Behind the turnstile: DiKAS at the indoor park and the outdoor pool

A trampoline park on a rainy Saturday and an outdoor pool during a heatwave don’t look like siblings at first glance. Yet they share the same requirement: there’s an admission, guests spend money inside (café, ice cream, rentals, lockers), and at the end of the day it all has to add up in a tax-office-proof way. Anyone running this on separate islands – an access system at the entrance, a POS tablet at the kiosk, an Excel sheet for the season passes – ends up adding numbers in the evening that don’t match.

This is exactly where we come in. For leisure facilities, DiKAS works closely with coremanager, the ticketing and booking platform for sports and leisure operators. The roles are clearly divided – and they mesh through a shared wristband.

Who does what: getting in vs. inside

In short: coremanager handles the tickets and access control, DiKAS the sales and accounting.

coremanager gets guests in. Tickets, time slots, courses and annual passes are sold online, with capacity controlled in real time. And on-site, coremanager handles the entrance: access control, turnstile and issuing the wristband.

DiKAS is the till behind it. The wristband is run in DiKAS as a customer account with balance. The guest tops up a balance, and at the till every purchase – kiosk, food, rentals – is deducted from it as the payment type “customer balance”. The result is a TSE-compliant settlement across all stands.

DiKAS runs in completely normal POS mode here – no special setup. The wristband is simply a customer with a balance, and the shared medium runs all the way from admission to the till: no media break, no double maintenance, no island.

Sell online, redeem at the turnstile

The start of the day increasingly happens at home on the sofa. Through the coremanager online ticket shop you sell around the clock – without a queue at the entrance:

• Time slots and hourly tickets for the jump arena,
• Day and group tickets for the outdoor pool,
• Annual and season passes for regulars,
• Courses and memberships for the climbing hall,
• plus vouchers and discount promotions.

On-site the ticket is then redeemed at the turnstile: the guest scans their QR code or the app, coremanager checks validity and capacity, the turnstile opens and the wristband is issued. Day guests, annual-pass holders and course participants all go through the same entrance. Because capacity per time slot is controlled in real time, a fully booked slot is closed online – nobody queues at the till for nothing.

And right from this turnstile, DiKAS takes over: the issued wristband becomes a customer account with balance, onto which every purchase in the park is booked.

Indoor park: wristband on, charged to the balance

Here’s what a Saturday at the jump park looks like:

1. Booked online. The family reserves their morning slot in the web shop. coremanager keeps capacity clean – the 10 a.m. slot eventually fills up, nobody queues for nothing.
2. Admission. At reception, coremanager issues the wristband and opens the turnstile. Ticket checked, time window fits, in they go.
3. Balance & spending. The wristband is a customer account with balance in DiKAS. Grip socks, two coffees, the birthday package – at the till everything is deducted from the balance. No cash in the hall, no queue.
4. Settled. Remaining balance is refunded at the end, café and rentals are booked as traceable line items, TSE-signed.

Birthdays and groups that book online in advance are no longer a special case – they run through the same funnel as the spontaneous day guest.

Outdoor pool: no wallet at the poolside

At the swimming pool everything revolves around one detail that a food-service till doesn’t know: water. Nobody lugs a wallet to the poolside.

• Admission by wristband. Day guests and season-pass holders come in through coremanager at the turnstile, and the waterproof wristband is handed out at the entrance.
• Balance instead of cash. The guest tops up a balance on the wristband, and DiKAS deducts ice cream, fries and the drink at the bar from it. Season passes are an account with a balance, not a stack of paper.
• Remaining balance refunded. At the end, any leftover balance is paid out – clean, traceable, with no change at the wet counter. Self-service top-up terminals, where guests load their balance themselves, are in preparation.

Why one settlement across all stands matters

The real win comes in the evening. Kiosk, food service and rentals don’t land in three systems but in one till. Every transaction is logged with time, stand and price and TSE-signed – discrepancies show up immediately, not only at the tax advisor’s.

• TSE-signed per KassenSichV, for every scoop of ice cream and every rental item.
• DSFinV-K export for the cash audit.
• DATEV export for accounting.
• Real-time revenue: which stand is busy, what’s selling, how much per hour?

Instead of three sources that don’t match in the evening, there’s one daily log across all stands – ready for accounting.

The best of both worlds

A pure ticketing platform can’t settle a scoop of ice cream in a TSE-compliant way. A pure food-service till can’t get guests through the turnstile. That’s why coremanager and DiKAS split the work cleanly: coremanager handles the entrance – online ticket, turnstile, wristband – and DiKAS the till behind it, with the wristband as a balance account. Deeply integrated via a shared wristband, without anyone adding up islands in the evening.

How this works in detail is shown in the overview The till behind the turnstile. Or go straight to your industry:

• Leisure park & indoor park
• Swimming pool & outdoor pool

And if you want to try it yourself: Test for free or discuss the integration with us.