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Product news, show-day lessons, and what we keep learning from the organizers who run on Car Show HQ.
The registration kiosk and the voting station are web pages on an iPad in a stand. Here is the setup in the order you will do it: which iPad, how many, the day code the night before, and the one scan that readies each tablet on show morning.
Which tablet, which card reader, how do you keep it all charged. We answered the three questions every first-time organizer asks, once, and put the list in Manage, next to a Services tab of vendors other organizers recommend.
We ran a 407-car show on Labor Day, then built what it taught us: a location check with three settings, votes that save as you go, spectator donations, PayPal, your own site pages, and a media library. All free, all live now.
The 2026 Labor Day Car Show in Fairfax, Virginia registered 407 vehicles, took 3,574 spectator votes on phones, and had results final four minutes after voting closed. Here is how the day ran.
Card payments in the car line, a QR that turns volunteers into crew, tablets that set themselves up, a change log, and payment screens that tell the truth. All free, all live now.
Confirmation emails now carry a personal gate pass. One page on a volunteer's phone scans it and answers whether each arriving car is paid, owes at the gate, or is a drive-up, with one-tap collection.
Live check-in alerts, clearer voting rules, sponsor billboards on windshield cards, international currencies, guided custom domain setup, and more. All free, all live now.
The Labor Day Car Show, 27 years running and more than 400 cars through Old Town Fairfax, now runs on Car Show HQ.
QR voting quietly leaves people out. The new voting station is a desk with a tablet on it, so the people without a phone still get a say.
The new TV leaderboard puts live voting on a screen at your show, with a scan-to-vote QR code on it. Plus passes you can actually buy and Square in two clicks.
