Ostrich Festival
Festivals

Ostrich Festival

120,000 wristbands and $2.5M+ processed across a three-day Arizona run.

2022–2025
120,000 Wristbands Issued
$2.5M+ Processed on-site
200 POS devices
The client

Run by the Chandler Chamber of Commerce since the late 1980s, the Ostrich Festival is the city’s largest annual event, a nod to Chandler’s early-1900s ostrich-ranching heyday, now an Arizona institution drawing 60,000+ people into a single weekend of rides, music, and food.

The challenge

Handle heavy gate volume and hundreds of concurrent transactions across three days without lines stalling the weekend.

Our approach

We ran wrstSCN access, wrstPOS cashless, and credentialing together (200 POS devices and 50 access devices) with live reporting keeping entry and spend moving throughout.

The results

WRSTBND supported 120,000 wristbands and $2.5M+ in transactions across three days, keeping gates and 60,000+ attendees moving from open to close.

Behind Every Great Event

Let’s power your next great event

Tell us what you’re building. We’ll show you how one platform, and a crew that shows up, handles access, credentials, payments, and data from load-in to load-out.

Questions? hello@wrstbnd.com