Overview

The Alberta Food and Beverage Expos span across 4 beautiful cities in Alberta: Lethbridge, Red Deer, Grande Prairie, and Medicine Hat pairing local eats and drinks, with a short 6 hour fun filled night out.

Solutions

Ticketing

RFID Cashless

Booth Management

Access Control

Credentials

Objectives:

  • Implement a digital token system to avoid counting 100,000+ tokens.
  • Provide detailed reporting to vendors on hot selling items and exact token sales.
  • Increase consumer spending.
  • Provide reports to vendors on who attended their booth, what products they sampled, and their contact information for after event followup.
  • Reduce queue times.
  • Provide a safer contactless attendee experience.
  • Make it easier for vendors to apply for booth space and manage their paperwork.

With great collaboration between Fusion and AFBE, we were able to put together a complete solution that accomplished their aggressive goals.

The Solution:

  • Ticketing
    • A white-label ticketing solution that was easy for attendees to purchase tickets online and on-site with quick and easy redemption at the door.
    • Low service fees.
    • Robust to meet their dynamic needs.
    • Capture data to provide on vendor reporting post event.
    • Sponsorship opportunities on each ticket.
  • RFID Cashless
    • Vendors have their own shop in the Fusion Cashless Mobile App with their specified products to sell.
    • Attendees arrived on-site, loaded their wristbands at a top-up station, and simply tapped their wristband to purchase samples.
    • Robust reporting for vendors and attendees.
  • Booth Management
    • Creating dynamic application workflows.
    • Managing paperwork, payments, booth assignment, and communication.
    • Creating digital forms that can be filled out 100% online.
  • Access Control
    • Control entry access through QR code scanning eliminating fraud and invalid tickets.
  • Credentials
    • Custom full color printed RFID wristbands.
    • Custom full color PVC credential badges for staff, VIP, and press passes.
    • Custom full color dye sublimated lanyards.

Highlights:

  • 125+ Vendors
  • 49,518 Transactions
  • 137.55 Transactions Per Minute!
  • 2.29 Transactions Every Second!
  • 6 Hours
  • 200+ Devices Deployed

Key Outcomes:

  • Increase of consumer spending by 118% (Fusion record!)
  • Decreased lost or stolen tokens
  • Increased attendee satisfaction
  • Most vendors stated they wouldn’t do other shows if they didn’t have this technology and reporting!
  • Attendees raved on the ease of use to tap and pay for items or to check-in.
  • Significantly reduced queue times.
  • Provided invaluable insight data for event organizers to make better- educated decisions going forward.
  • Increased the value of the show for vendors to help them increase sales after the show while also getting a better understanding of their consumer demographics.
  • Reduced lost vendor paperwork and communication, with a centralized booth management hub.

That’s A Wrap!

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❤️ Your Fusion Team