QR tickets · WhatsApp · Android · Free

Taquillita

Tickets for the events you organize.

You build them on your phone and hand them out over WhatsApp. You collect like always — cash or transfer — and at the door you validate with the same app. No accounts, no fees, no internet.

Need printed tickets too? The same batch comes out as a tabloid PDF for any digital print shop — the kind of ticket people keep, with the same QR and same one-time check. For the box office, comps, radio giveaways, sponsors.

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Free
No account or email
Works offline
No fees
You collect directly

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, whether over WhatsApp or printed.

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.

Three screens. That's it.

Sell screen with a big green Generate ticket button

1. Sell

Tap a button. The app generates a unique code, drops it into a QR, and opens WhatsApp so you can send it to your buyer. Want it printed? From the same screen out comes the print-shop PDF.

Validate screen showing PASS! after scanning a QR

2. Validate

At the door, point the camera at the 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 generated, how many came in, how many no-shows. Digital and printed separately. By day, by week, or any range you want.

Need printed tickets too? Print the batch

Tabloid sheet of printed Circo Reyes León tickets, each with a QR code, a serial number and the color bar, fresh off the digital press — A real Circo Reyes León sheet, fresh off the digital press.

Box office, comps, radio giveaways, press, sponsors: if some of your tickets end up on paper, the same batch comes out as a tabloid PDF for any digital print shop. Not a slip with a stamp — a ticket with your event's artwork, its unique QR and its number, the kind people keep. Built on your phone, offline.

Taquillita screen to generate printed tickets: quantity, fuchsia or cyan color, and a Generate PDF for print button

1. You build it on your phone

Set how many and upload your ticket design. The app adds the unique QR, the color bar and the cut marks. All offline, up to 500 per batch, and numbering keeps running if you make more.

Digital print shop with a production press where the tabloid ticket sheet is printed

2. You take it to print

The PDF comes out tabloid size with cut marks for the guillotine. Any copy shop or digital printer can run it. You sell them at the box office, hand them out as comps, give them away on the radio — bit by bit; whatever you don't use doesn't count as missing.

Taquillita Validate screen showing PASS in green after scanning a printed ticket's QR

3. They're validated at the door

Exactly like the WhatsApp ones: point the camera, green PASS, red ALREADY USED if someone already came in with that ticket. Same one-time check, no internet.

≈ $10 per sheet · 12 tickets per sheet · under $1 per ticket

A tabloid at a digital print shop costs about the same regardless of ink, so the ticket comes out big and looks premium for the price of a flimsy stub.

Printed fuchsia Printed cyan Digital green Digital blue

The color is on the paper, not in the QR. It just keeps printed tickets from getting mixed up in your report with the ones you sent over WhatsApp.

The honest part: when you send it to a print shop, the shop sees the batch. For a touring circus that washes out as you move to the next town; for a fixed venue, keep it in mind — it's the same exposure as any printed ticket ever has had. The app stays the only thing that mints and validates; the print shop only adds the ink.

For the events you organize

🎪

Touring circuses

The tent that rolls into town. Send tickets over WhatsApp or print a batch to sell at the box office. Validate at the door without counting torn stubs.

🎟️

School fundraisers

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

⛪

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.

One number that balances

Before: WhatsApp ones on one side, printed ones on another, lost tokens, and at closing nobody knows.

Digital and printed land in the same report, split by color. One number for how many came in. No arguments.

If your phone dies, your box office doesn't

Optional, anonymous backup

Turn it on once and the app uploads a copy on its own — when you open it and when you minimize it. No name, phone or email: just a random code it generates and you keep.

If you lose your phone, install the app on another, paste the code, and everything's back in under a minute. The server is in Helsinki, Finland, and only stores folios and dates.

The report your accountant opens from their computer

From the dressing room, another city, or the accountant's office: a web dashboard with generated, validated and no-shows, plus an Excel to download.

It opens with an encrypted code, never your tickets' folio. For balancing the books — not for anyone to generate or validate anything.

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. Generating, printing and validating works at the ranch, under the tent, anywhere.
It doesn't show ads. None. Ever.

Common questions

Do printed tickets need internet to validate?

No. The batch is minted on your phone when you generate the PDF, so they validate at the door just like the WhatsApp ones, with no signal. The only thing the printed route needs is a digital print shop to run the PDF (tabloid, ≈ $10 a sheet, 12 tickets per sheet).

What if I print too many or don't sell them all?

No problem. Print and sell bit by bit; whatever doesn't sell is paper in your hand, it doesn't count as missing in the report. Numbering keeps running across batches, so you can make another without repeating a single number.

What if my phone dies or breaks during the event?

If you turned on the optional backup, install the app on another phone, paste your code, and restore everything in under a minute. It uploads on its own when you open and minimize the app, with no personal info. Tip: WhatsApp that code to yourself so you don't lose it. Important: one phone = one box office; don't sell from the same backup on two phones at once.

Does it really work without internet?

Yes. Generating tickets, building the print-shop PDF, validating at the door and viewing reports all work fully offline. The only things that need a connection are sending the QR via WhatsApp if that's how you deliver it, or uploading the backup if you turned it on.

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.

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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 circus people who 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.

The printed tickets came from a real need: some people hand out printed tickets — at the box office, as comps, on the radio — and want a real ticket, not a flimsy slip. I took it to a digital print shop to test it on paper and it held up: clean cut, QR that scans without trouble. That photo is that batch.

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.

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