Pop-up bars and festival gates have to card thousands of people fast, often with no reliable Wi-Fi and staff hired that morning. Carded runs on any staffer’s phone, works fully offline, catches pass-backs at the fence, and keeps a compliance log for the promoter, with zero hardware to rent.
A festival beer garden or a concert gate cards more people in an hour than some bars do in a week, with temporary staff, no fixed counter, and cell signal that dies the moment the crowd arrives. Renting fragile hardware scanners for a single weekend is expensive and slow, and hand-checking IDs at that volume is where underage wristbands slip through.
Carded needs nothing but the phones your staff already carry. It scans in about a second, works completely offline once loaded, and catches the same ID being passed back over the fence to a friend. Every gate’s scans are tagged and logged, so the promoter and the venue have a clean record of a properly carded event.
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.
Every staffer’s phone becomes a scanner. Nothing to ship, charge, or return, just open the link and card.
The festival classic: one wristband holder passes their ID back to a friend. Carded flags the same ID scanned twice within minutes so your gate crew catches it.
Name each device “Gate A,” “Beer Garden,” “VIP” so every scan is logged with where it happened across the whole site.
One-tap 21+ checks keep a huge line moving, offline, with hands-free feedback for staff who aren’t looking at the screen.
Card at the point of pour, catch pass-backs, and flag anyone barred from service.
Any staffer with a phone can verify anywhere on site, no tethered hardware.
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.
No. Carded runs on any phone or tablet your staff already have. Open the link, add it to the home screen, and every device is a scanner, nothing to rent, ship, or return.
Yes. After the first load Carded scans completely offline, which is exactly what a crowded field with dead signal needs.
A scan takes about a second with a green light, a buzz, and a chime, so gate staff can card at high volume without staring at a screen.
Yes. If the same ID scans twice within about 20 minutes, Carded warns your crew, catching the hand-back-over-the-fence move.
Yes. Name each device by gate or bar and every scan is tagged with its location, so the promoter gets a full picture of the site.
Easily. If they can take a photo, they can run Carded, there’s nothing to learn and nothing to install.
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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