How do virtual waiting rooms work?
A deep dive into how virtual waiting rooms and queue management systems work to prevent system overloads and crashes; Know from Queue Fair Experts.
Manage traffic peaks. Avoid website crashes from high demand.
Treat your visitors with unrivalled fairness.
Queue-Fair is the original virtual waiting room for busy websites, invented by us and originally patented in 2004. When your site has more visitors than it can handle gracefully, the excess visitors are automatically sent away from your webservers to a branded online queue - it then sends visitors back to your site in first-come, first-served order at the rate that you desire.
We handle the world's largest queues. We queue hundreds of thousands of people every day.
By using the world's most accurate, highest quality, most powerful and best value Virtual Waiting Room platform, you ensure that your site can keep selling at its optimum transaction rate. Your site visitors, shoppers, ticket buyers, and app users always get the responsive experience they require, even when you are really busy. They won't see a crashed site.
‘Takes ALL the stress out! Queue-Fair worked perfectly, was very easy to set up & the support was above and beyond, masterclass in support really. The experience was so seamless and gave us a lot of confidence beforehand. In previous years our site has always crashed which has proven very stressful for everyone involved. Queue-Fair solved this problem, our website didn't crash. It all just worked, just as our onboarding consultant said it would. With Queue-Fair we are confident for even bigger days in the future.’
‘A five-star Queue-Fair Review! The team is extremely professional and kind, very punctual and on point to customer needs. Honestly, we get along well in every aspect. Queue-Fair is an essential tool for managing events with many attendees.’
‘The communication was really smooth and everything worked well. The campaign was a success - we were in the green zone with our server all the time! It all worked, both technical and customer-side, and we got positive feedback. We recommend you contact Queue-Fair! I'm pleased we found the solution to our problems.’
‘An Excellent Solution for High Traffic Management! The team is highly professional and attentive to customer needs. The platform is easy to integrate. Queue-Fair helps us manage unexpected spikes, ensuring our website stays functional during peak demand.’
‘High value for money and easy to use, very good product, easy to implement and use. It can be adapted to different websites and pages and it has a very good customer service. It manages waiting room in order to not stress our websites during the launch of important ticketing events. Recommended!’
‘We needed a solution for Black Friday! Queue-Fair was happy to suit a solution for our need for this occasion, offering a great rate and excellent customer service. We could set up our own personalized waiting page room, our own entrance rate, all well-tailored to our measure. If you need a tailor-made solution that won't empty your pockets, Queue-Fair is the way to go!’
‘No nonsense, cost effective queuing system that works. Queue-Fair has helped us both with specific product launches and day-to-day traffic peaks. It's working seamlessly for us - when we take a trial of any technology, we look to make sure a) that it works and b) is cost effective, and Queue-Fair is both, and I'm very happy to continue using the excellent service. We looked at several options but Queue-Fair was the clear winner in terms of price, and it's flawless.’
‘Perfect solution for our Shop. Perfect service, they answered my mail even in the night! Best service I encountered over the last years. Impressive fair pricing! We're more than happy with the service. We usually get high peaks of users every once in a while, with Queue-Fair we finally could manage to get our servers stable again and the selling process is just perfect.’
‘Everything worked perfectly! I'll use it each time we get a traffic spike to not lose any visitors. Queue-Fair is the cheapest solution on the market. Literally few min to install. Great support and really good reactivity. Easy to edit pages. Best bang for your bucks you can get to handle your critical event, I was able to handle more than 10,000 visitors traffic spike from TV show flawlessly.’
‘Great service with great team! Easy boarding, efficient to cope with peak loads! High availability of the service!’
‘Quality product and Reliable Service. We were shocked at how fast it was to set up and how easy it was to use. The product worked exactly as intended. We want to thank the Queue-Fair team for making the process seamless and for their support for helping us with the set up. When we have similar events, we will be sure to use Queue-Fair.’
‘It's amazing! Queue-Fair rocks! Queue-Fair was incredibly useful in controlling the volume of traffic on our website, resulting in a seamless and enjoyable user experience. The system and service are first-rate. Thank you very much Queue-Fair!’
Even the world's biggest companies get overwhelmed by peaks in demand, particularly sudden peaks. Systems architects make decisions based on expected demand and usual traffic rates. It is usually not possible to scale the tech serving your site on demand to prevent a website crash. All webservers have limits, and when they are exceeded, your visitors experience a crashed site.
More Orders
People who have been queued are keener to purchase and buy more - as much as 20% more in each shopping cart, according to our customers.
More Customers
Queue-Fair means you can serve new customers even when your servers are too busy to handle them. People who see an error page or no response at all from your site are unlikely to return - but you can reach all these people with Queue-Fair.
More Fair
Our unique synchronized people ahead counter means that people in the queue can always see that it is moving fairly.
More Ethical
Fairness matters to your visitors, and of course to us! We ensure no-one loses their place in our original first-come, first-served queues, and that visitors arrive at your site in the same order that they joined the queue. That's why we invented it in the first place.
More Fun
Animated progress bars in a range of brand-matching styles. Our unique synchronized ticking People Ahead Counter shows visitors that the queue is always moving forward, and always moving fairly.
Safeguard your website from crashes, peaks, bots and also your company's ethical reputation
More Safe
Discover the wealth of security features available with Queue-Fair to protect your site, app or NFT drop from malicious use.
More Responsible
Our wonderful customers tell us we're lovely people and a pleasure to deal with - and that's what really matters to us. We created the Virutal Waiting Room to make the world a fairer place, so you can be sure of our core values. We always put our customers first. Always.
More Value
Our proprietary process is cheaper to run than any other method. We pass on the cost savings to you. This also allows us to give you more on our Free Tier service than any other provider.
More Speed
Our process means we run the fastest queue servers in the world, and offer unlimited queue capacity on all our service plans.
More Opportunity
Keep the customers that you would lose to your competitors during costly down time. Use your queues to show product slideshows, videos or personalised marketing content to your visitors while they wait.
More Equitable
Our PreSale randomiser prevents touts & scalpers from snapping up all your tickets or stock, and we can use the queue to enforce one-order-per-customer for you too.
More Reliable
We run the most accurate Virtual Waiting Room service and will send you the exact right number of people each and every minute - the key to stable load on your servers. Unlike other providers our queues turn on the very instant that you need them too.
Adapters in every major web server language. Secure Plugins for every major ecommerce platform. Or, add Queue-Fair to your site with JavaScript with one line of code on your page - or no lines at all with Google Tag Manager.
You can also run Queue-Fair at the Network-edge, running on your CDN or Cloud Services provider before requests reach your origin server.
Adapters available for your busy iOS, Android and React Native apps too.
Find out why Queue-Fair is the most widely-integrated queue platform on earth.
Protect your e-commerce site from costly down time
Queue-Fair helps you reach the customers that would be lost when your systems are overloaded, so your site or app can keep selling at its optimum transaction rate.
Sell all your tickets in one day safely and securely
Prevent the dreaded Refresh Refresh Refresh that kills your servers and damages fan loyalty. Show them that you care about their experience with our fair queue.
Cope gracefully with events, registrations and enrolments
You needn't scale your systems just for one busy day a year. Queue-Fair is fair and transparent for your students - who can go away and come back later without losing their place.
Handle massive public demand effortlessly and safely
Why stress out your IT department or your stakeholders? Conserve your resources and cope with any level of demand gracefully with Queue-Fair.
Invented and originally patented in 2004, Queue-Fair is the original Virtual Waiting Room, providing online queue management for busy websites and apps.
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