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Product updates, new features, and car show industry news from the Car Show Expert team.
Spectators can now buy Adult, Child, or Weekend Pass tickets instead of one flat fee, vendors see the platform fee before they pay, and a few guardrails went up around judging templates and your team.
Completed Expert shows now get a Summary tab: when people registered, who turned up, which classes filled, and how many people looked at your public pages. Here's how to read it, and what to do about what it tells you.
People's Choice setup has its own tab and locks once voting starts, head judges can now run judging day-of without routing through the organizer, and there's a one-click way to wipe test data before the real show.
Discover's nav item is a real page now with a guide category built for judges, every article surfaces related reading, and there's a real search box across the blog, guides, and help content.
Car Show Expert is the only car show management platform built specifically for show organisers — handling every stage of a show, from the first registration to the final trophy. Here's what it does, who it's for, and why it's different from every other tool organisers have tried.
From Pebble Beach to the Woodward Dream Cruise, 35-year car show veteran Larry Kowalski breaks down the 12 events every serious enthusiast should have on their 2026 calendar — with real attendance figures, what makes each one worth the trip, and where the hobby is heading this season.
Define named booth/stall inventory and let approved vendors pay online, a new collapsible sidebar for the show detail page, and a new Discover hub pulling together the blog, Reddit, public garages, shows, and guides.
Public show pages, registration forms, and results pages now use clean, human-readable URLs — like your-club.carshowexpert.com/shows/summer-cruise-night — instead of random IDs. Old links still work and redirect automatically.
Car enthusiasts can set a garage name, choose which vehicles to make public, and share a link like carshowexpert.com/garage/alans-garage. Great for show-day introductions and social sharing.
Judges can now mark a car as 'Did Not Present' directly in the judging interface. DNP cars are excluded from rankings rather than scoring zero, keeping results accurate even when an entrant doesn't show up.