Tap a tag, scan a code, or just arrive.
Use one or run all three. Every check-in is tied to a signed-in Luau account, so you end up with a list of people, not a sheet of names.
A host at the door taps each arriving guest’s phone with a PartyPass tag, or mounts a tag for guests to tap. The check-in link only works on the phone that was tapped, which means nobody can text their way onto the attendance list.
How PartyPass works →Print a QR code of your event’s check-in page and put it by the door. Guests scan it, allow the browser’s location prompt, and tap I’m Here — Check In. Luau confirms they are within about 150 meters of the venue before it counts.
Print a check-in QR →Guests who use the Luau iPhone app and allow location are checked in by showing up. During the check-in window the app watches a 200-meter area around the venue. When they arrive, Luau marks them Nearby and nudges them to confirm. No tap, no scan.
Get the iPhone app →Guests check themselves in. You watch the list.
Nobody has to stand at the door with a clipboard. Turn check-in on, let guests do the tap or scan, and step in only for the people who need a hand.
In the event’s PartyPass Settings, turn on Use PartyPass for Check-in, Location Check-in, or both. Choose when check-in opens: at event start, or 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, or 4 hours before. It closes when the event ends.
A tap at the door, a scan of the QR, or just arriving with the iPhone app. Each guest signs in once, so every check-in belongs to a real Luau account rather than a name someone wrote down.
The event page shows who is in, how they got in, and who is still missing, with a Check in button next to each missing name. You only step in for the people who need it.
Two hours after check-in closes, hosts and co-hosts get “X of Y guests checked in” by push and email, with walk-ins and no-shows listed. On iPhone, Confirm Attendance lets you correct anything.
Walk-ins, no-shows, multi-day events, and corrections.
With Allow Walk-ins on, a guest with no RSVP is RSVP’d Going as they check in, even if the event is full. Turn it off and only guests who RSVP’d can check in.
One check-in per guest per day, by any method. A weekend retreat gets a day-by-day attendance record instead of a single tick.
Hosts and co-hosts can check anyone in from the event page, undo a check-in, and keep doing both after the event. On iPhone, Confirm Attendance shows who actually came and how Luau knows.
Guests who said Going but never checked in get a short “Sorry you didn’t make it” by push and email, unless the event required a PartyPass tap, where a missed tap is final.
Luau’s mutuals graph weighs a checked-in hang more than an RSVP, and a Going RSVP with no check-in at a verified event counts for nothing. Showing up is what builds the relationship.
Location is stored only for events with location check-in on, only from RSVP’d guests who allowed it, and only during the check-in window: the check-in position, its distance from the venue, and the nearby samples. It is not a movement log, and Luau never sells location data.