Everybody who does shows has a story about the thing they forgot: the tent weights, the card reader charger, the tablecloth. A packing list fixes that, but only if you actually use it every time. This short video shows FairKeep's reusable booth packing list.
How the Packing List Works
- Reusable. Build it once and use it for every show.
- Tick items off as you load the car. You can see what's still left to pack.
- Add your own items. Every booth is different, so the list is yours to fill in.
- Star the ones you cannot forget. The essentials stand out from the nice-to-haves.
Why Stars Matter
At 6 a.m. when you're loading in a hurry, you don't always get through the whole list. Starring the items the show cannot happen without means you check those first. If everything starred is in the car, you can open the booth, even if a few extras stayed home.
If you'd like a packing list on its own, without an account, there's PackMyBooth, a free booth packing list tool with no account required.
Try It Yourself
The step-by-step guide on the FairKeep site walks through the packing list screen by screen, so you can follow along at your own pace. FairKeep is free to start and doesn't ask for a credit card, so you can set up an account and try it with your own shows. If you haven't seen the app before, the two-minute tour of FairKeep covers the dashboard, events, applications, calendar, packing list, reports and integrations in one pass.
I recorded this video on a demo account for a made-up candle company, so the shows, names and numbers on screen are examples, not real data. For the bigger picture of what FairKeep does, see my FairKeep overview, and for the free calculators and tools that sit alongside it, the VendorTools hub.
More short how-tos on the VARØ Industries YouTube channel.