# bindro — Small zoos, gardens and aquariums

> bindro sells timed admission for a small zoo, garden or aquarium: every open day is cut into arrival slots, each slot holds its own stock per ticket type, and a visitor picks a date, picks an arrival time and pays on one phone-sized page. A donation rides on top of the admission and carries no platform fee, a membership number typed at checkout is checked against the attraction's own roster before a member price is given, the gate scans with no signal at all, and the shop and café till records takings the platform never holds. Money reaches the attraction two days after the last session of the event it was sold under, never before.

Canonical page: https://bindro.io/vertical/zoo-garden-ticketing/
Reviewed: 2026-08-09

## Facts
- Inventory model: timed slot.
- Pricing models: flat, tiered, member nonmember, season pass.
- Fees: 2.5% + $0.99 per paid admission; free visits cost nothing.
- Payouts: one payout per event, released 2 days after that event's LAST session has ended (low risk tier, 0% reserve). Never before delivery, and a visit sold as a run of dates pays out once, after the final date.
- Check-in: qr, works offline. Visitors can come back in: a scan after they were admitted reads as a re-entry rather than a used code, at whichever entrance they come back to, and says when they first arrived. A second scan within a few minutes of the first is still read as the same code presented twice, so a screenshot passed down the queue does not get anybody in. A scan at a later point on the route counts as progress along it, not as a return. The visit is counted once however often it is scanned.
- Joining: free, alone, in minutes. No contract, no monthly fee and no card at signup. A payout destination is verified before the first payout, never before the first sale.
- Booking fee default: the visitor pays it. An attraction can absorb it or split it per visit; the fee itself does not change with the choice, only which side of the sale it comes from.
- Overselling is structurally impossible: inventory moves only under a row lock inside the transaction that confirms the order, with a database constraint behind that as a backstop rather than as the mechanism.
- The number this vertical is run on: Visits per open day. Also tracked: membership renewal rate, seasonal event uplift, F&B spend per visitor. The console computes the north-star figure and prints the arithmetic under it, beside this attraction's own funnel with the drop-off at each stage, where the traffic came from, refund, transfer, turnout, no-show, add-on and repeat rates each shown with its numerator and denominator, gross, fees and refunds per visit, live remaining capacity during the visit, and CSV exports of orders and visitors. A step the platform cannot observe says so rather than reporting a zero.
- Data export: orders and visitors as CSV from the console at any time, behind a fresh one-time code. No export fee, no notice period, no lock-in.

## Not supported for this vertical
- bindro does not sell, renew or bill a membership. There is no recurring charge anywhere in the product, no renewal reminder, no membership card, no household or add-a-member logic and no lapsed-member sweep. The roster that unlocks member prices is typed into the console by hand, one member at a time, with no CSV import — and buying an annual pass adds nobody to it. Whatever runs your membership scheme today keeps running it.
- An annual pass admits at the dates of its OWN event and nowhere else. A pass is a ticket tier flagged as a season pass, so it opens every session of the event it was sold under — and a Christmas light event, a members-only evening or a summer festival run as a separate event is not covered by it. Nothing bundles two events into one entitlement, and the gate will read the pass as unknown at the other event rather than admitting it.
- A season pass consumes no slot inventory. A pass admits its holder at every arrival slot of its event and takes a seat at none of them, so an attraction with a real capacity limit — a car park, a glasshouse, an aquarium tunnel — has to size its slots for the pass holders it expects as well as for the admissions it sells. Nothing warns the gate that a busy slot is fuller than the number on the screen.
- No group product and no school invoicing. Group registration is not enabled for this vertical, so there is no group rate, no roster for a teacher to fill in and no per-place name collection, and billing on terms is a separate capability this vertical does not resolve. A school visit is a quantity of ordinary admissions on one card payment; anything on an invoice is an arrangement you make off the platform.
- No waiting list, and a refund does not put the slot back on sale. When an arrival slot is full the page says fully booked and stops: nobody joins a list and nobody is emailed when an admission is refunded. The count of what has sold is never decremented, so if you want to let one more family in, raise that slot's capacity by one rather than waiting for a cancellation to free it.
- No transfers and no date changes. A visitor who cannot come on the Saturday cannot hand their admission to a friend and cannot move it to the Sunday: this vertical resolves neither ticket transfer nor deferral, and there is no credit note to issue. The only lever is a refund, after which they book again at whatever is on sale. A gift card is the giftable instrument; an admission is not.
- bindro cannot close a day, and cannot email the visitors booked into it. Nothing in the product predicts weather, so a storm closure is your call to make. Once you make it, closing the day settles every booking on it at once and writes to each visitor if you ask — but that is the only message bindro sends: the automatic post-visit email goes to opted-in buyers of a visit that has already happened, and telling tomorrow's visitors anything else is your own channels' job.
- Re-entry is performed by the gate, not just permitted by your policy. A visitor who leaves for the car park and comes back through the gate that admitted them is scanned in again as a return, with the time they first arrived; the same credential at a different gate reads as already used and names the one that used it, which is the phone-over-the- fence case. Attendance counts each visitor once however often they are scanned.
- Cash is not a ticket sale, and the till is not a payment rail. The walk-up gate sale takes a card on the operator's own device; recording a cash admission is deliberately not implemented, because crediting your balance for money bindro never held would pay you twice at payout. Shop and café takings recorded at the till are an auditable record for your own numbers and never enter the platform ledger — that money is already yours.
- No wristbands, no staff rota and no photo sales. RFID wristbands, staff scheduling and media delivery are listed as optional for this vertical and none of them is enabled, so there is no band to bind, no shift to publish and no ride or safari photo to sell. The credential is a QR code, the rota lives wherever it lives today, and a photo concession is a separate arrangement.
- United States only, so no VAT. Onboarding offers one country, and the tax the engine applies is price-exclusive US sales tax added on top of the admission; inclusive VAT is a separate capability this vertical does not resolve, and nothing anywhere claims Gift Aid on a donation. An attraction outside the United States cannot be onboarded today, whatever its currency looks like on the page.

## Questions the landing page answers
- How should a zoo or garden publish its open days so the money arrives through the year?
- Does the annual pass get somebody into the Christmas evenings?
- What happens on the morning the attraction cannot open?
- What should an attraction check before moving its admissions here, and what should it try first?
  https://bindro.io/vertical/zoo-garden-ticketing/

## Pages
- FAQ (27 questions): https://bindro.io/vertical/zoo-garden-ticketing/faq/
- bindro vs ACME: https://bindro.io/vertical/zoo-garden-ticketing/compare/acme/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- bindro vs Gateway: https://bindro.io/vertical/zoo-garden-ticketing/compare/gateway/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- bindro vs Blackbaud: https://bindro.io/vertical/zoo-garden-ticketing/compare/blackbaud/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- bindro vs Roller: https://bindro.io/vertical/zoo-garden-ticketing/compare/roller/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- How to put a season of daily admission on sale — and still get paid every month: https://bindro.io/vertical/zoo-garden-ticketing/blog/putting-a-season-of-daily-admission-on-sale/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- Annual passes and member prices at a zoo or garden, without a membership system: https://bindro.io/vertical/zoo-garden-ticketing/blog/annual-passes-and-member-prices-without-a-membership-system/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- Running the gate on a wet Sunday: offline scanning, re-entry and walk-ups: https://bindro.io/vertical/zoo-garden-ticketing/blog/running-the-gate-on-a-wet-sunday/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- Donations, the gift shop till and the quarterly board paper: https://bindro.io/vertical/zoo-garden-ticketing/blog/donations-the-gift-shop-and-the-quarterly-board-paper/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- How to run a Christmas light event at a garden without breaking the day operation: https://bindro.io/vertical/zoo-garden-ticketing/blog/a-christmas-light-event-at-a-garden/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)