Platform Features

Welcome Page

This is the landing page for the event. Use it to greet your attendees, communicate key information points, link to external resources, and promote your sponsors.

Exhibitor & Vendor Profiles

Engage with participating vendors and exhibitors from information-rich online profiles. Connect your vendors to attendees, sessions, speakers, and more. Easy to navigate, search, and bookmark.

Staff & Resources Help Center

Finding the right person or information is even easier with the help center. List your staff, links, and related documents and group them by role.

Attendee Sign-up & Log-in

Allow attendees to create a login and fill out their attendee profile. Signups use email verification to protect from spam entries or a magic link sent to email instead of passwords.

Attendee Profiles

Make it easy for other attendees to learn about and connect with everyone at an event.

Security & Access Controls

Protect the privacy of your attendees and access to the content of your event with single password sign-ons, attendee account logins, or magic links.

Sponsors Promotion

Event Home Base gives sponsors the opportunity to be seen with media-rich vendor profiles in addition to educating and engaging with them about offerings.

Event Ads

Generate revenue with Map D by selling advertising in your event. You control ad placement and timing in a variety of locations throughout your event website and mobile app and can choose from a selection of industry-standard ad sizes.

Completeness Check

Let nothing fall through the cracks. Get a simple view of all aspects of your event to see what might be missing information, and what is good to go.

Bookmarking

Bookmarking gives users personalized experiences and organized, tailored content.

Basic Visitor & Attendee Tracking

See in real-time the usage and engagement your event has. Share reports with exhibitors or download raw data for customized reporting needs.

Website Embed

Embed our Event Home Base platform directly into one or more websites with a simple copy and paste interface. Customize your code to display select aspects of your event or use it to display everything.

Event API

Use our event API to integrate with your own custom systems or provide access to your data to designated 3rd party services.

Interactive Floor Plan

For trade shows, expos, festivals, conferences, and any event with a vendor marketplace. Use an interactive floor plan to sell booth space, promote vendors, and assist attendees in planning and navigating.

Online Map Editor

We do the initial setup and then give you full control to add, edit, rotate, split, assign, and edit booth information 24/7 through our online map editor.

Booth Snapshots History

Keep a record of the booth layout at any point in your show. An excellent tool to capture a variety of options while you plan the final layout.

Book Meetings with Exhibitors

Exhibitors can easily integrate their appointment scheduling services with their profiles to book meetings with attendees.

Event Analytics

Use our tracking and analytics to see the number of people interacting with your event, popular content, and more. You can even share this information with exhibitors so they can see who is visiting their booth, or export the data with built-in reports or to spreadsheets for additional use.

Schedule & Session Profiles

Build out a schedule that goes beyond just a list to connect presenters, sponsors, videos, and related resources. Spotlight certain sessions or tracks and feature sponsor logos or ads in certain sessions.

Session Check-Ins

Track attendance by turning this feature on for any session where an attendance list is useful.

Session Feedback

Get real-time feedback from your attendees on the quality of individual sessions and speakers.

Speaker Profiles

Create speaker profiles with full bio information. Our system automatically connects their profile to all related sessions, vendors, and discussions they're participating in.

Speakers Access

Speakers can manage their online profile and (if you allow them to) the profile of any sessions they're in.

Integrate Live & Pre-recorded Video

Event Home Base is built to easily connect to your preferred video provider and supports your personal library of multimedia.

Discussion Rooms

Ongoing discussions are a great way to provide passive engagement opportunities throughout your conference and get presenters, attendees, and exhibitors all talking to each other.

Moderation Tools

Give yourself a break! Designate other attendees as discussion managers, moderators, and bouncers to keep the conversation on track.

Expanded Attendee Access Controls

You can provide attendees control over a suite of features including: editing their own profile, chatting with vendors, participating in discussions, and posting new discussion topics.

Personalized Attendee Programs

Once logged in, event attendees can bookmark any item within the schedule to create their own, customized lineup! They can also mark exhibitors, attendees, and speakers as favorites to create an interest list.

Live Streaming Sessions

Work with our team to connect your live stream directly into a session on your schedule.

Booth Assignments Audit

This tool helps you see current exhibitor assignments and review against their original booth purchase history at-a-glance.

Floor Plan Booth Sales

Buying booth space at your event will be a breeze for your exhibitors with a customizable payment gateway and checkout scenario, plus the sale of additional services, add-ons, and up-sells.

Quantity, Code, & User Type Discounts

Customize discounts during vendor booth purchases with quantity discounts, code discounts (provide certain users a code), or automatic discounts triggered based on the type of user making a purchase.

Orders & Invoices Manager

View a full list of orders, open orders, and abandoned/pending orders. Create new or edit existing orders. Plus, view at-a-glance sales statistics!

User Role Restrictions

Restrict which booth purchasing and expansion options are available to users by assigning roles such as member, sponsor, etc.

Payment Invoicing

Create and edit invoices, send and resend invoices for payment, and enter payment online directly.

Sales Reporting

You have the flexibility to create as many custom reports as you'd like using a drag-and-drop report builder, and choosing from our ever-growing list of reporting modules. Components are built to print, creating beautiful reports!

Up-sells & In-admin Ordering

The options are limitless. Sell anything you'd like during the booth sales process. Items like carpet, power, sponsor opportunities, raffle tickets, etc. can be included.

Priority & Reserved Booths

Reserve booths for sponsoring organizations and create priority booth types that may have a higher price tag based upon size and/or visibility.

Exhibitor Personnel

Up-sell additional booth personnel, or simply list them with a photo, contact information, and more in an exhibitor profile.

Exhibitor Products & Services

Exhibitors can provide a list of their products and services with descriptions and the ability to link to resources.

Product & Service Videos

Show instead of telling—videos can often be the best way to demonstrate exhibitor offerings in a more in-depth manner.

Exhibitor Photo Galleries

Exhibitors can showcase images of their facility, products and services, brochures, cut sheets, and more in the photo gallery.

Live Chat with Exhibitors

Increase participation value for all by turning on direct live chat between exhibitors and attendees. Chats are begun through the exhibitor's profile, but all ongoing chats can be accessed from any page of Event Home Base.

Exhibitor Access

Save time and increase accuracy by allowing exhibitors to enter their own information - from the basics to personnel to videos!

Enhanced Welcome Page Builder

Drag and drop widgets to further customize your event's welcome page with additional content or spotlight key features of your event.

Attendee Tracking Reports per Exhibitors

Show managers can see visitor views per exhibitor profile, and further break down tracking by desktop floor plan versus mobile app.

Exhibitor Lead Generation

Events are all about connecting people. Connect attendees with exhibitors and vice versa through contact forms that notify exhibitors of new leads.

Exhibitor List Import & Export

Save time and valuable information by importing or exporting exhibitor profile information with the click of a button.

Enhanced Content Customizations

Customize the look and feel of your event with options for persistent logos or other images, unique backgrounds, customized buttons and bookmark colors, and choose between light or dark themes.

Branded Native Event App

Consistently the same experience for all your events year-round. Incredibly convenient for you and attendees in addition to reducing costs and streamlining event promotion and access.

Mobile Navigation Manager

You have control over the functionality provided to users on the mobile app. Add, hide, change, or re-arrange the navigation. Change icons and labels. Add custom-content pages or links. Build pages but publish only when you're ready.

Push Notifications

Directly message all users that have downloaded your event app via iTunes or Google Play. Schedule messages to be sent at a set time or send immediately from the event floor!

Live Polls

Engage attendees and speakers by using live polls during sessions. The results can be shared by the presenter immediately!

Interactive Location Lists

Create in-person location guides with descriptions, photos, maps, links, and downloads. Ideal for dine-arounds, parade of homes, venue property tours, and events with different meetup locations.

Custom Content Pages

Anything that doesn't fit into an already built section can be easily added using our custom content page editor. Create pages for contest drawings, anchor sponsor promotion, hotel information, and so much more.

Attendee Ticket Sales

Take registration to the next level and earn revenue for your event with attendee ticket sales.

Payment Gateway Integration

Want to accept credit card payments and streamline your booth registration process? We offer Paypal, Authorize.net, PayFlow Pro, Sage, Moola, Elavon, BluePay, Quickbooks, and Stripe!

Additional Training

Map D is popular and known for being easy to use, but sometimes it’s good to take the shortcut. That’s where your dedicated account manager can help with personalized training that is billed by the hour at your convenience.

Multiple Floor Plans

One floor plan isn’t enough for every event. For very large events or events held in multiple rooms or spaces, additional floor plans are available to add to your event and billed as a set-up fee per floor plan.

White Label

Branding is big, and we’re happy to custom brand your event with our white label service. The white label can be licensed yearly and allows all of your content to appear under a URL of your choice, removes all Map D branding from your events, and upgrades emails from our system to a dedicated generic email server.

365 Partnership Engagement

Keep earning returns on your event even after it's over with enhanced exhibitor profiles, product listings, Pavilions, and partnership engagement year-round.

Pavilions

Showcase key or significant content throughout your event in unique ways with drag and drop widgets.

Augmented Exhibitor Profiles

Provide exhibitors with even more options to add additional media, products, categories, content, or augmented reality experiences to their profiles.

Shop by Product

Elevate your exhibitor marketplace or spotlight exhibitors and sponsors with customized exhibitor listings based on products sold.

Quick Navigation Categories

Make partner engagement front and center on your event's welcome page with an easy-to-use widget that simplifies discovery with categories.