Create a show
What to fill in when setting a show up, in the order that avoids rework, and what each stage gate actually checks before it lets you move on.
Creating the show is quick. Getting it into a state where it can be published is the part worth sequencing, because some decisions are expensive to reverse once people have paid.
For what the stages mean, see how a show progresses. This page is the practical order.
The order that avoids rework
The show itself
Name, dates, venue, category. Ten minutes, and everything else hangs off the dates.
The money route
Verify the business and connect your payment account. Do this early — it blocks publishing, and it is the one thing that can involve a third party's timeline rather than yours.
Tax and receipts
Your numbering series and tax components, before a single receipt is issued. Changing numbering after receipts exist means a gap in a series your auditor will ask about.
The floor
Areas, then booths, then prices. See floor plan and booths.
Who can buy what
Exhibitor and sponsor categories, packages, add-ons. See categories and packages — this is the hardest thing to change later.
Passes and registration
Entry policy, pass kinds and allocations, and the questions attendees answer.
The public site
Build it while the show is still private, so publishing is one decision rather than a scramble.
Your team
Add co-organisers and staff with the access their job needs, before you are busy.
What the gates check
Two checkpoints, each with its own list.
Before review the show has to describe itself — dates, venue, a floor, something sellable. The check is that this is a real event, not a judgement on your pricing, tiers or policies, which stay entirely yours.
Before publishing the check is that it can transact. The blocker here is almost always a payment account that has not been connected.
The screen tells you what is missing
Each unmet item links to the setting that fixes it. "Why can't I publish" is a question the interface answers rather than one for support.
Why the friction exists
An exhibitor who pays for a booth at a show with no venue has a problem the platform helped create. The gates are there so that a stage only becomes reachable when the things that stage implies are actually true.
It costs you an afternoon of setup. It saves the conversation where someone asks for their money back.
Overview
Everything the organiser seat covers — building the show, drawing and pricing the floor, onboarding exhibitors and sponsors, issuing passes, taking payment into your own account, and running the day.
The show's website
Every show gets a public site on its own address, with your branding, the floor plan, exhibitor and sponsor directories, and the sign-up flow — and it changes what it sells as the show progresses.