Drag & drop basics

Ticket Designer ·6 min read ·Updated June 2026
You’re here because…

you want to know your way around the editor — adding elements, moving them precisely, and the tools that make it feel like a real design app.

The Ticket Designer is a proper editor, not a form. It has the tools you’d expect from a design app, tuned for tickets.

Add elements

From the toolbar you can drop in: text, dynamic data (event, ticket, seat and attendee fields), custom fields, images, QR codes, barcodes, and shapes & lines. Drag an element onto the canvas, then position it.

Place things precisely

  • Grid & snap keeps elements aligned to a grid and to each other.
  • Zoom & pan let you work in close on fine detail.
  • Align tools distribute and line up selected elements.
  • Layers control what sits in front of what.
  • A 50-step undo/redo history means you can experiment freely.
  • The off-canvas pasteboard is a parking area around the ticket — drag an element off the edge to keep it without printing it, then bring it back later.

Style each element

Every element has its own properties: position and size, rotation and opacity, corner radius, stroke, text alignment, and a conditional hide so an element only appears when its bound data has a value (handy for an optional seat or table number).

What you see is what prints

The canvas maps 1:1 to PDF points — rotation and opacity included — so the printed (or downloaded) ticket matches the screen down to the pixel. There’s no surprise reflow between design and output.

Elements, layers and the properties panel in the editor.
Elements, layers and the properties panel in the editor.

Next step

Add the scannable part: QR codes & barcodes.

Next in Ticket Designer Add QR codes & barcodes