Most sales reports are something you look at after the show. Live View is for during it. This short video shows FairKeep's Live View, which tracks a show's sales as they come in from the Shopify or Square register linked to that show.
What Live View Shows
- Revenue so far.
- Orders so far.
- Top sellers for the day.
- Income by hour, so you can see the rhythm of the show.
It refreshes every minute on its own, so you can leave it open on a tablet or phone at the booth and glance at it between customers.
Why Watch It Live
Seeing top sellers during the show tells you what to restock from the back of the car before it runs out. Seeing income by hour tells you whether the afternoon is picking up or winding down. And if you have a crew member running the booth while you're away, it lets you check in without calling.
Live View needs a linked register; the Shopify and Square sync video covers that. Live View is on the Vendor plan.
Try It Yourself
The step-by-step guide on the FairKeep site walks through Live View 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.