A weekend show is a different animal from a rental. Nothing leaves the yard, the same day repeats all season, a family of three does not pay three times the same price — and on the morning itself somebody has to stand at the gate and count them in.
The Custom Trailer Show runs every Saturday and Sunday through the season. Builders bring finished trailers, the workshop runs fabrication demos, and 150 people can be on site per session. Admission is $25, with a cheaper child ticket for families.
That is three problems at once: a day that repeats, a price that depends who you are, and a door that has to be counted. Here is one family’s tickets, from the listing to the gate.
One show at one time, on every Saturday and Sunday until the season ends.
A season is not a single date with a lot of people attached to it. It is a long run of separate sittings, each with its own 150 places and its own gate list, and nobody wants to type those in one at a time.
The customer picks a day first, then who is coming.
An event does not hand a visitor an empty date picker and hope. It shows the sittings that actually exist, with the places left on each, and offers to drop the one they choose into their own calendar.
Two adults and one child, on the Saturday sitting. Nobody at the box office does the arithmetic, and neither does the customer.
The child ticket is not a discount code and not a note in the order. It is a line of its own, which is exactly what lets the gate count adults and children apart when the family turns up.
Paying is the last step. From the moment the money clears, the party exists on the gate list for that session. There is no separate guest list to keep, no spreadsheet emailed to whoever is on the door, and nothing for the box office to re-enter.
Saturday morning, a queue, and one screen that has to keep up with it.
Choose the day and the sitting, and what comes back is the people expected, grouped the way they booked. Each row says how many of that booking are already inside.
Groups rarely arrive together. Counting one person at a time means a family can come through in two goes, half an hour apart, without the gate losing its place — and anything done by mistake is one press to take back.
The person on the door does not carry a laptop. The gate list opens in the staff app exactly as it does at a desk, and a booking can be moved to a different sitting from there — which is what you want when a group turns up on the wrong day.
Screenshots are of the running system, unretouched.
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