How the Toronto International Film Festival tracked attendance at film screenings​

Attendees have badges with barcodes. Barcodes on badges are scanned as participants enter a screening room. Attendees barely need to pause as they enter the screenings, which provides a better experience for them and speeds up process compared to before the system was implemented.

Scans are stored in the scanner memory. After scanning is complete, scans are downloaded from the memory of scanner(s) directly into a spreadsheet for review and then imported into box office system to generate attendance reports which included all the attendees’ related information. Reports were then either emailed or could be pulled on demand by various stakeholders.