Takits is open

You already know the part where the spreadsheet fails.

It is somewhere around the third person at the door whose name you cannot find, while a queue builds behind them and the volunteer holding the phone scrolls a Google Sheet that has stopped loading because the venue's wifi is a rumour. Someone gets waved through unverified. The final count is a guess. A week later the certificates go out late, from a template, to a list nobody is completely sure of.

Takits is open from today, and that is the part it is actually for.

What you can do in the next ten minutes

Go to takits.online, sign in with your email or Google, and make an event. Cover, date, place, free registration. The share card is built to be legible in Messenger, because that is where your link is going to be opened, not in a browser tab on a laptop.

People register. They get a QR by email. At the door, any volunteer opens the scanner on their own phone — no app install, no account of their own beyond an invite, no shared password. They point the camera at a ticket and it admits the person, catches duplicates, and takes walk-ins without leaving them out of the count.

Afterwards you get the number almost nobody has: registered, checked in, and the show rate between them. Set a catering guarantee and you will see exactly how far over or under you came, which is the difference between guessing at food next time and knowing.

Then issue certificates to the people who actually turned up. Each one gets a personalised PDF and a permanent verification link, so someone who loses the file in three years opens a link instead of hunting down whoever was secretary that year.

All of it is free. No card, no attendee cap, no trial clock.

The door works when the venue does not

This is the part we spent the most time on, because it is the part that fails at the worst possible moment.

Gymnasiums, barangay halls and provincial venues have terrible signal. So the scanner opens and keeps scanning with no network at all. Scans queue on the phone and send themselves when signal comes back. Closing the tab does not lose them. A scan that only failed because of the network stays queued rather than disappearing, while a definitive answer — wrong PIN, no such ticket — settles immediately, so a volunteer always knows which one they are looking at.

Open the scanner once while you still have signal and the phone tells you, in plain words, that it is ready. Then you can turn the connection off entirely and it will still work.

What it does not do

There is no payment processing. None. Takits cannot charge you or your attendees, and there is no checkout hiding behind a setting. Paid ticketing is planned for December 2026 and is written up on the pricing page with the tier that comes after it. Free events stay free when that arrives.

We would rather say that plainly than let an organiser discover it halfway through setting up a paid event.

Built for how organisations here actually run

The first version of this spoke only to people running meetups, because that is what we ran. That was a strange thing for a Philippine events platform to do.

The organisations that run the most events in this country are campus orgs, fraternities and sororities, alumni chapters, professional associations and civic groups. What they run is an outreach, a blood drive, an induction, a general assembly, a soirée. Those are categories you can pick now, and there is a page about it.

The argument there is narrow and it is the one we keep hearing: officers change every year, and the roster, the attendance sheets and the certificate templates leave with the outgoing secretary. On Takits those belong to the organisation. Swap the officers, keep the history.

It installs on your phone

There is no App Store or Play listing yet, and the installed web app is not a stopgap for one — it runs from the home screen with no browser bar and updates the moment we ship a fix. How to install it, on Android and iPhone, in two taps.

Where this is

Takits is early and we are not going to pretend otherwise. It has run our own events, it is about to run more, and the show rate only becomes worth something once it has been measured across a lot of real doors.

If you are running something in the next few weeks — anything, however small — that is the useful thing. Put it on Takits, tell us what broke, and we will fix the thing you hit. That has been the whole method so far, and it is why the offline scanner exists at all.

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Takits is the clipped form of kitakits — "see you there". Made in the Philippines by Vibe Coders PH.