[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":197},["ShallowReactive",2],{"marketing-blog-blog\u002Fbuilding-a-front-of-house-kit-list":3,"marketing-blog-related-blog\u002Fbuilding-a-front-of-house-kit-list":177},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":156,"date":157,"description":158,"draft":159,"extension":160,"image":161,"imageAlt":162,"imageCredit":163,"imageCreditUrl":164,"meta":165,"navigation":166,"path":167,"readTime":168,"seo":169,"stem":170,"tags":171,"__hash__":176},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fbuilding-a-front-of-house-kit-list.md","Building a front-of-house kit list","The CheckInHub team",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":146},"minimark",[10,14,17,22,25,44,53,57,60,74,82,88,92,95,109,113,121,125,128,136,140,143],[11,12,13],"p",{},"A front-of-house kit list is one of those documents that feels like overkill the first time you write it and indispensable every time after. The door needs a specific, repeatable set of things, and the cost of forgetting one of them is paid in real time, in front of guests, with no shop nearby. Build the list once, refine it after each event, and you turn the most stressful part of setup into a packing exercise.",[11,15,16],{},"The principle is to carry what the door genuinely needs and resist the urge to pack the entire store cupboard. A bloated kit is heavy, slow to set up, and hides the one thing you actually need behind ten things you do not. What follows is a working list, grouped by job, that you can trim to your event.",[18,19,21],"h2",{"id":20},"the-check-in-core","The check-in core",[11,23,24],{},"This is the equipment the door cannot run without. Treat it as the non-negotiable layer.",[26,27,28,32,35,38,41],"ul",{},[29,30,31],"li",{},"A scanning device per lane, charged, with the check-in app open and tested",[29,33,34],{},"At least one spare device per few lanes, also charged and tested",[29,36,37],{},"A kiosk tablet and stand if you are running self check-in",[29,39,40],{},"Power: mains leads, a charged power bank per device as backup, and a multi-socket extension",[29,42,43],{},"The venue wifi details, plus a mobile data fallback in case the venue connection fails",[11,45,46,47,52],{},"The spare matters more than people expect. A device that dies mid-rush with no replacement to hand turns a smooth door into a stalled one. A charged spare turns it into a ten-second swap. ",[48,49,51],"a",{"href":50},"\u002Fblog\u002Fspares-what-to-carry-and-what-to-skip","Spares: what to carry and what to skip"," covers where to draw the line so you are neither caught short nor weighed down.",[18,54,56],{"id":55},"signage-and-wayfinding","Signage and wayfinding",[11,58,59],{},"Guests should know where to go before they reach a human. Good signage does quiet work all morning, splitting the pre-registered from the walk-ups and pointing people at the right lane without anyone having to direct them.",[26,61,62,65,68,71],{},[29,63,64],{},"A clear entrance sign so people find the door at all",[29,66,67],{},"Lane signs: scan here, register here, VIP and speakers here",[29,69,70],{},"An A-board or two for the approach, especially if the venue entrance is not obvious",[29,72,73],{},"Directional signs to cloakroom, toilets and the main room, so the door is not also an information desk",[11,75,76,77,81],{},"Signage that works removes load from your crew. A guest who self-directs is a guest your team does not have to handle. ",[48,78,80],{"href":79},"\u002Fblog\u002Fsignage-that-gets-people-to-the-right-door","Signage that gets people to the right door"," goes into placement and wording.",[83,84,85],"blockquote",{},[11,86,87],{},"The best front-of-house kit does work without anyone touching it. A clear sign answers a question your crew never has to.",[18,89,91],{"id":90},"badges-passes-and-stationery","Badges, passes and stationery",[11,93,94],{},"If you print on site, this layer needs its own attention because a printer is the single most failure-prone item on a door.",[26,96,97,100,103,106],{},[29,98,99],{},"Badge or label printer, tested, with the right stock loaded and a spare roll",[29,101,102],{},"Lanyards and badge holders, with a margin over your expected count for walk-ups",[29,104,105],{},"Pens, a marker, blank badges for the inevitable name that did not import",[29,107,108],{},"A small first-line repair kit: spare cables, tape, a multi-tool",[18,110,112],{"id":111},"the-spares-and-contingency-layer","The spares and contingency layer",[11,114,115,116,120],{},"Beyond device spares, a few items repeatedly save a door: gaffer tape for cable runs, a couple of spare charging cables in the common connector types, a paper copy of key contacts in case a phone dies, and a small float of patience in the form of a backup plan everyone knows. ",[48,117,119],{"href":118},"\u002Fblog\u002Fcontingency-planning-for-the-front-of-house","Contingency planning for the front of house"," covers building those plans so the kit has something to back up.",[18,122,124],{"id":123},"packing-it-so-it-travels","Packing it so it travels",[11,126,127],{},"A kit list is only useful if the kit arrives. Pack by job, not by type, so each lane's gear travels together and sets up as a unit. Label the cases. Keep a copy of the list inside the lead case so the person unpacking can confirm everything made the journey, and so the person packing down at the end knows exactly what should be going home. Losing a hired scanner because nobody checked it back into the case is an expensive way to learn this.",[11,129,130,131,135],{},"If any of the kit is hired or loaned, the list does double duty as a return check. Tracking what came in against what goes back is the difference between a clean deposit return and an awkward invoice. ",[48,132,134],{"href":133},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftracking-hired-equipment-back-to-the-supplier","Tracking hired equipment back to the supplier"," covers keeping loaned kit accounted for from arrival to return.",[18,137,139],{"id":138},"make-it-a-living-document","Make it a living document",[11,141,142],{},"The first version of your kit list will be wrong in small ways. You will pack something you never used and forget something you needed. That is expected, and it is why the list earns its value over time rather than on day one. After each event, spend five minutes amending it: cut the dead weight, add the thing you wished you had, note the quantity that ran short.",[11,144,145],{},"Within a few events you will have a list tuned to how your events actually run, and packing the door becomes a calm checklist rather than a frantic try to remember everything. That calm is the real output. A door team that arrives knowing every needed item is in the cases starts the day in control, and a controlled setup is the foundation of the eight-second check-in everything else depends on. The kit list is humble, but it is where a smooth door begins.",{"title":147,"searchDepth":148,"depth":148,"links":149},"",2,[150,151,152,153,154,155],{"id":20,"depth":148,"text":21},{"id":55,"depth":148,"text":56},{"id":90,"depth":148,"text":91},{"id":111,"depth":148,"text":112},{"id":123,"depth":148,"text":124},{"id":138,"depth":148,"text":139},"Equipment & loans","2024-11-01","Everything the front door needs, and nothing it does not. 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