Ready to Q

Run your line. Skip the chaos.

A calmer event

  • No crowd at your table: guests join from their phone and enjoy the party
  • Designs chosen before they sit down, so every face goes faster
  • Kiosk, display and your phone all show the same line
  • Works with teams, schools and daycares
Two phones: the artist's phone in Event Mode with 8 guests in line and Ava next up for a Princess face paint, and the guest's phone showing Ava is next in line, with the Before your turn tips.

More bookings after

  • Every family gets your branded thank-you, photo and booking link
  • Review requests and your socials sent for you
  • Your mini-site works like a business card that never gets lost

"One rebooked party pays for your whole month"

The branded thank-you email a family receives, on two phones: Thanks, Ava! with her Princess face paint photo and a download button, then the Book us for your next event button.
No app download required

See Ready to Q in action

Set up your event. Let guests join from their own phone. Run the line from yours. Keep everyone updated without anybody standing in a queue.

A real event table. The artist is mid-paint on a child, phone propped or in hand, with the printed QR sign visible and no queue of people standing waiting.
The event setup screen in the app, on a laptop or tablet frame, with the Happy Brush demo branding filled in.

Step 1

Set up your event

Add your logo and your colours once and every screen a guest sees is yours. Then set up the event itself: when it runs, what you are offering, and what you want to ask guests for.

Ready to Q makes the QR code for you. Print it, or show it on a tablet.

  • Your logo and colours
  • Event name, date and times
  • The services and designs guests can pick
  • What guests are asked for
  • The event QR code

With a team

Running a company rather than a table? Put several artists on the same event. Each one gets their own station and their own QR code, so guests join the right artist's line.

The event page showing several artists assigned to stations, each with their own QR code.
A parent scans a QR code on a Join the Line sign at a face painting station while an artist paints a child's face

Illustration for demonstration purposes. Artist name and sign are fictional.

Step 2

Guests scan to join the line

No app, no clipboard. Guests scan your QR code, pick a design and go enjoy the event while they wait.

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Step 3

Choose how guests join

Your event, your setup. Give guests the way in that suits the room you are working in.

Four phone screens of a guest's journey: filling in the join form with a name, age and consent, picking a design, watching their place in the line, and saving the photo afterwards.

From a parent's phone

The usual way. A parent scans, joins for their child, and keeps their place on their own phone. This is the one that lets you ask for contact details and consent.

Kid Mode on a tablet at an event table: the form asks for the child's name and shows the service, and nothing else. No email, no phone number, no photo question.

Kid Mode

For when no parent is standing there. A child can join with a first name and a design and nothing else. No contact details are asked for and no marketing is collected.

A tablet standing on the artist's table showing the kiosk sign-up screen.

Kiosk Mode

Leave a tablet on your table. Anybody without a phone, or with a flat battery, signs themselves up on it and joins the same line.

An artist's hand holding a phone showing Event Mode during a real event, the table and a child visible behind it.

Step 4

Run the line from your phone

One screen, one thumb, while you are still holding a brush. You see who is in the chair, who is next, and what they asked for.

Somebody wandered off? Put them on hold and bring them back where they were when they reappear. Nobody loses their place because they went for cake.

  • Who is in the chair
  • Their name and what they picked
  • How many are waiting
  • Complete when you are done
  • Not here, put them on hold
  • Move somebody up the line

With a team

Every artist runs their own line from their own phone. As the owner you see all of them at once, and can move a guest between artists if one line is running long.

The owner's view of an event in progress with several artists working, each line shown separately.
A tablet on a stand facing the guests, showing the live queue, with the artist working behind it.

Step 5

Put the line on a screen

Stand a tablet on your table facing the guests. It shows who is being served and who is coming up, in big type readable from across a room.

You carry on from your phone. The tablet follows along on its own, so a child can see their own name getting closer even if nobody is watching a phone.

Step 6

One event. Several screens. One line.

Every device is looking at the same line. Add a guest on the kiosk and they appear on your phone and on the display at the same moment.

A kiosk tablet where guests sign up, the artist's phone in Event Mode with Ava next up, and the queue display tablet listing Ava, Reina, Keira, Matthew and Mario with the Before your turn tips and the Join the line QR code.

Your phone

You run the line

Kiosk tablet

Guests sign themselves up

Display tablet

Guests see who is next

Step 7

Everyone gets their event back

This is the part that actually changes the day. Nobody is standing in a line in front of your table. Families go and enjoy the party, and come back when it is their turn.

You work at your own pace instead of performing for a queue, and the host gets an event that does not have a bottleneck in the middle of it.

Schools & daycares

School and daycare days, organized before you arrive

Send the school one link. Parents sign their child up from their phone in a minute, choosing face or hand and adding any allergy notes. Before the day, the school gets a printable list for every classroom, sorted alphabetically. On the day, teachers bring each class at its time and you simply tick children off. Running more than one service? Each artist sees only their own list. No live line, no wait times shown, and children's details are deleted automatically 30 days later.

  • One sign-up link or QR for the whole school
  • Class lists by teacher, ready to print
  • Face or hand choice, with allergy and skin notes
  • Different artists for different services
  • Walk-ins added in seconds
  • Privacy first: first name and last initial only, auto-deleted after 30 days
A parent's school sign-up form on a phone: the classroom picked, the child's first name and last initial, face painting and balloon twisting ticked, Face chosen over Hand, and a box for allergies or sensitive skin.
Parents sign up from their phone
Printable class lists on a laptop: one page per classroom with the teacher and grade, each class's face painting and balloon times, and the children listed alphabetically with a tick box for each service.
Printable class lists
The day-of view on a tablet: each classroom at its time, children with Done, Absent and Skipped buttons, a Walk-in button for each class, and a count of how many are done today.
Tick children off on the day

After the event

Ready to Q does not stop when the line does

You are busy painting. You are not going to remember to hand a card to every parent, and they are not going to keep it.

So the thank-you goes out for you, with the photo if they agreed to one, your branding on it, and a way to find you again.

  • A branded thank-you
  • Their photo, with consent
  • A nudge to leave a review
  • Your socials and booking link
  • Marketing opt-ins, only where given
  • Campaigns you can send later

Marketing only ever goes to guests who ticked the box. Consent is asked for once, in plain words, and it is theirs to withdraw.

The branded thank-you email a family receives, on two phones: Thanks, Ava! with her Princess face paint photo and a download button, then the Book us for your next event button.

Built for the people who keep events moving

Ready to Q is made for working event artists, by people who have stood behind the table.

  • Face painters
  • Balloon artists
  • Henna artists
  • Glitter tattoo artists
  • Children's entertainers
  • Party companies
  • Event artists
  • Entertainment teams

Or watch it happen

The guest journey end to end, with no narration. Just the app at an event.

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On the day

Three things that save a lot of time

One event open on a phone and a tablet side by side: the phone running the line, the tablet showing the kiosk, with the 'This device' picker open on the phone.

Every device has a job

Tell each screen what it is for and it remembers. Your phone runs the line while a tablet on the table becomes a kiosk guests sign themselves up on, or a display that faces them and shows the queue. The same tablet can be the kiosk today and the display next weekend.

The existing contractor mode illustration: an artist working a stand under another company's banner.

Working for someone else

Hired by a company that does not use Ready to Q? Contractor mode runs your own queue with your own designs, under their name. Guests give a first name and nothing else: no photos, no emails, no records, and what little is collected is cleared when the event ends.

An event's booking details on a phone: the address underlined with a small Google map below it, and the client's phone number and email as tappable links.

Getting there, and getting hold of people

The address on a booking opens Google Maps with directions, and shows a small map so you can see the place before you set off. The client's phone number and email are one tap to call, text or write.

Also built in

Four more things worth knowing

Two printed catalog pages, Boys and Girls, each design with its number badge (B1 Venom, G1 Princess), the same numbers the app shows.

A printed book that matches the app

Turn numbering on and every design gets a reference. Download a catalog to print, laid out with those same numbers, so a guest can point at a picture and say the number instead of trying to describe it.

The join form on a phone showing the two separate photo questions, one about receiving the photo and one about sharing it, each with its own checkbox.

Photo consent, asked properly

Two separate questions, never one. A parent says whether they want the photo sent to them, and separately whether you may share it. Either answer can be withdrawn afterwards, and the photo comes down.

The owner's event permissions panel: photos, contact details and emails each set to Follow my setting, On or Off for this one event.

The company sets the rules, per event

In Company Mode the owner decides photos, contact details and guest emails once, then changes only what is different for a particular booking. Every artist working that event follows the same answer.

A phone showing a Quick Line just opened, with its QR code on screen and nothing else set up.

Quick Line, when there is no time

One tap opens a line with nothing to set up: no catalog, no photos, no branding. Guests scan, give a name, and get called. It is free forever on every account.

  1. Create
  2. Join
  3. Manage
  4. Connect
  5. Grow

Run your next event this way

Set up your first event in a few minutes and let the line run itself.

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