Distribution & Access | Nuweb Learning Centre

Ticket distribution is how tickets reach buyers: through an organiser’s own shop, a box office, partners and resale. Access control is how a ticket is checked when its holder arrives. The two are connected, because every transfer, resale or reissue changes which ticket is valid and who holds it.

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What is event access control?

How event ticket scanning and access control work, from QR codes and NFC to ticket validation, offline entry, zones, re-entry and attendance records.

How does ticket scanning and validation work at events?

Learn how ticket scanning verifies admission rights, handles duplicate and invalid tickets, and works with barcodes, NFC, zones and offline devices.

What is official ticket resale?

Understand verified ticket resale, how it differs from ticket transfer and third-party resale, and how pricing rules, identity and validity can be managed.

How do ticketing presales and eligibility rules work?

Learn how presales use booking windows, access codes, membership checks, purchase limits and allocations—and why eligibility does not guarantee tickets.

Key ideas in this subject

Each sales channel needs rules about what it sells

Partners, promoters, affiliates and box offices may sell from shared or dedicated stock, in different windows and to different customer groups.

A ticket's life continues after purchase

Delivery, wallets, transfers, exchanges and resale all have to keep one record of which ticket is valid and who holds it.

Validation decides whether a ticket admits someone now

A scan checks the event, time, entrance and current status. Venues also plan for offline scanning, repeat use and restricted areas.

Transfers and resale follow the organiser's rules

Whether a ticket can be passed on, at what price and how its old barcode is invalidated varies by event and market.

Reading paths

All 16 explanations in Distribution & Access, in 4 reading paths.

1 · Sales channels

2 · Delivery and after purchase

3 · Transfers and resale

4 · Entry and access control

How this subject connects to others

Events & Inventory

Channel sales draw on allocations and holds.

Scale & Reliability

High-demand presales combine eligibility rules with queueing.