Streamline production layouts, automate labeling, track crew hours with precise calculations, and keep your entire team in sync.
ShowReady is the ultimate workspace designed specifically for live events, theatre, broadcast, and touring professionals. From drag-and-drop rack building and visual wire diagrams to automated timesheet generation and contextual show communication, ShowReady replaces fragmented spreadsheets and ad-hoc drawings with a single, unified source of truth.
Explore the core feature suites that make ShowReady the go-to platform for production design and management.
Translate complex physical setups into interactive digital blueprints.
- Drag-and-Drop Rack Builder: Design and visualize equipment racks in real time. Model fractional-width gear with multi-sided placement (front, rear, left, right).
- Modular Chassis & Slots: Populate equipment templates with slot-specific modules (connector plates, interface cards), tracking custom configurations down to the individual slot level.
- Canvas Wire Diagrams: Lay out your equipment on a multi-page interactive canvas. Connect device ports to build visual signal flow mappings.
- Patch Panel Builder: Create custom patch panels, mount connectors, and visually patch signals between chassis and external panels.
Interactive Drag-and-Drop Rack Builder featuring fractional-width gear and slot assignment.
Generate high-density, professional production labels directly from your show's database.
- Loom Label Editor: Design multi-layered cable looms with color-coded origin/destination markers, custom cable lengths, and custom descriptions.
- Case Label Editor: Design large-format case labels complete with custom show logos, contact information, and barcodes.
- Label Sheet Placement: Print with zero waste. Digitally place labels on partially used sticker sheets (Avery or custom templates) so you can print single labels without throwing away standard stock sheets.
- Loom Builder Sheet Exports: Automatically compile multiple looms into print-ready, high-resolution PDF lists for quick on-site deployment.
Loom and Case Label Editors showing print-preview sheets and print-stock alignment.
Manage crew roles, rates, and timesheets in a single, high-efficiency grid interface.
- Unified Roster & Show Crew: Maintain a master labor roster and seamlessly assign crew members to individual shows with role-specific hourly or daily rates.
- Flexible Roles: Assign a single crew member to multiple roles or rate categories on the same show.
- Bulk Editable Timesheets: Track hours in a lightning-fast, spreadsheet-like grid view. Log daily total hours per crew member across a weekly cycle.
- Automated Overtime (OT) Engine: Implements a robust calculation engine:
- Daily & Weekly Overtime: Automatically flags and bills hours exceeding daily and weekly thresholds.
- Day Rates: Seamlessly integrates flat Day Rates that cover a base number of hours, absorbing hourly entries up to the threshold, with hours beyond treated as overtime.
- Live Summaries: Instantly compute and display total regular hours, overtime hours, and combined labor costs.
The spreadsheet-style timesheet interface with automatic calculations and live labor cost summaries.
Document and plan production networks before stepping foot on site.
- VLAN Definition Matrix: Catalog production VLANs with custom IDs, descriptions, and color-coded tags.
- IP Allocation Matrix: Allocate static and dynamic IP pools for production subnets. Associate IPs directly with equipment instances defined in your racks.
Subnet planning grid mapping VLAN IDs, static IP assignments, and equipment rack hosts.
Keep production managers, project engineers, and client representatives perfectly aligned.
- Rich Text Communications: Compose professional update emails using a full-featured, rich-text WYSIWYG editor.
- Variable Substitution Templates: Personalize bulk communications using dynamic merge tags (e.g.,
{{firstName}},{{showName}},{{weekStart}}). - Contextual Notes: Create, edit, and link notes anywhere in the application. Notes can attach globally to a show, or pin directly to specific racks, looms, equipment instances, or roster members.
- Show Collaboration & Permissions: Share shows with specific team members. Collaborate concurrently with granular, role-based feature permissions.
*Polished email editor with variable substitution sidebar and live recipient preview panels.*
ShowReady is built on a highly modern, fast, and scalable stack:
- Backend Framework: Python 3.10+ with FastAPI for high-performance API routing.
- Frontend UI: React built with Tailwind CSS for a sleek, responsive, dark-themed interface.
- Interactive Canvas: React Flow powering custom interactive signal-flow wire diagrams.
- Drag-and-Drop Engines: @dnd-kit for smooth rack slot and chassis placement.
- Data & Security: Secure user access and data storage powered by PostgreSQL and token-based session management.
- PDF Generation Engines: Vector PDF rendering for generating high-precision layouts, timesheet summaries, and labels on the fly.
We are constantly building more features to expand the platform's capabilities:
- Integrated Scheduling Engine: Shift planners and crew calendars.
- Expanded Switch Configuration: Extended CLI generation and config parsing for network switches.
- Visual Label Editor (V3): An interactive canvas-based layout editor for custom sticker sheets.
- Extended API Integrations: Secure endpoints for syncing timesheet and scheduling data with popular tools.
- Advanced Labor and Equipment Budgeting: Seamless project-cost calculators and rate sheet sheets.
ShowReady is made possible by the incredible communities behind FastAPI, React, Tailwind CSS, React Flow, and other open-source libraries.