Priority Points
Overview
Adding a priority point type
Priority Points are the incentive points that an exhibitor can earn for participation in a show. Points are often awarded for each year that a company exhibits, for number of booth units purchased, for consecutive years of participation in the show, or other criteria.
Priority Points are used to rank an association's most active and loyal exhibitors which in turn, are used to award the most desirable trade show floor space based on these rankings. The more points an exhibitor earns, the higher they are on the list for choosing a desirable booth assignment.
The netFORUM two baseline priority point types include:
- Purchased a Booth - Priority points are awarded when an exhibitor purchases a booth
- Registered for Exhibit Show - Priority points are awarded after an exhibitor registers for an exhibit show.
Setup
On the Exhibits Overview setup page, there must be two specific priority point types setup; these must ship with netFORUM as the program references these records by their key and not by code. If you do not see these records, then contact someone at Abila to have them added manually from the back-end database.
On the Exhibit record for which you want to award priority points, you must add a priority point group for either or both:
- By Booth - this assigns points for each booth; each booth could award different points, for example a 10x10 could award 1 point and a 20x20 could award 4 points. Each booth needs to have this number entered; netFORUM cannot automatically calculate a point table by square footage, for example.
- By Registering - this assigns a fixed number of points simply for being an exhibitor at the show; this is the simpler of the two options.
Adding Records
When you add an Exhibitor to a show, if you have set up the registration option, then the exhibitor will automatically get the points.
If you have set up by booth, then when you sell a booth, the default points will be entered, and you may override this amount if desired.
Finding Records
From the Exhibitor profile, you can see the priority points on the xxx tab.
Managing Records
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FAQ
Q. Can I add points manually?
A. No. Priority points are only added when the exhibitor is added (if using the registration option) or when a booth is added.
Q. How can I know an exhibitor's overall points through the years?
A. Baseline netFORUM only records the points each Exhibitor earns for each show. netFORUM does not have an automatic way to sum these up. Owing to the variety of ways that various associations compute overall points (plus the fact that not all underlying historical data will exist in netFORUM for exhibitors who have been around for decades) , this is one area where netFORUM is typically customized: baseline netFORUM is used to compute the points for each show, and a process runs over top of that to sum them up year by year.
Q. Based on priority points, does netFORUM automatically assign booths?
A. No. Priority points are used only for informational purposes. Trade Show staff people can use these points to make these decisions, but netFORUM does not have any automatic way of sorting this out.