Start with your ticket types
Most car shows sell two kinds of entry: people who come to look, and people who bring a car to show. Selling them as separate tickets keeps your counts clean and lets you price them differently.
Decide your list before you build anything. A typical show has a few of these:
- General admission for spectators
- Car show entry for each vehicle on display
- VIP or early entry
- Vendor booth or swap meet space
Put everything on one event page
Your event page is the link you'll share everywhere, so it should answer the basics without a phone call: the name, the date, the venue and every ticket with its price. On xMerch each event gets its own page with a banner, and the date shows in each visitor's own time zone.
If you run a tour, give each city its own event page and keep them all in one store. Fans who missed one stop can find the next.
Collect car details at registration
Car show entries need more than a name. Ask for what your judges and your layout crew need, once, in the same format for everyone:
- Year, make and model
- Class (lowrider, classic, custom, bike, and so on)
- Name, email and phone
- The story behind the build, for announcers and judges
Let people pay the way they already do
Every payment method you don't take is an entrant who says they'll pay at the gate. On xMerch buyers pay by card, Apple Pay or Cash App, or with the Xaman wallet. After checkout they open their order and fill in their registration, whichever way they paid.
Share it, then check in from one list
Post the event page link in your announcements, print it on the flyer and drop it in the club group chats. As people register, every entry shows up in your back office, listed by event, so the morning of the show starts with a list instead of a stack of forms.