Run a trade show
Exhibitors, partners, access control across several days, and business meetings between participants.
How it goes
A trade show plays out at the door and in the aisles: the tool mostly serves those two places.
- Before
You build the exhibitor list, with their tier, their stand and your own fields (sector, for instance), and the site presents them with a filter per field. Registration opens, and every visitor gets a QR badge valid for the whole run.
- During
The front desk scans at the entrance every day, with the same list on every station. Visitors who opted in appear in the networking directory: they get contact suggestions based on their topics and propose meetings to each other. Their messages stay between them.
- After
You count attendance by day, add what the platform cannot know, and each exhibitor receives what you choose to show them by link.
What you will use
Four modules do most of the work for a trade show. Exhibitors and networking are included.
What it does not cover
Two things a trade show sometimes needs and the tool does not do.
- No interactive floor plan: stands are listed and filtered, they are not clicked on a map of the aisles.
- No exhibitor invoicing or stand contract management. The tool presents exhibitors, it does not sell them space.
Frequently asked questions
- Can exhibitors be ranked by partnership tier?
- Yes, with your own tiers (gold, silver, or whatever you want), in the order you decide, and grouping by tier on the site.
- Can visitors contact each other?
- Yes, through the Meeting module: participant directory, suggestions by topic, meeting requests and messaging. Depending on your setting, everyone is listed by default or only on request, and can remove themselves in one click.
- Is the badge valid for several days?
- Yes. A re-scan is one more line in the log, never a refusal: you know who came on which day.
- Can exhibitors scan visitors’ badges?
- Yes, if you enable it. Each exhibitor gets a stand link, with no account to create, to scan the badge of a visitor who stops by and keep their name, company and job title, plus their email if you share it. Visitors are told at registration and can remove a contact from their own space.