An operator's guide: what the system does, who signs in, and how to drive it on the day. One platform covers parades, car shows, races, festivals, flea markets, trade shows, food truck rallies and scavenger hunts.
A real-time tracker for events — like a flight tracker, but for whatever is moving (or sitting in a booth). One system serves three audiences at once, in any phone or computer browser, with nothing to install.
Everything updates instantly for everyone — when a float checks in or a vendor flips to "sold out", every open screen changes on its own within about a second.
Choosing the kind of event sets the wording (“Floats” vs “Vendors” vs “Stops”) and switches on the features that fit it. You can then change any of them in 🧩 Features in the organizer console — toggles take effect on the public screens within a second, no reload.
| Activity | Comes with |
|---|---|
| Parade, Car show / cruise, Festival | Running order, arrival times, checkpoint check-ins, GPS, People's Choice voting, follow + alerts, announcer notes |
| Race / marathon / ride | The same, minus voting and announcer notes — a race is timed, not judged |
| Flea market, Corridor / highway sale, Trade show | Vendor map, searchable directory, category filters, walking directions, open / busy / sold-out status |
| Food trucks / retail crawl | The above plus menus with prices and photos, and voting for a best-of award |
| Scavenger hunt / passport | Coded stops and a passport each player collects — see below |
Turning a feature off removes it everywhere at once — the tab disappears from the header, the buttons go, and the server stops accepting it. Useful when a committee decides two weeks out that there will be no vote this year.
The ☀️ button in any header switches between night, day, daylight (high contrast for bright sun), holiday, autumn, spring and patriotic. It's a personal choice, saved in that browser. Separately, the organizer can set the event colour, which tints every screen for that event on top of whatever style each viewer picked.
| Role | Sees | Can do |
|---|---|---|
| Platform team you | Every event | Everything, plus creating organizer accounts and assigning them to events |
| Organizer a chamber | Only their own events | Full control of those: setup, lineup, route, features, messaging, sponsors |
| Participant float, vendor, racer | Only entries they've claimed | Check in, share location, edit their own profile and items |
| Public | The public screens | Watch. An account is only needed to follow, vote, get alerts or play a hunt |
Organizer accounts are created by the platform team — public signup can never create one. Participants get an invite link: every entry has one from the moment it's added, and opening it lets them set a password and take over that one entry in a single step. The organizer never handles anyone's password, and never has to read a code out.
Participants tap Rolling and then each checkpoint as they pass it. Works on any phone, nothing to keep open, no location sharing. The system schedules arrival times from the planned pace and corrects them as check-ins come in. The reliable default.
Units share live location from a phone on board. The system snaps each to the route, measures real speed, orders the field automatically and predicts arrivals to the second. More impressive; needs a charged phone with the page open for the whole event.
Switch anytime with the Manual / GPS toggle. A good pattern is manual for everyone and GPS for the few units where it earns its keep.
Run demo animates the whole field along the route so you can rehearse — or present to a board — with nobody on the street. Reset all puts everything back to the starting state.
Open Participant. You see only your own entries.
No app to install. Live for a procession, Market for a market, Lineup for the running order.
Which of these appear depends on what the organizer switched on.
A hunt is an event whose participants are stops rather than floats. Each stop gets a short code, printed on a sign there. Players collect the codes on their passport and see their progress fill up.
Codes are only visible in your console — they're never sent to the public screens. There's no prize-claiming built in: a finisher shows you the trophy screen.
Switch sponsorships on for an event and you get two placements on every public screen: a presented by banner at the top, and a strip of sponsor cards. You can sell those yourself, and you can let participants buy their own small ad.
There's no automated email on this system, so password resets are done by a person.
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