Adding Queue-Fair
The Queue-Fair Virtual Waiting Room is easily added to a wide variety of web and app platforms in minutes. Just use one of our Adapters. You can find more information about the best way to integrate the Queue-Fair serice with your existing system in the Technical Guide, or the Queue-Fair Portal > Help section. If you are looking for information on how to stop bots or humans from making multiple orders, or protect your NFT sales from excessive gas fees, you can read this overview or get full detail in the Security Guide section of the Portal.
The quickest way to get started with Queue-Fair is to sign up for a Free Tier account - you can do this online now and start integrating and testing immediately.
The Client-Side Adapter
For websites, the simplest way to integrate with Queue-Fair is to add the Client-Side Queue-Fair Adapter JavaScript tag to your pages. You can safely add the Adapter to all the pages on your site, and use the Activation Rules in the Queue-Fair Portal to determine which pages may throw a queue.
Because it runs in your visitors' browsers, the Client-Side Adapter can be disabled by technically skilled visitors, but is very effective at preventing overload as only a very small minority of people will attempt to skip the queue by tampering with the JavaScript. Most of our customers use the Client-Side Adapter because it is effective at preventing a crashed site, simple to install and does not introduce any dependency between our system and yours.
You can add a security layer by replacing the JavaScript tag with a Server-Side Adapter, or combine the flexibility of the JavaScript Adapter with the Hybrid Security Model described on this page; both methods are then secure.
Single Line of Code
To add the Client-Side Adapter to your site, just add the following single line of code to the <head> section of your pages:
Some customers add the word defer to the tag, which causes the Adapter script to be
downloaded in parallel to parsing the page and also to only start execution of the script
in the visitor’s browser when the page has finished parsing (so typically after any other
scripts on your page have finished).
Adding the word defer can improve Time to First Paint by a small fraction of a second
in some cases, but if you choose to do this it will mean that any visitors that should be
queued will see your protected page for a fraction of a second longer before they are sent
to the queue.
Google Tag Manager
We also provide the JavaScript Adapter Tag via Google Tag Manager. Search for Queue-Fair in the Community Templates Gallery, under Add Tag. Please note that some ad blockers prevent the download of the master gtm.js from Google, which blocks all operations of Google Tag Manager, including running the queuing system Adapter for those visitors.
