WooCommerce email design.
- At the door, staff open a page with the check-in shortcode and scan tickets with the phone camera. The verdict is instant: green (valid), yellow (already used, with the time), or red (revoked or invalid).
- Refunds and cancellations invalidate the affected QR codes automatically and release capacity.
The check-in page is protected by a capability, not by a secret URL: only logged-in staff with the right role can scan or search. QR payloads are HMAC-signed, and check-in is atomic, so two doors can never validate the same ticket twice.
Features
- Unlimited events and QR tickets — no lifetime caps, no per-ticket fees.
- One signed QR code per purchased seat, emailed with your store’s WooCommerce email template.
- Web-based check-in: scan with the phone camera straight from the browser, no app to install.
- Instant visual verdict: valid / already used (with time) / revoked / invalid.
- Manual fallback: find tickets by buyer email or order number and check them in with one tap.
- Capacity control using native WooCommerce stock management.
- Configurable sales close: stop selling a set number of hours before the event starts.
- Automatic ticket revocation on full or partial refunds and on cancellations.
- Upcoming and past event listings via shortcodes.
- Guest-checkout friendly — customers do not need an account.
- WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) compatible.
- Translation-ready; ships with a Spanish (es_ES) translation.
Credits
This plugin bundles the following third-party open-source libraries:
- chillerlan/php-qrcode (MIT License) — QR code generation.
- chillerlan/php-settings-container (MIT License) — dependency of php-qrcode.
- qr-scanner by nimiq (MIT License) — in-browser QR code scanning for the check-in page.