SOTpay is exhibiting at The Showman's Show 2026 at Newbury Showground on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 October. You will find us on stand 68, inside the exhibition hall.
Come and talk to the team about taking deposits, balances and on-the-day payments without the chasing, the paperwork or the card details on a notepad. And while you are there, see if you can take on The Legacy in our on-stand game, SOTbot Vs The Legacy, with a prize for the top score at the end of each day.
The Showman's Show brings together suppliers to the outdoor events industry, from structures and staging to catering, hire and entertainment. Plenty of the businesses walking the aisles take bookings weeks or months ahead, collect deposits, and chase balances before the event goes ahead.
That is exactly the kind of payment journey SOTpay is built for, so it is the right room for us to be in.
Our sister company Gala Tent is also exhibiting, on outdoor stand 242.
Three of the SOTpay team will be on stand 68 across both days, ready to talk through how your bookings come in, how you get paid today, and where SOTpay could take the admin out of it.
CEO and founder of SOTpay. Jason has spent more than 25 years building businesses across events, hospitality, ecommerce and payments, including Gala Tent.
Senior Business Development Manager. David works with businesses to understand how they take payments today and recommend the right SOTpay tools.
Business Development Manager. Kris helps businesses set up secure, flexible payment journeys that suit the way their customers already like to pay.
SOTbot Vs The Legacy is our on-stand game. You play as SOTbot, SOTpay's robot mascot, battling through levels of outdated payment methods, scammers and hackers on the way to a secure checkout.
Drop by stand 68 for a go. The players with the highest score at the end of each day will win a prize, so there are two chances to take the top spot.
Want to practise first? Play SOTbot Vs The Legacy in your browser before you arrive.
Event businesses rarely get paid in one go. There is a deposit to secure the date, a balance before the day, sometimes staged payments in between, and often something taken on site. Every step is a chance for a payment to slip, a booking to cancel, or card details to end up written down somewhere they should not be. Here is how SOTpay supports event hire and planning businesses.
Send a secure payment link by SMS, WhatsApp, email or social media the moment a customer says yes. They pay from their phone, and the date is locked in before they have time to shop around. Text PayLink is built for exactly this.
Larger bookings can be split into instalments, with deposit and balance requests scheduled to go out automatically. AutoFlow handles staged booking payments and AutoRenew covers recurring instalments, so nobody on your team has to remember to ask.
For bigger invoices, Link Pay Bank lets customers pay straight from their bank account through Open Banking, which can reduce the cost of taking large payments.
Plenty of event bookings still happen over the phone. Secure phone payments let customers enter their card details themselves, so your team never sees or writes them down, and you avoid the PCI DSS compliance burden that comes with handling card data.
On site, a QR code checkout lets customers scan and pay on their own phone, with no terminal to keep charged or connected in the middle of a field.
Every payment lands in one dashboard, and SOTsync Pro reconciles payments into Xero or QuickBooks, so the end-of-season accounts are not a shoebox of receipts.
If you take bookings in advance and get paid in more than one go, we can help. You can also read how Gala Tent uses SOTpay.
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