Suppliers
Suppliers are any companies that sell products to exhibitors for an event. Suppliers might be your exclusive vendors, the general service contractor, or a specialty contractor chosen to supplement certain product categories. Keep in mind that suppliers may also be departments within your facility. Business Services, Telecommunications and Food and Beverage will all most likely have their own set of products to manage and will also most likely be associated independently to an event. If you are unsure how to break down your various departments in the supplier structure, contact Support. There are two places where suppliers are managed. The first is off the main tabbed menu. Within this area, the overall relationship the supplier has to your store is established. Contacts, products and split (commission) rules are set up here as defaults. If a supplier is marked as "exclusive", then that supplier will be a part of every event you set up by default. If a supplier is not marked as "exclusive", you determine which events that supplier in which that supplier participates. "Participation" means that some or all of that supplier's products will be made available for sale within the event, and split rules may be defined to determine what kind of commission they will be due from sales.