Taquillita — QR tickets for the events you organize

Your list, your phone, your call.

Other apps make you sign up and push everything to their server — your name, your sales, your list. Taquillita lives entirely on your phone. If you want to back it up, you press a button: it uploads with no personal info, just a code you keep so you can recover it.

For the events you organize

🎟️

School fundraisers

Bake sales, year-end, kids' day. Trade paper tokens for QRs and the books actually balance at the end.

🎪

Touring circuses

The tent that rolls into your town and sells over WhatsApp. Validate at the door without counting torn stubs.

⛪

Church & parish events

Patron saint feast, retreats, raffles. Since nothing goes online, no digital trail of who paid what.

🥊

Indie wrestling

Small arena, weekend show. Validate QRs at the door and at closing you know exactly who came in.

🎶

Dance & DJ nights

Indoor dance, neighborhood party, door cover. You stay in control at the entrance.

🧘

Workshops & retreats

Yoga, sound healing, weekend retreat, capped class. Your spreadsheet becomes a unique QR per attendee.

🎓

Reunions & potlucks

Class reunion, send-off with a cover, chip-in baby shower. You collect, the app handles the door.

🏟️

Amateur tournaments

Club tournament, small fun run, neighborhood match. Sign-up via QR with no payment gateway, no fees.

What it fixes, concretely

Duplicate tickets and gate-crashers

Before: someone walks in with a screenshot of a friend's QR, a copied wristband, or a torn stub.

Each QR validates only once. The second time it shows red: ALREADY USED.

Speed at the door or table

Before: you check a notebook list or count tokens by hand while people wait.

Point the camera, hear the chime, move on. One second per person.

Books that actually balance

Before: at the end nobody knows how many were sold, how many came in, how many tokens got lost.

The report tells you sold, validated, and unused. No arguments.

Three screens. That's it.

Sell screen with a big green Generate ticket button

1. Sell

Tap a green button. The app generates a unique code, drops it into a QR, and opens WhatsApp so you can send it to your buyer. You can also show it on screen or print it.

Validate screen showing PASS! after scanning a QR

2. Validate

At the door, point the camera at the buyer's QR. Green PASS if it's valid, red ALREADY USED if someone got in with that ticket already, yellow NOT FROM HERE if the QR belongs to another event or app.

Reports screen with sold, validated, and still unused

3. Reports

How many sold today, how many came in, how many no-shows. By day, by week, or any range you want.

What Taquillita does NOT do (on purpose)

It doesn't process payments. You collect on your own (cash, transfer, whatever). Taquillita only generates and validates the ticket.
It doesn't ask for an account or email. Open it and use it.
Nothing uploads unless you turn it on. Cloud backup is optional, anonymous, and you can delete it whenever.
It doesn't charge fees. Doesn't charge anything, in fact.
It doesn't need internet. Works at the ranch, under the tent, anywhere.
It doesn't show ads. None. Ever.

Common questions

What if my phone dies or breaks during the event?

Taquillita has an optional cloud backup: if you backed up before or during the event, install the app on another phone, paste your code, and you're back in under a minute.

Wait — cloud backup? I thought everything was local.

By default, yes — everything lives on your phone. The backup is optional — you turn it on from the Reports menu. When you do, the app uploads a copy under a random code it generates itself. We recommend WhatsApping that code to yourself so you don't lose it. If you lose your phone, you install the app on a new one, paste the code, and everything comes back. The server lives in Helsinki, Finland, and only stores ticket folios and dates — no name, phone, or email.

Does it really work without internet?

Yes. Generating tickets, validating at the door, and viewing reports work fully offline. The only thing that needs a connection is sending the QR via WhatsApp if that's how you choose to deliver it — but the app itself doesn't need a signal.

Is it legal? Do I have to report anything?

Taquillita is a tool — like a notebook or a spreadsheet — that only generates and validates tickets. You're responsible for how you collect and for whatever obligations apply (taxes, permits, anything specific to your event). The app doesn't exempt you or complicate any of that.

Download it. No catch.

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Where does this come from?

Taquillita was made by me, Oscar — a developer in Querétaro, Mexico. I love circuses — the real kind, the ones that roll into town with their own tent and put on a show with what they brought. I built this app thinking about how to help circuses that sell over WhatsApp, and realized the same tool fits a lot more events. So I opened it up: if you organize anything and it helps, go ahead.

Taquillita has zero ads, so it only grows if you recommend it. If you know someone it would help, pass it on. If they're circus people, even better.

If something breaks or you have an idea to make it better, ping me too.

+52 442 774 4366

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