Five people ask for it,
the DJ sees one line with five votes.
Guests request songs from the same QR code they already scanned for photos. Ask for a track that is already on the board and your request becomes a vote on it, not a second line. The DJ ends up reading the room instead of deduplicating a list.
Included in the $29 Event Pass · No app for guests · No second QR code
A request list that answers the DJ's actual question
Not “who asked for what”, which is a list. What does the room want next, which is a number.
The same song twice is one line with two votes
Ask for a track someone already asked for and your request becomes a vote on the line that exists. The DJ sees one entry with a number beside it instead of five copies of the same song scattered down a list.
The code already on the table
Requests live at the same event code guests scanned to share photos, under 'Also happening' on the upload page. No second QR, no second sign, no app to install.
A console built for a booth in the dark
The DJ view is white-on-black with large type and one unmissable action per row, made for a tablet propped against a mixer and read at arm's length while the other hand is on a fader.
Ordered by what the room wants
The queue sorts by votes, most wanted first, and a tie goes to whoever asked first so a row never jumps under a thumb already moving toward it. One tap marks a track played.
Open and close requests when you choose
A switch at the top of the console opens or closes the board. Closed means guests can no longer add or vote; the queue you have already collected stays yours to work through.
The host can add a track themselves
Somebody always asks at the booth rather than on their phone. There is a field at the top of the console to type that track straight in, and it joins the same queue.
Where a request board earns its place
Weddings
The couple gives the DJ a do-not-play list and the room gives them everything else. Because repeat asks merge into votes, the four aunties who all want the same song show up as one line with four votes, which is a much better argument for playing it.
Mobile and club DJs
The booth screen replaces a phone full of texts and a stack of napkins. A running count of waiting versus played sits at the top of the console in numbers you can read from a metre away.
Corporate parties and fundraisers
Requests can be switched off during the speeches and switched back on for the dancing, from the same console, without the host having to reprint anything.
Birthdays and house parties
Nobody wants to run a request list on their own birthday. Guests add tracks themselves, up to 10 each, and vote for as many as they like.
How it works
Turn requests on
Requests are a switch on the event, off by default. Turn them on and a 'Request a song' card appears on the guest page under the uploader, below the photo upload rather than in front of it.
Guests ask from the code they already scanned
A guest opens the event code, taps through to requests, and types a song, optionally with the artist and a short note like 'for the first dance'. They can see everything already asked for and everything already played.
Repeat asks become votes
If the track is already on the board, the request lands as a vote on that line and the guest is told so. Asking twice for the same song never removes your own vote, and it never creates a second row.
The DJ works the queue
Open the console on a tablet. Most-wanted first, one tap to mark a track played, a tap to decline one, and a tap to put a played track back. The screen refreshes itself while the set runs.
Why the deduplication is the whole feature
A request box is not a new idea. What decides whether one is useful at midnight is what happens when the same track is asked for by six different people. Kept as six separate entries it is noise: the most wanted song in the room looks like six unrelated requests scattered down a list, and the DJ has to hold the count in their head. Merged into one line with six votes it is the answer. Picsui enforces that in the database, not in the interface, so two guests asking at the same instant still produce one line.
Questions DJs and hosts ask
What happens when two guests ask for the same song?
The second request becomes a vote on the first one. The board keeps one line for the track with a vote count beside it, so the DJ reads demand rather than reconciling duplicates. Matching ignores capitalisation and extra spaces, and treats a missing artist as blank, so 'mr brightside' and 'Mr Brightside' are the same track.
Do guests need an app or an account to request a song?
No. It is a web page opened from the event QR code. A guest does need a guest pass to add or vote, and uploading one photo on the event page is what creates that pass. Anyone holding the link can read the queue without one.
Can the DJ or host turn requests off during the speeches?
Yes. A switch at the top of the DJ console opens and closes the board at any point. While it is closed guests cannot add or vote, and the queue already collected stays on the console.
Can the host add a request that somebody made at the booth?
Yes. There is a field at the top of the console for exactly that. The track joins the same queue as every other request and can be voted on like any other line.
How many songs can one guest ask for?
Up to 10 distinct tracks each. Voting is deliberately not capped, because votes are the signal the DJ is reading and the ceiling exists only to stop one bored guest burying the screen.
Can guests see what has already been played?
Yes. The guest board shows what is waiting and, below it, what has already been played, which is the second question everyone asks the DJ all night. The console shows the host the same two lists side by side with a running count of each.
Is the DJ console a link I can share with my DJ?
Not as a public link. The console is owner-only, because a shareable DJ link would let a guest mark their own request played. It opens in the event dashboard on any tablet or laptop signed in to the host account.
What do song requests cost?
Song requests are part of the Event Pass, $29 once for the event, with no subscription. That is the same pass that covers the photo gallery, the guestbook, the slideshow and the full-resolution download.
Put the request board behind the code you already print
Song requests are one switch on an event you have already set up. Everything else on the night — the photos, the guestbook, the slideshow — runs from the same $29 Event Pass.