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Sell Exhibitor Booths Using the Venue Designer

Use the Booth Tool when creating your venue design to sell exhibitor booths

Written by Ariane Ramirez

The feature will allow exhibitors to choose a booth location in your venue and purchase it and it will automatically create the booth after purchase.

Include Booths in Your Venue Design

Optimize your exhibitor booth assignments with our user-friendly Venue Designer tool. This robust feature lets you craft a precise map of your venue using drag-and-drop functionality for easy visualization and arrangement of exhibitor spaces. After mapping out your venue, assign specific booth sizes to various exhibitor add ons. These options are then displayed during the registration process and can be made exclusively available for purchase to exhibitors who enter a valid access code.

Before You Begin

  • ✅ Make sure that you have followed all the steps on how to sell booths as exhibitor add ons.

  • ✅ Learn how to navigate the Venue Designer.

Make the Exhibitor Add Ons Available in the Venue Designer

In the exhibitor add on settings, you'll need to Enable Assigned Seating to make sure that the add on will appear in the venue designer.

  • Go to Registration > Setup Tickets

  • Go to Add Ons

  • Open the Add On settings

  • Go to Advanced Settings

  • Enable the toggle for Assigned Seating

  • Click Save

  • Do this for all your exhibitor add ons

Add a Booth in the Venue Designer

After enabling the assigned seating for the exhibitor add ons, open the Venue Designer to add exhibitor booths to your event layout design.

In this article on Building a Venue & Seating Chart, we discussed selling seats for attendees. You will follow almost all the same steps to sell exhibitor booths, but instead of using the tables and rows tool to add seats (step 4), you'll use the Booth tool.

Add Booths to the Design

To add booths, click the Booth tool from the left-hand toolbar. Hover over the area where you want to add the booth, then click to drop it in place. Repeat dropping booths until you have enough to match the number of exhibitor booths available for your event.

Assign the Exhibitor Add Ons to Booths

Use the Select tool, then highlight all the booths. The booth settings should appear on the right side. Click the Category dropdown and select the exhibitor add on to be assigned to the booths you've highlighted.

Add Booth Numbering

Each booth must be assigned a number or letter. This will allow exhibitors to easily locate their booth when they get to the venue to set up. Ensure that the number or letter matches what they see in their registration and the venue.

The label can be seen on the registration page by hovering on the booth.

Publish the Design

To see if you have everything you need to ensure that exhibitors can buy booths, unselect the booths to load the Seating Chart checklist on the right side. Here, you'll see that everything is checked and good to go. If some items are still not done, click them to check the settings. When you're done designing, click Publish.

Add an Access Code

This is an optional step. You can create an access code and give it to potential exhibitors. They must enter the code after selecting the booth. This is to avoid any confusion from attendees when buying their seats.

Create a Limited Display Link for Exhibitors

You can provide potential exhibitors a link that displays only the venue designer where they can choose which booth to purchase.

View the Booth Number in the Order

The booth number should be indicated in the PDF Ticket they receive through the order confirmation email.

If you want to check as an admin, go to the Orders tab in your admin console and open the holder information to see the booth number assigned to the exhibitor.

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