Orlando City to implement new 'tap and go' ticket technology for 2018

By the end of the 2017 Major League

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Soccer season, 65 percent of fans attending games used mobile tickets to enter Orlando City Stadium, according to Gallagher. The remaining 35 percent used physical tickets received at the stadium or season ticket member cards.

Stadium employees at each gate used handheld scanners to scan the QR codes on mobile tickets or bar codes on the cards.

Gallagher said the new “tap and go” technology can be compared to what stores now use for credit card payments or Disney’s entry system minus the fingerprint recognition.

“Think of a flat surface and a screen looking up, that’s where you tap and that screen will give you the green light or red light to go in,” Gallagher said. “We’ll probably program the screen to say, ‘Welcome to Orlando City’ or whatever it may be.”

The screen will be the size of a large cellphone and can be placed at the gates when needed and removed when events end. Gallagher said fans may not even have to physically tap their phones, despite the name used to describe the tech, because it may work when their mobile devices simply get close to the screen.

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