Check in at an event

Some events use check-in so the host knows who actually turned up. If yours does, there are two ways to do it — and both take seconds.

Checking yourself in

On the event page, choose Check myself in. You'll be offered:

Scan the event's check-in QR, or enter the code shown at the event.

Scan — point your camera at the QR the host has put up on a sign or a screen.

Type the code — enter the short check-in code displayed at the venue instead. Useful when the QR is across a crowded room, or your camera isn't cooperating.

Either way you'll see "You're checked in!" and that's it.

If you brought people, your check-in covers them: it shows Includes +2 guests, taken from your RSVP. There's nothing extra to do for them.

The host may scan you instead

Plenty of hosts work the other way: you show your own check-in QR and they scan it at the door. Both methods reach the same place, so follow whatever's happening at the entrance.

If it doesn't work

"That check-in code isn't valid for this event" — you've got a code for a different event, or a typo. Check the sign again.

"This event has been canceled" — exactly that.

"You're already checked in" — you're in. Nothing more to do.

For anything else, find a host. They can always check you in by hand from the attendee list, which works whatever the camera or the code is doing.

Why hosts use it

RSVPs tell a host who meant to come. Check-in tells them who came. The gap between those two numbers is how they decide how much food to order next time, and whether to book the bigger room.

It also powers Connect — the post-event prompt draws on people who checked in. If you skip check-in, you may not appear for the people hoping to stay in touch with you.