Barnegat Light has gone mobile with its beach badge sales, as it introduces “Viply,” an app on cell phones that badge checkers on the beach can scan with their own phone. The beachgoer pays first online; when they get to the beach, the checker can scan the app and give them their physical badge.

Viply is an option, not the only choice. Technology is paving new low-contact ways in this COVID-conscious summer of 2020.