The lot, the roster, and the load-out on one record.

Booth layout

A numbered floor plan, not graph paper the night before.

Venue Layout fits your vendor roster to the lot's measured usable area, puts food trucks and trailers on the drivable edge first, then packs the rest into their zones while holding fire clearances between them. If the roster does not fit, it says which vendors do not fit and spells out the choices instead of silently overlapping booths.

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Site survey, once

Measure the venue once. Reuse it every event.

Survey the lot one time and every future layout at that address reuses the saved dimensions, obstacles, fire lane, and drive edge without asking again. Imported vendor rows are sorted into imported, needs review, and rejected, with a reason on every row that is not clean.

What actually needs a permit

Most of an event is unregulated. Three things are not.

Running an event, coordinating it, and designing it need no state license for the work itself. Three things are regulated hard in Florida: serving or selling alcohol, preparing or serving food, and the structure people stand under. Each is run by a different agency on a different clock, so the platform treats them as separate checks, not one box.

Everything past those, occupancy, noise cut-off times, parking, road closures, amplified sound, is set by your city or county and differs between adjacent towns. Stinger never prints one of those as settled. When a permit question is local, the copy says so and points you to the local office, because that is the honest answer.

Tents and structures

The flame certificates should be in hand before the inspector asks.

Put people under a tent for a gathering and it generally needs a permit and a fire-marshal inspection. The rental company holds flame-resistance certificates to NFPA 701 for the tent, the sidewalls, and the floor covering; the platform reminds you to collect them at booking, not after load-in. In Florida a tent on a lawn is a wind problem too, so anchoring and ballast belong in the plan.

Size limits, occupancy load, and egress are the fire marshal's call and they are local. The platform never quotes you a headcount or a square-foot threshold as a statewide rule, because those numbers are the inspector's to set for your site.

The Florida calendar

Built for a season that runs backward from the rest of the country.

Florida inverts the national pattern. The wedding peak is the dry season, roughly October through May, because June through September brings heat, afternoon storms, and hurricane risk. Hurricane season runs June 1 to November 30 and sits under the whole back half of the year. Engagement season, December through February, drives the booking wave, and corporate holiday parties book September through December. The calendar and campaign tools are built for that shape, not a summer peak.

Because the peak booking months and hurricane season overlap, a Florida event contract without a real weather plan is incomplete. The retainer that holds a date is money earned for capacity, not a returnable deposit, and the trade writes it that way. The platform is built to keep those records straight; it is not legal advice, and it says so.

Event inventory

What goes out, what comes back.

Cage runs inventory and event management for bars and event crews, with voice or photo-assisted counts, shrinkage tracking, suggested ordering, and a confirm gate before money moves. For mobile and satellite bars, the load-out design follows liquor from the van to the event and back, with Florida beverage record-keeping in mind.

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Honest state

What is built today.

The booth layout planner and the reusable site survey are built and running. Cage's inventory and event management is built. The Florida beverage load-out rails are researched and being wired into the event flow; anything not yet confirmed with the state is never presented to a customer as settled.