Where this batch came from
Everything below exists because organizers ran real show days on the platform and told us where it pinched. That is the best product roadmap there is, and it is free to contribute to: run your show, complain to us. Everything here is live now, for every organizer, at no charge.
Cards in the car line
The gate already scanned passes and took cash. Now it takes cards without the volunteer’s phone ever leaving their hand: the collect screen shows a QR, the driver scans it and pays on their own phone through your connected payment account, and the verdict turns green while the car is still in front of you. Drive-ups get the same option, and an entry paid this way says so, plainly, so your cash box still reconciles to the penny at night.
A QR that turns a volunteer into crew
The person working your gate at seven in the morning might be a scout earning a badge. They should not need an account, and now they do not. Create the crew link on Show day tools and a QR appears: a volunteer points a phone camera at it once and they are working. They can scan passes, check in cars that already paid, and read a windshield card list with the car number printed big for hand-lettering. They cannot touch money, undo anything, or see a single setting, and pressing New crew link logs every crew phone out at once.
Tablets that set themselves up
Setting up six iPads used to mean typing the day code six times. Now there is a second QR (it lives right under the crew one on Show day tools): scan it on a tablet and that tablet is ready, asks whether it is a registration kiosk or a voting station, and runs full screen with no header and no clutter once you add it to the home screen. The setup tip even gets out of the way once you are done with it.
When the gate gets slammed
Long line, short patience. The crew can now take the cash, wave the car through, and send the driver to the registration table, where the kiosk has an “I paid at the gate” button that runs the full sign-up and records the entry as paid and checked in. Nothing on paper, nothing to reconcile later, no line of idling cars.
A change log, and guardrails on the big levers
Every show now keeps a plain-English log of who did what and when: settings changes, stage moves, check-ins, refund-adjacent actions. When somebody asks why registration closed early, you point at the line with a name and a time instead of guessing. The big levers got guardrails too. Closing registration or voting before its natural end now asks you to confirm what will happen, and every stage change emails the show’s owners and admins the moment it happens. Nobody finds out from an angry entrant anymore.
Payment screens that tell the truth
Some card payments need an extra verification step from the buyer’s bank, and people who abandon that step used to see a hopeful screen and walk away believing they had paid. We think a payment page that guesses is worse than no payment page at all. Now the confirmation page says exactly what it knows, and if a payment does not complete it says so within seconds: you have not been charged, here is the button to try again with the same entry. And for the person who already closed the tab, one automatic email an hour later says the same thing.
One email, never two.
Answer your inbox from your inbox
Contact form messages land in your admin inbox. Now the reply box does too: type an answer, hit send, and it emails the visitor with the conversation threaded under the original. When they write back, it goes to your show’s contact address, not into some portal.
The small stuff
A rich text welcome message on the public donate page. Staff can add a registrant from the back office when someone mails a paper check. Typing “5,000” into a sponsorship tier now just works, and shows running other currencies see their own symbol on every sponsor surface. Windshield cards say Judging Category, and the numbered cards PDF downloads in seconds instead of minutes. Photos now live where they belong, on archived shows.
Under the hood
We also spent several long nights load-testing the platform against the crowd sizes our biggest shows draw, and tuned what we found: live results now cost the server almost nothing to serve, and heavy traffic degrades politely instead of dramatically. Boring work. The kind you only notice when it was not done.
Included, like everything else
Every feature above is on the free tier, because the free tier is the product. If your club’s show day still runs on a clipboard and a cash box with no receipts, claim your club’s address and see what next season could feel like.
