For smaller events, we can usually get by with a laptop and printed attendee list. But once the numbers start climbing, the bottlenecks become pretty obvious, especially when badges have to be printed on site.

Last year, scanning wasn’t really the issue for us. The bigger problem was the manual badge process, which created a second queue at check in.

Curious to hear from others, at what point did you feel dedicated check in software became necessary? And did having on site badge printing actually make much of a difference?