Map Your Show alternative
The floor plan is one system, not the whole system.
Expola keeps the plan and the directory where they belong: on the same record as the ticket, the badge, the scan and the invoice.
Floor plan tools solve the most visible part of an exhibition well. What they leave behind is everything that has to agree with the plan.
What Map Your Show is good at
Map Your Show knows exhibitions. The interactive plan, the online directory and the exhibitor tools are purpose-built for trade shows, and for an organizer who already has registration sorted, that focus is an advantage.
The job underneath the show
The floor plan is the middle of a chain. Before it there is the website that has to rank and the marketing that fills the hall; after it there are badges, entry, scans and the report. Each handoff between vendors is a reconciliation, and the exhibitor feels every one of them.
Side by side
What changes.
The same jobs, handled by Expola and by Map Your Show's category.
| The job | Expola | Exhibition floor plan and directory |
|---|---|---|
| Floor plan and directory | Live plan with zone pricing, holds and a directory that publishes itself | Its core strength |
| Ticketing and registration | In the platform, on the same record as the exhibitor | A separate registration vendor |
| Badges and access control | Printing, re-entry, capacity and live queue view | A separate on-site supplier |
| Lead retrieval | Included, writing to the exhibitor record | Usually a third vendor and a third contract |
| One report after the show | Floor, tickets, attendance and sponsorship in one place | Assembled from each vendor's export |
Product names are trademarks of their respective owners. This page describes what each category of tool is designed to do, not the current feature list of any one release.
Why teams move
Three reasons it keeps happening.
01
Fewer vendors is fewer reconciliations
Every integration between the plan, registration and the lead app is a place where the numbers stop matching a week before the show.
02
The directory is also your SEO
When the exhibitor directory is part of a site built to rank, each exhibitor page is a page that brings buyers in rather than a listing behind a login.
03
One contract, one renewal
The floor plan, the gate and the reports come up for renewal together, priced as one platform.
FAQ
Switching, in practice. What teams ask before they move off Map Your Show.
See Expola next to Map Your Show, on your own event.
A demo built around your floor plan, your ticket types and the exhibitors you already have.