Stand Command

Floorplan and stand planning
for book, print & antiques fairs.

One self-contained file. No server, no accounts, no subscription — a planning tool that works at the venue, at bump‑in, on whatever machine is to hand.

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Stand Command with a fair laid out: colour-coded stands over a calibrated venue floor plan, dealer names and furniture drawn in place, aisle widths measured, and running totals of stands, units, floor density and payments in the sidebar.
The demonstration fair — the Port Meridian Antiquarian Book Fair, a fictional fair in a fictional hall. Every stand, dealer and price in it is invented; everything the tool does to them is real.

What it does

Draws on the venue’s own plan

The floor is the venue’s dimension plan, calibrated to the metre. Stands are placed, rotated and reshaped in real metres, aisle widths are measured against your minimum, and the columns you cannot move are drawn over everything — because a column a stand hides is the one thing you cannot design around.

Prices what it draws

Stand fees keyed to the size sold, furniture allowances per stand, hire charges for what goes beyond them. The 1:25 fitout view, the furniture schedule and the CSV exports read one computation, so they cannot disagree about money.

Keeps the book

Exhibitor, supplier and staff directories live beside the plan. Allocate a stand to a dealer and the plan carries their name; tick off applications, deposits and payments and the running totals follow. Alternative layouts are saved schemes of the same fair.

Talks to your dealers

Each exhibitor gets a sheet of their own — itself a single file that opens anywhere — showing their stand, their included furniture and the hire list at your prices. They arrange their fitout on it and send it back; you import the file and confirm. Nothing is retyped, and nothing they ask for slips past the record of what was agreed.

One file is the whole point

Stand Command is a single HTML file. Open it in a browser and it is the entire tool — there is nothing to install, nothing to host, nothing to subscribe to, and no login between you and the plan. It works offline in the hall at bump‑in. Layouts save as plain files that round-trip losslessly, so the file is the backup, and a copy on a USB stick is a full disaster plan. Sheets sent to dealers are the same kind of file, which is why they open on whatever your dealers have.

Try it yourself

The demo is a complete working build of the tool, configured for the fictional Port Meridian fair — its own hall, its own furniture and price list, an example layout with a book of dealers behind it, and the sheet one of those dealers would receive. We send it to fair organisers on request rather than posting it on the open web.

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It arrives as a single HTML file. Opening it in a browser is the whole install.

Configured for your fair

Every fair runs its own build: your floorplan calibrated, your stand types and sizes, your furniture and your suppliers’ cases, your prices, your dates, your name on every file and sheet. You send the venue plan and the price list; what comes back is a single file that is yours. That configuration is done for you — this is a planning tool with a person behind it, not a platform.

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