conventionforce.com

What It Is

ConventionForce is event management software built for farmers markets, trade shows, festivals, and fairs, with its core focus on “selling stalls/booths” rather than serving as a general-purpose conference platform. It covers vendor registration, approvals, booth purchasing, map-based placement, online payments, ticketing, email notifications, and operational reporting. It is best suited to organizers who need to manage vendors and booth inventory repeatedly over the long term.

Core Capabilities

The product’s main strength is vendor and booth management. Vendors can submit contracts, licenses, questionnaires, photos, and other materials, while administrators can approve them by season, market, or event and trigger automated emails. For online sales, it supports custom shopping carts, pricing by area/size/category, discounts, taxes, deposits, installments, security deposits, and add-on sales. The map module supports drag-and-drop booth placement, templates, online sharing, real-time collaboration, PDF printing, and vector image downloads, making it a key differentiator from standard form tools. For communication, it supports unlimited bulk emails, while SMS is billed at $0.01/message. Reports can be downloaded as Excel files, and payment reports can be exported to QuickBooks.

Pricing and Integrations

Farmers Market Pro is $29/month, or $348/year when paid annually; monthly billing is $34/month. Trade Show Pro is $159/month. Both plans are stated to include unlimited vendors, events, venues, emails, and users, but vendor online purchases incur a 1% processing fee and require the customer’s own Stripe account; Stripe fees are charged separately. Attendee Ticketing Pro has no monthly fee, charges a 4% processing fee per ticket, and is included in the above plans. Explicitly mentioned third-party integrations include Stripe, QuickBooks, and an exhibitor map plugin for other event software.

Pros, Cons, and Best Fit

The advantages are its focused use case, complete workflow, strong map-based booth placement features, and small-farmers-market-friendly pricing. Automatic recording of payments and historical data can also significantly reduce manual administrative work. The drawbacks are that public materials do not clarify security and compliance certifications, granular permissions, an open API, or self-hosting options. There is also no information about support for China-local payments, SMS, invoicing, or a Chinese interface. It is better suited to overseas farmers markets, chambers of commerce, trade shows, and festival organizers, especially teams that need to manage large numbers of booths, recurring vendor recruitment, and on-site floor plans.

Access from China

Access from mainland China is unknown. Since payments rely on Stripe, actual collection and settlement may not be friendly to China-based entities. For China-local events, alternatives such as 活动行, 31会议, and 百格活动 may be worth comparing. However, if international trade show booth sales and map-based layout planning are priorities, ConventionForce still has reference value.