How to Manually Enter Exhibitors from Admin Side
We recommend that you as a show host highly encourage your exhibitors to pre-enter online. It makes everyone's life easier. Even on the day of the show, we still recommend that you have exhibitors enter and pay online themselves from their phones. This will save a lot of time and shorten check-in waiting lines. To do this, you can direct them to your Showman homepage by posting a QR code around the event. Here is a QR code generator that turns any website URL into a scannable QR code.
But, likely, you'll still have some exhibitors who want to enter with your help the day of the show; we recommend having a separate table and line at check in for those who have not entered online. Or perhaps you have some paper entries that were sent in before you decided to use Showman (good decision! :)) Below are the steps for how you ( as a show admin ) can add those exhibitors and entries into the system manually.
Here is a help video to walk you through the steps if you prefer.
Add the new exhibitor:
Step 1: From the Exhibitors Section or the Check-In Section, click "Add Exhibitor" in the top right corner:
(Hint: Before doing this, search their name to double check they haven't already started entries!)
Step 2 : After clicking Add Exhibitor, you'll see a pop up where you can enter their email address, or go ahead without an email address.
Step 3 : When you enter an email address, if they already have an account in Showman, from entering other shows, you'll get this message:
And you can simply choose to "Add this exhibitor."
If they do not have an account in Showman, or you choose to add them without an email address, you'll see this pop up with the ability to add them into the system:
Add Entries for the new exhibitor:
Once the new exhibitor has been added, search their name in the Exhibitors or Check in section:
After you find them in the list of exhibitors, click "View/Edit Entries" in either of the circled places:
From there, you'll be able to add in a New Entry for that exhibitor:
If you still have a question on how to do add in exhibitors and entries from the admin side, feel free to shoot us an email at support@showman.app.