For a pool or waterpark, an experience can use all-day admission: one ticket lets a guest come and go. Rather than a fixed seat count you set an occupancy ceiling, and the gate scanner has entry and exit modes with a live count of who is inside. A supervisor can admit past the ceiling with a typed reason that is recorded.
Why doesn't a sold pass mean a body in the water?
Because a day pass is permission to come and go, not a seat. Sell 300 passes on a hot Saturday and the number that matters is how many people are inside at 2 p.m. That is a different number, and it is the one a bather load is written against.
So the gate counts entries and exits rather than sales. The scanner shows the live count, and the ceiling caps it. All-day admission is switched on separately by CampGuide, since it changes what a ticket means.
What do the admission rules check?
Minimum height, a passed swim test, a minimum age, or an adult on the record. Each rule is a hard stop or a soft warning an attendant can wave through, and the wave-through is recorded with who did it.
Measurements are kept with a date. Measure a child at the gate once and the next visit is faster. You can require a re-check after a while, so a height from two summers ago doesn't clear the tall slide.
What happens at the ceiling?
Entries stop. The scanner says the pool is full rather than letting an attendant guess, and the count comes down as people leave.
A supervisor can admit past it with a typed reason, which lands on the record. A parent with a medical need at 120 is a decision someone should be able to make, and it's a decision that should have a name and a time attached to it. Re-entry can be turned off per pass where coming and going isn't the point.
Where do wristbands fit?
Load batches of pre-printed stock, bind a band to a ticket at check-in, and reissue a lost one. Guests scan a wrist at the gate instead of a phone, and every existing scan, offline and re-entry flow behaves the same way.
Four numbered bands bound to four day passes is a family that comes and goes from the locker room all afternoon without anybody digging a phone out with wet hands.
What do season passes enforce?
A valid window, either fixed dates or a rolling number of days from purchase or first use. Blackout dates, so a summer pass can exclude July 4th. And a per-day visit limit. The gate applies all three, so the rule you wrote in April is the rule at the turnstile in July.
The Safety page collects what you reach for afterwards: waivers that still need attention, and a searchable incident log. Filter it by date and experience, and hand it to an insurer.
The Saturday version: 300 passes sold, ceiling set at 120, and the scanner reading 118. Two families come in and it reads 120. The next admission is a supervisor override with a typed reason, and it's on the record before anyone gets in the water.
Worth checking.
- The occupancy ceiling you're actually operating to, and where it's written down
- Which admission rules are hard stops and which attendants can wave through
- Whether re-entry belongs on a given pass
- Who is authorized to override a full pool, and that they know the reason gets recorded