eShow Express Entry
A better check-in experience —for your attendees and your team.
Express Entry is opt-in facial credentialing that lets enrolled attendees check in hands-free — instantly, no phone required. It’s a faster line and a better first impression.
HOW IT WORKS
From registration to badge in three steps.
Attendee enrolls during advance registration.
Attendees are offered the option to enroll by taking a photo. It’s completely voluntary.
Attendee approaches the check-in station.
At the event, enrolled attendees walk up to a check-in station and are authenticated instantly.
They retrieve their badge and go.
Authenticated attendees retrieve their badge from the adjacent printer and they’re on their way.
Attendees who don’t enroll check in the same way they always have — barcode scanning and manual lookup are always available.
WHEN SPEED MATTERS
No matter how fast your check-in process is, there’s one part you can’t speed up. The people going through it.
Even if you’re already using eShow’s Express Check-In with an eight-second scan-to-badge-print time, every person still goes through the same routine before the actual scan, adding time before the clock starts.
→ Setting down their coffee
→ Searching pockets and bags for their phone
→ Looking for the email with the code
→ Adjusting their screen brightness so the scanner works
None of these steps show up on a spec sheet, but every one of them slows the line down. More kiosks won’t fix it when every person at every kiosk is still doing the same dance.
eShow Express Entry skips all of it. Your attendees walk up, are recognized instantly, and retrieve their badge. Touch-free, sans phone. Coffee never leaves their hand.
WHEN EXPERIENCE MATTERS
If your event is built around a curated experience, you control every detail. But the check-in process is often the one experience you haven’t designed. You’ve invested in:
→ The signage
→ The staging
→ The badge itself
→ Higher-end furnishings and counters
→ Eye-catching backwall
And yet your attendee is still standing there squinting at their phone. That’s a wow-factor moment left on the table. Express Entry closes that gap. Being recognized as you approach the check-in station isn’t just faster or more modern — it’s a welcoming hospitality moment.
If your event lives in the tech world — fintech, medtech, AI, cybersecurity, SaaS — it’s even more straightforward: if your show is about leading technology, your tech choices should reflect that. A low-tech arrival at a tech-forward event feels out of place.
SPEED + EXPERIENCE
Speed improves experience.
Experience demands speed.
Express Entry delivers both.
Your attendee probably won’t say check-in was frustrating. They might not even realize it was. But they’ll walk away from it a little more drained than they needed to be, without knowing why. Setting down the bag. Finding the phone. Finding the email. Behavioral researchers call it cognitive load. Small tasks that stack up and make something simple feel effortful, or the idea that even minor friction points force your brain into active problem-solving mode when you’d rather be on autopilot. Check-in becomes something your attendees have to think through instead of just walk through.
PRIVACY + TRUST
Built around attendee choice from day one.
Opt-in only. No attendee is ever required to enroll. Participation is always voluntary.
No photos stored. The system generates and uses encrypted biometric templates for authentication — mathematical representations of facial features, not images. No photo gallery or searchable database is created.
No passive scanning. The check-in station only captures an image during active check-in when an attendee approaches.
Data is never shared or sold. Biometric data is encrypted and used only for check-in verification.
Attendees stay in control. Enrolled attendees can request removal of their data at any time.
Express Entry is built on Wicket’s proven facial authentication platform, trusted by major sports venues and live events across the country. Learn more at wicketsoft.com.