Every car at the show,
on every phone at the show.
Registration with numbered spaces, the live map spectators tap to find a car and walk to it, your title sponsor on the screen the moment the app opens, and the promoter hub for permits, vendors, volunteers and safety. Installed from a QR code at the gate. No app store.
Numbers from the working model of The Classic at Bayside Cove, the fictional 1,000-car demo show. Try the map: tap a car, walk to it, search for space 214.
Cars
Bayside Cove
A trimmed slice of the demo map: 134 of the 1,000 spaces, Cove Avenue, Anchor Street and the Pier. Drag to pan, pinch or scroll to zoom.
New inventory your sponsor deck does not have today.
You price it. You keep it.
Every car show sponsor deck we could find sells the same things: banners, shirts, a tent, a program ad, a DJ mention. Not one lists the screen 100,000 people are staring at all weekend. The app opens on a full-screen "presented by" splash, carries a sponsor pill under every map, pins every booth, and sends blasts you approve. Then it hands the sponsor a report with real numbers, which is the thing that gets them to renew.
Package it with what you already sell. Put the digital lines next to the banners, booths and program ads in each tier, and offer category exclusivity to the sponsor who wants to be the only one.
Car shows have never had this inventory to sell. You will be the first show in your region to offer it.
Meridian Motors sponsor report Show weekend, May 28 to 30
Usage from the demo show. The promoter prints this on Monday. The sponsor renews on Tuesday.
The splash is the slot sponsors ask about first. It is the first thing every spectator sees on every open, all weekend, in the sponsor's own wordmark. What it sells for is your call.
Your numbers
Put in what your show charges. Nothing is filled in for you, and nothing leaves this page.
- Title sponsor
- Not entered
- Gold sponsors
- Not entered
- Silver sponsors
- Not entered
- App add-ons, new with the app
- Not entered
Every show prices its own packages. The app gives you more to sell and the numbers to prove it worked.
Spectators, car owners, promoters and the office.
The same show data on every screen. A spectator taps space 214, the owner of 214 renewed it from his phone last Sunday, the promoter released the spaces that were not renewed on Monday at 10am, and the office watched the money land.
Find the car. Walk to it. Vote.
- Search 1,000 cars by year, make, color, class or space number; results light up on the map.
- Walking directions along real streets, in feet and minutes, with a step-free route option.
- Car sheet with the owner's story, engine, horsepower and years attended.
- Sponsor blasts arrive as a banner with a Go button that opens the booth on the map.
- Works with no signal: the map and every car are saved on the phone at the gate.
Pick a numbered space. Keep it next year.
- Five-step registration: account, the car, pick a space on the map, add-ons and pay, digital dash card.
- Returning owners renew the exact space until Sunday 3pm; unclaimed spaces go public Monday 10am. No swaps, no trading up, no-shows lose next year's space.
- Trailer parking, Sunset Cruise passenger seats and wristbands as add-ons the promoter prices.
- Email and text confirmations the owner turns on or off; a laptop link and an assisted line at the tent for the owner who will not use a phone.
Sell the inventory. Approve the blasts. Watch the gate.
- Dashboard: spaces sold, waitlist, gross, checked in, no-shows, installs, blast opens.
- Space map manager: hold, release, block a space for a food truck, assign from the waitlist.
- QR check-in at the gate, manual lookup by space or name.
- Blast scheduler with guardrails: 4 sponsor blasts a day, 60 minutes apart, quiet hours, your approval on every one. The form refuses a blast that breaks a rule and says why.
- Judging with a weighted rubric, conflict checks, People's Choice, 57 awards with sponsor names.
A new show in an afternoon.
- New show wizard: name, dates, promoter, plan, logo, colors, spaces, price, opens-on date, clone from last year.
- Map builder: upload an aerial photo, set the scale, trace the curbs, and the numbered spaces appear rotated to the street.
- Billing per show: setup, monthly, show weekend, the $2.50 collected per car.
- Health page in plain language: served from the CDN, cell coverage advisory for beach venues.
The city paperwork, in one place, with the deadlines doing the counting.
A 1,000-car downtown show touches the city, the police, fire, EMS, Caltrans, ABC, county environmental health and a private security contractor. Today that lives in a spreadsheet, a shared drive and someone's memory. The hub gives every deadline an agency, a lead time and an owner.
Permits
Twenty-nine items from the pre-application meeting to the post-event walkthrough, each timed back from your show date.
Vendors
Booth sales with a compliance vault: food facility permit, seller's permit, business license, certificate of insurance, each with an expiry.
Volunteers
Role screens. A gate volunteer opens the app and sees one button: Scan. A block marshal sees the block list and arrival windows.
Safety
Incident log with timestamps, weather hold with one button, fire lane check on the map, lost child procedure by block name.
Setup, a small monthly, the show weekend. Your sponsor money stays yours.
Four plans by show size. Setup pays for building your map and importing last year's owners. The monthly runs only while registration is open. The weekend fee is when we are on call and watching it live. Year two renews at 50 to 60 percent of setup, because the map already exists.
- Self-serve, one venue map
- Registration and check-in
- One splash sponsor slot
- People's Choice
- Branded, venue map built for you
- "App presented by" slot plus 2 blasts
- Judging, awards, sponsor report
- Promoter hub
- Custom multi-lot map, owner import
- Full sponsor kit and results reports
- On-call weekend support, readiness check, printed fallbacks
- Every sponsor package you sell is yours to price and keep
- Custom, $20,000 to $40,000 a year
- Multiple venues and dates
- National sponsor buys across shows
- Dedicated on-site support
- Custom integrations
Per registration, paid by the car owner at checkout, on every plan. It shows as a line item the same way every ticketing site adds a fee, so it never appears in your budget and it is never negotiated. Money goes straight to your account through Stripe Connect; refunds and chargebacks stay yours.
Never negotiatedHow it stays up when 100,000 people open it.
Not on a rented server. A single server is the thing that falls over when everyone walks through the gate at 9am, and someone has to be awake to fix it. The spectator app is a set of files, and files are the easiest thing on the internet to hand out.
Copies of the map and every car sit on hundreds of servers around the country. There is nothing to crash and no bill that scales with the crowd.
The first open from the QR code at the gate saves the map and all 1,000 cars. After that it works with no signal at all. GPS does not need cell service.
Registrations, check-in scans, votes and blasts run on a managed database and managed functions. Capacity is added automatically when traffic spikes. A show weekend costs tens of dollars, not thousands.
They are tiny messages. They wait on the phone and send when there is signal, so a jammed tower at the beach loses nothing.
A status page, one named on-call person, a readiness check the week before, printed fallbacks generated by the app, and a contract credit if we ever go down.
What promoters ask, and what we say.
They buy the crowd. The app puts the sponsor's own wordmark on the screen every spectator opens all weekend and hands them a report with numbers. No car show deck sells that today. You price it, you keep it, and the report shows the sponsor what they got.
The spectator app is static files on a content delivery network, with the live parts on managed services that scale on their own. There is no single server to fall over. See the show weekend section above.
Correct, and that is the risk we design for. Everything is saved on the phone at first open, GPS works without signal, and blasts and votes queue until a bar comes back. QR codes at the gates and on the dash cards get the first open done before the crowd builds.
Registration works from a laptop link, an assisted line at the tent, and a paper dash card printed from the same record. The owner never has to install anything. The spectators do, and they already have the phone out.
You do. Stripe Connect pays registrations straight into your account and takes our $2.50 automatically. Refunds and chargebacks are yours, and the contract says so.
First name only, hometown optional, no plates, and locations are hidden after the show closes. The owner controls what spectators see, car by car.
Weighted rubric, conflict checks, highest and lowest scores dropped, and every owner gets their scoresheet. People's Choice is one vote per phone per car with a minimum number of ratings before a car can rank, so two 5-star votes never beat three hundred at 4.8.
Keep the website. The app embeds in it: the live map, the registration button, the sponsor logos and the QR to install. Last year's owners import from a spreadsheet, and grandfathered spaces come with them.
They do not. It installs from a QR code as a web app on iPhone and Android, no app store, no account. Web event apps see 71 to 90 percent adoption against 48 to 60 for store apps.
The map builder starts from your aerial photo. Set the scale by clicking two points, trace the curbs, and the numbered spaces appear rotated to the street, angled, parallel or head-in. A pier, a fairground loop and a parking lot are all templates. We build the first one for you as part of setup.
Things in numbered spaces on a map, people who pay for a space, a crowd that wants to find those things, sponsors who want the crowd, and a promoter drowning in paperwork. That describes more than car shows. Also for:
Website, print and marketing by ZOOGABOOG!
Your show website with the app built in: the live map, the registration button, sponsor logos pulled from the app, the schedule and the install QR. The dash cards, posters, banners, shirts and sponsor decks to match. The agency behind it built and ran the marketing for a 1,000-car California beach show for eleven years, which is where this product came from.
- New site or a rebuild of your WordPress site
- Live map, registration and sponsor logos embedded
- Schedule, install QR, hotel block links
- Hosting and the season's updates
- Everything in Show site
- Dash cards, posters, street banners, shirts
- Sponsor deck with the app inventory built in
- Program and awards artwork
- Site and print kit
- Social, email and paid ads through the season
- Sponsor prospecting materials
- Show weekend content and the sponsor recap