Digital booth
A digital booth is a trade fair exhibitor's catalog published as a live web link that buyers open on their phone from a QR code at the stand. Unlike a printed catalog or a PDF, it shows each product's finish and size options with a price, or price on request. The same link keeps working after the fair.
What a digital booth is
In trade fairs and exhibitions where makers show custom products (furniture, textiles, décor, industrial equipment), a digital booth is the catalog as a live link a buyer opens on their phone at the stand. They explore the options, save items to a collection, and take the link home.
A digital booth is your catalog published as a live storefront at yours.poly9.ai. A buyer scans a QR code at your stand, opens it on their phone, explores finish, size and material options on every product, and saves the pieces they like. When a pricing rule exists, the storefront quotes a certified price. When a rule is missing, it shows price on request and sends you the buyer's chosen configuration.
The same link stays live after the fair. A buyer who bookmarked it in October can return in November to explore new products, add items to a collection, and request a quote. Nothing gets reprinted or resent, and every link you shared still opens.
Digital booth vs printed catalogs and PDFs
Digital booth
A live link buyers open on their phone at the stand. Finish and size options on every product, priced from your rules or price on request. The link stays live after the fair.
Printed catalog
One photo per product, one finish shown. No pricing, no options. Handed to the buyer at the stand and ends up in a bag with everyone else's catalogs. No record of what the buyer looked at.
PDF catalog
A snapshot sent by email after the fair. Cannot show finish options, cannot be searched in the buyer's own words. Every question becomes an email thread.
Stand out on the floor, and after
Buyers walk dozens of stands. The one they remember is the one that answered their questions on the spot and gave them a link they could open again from the hotel. A digital booth is that link.
Buyers open it at the stand
A QR code on the stand. The buyer scans it, sees every product with its options, and saves the ones they like. No printed sheet, no waiting for a PDF.
Prices from your rules
When a pricing rule exists, the digital booth quotes a certified price. When a rule is missing, it shows price on request. No guessing, no rebuilding quotes in Excel later.
Link stays live after the fair
The buyer bookmarks the link at the stand and returns to it in the weeks after. New products appear, pricing rules you add update what they saved, and every collection they shared still opens.
You see what they explore
Product views, collection adds, and quote requests appear in your dashboard. You know which products the buyer looked at and which configurations they requested.
How a digital booth is built
Upload product photos to Poly9 AI. The system drafts each product: name, category, description, main material, finish, style, and dimensions from the photos. You review the drafts and approve what the system got right, then add the options buyers ask about: finishes, sizes, materials, minimum order, lead time.
Add pricing rules: cost recipes for configure-to-order products, grade matrices for textiles and fabrics. The digital booth quotes a certified price from your rules. Skip pricing for now and products show price on request with a form that sends you the buyer's chosen options.
Publish the digital booth at yours.poly9.ai. Print the QR code for the stand. Buyers browse, configure, save items to a collection, and share its link. The link stays live after the fair, so a rule you add later prices an item a buyer saved earlier.
Terms a digital booth depends on
Certified quote
A quote priced from your approved rules. Digital booths return certified quotes when a pricing rule exists for the buyer's chosen configuration.
Price on request
Returned when a configuration has no approved pricing rule. The digital booth sends you the buyer's chosen options instead of guessing a price.
Cost recipe
The pricing rules that compose a custom product quote: base cost, finish upcharges, size calculations. What makes a digital booth quote a certified price.
Grade matrix
The price table textile and upholstery makers use: one price per frame for each fabric grade. A digital booth reads it to price a piece in the fabric the buyer picks.
Configure-to-order
Products built from options where the buyer selects the configuration. Digital booths are built for configure-to-order products at trade fairs.
Questions about digital booths
What is a digital booth?
How is a digital booth different from a printed catalog?
Do I need prices before the fair?
Does the digital booth work for textiles, furniture, and décor?
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Can buyers share items from the digital booth?
Build your digital booth
Poly9 AI turns product photos into a live, phone-first storefront buyers open at your stand and keep after the fair. Priced from your approved rules. See how it works for IHGF Delhi, Heimtextil, and other trade fairs, or start your free account.