Bulky service kits no longer have to be located and referenced. And, for novice exhibit managers, extensive help menus and glossaries of terms are included in the Web sites to help them understand which services to order, why to order them and how to order them. In fact, if you printed out the full text of the help menus, you'd have a pretty good manual on the whole trade show business. Errors are reduced and accuracy increased. Besides reducing the sheer volume of data required from exhibitors, Web-based ordering systems provide features that improve the accuracy of the information supplied to the service contractor.
Convenience saves time and money.
Before any show, the service order confirmation provides exhibitors a convenient and accurate hard copy that can be submitted to their accounting departments for processing. General service contractors will also save in the immediate term because online ordering systems lessen the steady requirement to receive, review, decipher, edit, clarify, correct and key in the paper order forms received from exhibitors. And in the long term, both service contractors and show organizers will save by reducing the need to create, duplicate and distribute paper versions of the traditional exhibitor service kit. All rights reserved. Downloaded from the EXPO Magazine Back Issue Archives on the EXPOweb.