Trade Shows

Run a trade show end to end — website, floor plan, booths, exhibitors, sponsors, passes and check-in — with payments settling into your own account and no commission taken.

A market presence tool. This is how you show up in person. The other families are market signals — how you get found — and connect & procure, which is what happens after.

This is the largest tool on Bidancer, and the only one where the platform runs an operation rather than hosting an exchange. An organiser builds and runs a show; exhibitors, sponsors and visitors each get their own seat in it.

Four seats

Organiser

Runs the show. The floor, the pricing, the exhibitors and sponsors, the passes, the day itself.

Exhibitor

Takes a booth. Signing up, choosing a position, staffing it, capturing leads.

Sponsor

Buys a tier. What is bundled, what is exclusive, and what to check first.

Visitor

Attends. Passes, registration, and what exhibitors can see about you.

Seats are per show, not per account

One account can hold several — organiser of one show, exhibitor at another. See acting contexts.

At a glance


Who runs it	A verified business, with a team it can grant specific permissions to
How a show progresses	Draft, review, open to exhibitors, onboarding closed, show days
Who can take part	Exhibitors, sponsors and visitors — each verified before they are in
Passes	Issued per person and scanned at the door, in kinds that carry different access
Where the money goes	Straight into the organiser's own payment account
What Bidancer takes	Nothing on tickets, booths or sponsorship

What the platform actually does

A website for the show

On its own address, with your branding — and it changes what it sells as the show progresses.

Floor planning

Draw the hall, lay out booths, price by position, import the venue's own plan.

Categories and packages

Who may take part, on what terms, and at what price — including custom classes of participant.

Exhibitor management

Invitations, applications, verification and a roster that says who has actually paid.

Sponsorship

Tiers with their terms stated, sold through the platform rather than an email thread.

Passes and check-in

Entry policy, pass kinds, registration questions, and scanning at the door.

Your own payment gateway

Your account, your settlement, your receipts and tax. No commission.

Lead capture

Scanned badges that continue as real enquiries instead of a spreadsheet.

How this compares

Event platforms split along one line: discovery — being found by attendees — or ticketing — selling entry. Neither allocates an exhibition floor, onboards exhibitors and sponsors, or establishes who is standing in the hall.

This tool is the operational half. It does not try to be a global discovery directory, and listing on one remains worth doing. See Bidancer vs 10Times and vs Explara.

Two things neither of them does

Money settles into your gateway with no commission taken, and exhibitors and visitors are verified — so footfall counts known participants rather than badge scans at a door.