ModLinQ events
Run a car show that runs itself.
From the day you list it to the moment the announcer reads winners — ticketing, judging, sponsors, photos, archives. All in one place. Free to host.
Sound familiar?
Still tracking entries on a clipboard at the gate?
Mass-texting "gates open at 8" to 200 entrants?
Wrestling with an Excel sheet for the trophy ceremony?
There's a better way.
ModLinQ replaces every clipboard, spreadsheet, mass text, and post-it note that runs your show today. One platform. One login. One link to send your entrants. Free to start.
No credit card. No setup fees. Free events stay free forever.
"Cut our setup time by half. The QR scanner alone — judges scanning straight to the right ballot — saved us from carrying a clipboard around the show field for three hours."
Mike, host
Annual cars-and-coffee, Tampa FL
"Sponsors loved that their logos showed up on the projector during the leaderboard. We sold every gold tier this year and they all renewed for next."
Dana, organizer
Mustang regional, NC
What ModLinQ events does
A complete online solution to run your car show.
ModLinQ events streamlines and automates the car show experience for both event producers and the people who show up. From your first sold ticket to the past-years archive, one tool covers the whole arc.
Included with every event
- Online ticket + on-site entry sales
- Smart dashboards with QR codes
- People's Choice voting
- Class-based event judging with custom criteria
- Sponsor sales (paid + manual)
- Email blasts to every entrant
- Walk-up registration with claim flow
- Embeddable event card for your own site
- TV / observer mode for venue projection
- Photo gallery + annual show lineage
Phase 1 of 4
Sell tickets
Get registrations and sponsorships in motion before show day.
Ticketing & paid entries
Sell tickets directly to your bank account.
Whether you charge $10 at the gate or $400 a class, ModLinQ collects payment online and routes it straight to the host's connected Stripe account. The payout shows up in your bank like any other Stripe sale — we never hold your money.
Spectator + vehicle pricing
One event. Two prices.
Set a spectator ticket price for the gate, a per-vehicle entry fee for the show field, or both. Buyers pick on the public event page and get an emailed receipt that doubles as a ticket. Stripe handles cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Link — no separate processor account.
- 1. Buyer pays
- 2. We take a cut
- 3. You get paid
- Sell out cleanly.
- Refunds in one click.
Public event page
Hot Rods at the Lake — Aug 10
Spectator ticket
Gate admission · 10 AM – 4 PM
$15
Vehicle entry
One car · judged + show field
$40
Refunds in one click.
Rain-out? Reschedule? Hit refund on the order in your dashboard. Stripe pushes the buyer's money back, our commission gets reversed at the same moment, the entrant's spot reopens. No spreadsheet reconciliation, no awkward Venmo-back, no PayPal disputes.
Sponsor sales
Turn the event page into a sponsor pitch.
Define your tiers (Title, Presenting, Gold, Silver, Vendor, Food Truck — your call). Set prices. Sponsors buy directly from the public event page with the same Stripe checkout that handles tickets. Or — for the deals you closed at last year's show — add them manually with a logo upload.
Define your tiers
Tier name, price, included perks.
Title gets the gradient banner at the top of every page. Gold gets a logo tile in the sponsor wall. Silver gets a name listing. Vendor gets a 10x10 booth note. Whatever your sales sheet looks like, the tier editor matches it. Set the slot count per tier and we'll auto-mark a tier "sold out" when it caps.
- A buy-button page that does the closing for you.
- Same commission as tickets.
- Public event page
- TV mode at the venue
- Past-years archive
Title · $2,500
Banner + emcee mention + booth
Gold · $1,000
Logo on event page + TV mode
Silver · $500
Name listing + booth
Vendor · $250
10x10 booth space
Same commission as tickets.
10% of every sponsorship sold (5% with an upgraded ModLinQ account). No setup fees. We don't bill you — the commission is taken at checkout, like ticket sales.
You've seen the sales side
Ready to put it to work?
Free events stay free forever · 10% on paid sales · 5% with an upgraded account
Phase 2 of 4
Run the show
Everything you need on the day, from gates to trophies.
Judged car shows
A real judged show. Without the spreadsheets.
Define your classes, your criteria, your judges, and ModLinQ runs the math. Judges score on their phone or paper, the average scores roll up in real time, ties surface immediately, and the leaderboard updates the second a ballot lands.
Step 1 — Classes
Stock to Pro Built. Or whatever your show calls them.
Create as many classes as you need. Drag-sort them. Assign a sponsor "presented by" line. Each class can have its OWN scoring criteria — Engine Bay (40), Paint (30), Interior (20), Wheels (10) for one class; Authenticity (50), Driveability (50) for another. The scoring criteria editor takes about 30 seconds per class.
- Assign panel members to classes they actually know.
- A phone-friendly scorecard with the build profile baked in.
- Live leaderboard, no refresh required.
- Tie shown clearly
- Judging window
Show classes
+ Add classStock
Engine 30 · Paint 30 · Interior 25 · Wheels 15
Modified
Power 40 · Fit 30 · Detail 30
Pro Built
Concours 100
Truck
Body 35 · Bed 25 · Lift 20 · Wheels 20
Live leaderboard, no refresh required.
The public leaderboard updates as ballots come in. Project it on a TV with the built-in observer mode (black background, oversized text, 30-second auto-refresh) so spectators can watch standings move in real time. Hosts get a separate dashboard showing per-judge consistency — easy to spot a hot or cold judge before the awards.
People's Choice voting
Let the crowd pick the favorite.
Judges score for craftsmanship. The crowd votes with their gut. Both rendered side-by-side on the leaderboard, both surfaced in the awards reveal. One ballot per phone — anti-cheat without making your spectators sign up for anything.
Open to who you want
Three audience modes.
Public (anyone with the link, no sign-in), all members (any logged-in ModLinQ user), or upgraded-only (Pro members get the perk on free events). Pick per event. Paid events almost always go public so the people who paid to attend can vote.
- A grid of every entrant. Tap to vote.
- Live leaderboard banner.
- No login required (public mode)
- Pro upsell on free events
- Renders alongside winners
Who can vote
Live leaderboard banner.
The leading entrant gets a gradient banner above the class standings on the public leaderboard. As votes shift, the banner shifts. Project it on TV mode and the crowd watches their favorite climb in real time.
Special awards
The hand-picked trophies.
Class winners are the science. Special awards are the heart. "Best of Ford" because the panel agreed it deserved it. "Long-Distance Driver" because someone trailered from Maine. "Founders' Choice" because the show owner spotted something nobody else did. Crown as many as you want.
Define the award
Name it, describe it, sort it.
Every special award has a name (visible to spectators) and an internal description (notes for the panel). Sort order controls the announcement order at the awards reveal. Build a template once, clone the event next year, the same set of awards comes with you.
- The head judge taps a name. That's it.
- Sponsor an award.
Best of Ford
No winner assigned yet
Best Engine Bay
No winner assigned yet
Founders' Choice
No winner assigned yet
Long-Distance Driver
No winner assigned yet
Sponsor an award.
Special awards are the best place to give a sponsor real visibility — "Best Engine Bay, presented by Summit Racing" reads better than a logo on a banner. Add a sponsor line per award and it shows up everywhere the award does.
QR scanner + ChipLinQ
One scan. The right screen.
ChipLinQ tags or windshield-card QR codes work the same way: scan with the ModLinQ app or any phone camera. Judges land on the ballot for that exact car. Spectators land on the vote screen. The car owner lands on their own claim flow if they're new. Nobody types an entry number, nobody fumbles paperwork.
Smart context routing
We figure out who you are. We send you to the right screen.
Scan resolves the car. Then we look at WHO scanned. A judge on the panel? They go to the ballot. A spectator with a vote token? They go to the People's Choice tap. An entrant who hasn't claimed their entry? They go to the claim flow. Nobody else? Public car profile. One QR, four destinations, zero confusion.
- Native browser camera
- Tags, cards, or stickers
- It works without judges, too
- No app to download.
SCAN → who are you?
No app to download.
Spectators won't install your app for a 30-second vote. ModLinQ's QR layer runs in the camera. iOS shows a tap-to-open notification, Android the same. The vote happens in their browser. Drop-off is essentially zero.
Email blasts
Every entrant. One email. One click.
Day-of changes happen. Gates moved, parking is around back, the food trucks are running 30 minutes late. Send a single email to every confirmed entrant, get them the info before they hit traffic. No CC fields, no Mailchimp setup, no bounces — just send.
Compose & send
Subject line, body, hit send.
Plain-text only on purpose — it lands in inboxes instead of spam folders, and reads cleanly on a phone. Preview before you send. Recipient count is shown before you commit. Send takes about 30 seconds for 200-300 entrants.
- Confirmed entrants
- Skip duplicates
- Unsubscribed users excluded
- Sender reputation, on us.
Subject
Message
→ 218 confirmed entrants
Sender reputation, on us.
Emails go out from notifications.modlinq.com — a domain we warm and monitor. Your show benefits from inboxing rates that take years to build. Better than your personal Gmail blasting 300 BCCs.
Walk-up + manual entries
Cash, day-of, no problem.
Some of your best entrants are the strangers who pull in 20 minutes before gates with a perfect '67 Camaro and a roll of cash. ModLinQ has a manual-entry form that takes 30 seconds: name, email, vehicle (or just "red Camaro"), entry number. They're in the show. Their email gets a claim invite. They wake up the next morning to a build profile waiting for them on ModLinQ.
The 30-second form
Name, email, vehicle, done.
On the manage page there's a single form. Type the entrant's name. Type their email if they have one (skip if not). Vehicle as a free-text field — "Red '67 Camaro" is fine, you don't need year/make/model dropdowns at the gate. Submit. They get an entry number, they're in the show, they count toward capacity.
- From paper-form to ModLinQ profile in 90 seconds.
- It works for paid shows too.
Add walk-up entry
It works for paid shows too.
Cash at the gate? Add the manual entry, mark it paid (we don't take a commission on cash), they're in. The cash entry counts toward your spectator/vehicle cap so you don't oversell.
Printable scorecards
For the judge with a clipboard.
Some panels still score on paper. ModLinQ generates a printable scorecard packet — 4 cards per page, every entrant, every class, the criteria you defined for that class. Open in your browser, hit Print, save to PDF, take it to FedEx. No dompdf dependency, no separate license, no font fighting.
What's on the card
Everything the judge needs, nothing they don't.
Big bold entry number top-left. Year/make/model. Owner name. The class name. Each scoring criterion you defined for that class with a fillable score box. A notes area at the bottom. Designed at print scale — readable from across a folding table.
- Open in any browser
- Hit Print
- No dompdf, no Wkhtmltopdf
- Paper + digital can co-exist.
#42
Stock
'69 Camaro
B. Teller
#43
Stock
'69 Camaro
B. Teller
#44
Stock
'69 Camaro
B. Teller
#45
Stock
'69 Camaro
B. Teller
4 cards per page · Cmd-P to print
Paper + digital can co-exist.
Some judges score on paper, others on the phone ballot. After the show, the host enters the paper scores into the digital ballot — it\'s the same form, just delayed by 30 minutes. The leaderboard math doesn't care which path the score took.
You've seen the show-day side
Ready to put it to work?
Free events stay free forever · 10% on paid sales · 5% with an upgraded account
Phase 3 of 4
After the show
The archive, the receipts, the reasons to come back next year.
Reports & financials
Your show's data, all in one tab.
After the trophies go home, you still need the receipts, the mailing list, and the proof that judge #3 was scoring 15 points hot. ModLinQ\'s reports tab gives you all of it: gross / net / commission / refunded, every entrant exported, winners CSV the announcer can read off-script, judge-by-judge consistency.
Financial summary
The numbers that matter.
Gross sales by category (tickets / vehicle entries / sponsorships). Stripe processing fees deducted. ModLinQ commission deducted. Refunded amounts subtracted. Net to your account, in dollars and cents. Reconciles 1:1 with your Stripe payouts so accounting day is not a panic.
- For the announcer. For the trophies. For the press release.
- Spot the hot judge. Spot the cold judge.
- Mailing list, gone.
Gross
$11,420
Refunded
$240
Commission
$1,118
Net
$10,062
Mailing list, gone.
Export your entire entrant list to CSV — name, email, vehicle, payment status. Drop into Mailchimp, into a CRM, into your phone\'s contacts app. Use it for next year\'s save-the-date, end of story. We never email your list without your sign-off.
Embeds + TV / observer mode
Your event, on your screens.
ModLinQ's event page is great. But your show probably has its own website too — and on the day, you want the leaderboard up on the projector at the venue. Embeds let you drop a live event card into your own site with a single iframe. TV mode strips the ModLinQ chrome and makes the leaderboard the entire screen, auto-refreshing every 30 seconds.
Embed code
One iframe. Lives anywhere HTML lives.
Your manage page generates a copy-pasteable HTML snippet. Drop it into your WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, custom-built whatever. The iframe pulls the live event card from ModLinQ — date, location, RSVP count, buy button — and stays in sync without you touching it again.
- Plug a laptop into the venue projector. Done.
- Existing event website
- Vendor area screens
- Awards reveal
// Drop on your show's website
<iframe
src="https://modlinq.com/events/hot-rods-14/embed?theme=auto"
width="100%" height="320"
frameborder="0">
</iframe>
Photo gallery + past years
The show ends. The archive starts.
Most event platforms forget your show the moment the date passes. ModLinQ does the opposite. Upload day-of photos, build a real gallery. Run the same show next year — clone the event and the lineage automatically links them. Three years later, /events/your-show/past-years is a photo-rich, SEO-ranked archive of your show's history.
Photo gallery
Up to 30 photos at a time. Lightbox + slideshow built in.
Drag a folder from your Lightroom export, hit upload, the gallery is live. Lightbox lets spectators tap into a full-screen viewer with thumbnails. Mark one photo as featured and it leads the past-years card. The gallery is public — Google indexes it, attendees share it, the show keeps living.
- Clone an event. Lineage links it to last year automatically.
- Marketing gold. SEO gold. Repeat-customer gold.
Marketing gold. SEO gold. Repeat-customer gold.
Show people the photos from year 3 when they're deciding whether to register for year 4. Past-years pages rank in Google for "[your show name] photos" and "[your show name] winners". Sponsors who supported you in year 1 get permanent linkbacks on the archive — they renew without you asking.
You've seen the after-show side
Ready to put it to work?
Free events stay free forever · 10% on paid sales · 5% with an upgraded account
Phase 4 of 4
The differentiator
The thing nobody else has.
The unfair advantage
Every car at your show is a story.
Eventbrite sells you a ticket. CarShowPro tracks scores. Neither knows what's under the hood. ModLinQ does — every car at your show can have a complete build profile with parts, mods, photos, owner, history. The data is the difference. Judges score with context. Spectators discover. Sponsors see the actual audience.
For judges
The build profile inside the ballot.
When a judge opens a ballot, they don't see a windshield card and a name. They see the entrant's build — "5.7 LS swap, T56 6-speed, MagnaFlow exhaust, custom paint, 7,400 miles since restoration." The score reflects what's actually there, not what fits on an index card.
- Scan a QR. Get the whole build.
- The actual audience, not a media kit lie.
- And it persists. Forever.
Featured build
· 7,400 mi since restoration
Build sheet
· LS3 6.2L V8 — 430 hp
· Tremec T56 6-speed
· Wilwood disc 4-corner
· Forgeline GA3 18×9.5
· MagnaFlow stainless 3"
And it persists. Forever.
Show ends → the entrant's build profile keeps living on ModLinQ. Next year, when they show up to register again, their build is already there — updated photos, new mods, fresh parts. Repeat customers come pre-loaded with data. Your show gets richer every year, not staler.
You've seen what nobody else does
Ready to put it to work?
Free events stay free forever · 10% on paid sales · 5% with an upgraded account
From the platform
Real builds. Real entrants.
These are members' cars on ModLinQ today — the kinds of profiles that show up at every event running on the platform.
FAQ
Common questions.
Is it really free to host?
How does the money flow?
What if I run a free meet, not a paid show?
Can I migrate from Eventbrite / CarShowPro?
Do you support multi-day shows?
What about waivers / liability releases?
Still on the fence?
Try it on a free event first.
Spin up a free meet — no payment, no commitment — and see the entire toolset in action before you ever sell a ticket.
Pricing
Simple. Fair. No surprises.
Free to host. Pay only when you sell.
Free events
$0
Host all the meets, cruises, and free shows you want. Unlimited entrants. Always free.
Host a free eventPaid events
10%
Of every ticket, vehicle entry, or sponsorship you sell. Stripe processing fees come out of the buyer's payment, not yours.
Start selling ticketsUpgrade your account
5%
Cut your commission in half on every paid event when you upgrade your ModLinQ account. Same flow, better economics.
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