The QR pass replaces the list of names on paper, and the time spent reading it out at the door. To use it, you need three things: personal links sent to your guests, the pass switched on from the Signature plan, and a phone at the door.
Nothing else. No equipment, no app to install, no account for your guests to create.
Two QR codes, and only one opens the door
Invitez-nous carries two, and confusing them is costly. The first is your invitation's QR. It opens your page, it prints on a card, and it is included in every plan from the moment you publish.
The second is the entry pass. It is one code per person, placed on each guest's invitation, and it is used to check arrivals in. That one opens with the Signature plan.
The rest of this article is about the second.
What your guest sees
Their pass waits for them just under the reply form, in a section called "Your entry pass". With more than one, the heading goes plural, "Your QR passes". One card per person, with the code and the name. Named children have theirs, marked Child.
The pass appears on three conditions. The guest came through their personal link. You have switched the pass on. And they have confirmed their attendance.
So a guest who has declined has no pass. Nor does a guest who came through the page's public link.
The main guest also receives their code in the email that confirms their attendance. The message tells them to keep that email.
From two passes on, a button prints the household's cards. A guest coming alone keeps their code on their phone, or prints the page. It is the only document they receive: no badge to pin on, no place card.
One case to know about. A household that has only given a number of people, without the first names, receives a single code. At the door, that code counts for the whole household in one go.
What the person on the door sees
You scan from your own space, on the "Door scanner" screen, with your phone's rear camera. At the top, a counter says how many people have arrived, out of how many are expected.
Three possible answers, and they can be read from a metre away.
"Bienvenue !", on a green background. The screen gives the name and the number of people in the household. On an Android phone, the device vibrates briefly; an iPhone does not vibrate, the screen is what confirms.
"Déjà pointé(e) à", on a cream background with gold text. The code has already been through, and the time of the first scan is shown. Nothing is refused: you are only warned.
"Pass non reconnu pour cet événement.", on a red background. This code is not a pass for your wedding. Another event's pass stops there, and so does your own invitation's QR.
There is a fourth case, and you should expect it: the person has never replied. The screen says so, and offers "Check in anyway".
At the door, for a hundred people
One person, one phone, one square metre near the entrance. That is you, or someone close to you with your phone, already signed in to your account.
There is no welcome account, and no scanning link to share. Handing the door to someone close therefore means handing them the device.
Arrivals in clusters are settled with one move. A household of five arrives together, and you scan one person's code. The screen shows the whole household, name by name, with a button that checks everyone in.
Whoever has not got their phone goes through the list. Under the camera, one line per expected person, with their household and a button to check them in. A search filters by name.
The name of the table appears on your side, both on the scan and in the list, with the Prestige plan. On the plans below it, the screen gives the name and the count, which is enough to open the door. Your guests only see their pass: the seating plan method is told elsewhere.
That list only carries the people who have confirmed. For someone who has never replied, scan their personal link, then "Check in anyway".
One extra person is handled on the spot. A field adds them to the household, first name and surname, and checks them in with the same move. The household just has to have come from a personal link.
You need a network, and that is the real constraint on the day. A room with no network is a check-in that does not go through. Test it at the exact spot where you will be welcoming people, not at the car park entrance.
What works without a QR
A printed card does not replace a pass. Your invitation's QR opens your page, and that is all: at the door, it is not recognised. What gets printed is the guest's pass, from their own page.
The backup list works even if the pass was never switched on. It lives on the same screen, open from the Signature plan like the rest of the scanner. If the camera is refused or unavailable, the screen says so and sends you to the list. There is no pass number to type in: with no camera, you go through the search by name.
And if the network is missing, there is still paper. The export of your list, open from the Signature plan, gives a table with one line per person and a "Pointé" column. Open it on a computer and print it the day before: that is your safety net.
What this does not do
Better said plainly, so that nobody buys it for that.
The pass is not a forgery-proof ticket. It carries the guest's personal link: whoever photographs it lands on that person's invitation. It is personal, not tamper-proof.
No attendance statistics. No arrivals curve, no peak time, no table by time slot. Two numbers only, the arrivals and the people expected.
No going back from the scanner. A guest checked in by mistake cannot have that check-in undone from that screen.
In practice
A single switch turns all of this on, "Entry pass on the invitation", in your invitation's "The big day" tab. There is nothing else to set.
Switch it on early, before the first replies. Switching it on sends nothing to anybody, no email and no SMS. Done before the replies, the code goes out in every confirmation email, and the question no longer comes up.
Later on, nothing is lost. The guests who have already replied find their code again by going back to their personal link.
A reminder the day before can go out by SMS, from the Signature plan, with the pass switched on. It is off by default, and the message carries a link that opens your guest's pass directly.
One code per person needs the first names. Grant your guests their places, and their form asks them for the first name of each person they bring, instead of a number of adults and children. Without those first names, the household has only one code, and the article on online RSVP sets out the rest.
The number of guests does not depend on the pass, but on your plan. The personal links run from 150 on Signature to 400 on Prestige. The replies are capped at 400 on Signature, and unlimited on Prestige. One reply is one household: five people weigh only one.
After the wedding, your check-ins stay. You keep them as long as your invitation is hosted. On the guest's side, the pass disappears with the page: once the term is up, it no longer answers. Your data stays accessible for 3 months before being erased.
The entry pass and the check-in open with the Signature plan, and the pricing page gives its price, both as a one-off payment and monthly.
Open a sample invitation on your phone to see what your guests receive.
