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Share QR codes with people you trust — safely.
PassAround is a private group tool for sharing any transferable QR code — a sports subscription, a multi-entry ticket, a family membership — without ever exposing the code online.
Starting your own group sets up a new pass pool that you run — free for now. Already have a group? Sign in to it.
Just want to join a friend's group? Ask your trusted admin to add you — they'll send you a personal link.
The idea
One pass, shared the way it was meant to be.
Lots of passes are transferable — yours to lend when you're not using it. But screenshotting a QR into a group chat is messy: it gets forwarded, saved, used twice, or sits in someone's photo roll for months.
PassAround replaces that with a structured pool. An admin gathers the codes that the group is allowed to share, grants entry credits to members, and the system hands out one code at a time — to one person, at the moment they actually need it.
How it works
Four moving parts.
An admin builds the pool
The group admin uploads the QR codes that are legitimately shareable — their own, or contributed by trusted members.
Members get credits
No money changes hands. The admin grants integer credits to members of their group. 1 credit = 1 entry.
Claim at the gate
When a member arrives, they tap once. The app picks a code from the pool (rotating to avoid collisions) and sends it to their WhatsApp.
View-once, then gone
The QR arrives as a WhatsApp view-once image. You open it, scan at the gate, close it — WhatsApp deletes it.
Safety
Things we did so the code stays in the right hands.
The QR never appears on the website
The image is delivered through WhatsApp view-once. It is not on any web page that can be screenshotted from a desktop.
Watermarked
Every delivered code carries a per-recipient watermark. If a screenshot leaks, it points back to who took it.
One-at-a-time rotation
The picker avoids handing out the same QR to two people in quick succession, so a code isn't burned by simultaneous use.
Cooldown + daily caps
Members can't claim more than a few times a day, with a cooling-off period between claims. Heavy users get visible to admins.
Audit log
Every claim is timestamped, with the venue and the device that triggered it. Misuse leaves a trail.
Admin-moderated pool
Members can suggest codes, but only the admin approves them into the pool. No one slips an unrelated QR in.
What you can share
Only what was meant to be shared.
PassAround is a coordination tool. It does not grant any right that the underlying pass doesn't already give you. Before uploading anything, check the rules of the pass itself:
- Is it transferable under its own terms? (Many sports subscriptions and multi-entry tickets are; many event tickets and personal memberships are not.)
- Is it yours to share, or contributed with the permission of the person it belongs to?
- Are you respecting the venue's policy — capacity, time slots, daily limits?
If the answer to any of those is “no”, this isn't the right tool. The platform deliberately doesn't enable mass distribution: it's for groups that already have the right to share, just need a less chaotic way of doing it.
Privacy
What we collect, and why.
Your WhatsApp number
So the QR can be delivered, and so you can be invited in the first place. Used for nothing else.
Location (at claim)
When you claim a code, we log which venue you're at. Used for accounting and pool rotation — never to block you.
No payments, no ads
There is no commerce in PassAround — we don't sell your data or run ads. We use Google Analytics to see how the site is used; details in the privacy policy.
Your group, your data
Each group is a separate tenant. Your admin sees activity inside the group. The platform operator sees aggregate operational data.
Policy
The short version.
PassAround is provided by L121, a personal project by Alessandro Lisi. It is offered as-is, with no commercial purpose. We don't buy, sell, or own any pass. We're not a party to anything between you, your group, and the venue.
You are solely responsible for what you upload and how you use the platform. By using PassAround you confirm that everything you share is permitted under the underlying pass's terms.
The full disclaimer lives at /disclaimer. Anything else, or feedback? Drop me a note.
Support
Useful? Buy me a coffee.
PassAround is free, and no money ever changes hands between members. But hosting, WhatsApp delivery, and the odd late night of maintenance do cost something. If it's useful to you and you'd like to chip in for the infrastructure, you can leave a tip — entirely optional, and it changes nothing about how the app works for you or your group.
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