Carded turns any phone into a door scanner. Read the barcode on any ID, get an instant 21+ pass or fail with a buzz and a chime, catch pass-backs and 86’d regulars, and keep a clean compliance log, no clunky hardware, no per-scan fees.
On a Friday night your door staff are doing math in their heads while a line stacks up behind them. Subtracting a birth year under a strobe light, squinting at a worn-out expiration date, waving through someone who “looks old enough”, every one of those is a liability. A single underage serve can cost a bar thousands in fines and put its liquor license on the line.
Carded takes the guesswork out of the door. Your bouncer points a phone at the barcode on the back of any driver’s license and gets a giant green PASS or red UNDER in about a second, with a vibration and a chime so they barely have to look at the screen. The line keeps moving and nobody slips through on bad mental math.
Carded reads the PDF417 barcode on the back of the ID, the wide striped block, and decodes the real date of birth and expiration instantly. No typing, no math, no squinting.
One tap, one glance. Carded does the age math, the expiration check, and the record-keeping, so your staff can just say yes or no.
Point the camera at the barcode on the back of any US or Canadian ID. Carded decodes the name, date of birth, ID number, and expiration in under a second.
A big green PASS or red UNDER, plus a buzz and a chime. Flip between 21+ and 18+ for different sales.
Instantly flags an expired ID against today’s date, no mental math, no missed dates.
Catches the same ID scanned twice, and throws a red DO NOT SERVE for any ID you’ve flagged.
Every scan is tagged with the device, the staff member, and the time. Export a CSV or a printable compliance report for any date range, proof you carded every customer.
Everything runs in the browser on the device. IDs are hashed, outcomes only are stored, and nothing is uploaded or sold, nothing to breach.
The oldest trick in the book: a 21-year-old walks in, then slips their ID back to an underage friend. Carded flags the same ID scanned twice in a short window, so your door team catches the hand-off instantly.
Flag a troublemaker or a known fake once and Carded throws a red DO NOT SERVE the next time that ID scans, at any door in your venue. Mark your regulars VIP while you’re at it.
Every scan is quietly logged with the time, the door, and who was working it. If you’re ever audited or contest a citation, export a clean compliance report that shows you carded every guest.
One tap per guest, hands-free feedback, and it keeps working offline when the venue Wi-Fi buckles under a packed house.
Name each device “Front Door,” “VIP,” “Patio”, every scan is tagged so you know exactly where and when it happened.
Bartenders can double-check a borderline ID in a second without leaving the well, then flag it if something’s off.
Every scan runs Carded IntegrityEngine, validating the ID’s barcode against the DMV (AAMVA) standard, matching its issuer number to the state printed on the card, and cross-checking the encoded dates. It catches the scannable fakes and altered birth dates a basic age scan waves through, flagging anything off with a clear “Review this ID.” It’s a strong fraud signal, not a guarantee, so your team still eyes the card, and now they know which ones to look at twice.
Any phone or tablet. Carded runs in the browser, open the link, add it to the home screen, and it becomes a one-tap door scanner. No dock, no dongle, no App Store, nothing to buy.
Carded reads the data encoded in the barcode and flags the tell-tale problems, expired, underage, a date of birth that doesn’t add up, a non-standard barcode. It doesn’t claim to authenticate a hologram, so the final call stays with your staff, but it removes the math and the guesswork that let most fakes through.
Yes. After the first load Carded scans fully offline, so a dead signal at the door never stops the line.
Tap “86 this ID” on any scan and add a note. The ID is stored as a one-way hash on the device, never the raw number, and the next time it scans, a red DO NOT SERVE banner appears.
If the same ID scans twice within about 20 minutes, Carded warns your team that it was already scanned, the classic move of handing an ID back over the rope.
A scan takes about a second, with a green light, a buzz, and a chime so your bouncer barely glances down. The line keeps moving.
Every plan includes every feature, scanning, watchlist, staff tags, and compliance reports. You’re only choosing how many devices run at once. 14-day free trial, cancel anytime.
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