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Doorman decides who gets in at clubs, restaurants and events. Silent ballotage, a living pass on the phone and full control at the door, in your own identity.
DOORMAN
Doorman is the members pass for private houses: applicants are vetted by your team, approved guests get a branded, revocable QR pass on their phone, and the door scans it in a second.
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Access for clubs · restaurants · events
Doorman is the members pass for private houses: applicants are vetted by your team, approved guests get a branded, revocable QR pass on their phone, and the door scans it in a second.
Built for houses that decide for themselves who comes in.
In use at restaurants, clubs and private houses
Live pass
Three fictional houses, three identities, three living passes. Colours, typography, shape and motion follow the venue. The security underneath is identical. Each QR code re-encodes itself every few seconds, so a screenshot is worthless at the door.
Open the live passMember
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Customize
Colours, fonts, logo, tiers, QR behaviour: every pass is shaped to match your house. Not a template, not a sticker: a real brand object that looks and behaves like you.
Maison Verlaine
Paris · Private dining
Camille Duret
№ 0412
Paris · Private dining
Halle 9
Berlin · Club
Jonas Reike
№ 1187
Berlin · Club
Bloem & Zn.
Amsterdam · Restaurant
Iris van Dongen
№ 0079
Amsterdam · Restaurant
Every detail is configurable in the CMS
Who it's for
Doorman is built for hospitality that selects. Every club, restaurant and event gets its own environment with its own identity, its own admins and its own door.
Clubs
Member lists that hold up. Ballotage by several admins, a quorum you set yourself, and one dissent closes the door. Members carry a pass you can pause or revoke remotely.
Restaurants
For houses where the best tables go to familiar faces. Regulars get their own pass with tiers: founder, member, guest, so the host at the door knows instantly who is standing there.
Events
One-off nights, pop-ups and private dinners. Passes are time-bound and the QR refreshes every fifteen seconds, so screenshots and forwarded codes do not work.
Why Doorman
Most houses guard their bar, their kitchen and their wine list with precision, but leave the door to chance. Doorman turns that last blind spot into an instrument.
Decide before the night starts
No more improvisation at the rope. Your board approves membership in advance; the door simply executes, consistently, every night, with every team.
A full room, not a random room
Ballotage filters on fit instead of first-come-first-served. The room fills with people who belong to the house, and who bring the right guests.
Members who stay
Status tiers, guest rights and a pass worth showing. Members who feel recognised come back more often and introduce their circle.
Completely in your house style
Landing page, member pass and scanner carry your logo, colours and fonts. Doorman stays invisible; your brand does the talking.
Insight instead of gut feeling
See who visits, who sleeps, when it peaks and how full the room is, live. Program on data, not on anecdotes.
Live within a week
We set up your branding, board and door together. No IT project, no hardware lock-in. Scan with a phone or a fixed terminal.
How it works
Application
Candidates apply through your own branded page. A name, an introduction, who sent them.
Ballotage
Three to five admins vote in silence. At quorum the pass goes out automatically.
The pass
A living QR on the phone, installable as an app, fully in your identity.
The door
Scan with phone, tablet or a standalone USB/network scanner. Green or red, with name and member number.
Door policy without discrimination
Research into nightlife discrimination keeps pointing at the same weak spot: the door. Where selection happens on gut feeling, in seconds, without written criteria and without a record, guests of colour are refused or searched more often than white guests. Nobody can prove afterwards what happened. Doorman moves the decision away from the doorstep and makes it explicit, shared and auditable.
In the 2025 mystery guest study, differences between white duos and duos of colour showed up above all at access control: only duos of colour felt doormen made a distinction.
Only seven of twenty-five venues published their door policy online; two published a complaints procedure. Without written criteria a refusal cannot be explained or reviewed.
Simply announcing that door policy is being observed already lowers discrimination. Visible, recorded criteria change behaviour at the door.
Source: City of The Hague, mystery guest study into nightlife discrimination, April 2025 (with reference to Radar research).
How Doorman is used against it
Written criteria, before the night
The house records what it selects on and publishes it on its own page. Every applicant is judged on the same fields, not on who is standing in front of the door at 1am.
No ethnicity, no photo
The application form does not ask for origin, skin colour or a portrait, so admins cannot weigh what they are not allowed to weigh. Only the criteria the house has published are shown.
Several pairs of eyes, no single gut call
Three to five admins vote separately and in silence, with a quorum you set. One doorman's mood can no longer decide who gets in.
Everything logged and reviewable
Every vote, reason, revocation and scan is stored with a timestamp. If a guest, a lawyer or the municipality asks questions, the house can show what happened instead of guessing.
A reason and a right to object
A refusal is never silent: the applicant gets a reason and a route to object, so a complaints procedure exists in practice and not only on paper.
At the door the pass decides
The scanner reads a pass, not a face. Green or red, name and member number: the same procedure for everyone in the queue.
A private house may select on its own house rules, on membership, on behaviour and on capacity. Refusing on race, origin, gender, religion, orientation or disability is prohibited by law. Doorman is built so a house can prove it stays on the right side of that line.
Door policy
Bisous asked for Doorman for one reason: to decide who comes in, without the door becoming a matter of gut feeling. A members club may select, but selection must rest on criteria you have written down, not on how someone looks. This is how you set up Doorman for your own venue.
Write your house rules first
Put on paper what your house is: membership, conduct, guest policy, minimum age, dress code if you have one. Publish it. Criteria that are not written down cannot be checked afterwards. That is exactly where things go wrong.
Keep identity out of the form
Doorman's application form asks for name, contact, referral and motivation. No photo, no ethnicity, no nationality field. What you do not collect cannot steer a decision.
Let several people decide
Set the quorum to three, four or five admins. One person's hesitation is not a rejection. A shared decision filters out the personal bias that a single doorman cannot see in themselves.
Give a reason and a way back
Every decision is logged with a reason. Send it. Offer an objection route: a second reading by an admin who did not vote the first time.
At the door, the pass counts
The scanner reads the pass, not the face. Staff see: valid, paused or revoked, plus name and member number. Any discussion is about the pass. That removes the argument from the pavement.
Review your logs monthly
Every application, vote, reason and scan is stored. Read them back: who is being rejected, on what grounds, and does that match your written criteria? Adjust the criteria, not the individual case.
Within the law
Dutch and European equal-treatment law allows a private club to select members, but not to refuse people on race, skin colour, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability. Research into nightlife discrimination shows the problems concentrate at the point of access, where criteria are subjective and nothing is recorded. Doorman is built to close exactly that gap.
Doorman supports a defensible door policy; it is not legal advice. Have your house rules reviewed by your own legal adviser.
Pricing
Doorman is licensed per house. Everything is included: ballotage, branded passes, wallet, door scanners and logs.
House
Up to 100 members.
Growth
From 101 to 500 members, on top of the House fee.
Scale
From 501 to 1000 members. Above that: bespoke.
Pay annually and get one month free: twelve months of Doorman for the price of eleven.
Running two venues? Get 10% off the first house and 20% off the second.
All prices excl. VAT. Bespoke pricing above 1000 members or for multi-venue groups.
For houses with a door policy
Tell us about your house. We will show you within thirty minutes how ballotage, passes and the door work for your concept.
Request residency
Doorman handles access for private houses and clubs. Applications are weighed in silence by the committee. Once approved, members carry a living digital pass: a code that renews every fifteen seconds and can be paused or revoked remotely.
Apply
A name, an introduction, a reason.
Ballotage
Weighed in silence. One dissent closes the door.
The pass
Living, personal, remotely extinguishable.