At a pool the queue forms at the same hours every day: before work, at lunch, after school. The person at the entrance has a few seconds per swimmer to check a pass, sell an entry and let them through to the changing rooms.
What makes it hard
- Peak-hour queues. Every second spent looking someone up in a list is a second the next person waits.
- Lots of single entries. Many swimmers pay once at the door, and each entry has to be recorded.
- Swim packs. "10 swims in 2 months" punched on a card that gets wet, lost or lent.
- Lessons for children next to adults on their own passes.
How Abonatus handles it
- A scan, not a search. The swimmer shows a QR code on their phone; the cashier scans it with their own phone and sees green or red, full screen, with the name, the photo and a sound. Then the next one.
- Single entries in seconds. Someone new is added and sold a single entry from the same screen. A swimmer who already uses Abonatus somewhere else shows their code and is added straight from the scan.
- Swim packs counted at the entrance: 10 swims in 60 days loses one swim per day. Going out for a coffee and back in the same day costs nothing.
- The code can't be lent. It changes every 30 seconds and works on one phone; a screenshot sent to a friend is already dead.
- Your peak hours in the reports: arrivals by hour and visits by day, so the second cashier comes at the right time. Takings in cash and by card, for each cashier.
What it costs
Two months free during the pilot, with our help to set up. After that, one monthly price per pool, with no fee per entry.