Build weekvs.show day
Contractors in during build, crew and artists on the day, one matrix for both.
Scenario · sample event
Radar showing four things on site being cleared one by one: crew member, van, insurance cert, guest.
It's like air traffic control for events.
Clearing sites for festivals, arenas, touring, venues, exhibitions, brand activations, street parties, conferences.One list, every door.
Everyone and everything on your site, cleared through one place.
Crew, artists, suppliers, guests, paperwork, passes, gates, comms and spend. If it's happening on your event, Bloop knows about it.
Free up to 100 team. No card. Reply within one working day.
Plugs into what you already run
See TicketsXeroApple WalletGoogle WorkspaceSlackSquare
Why most events still run on a spreadsheet, a group chat and a clipboard at the gate.
Three things, and they're the three things that go wrong.
CREW · RIGGER
Sam Okafor
- INSURANCE
- TO 14 JUL 26
- INDUCTION
- DONE
PASS VALID
13 JUL · IN DATE
CREW · RIGGER
Sam Okafor
- INSURANCE
- TO 14 JUL 26
- INDUCTION
- DONE
PASS SUSPENDED
15 JUL · LAPSED
Clearing sites for festivals, arenas, touring, venues, exhibitions, brand activations, street parties, conferences.One list, every door.
Everyone on site is checked.
Nobody gets a pass until their paperwork is in. Nobody keeps one when it runs out.
CREW · RIGGER
Sam Okafor
- INSURANCE
- TO 14 JUL 26
- INDUCTION
- DONE
PASS VALID
13 JUL · IN DATE
CREW · RIGGER
Sam Okafor
- INSURANCE
- TO 14 JUL 26
- INDUCTION
- DONE
PASS SUSPENDED
15 JUL · LAPSED
One list, every door.
The list at the gate is the list in the office. Change it once and it changes everywhere.
OFFICE LIST
- A. MensahALL AREAS
- J. ReyesCOMPOUND + STAGE
- P. NovakBACKSTAGE
- L. HartARENA
GATE SHEET · NORTH
- A. MensahALL AREAS
- J. ReyesCOMPOUND + STAGE
- P. NovakBACKSTAGE
- L. HartARENA
It keeps going when the signal doesn't.
Gates keep scanning with no network. When it comes back, so does the record.
SCANS · NORTH GATE
1,302
NO SIGNAL · STILL SCANNING
Field-tested on 10,000-cap shows.
05 · The idea
Your pass is only valid while your paperwork is.
A pass in Bloop isn't a status, it's a set of conditions. Insurance in date. Induction done. RAMS approved. Licence current. When a condition fails, the pass fails, and every scanner on site knows within seconds. When it's fixed, the pass comes back on its own.
01
Conditions, not statuses
Nobody approves anybody. The rules do. Humans handle the exceptions.
02
One matrix, every door
Roles down the side, zones across the top. Every sheet, scanner and laminate reads from it.
03
Offline by default
Gates keep scanning with no signal and keep the record.
- INSURANCE IN DATE, met
- INDUCTION DONE, met
- RAMS APPROVED, failing
- LICENCE CURRENT, met
CONTRACTOR · BUILD
Dee Walsh
DENIED
WHY: RAMS NOT APPROVED
Bloop keeps the record as you go:
who was on site[ accreditation ]what they were told[ briefings ]who got the message, and when[ comms ]why a pass failed[ audit log ]what was committed[ purchase orders ]
You don't need perfect paperwork. You need one place it all lands.
Bring the event you're most worried about. Thirty minutes, your event, not a deck.
Not one slice of the job. All of it.
Most tools cover one phase and hand you back to the spreadsheet for the rest. Bloop covers the arc.
Running gates at festivals, arenas, touring, venues, exhibitions, brand activations, street parties, conferences.Advance, build, show, close.
The pass office, minus the queue of angry riggers.
- Branded application forms per group, with document uploads and approval chains that route to whoever owns the decision.
- One access matrix: tick a cell and it holds on every scanner, door sheet and laminate template.
- Serial-numbered passes, so a found pass traces to a person.
Built for the worst signal in the building.
- Scans keep going through dropouts and sync when the signal returns, with the queue depth on screen.
- Ticket barcodes validate against See Tickets and register back, so a used barcode dies at every other entrance.
- Runs on standard Android and iOS devices. No scanner rental.
Guest lists that fill themselves in.
- Every artist and sponsor gets an allocation and a link, and manages their own list.
- A party counts as tickets against the cap, not rows in a sheet, and a closeout deadline locks editing.
- A box-office view built for the door: search, check in a whole party, watch the count climb.
Your crew are people, not rows.
- Crew, suppliers and artists on one accreditation spine, with self-service portals.
- Department contact sheets generated live from real data.
- The schedule sits next to the people it applies to, and timesheets read off the check-in log.
The rest of show day, on the same spine.
- Site issues raised from any phone, with a photo and a zone, tracked to closure on a live wall.
- Meal entitlements ride on credentials and are redeemed by scan at the catering point.
- Show-call screens on any backstage display, and show stop one deliberate, logged click away.
Spend that surfaces before the invoice does.
- Planned against committed against actual, per line, per phase, per department.
- Purchase orders raise against budget lines and route for approval before anything commits.
- Chart of accounts, purchase orders and spend sync with Xero.
The boring module that saves your licence.
- Inductions with pass rates and briefing records against real accredited people.
- An audit entry under every significant change: who, what, before and after, and when.
- Suppliers keep their own document pack, and Bloop flags anything nearing expiry.
Advance
Applications · Supplier portals · Compliance docs · Budgets and POs
Build
Access matrix · Passes and laminates · Rotas and call times · Site issues
Show
Gate scanning · Guest lists · Live counts · Catering covers
Close
Reconciliation · Xero sync · Audit trail · Next year’s template
Field record
[ Built in a field. Tested on real shows. ]
10,000
cap, field-tested
100
team free. No card.
1
list, every door
£0
scanner hire. Any phone is a gate.
2 yrs
price locked
Festivals and outdoor
06 · The matrix
From here on, the detail. For the people who run it.
Change one thing. Everything follows.
Roles down the side, zones across the top, permissions in the grid. The access matrix is the one thing every gate sheet, scanner, laminate, guest list and catering count reads from. Tick a box and the version at the entrance is the version.
THE ACCESS MATRIX · TICK A BOX
| PASS TYPE | ARENA | BACKSTAGE | STAGE | COMPOUND |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAA | ||||
| Crew | ||||
| Contractor (build) | ||||
| Media, day |
SAMPLE EVENT · REAL BEHAVIOUR
EVERYTHING THAT READS FROM IT
- Door and gate sheetsevery sheet reads from this matrix
- Scannerseach one holds the current rules and enforces them with or without signal
- 263 passes issuedagainst the matrix as it stands
- Audit logevery change to this grid, recorded
GATE SHEET · NORTH
v14
CREW: ARENA · BACKSTAGE · COMPOUND
SCANNERS
12/12 on v14
EVERY SCANNER HOLDS THE CURRENT RULES
LAMINATE · CREW
Matches
PRINTED: ARENA · BACKSTAGE · COMPOUND
Sample event · real behaviour
7 steps
From first call to next year's template.
[step 01]Walkthrough
Thirty minutes on your event, not a deck. One email afterwards, not a sequence.
[step 02]Set up your event
Bring your spreadsheet. Roles, zones and people come in without re-keying.
[step 03]Build the matrix
Roles down the side, zones across the top. This is the rulebook every gate reads.
[step 04]Open the advance
Applications and supplier portals collect insurance, RAMS and inductions before anyone arrives.
[step 05]Issue passes
QR, NFC or both, straight into Apple Wallet. A pass only works while its conditions are met.
[step 06]Show day
Gates scan with or without signal. Live counts, guest lists and catering covers from the same record.
[step 07]Close and carry over
Reconcile, sync purchase orders to Xero, keep the audit trail and roll the event into next year’s template.
07 · Real screens
This is the actual product.
Not mockups. Real screens from Bloop, running a sample event with invented data.
01 / 03
Keep building. We'll keep the gate.
Your team shouldn't stop the build to chase a certificate.
Bloop chases it, and the pass follows the paperwork.
09 · Plugs into what you already run
Integrations
- See TicketsTicketing
- XeroAccounts
- Apple WalletPasses
- Google WorkspaceSheets and rosters
- SlackTeam messaging
- SquarePayments
Bloop works alongside the tools you already run, so nothing gets typed in twice.
All integrations10 · Martyn's Law
The date isn't set. The records start now.
Who was on site, what they were told, who got the message and when.
Bloop already holds the records the enhanced tier asks for. The compliance pack turns them into evidence, for £250 a month on a 12-month plan, on top of any paid tier.
£250 / month
on top of any paid tier
11 · Pricing, in one row
Priced on your team, not your event count.
Free up to 100 team. From £75 a month after that. One licence covers every event you run, however many, and if you sign before 1 April 2027 your price is locked for two years.
Free
Free
Up to 100 team a year
Starter
£75 a month
Up to 500 team a year
£150 from April
Growth
£200 a month
Up to 2,000 team a year
£400 from April
Scale
£500 a month
Up to 10,000 team a year
£1,000 from April
More than that
Talk to us
over 10,000 team a year
Counted as unique team a year, once, however many events they work. Prices exclude VAT. Monthly plans run for 12 months. Prices rise on 1 April 2027; sign before and yours is locked for two years. Your first event is free.
See pricingQuestions people ask before the walkthrough
How much is the spreadsheet costing you?
Hours re-keying lists, passes that never expire, a gate that stops when the signal does. Put numbers on it.
Sample: 5 events a year, about 400 people each, at 4 hours per hundred passes.
A calculator can only guess.
Your event has its own gates, crew and paperwork. Bring it to a walkthrough and we'll work it out properly.
The accreditation spreadsheet, and the pile of tools around it. Bloop holds one list of everyone working your event, and the applications, access matrix, passes, gate sheets, scanning, guest lists, show-day records and purchase orders all read from it. It does not replace your ticketing: we integrate with whoever sells your tickets.
Bloop vs spreadsheetsScans keep going. Every decision is recorded with its reason, and the record catches up the moment the network returns. Nobody is let in on a guess.
Gates and scanningYes. Passes are QR, NFC or both, and they land in Apple Wallet. Gates run on standard Android and iOS devices, so any phone is a gate: no scanner hire and no per-device charge.
We count each team member once across every event you run in a year. The same rigger working five of your shows is one person, not five. Suppliers and crew never pay. We do not count passes issued, events, admin users, ticketed attendees. Free up to 100 team a year, then from £75 a month, and one licence covers every event you run.
See pricingIt keeps the records. Who was on site, what they were told, who got the message and when accumulate as a by-product of running the show, and the compliance pack turns them into evidence for £250 a month on a 12-month plan, on top of any paid tier. Bloop produces the evidence; meeting the duty is yours, and you can do it without buying software from anybody.
Martyn's Law explainedThe application and database run in a UK/EU deployment region, and documents and photographs are stored in eu-west-2 (London). Every record is scoped to your organisation and every endpoint checks membership and role before returning anything. Supplier and individual portals are separate sessions bound to a single allocation or person.
Security and dataNot your department?
Send this to whoever runs your gates. They'll know what to do with it.