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Announcing the Middletwin Dashcard Designer: Effortless, Integrated Dashcards for Your Car Show

At Middletwin, we’re always looking for ways to make car club and car show management easier, more efficient, and more enjoyable. Today, we’re thrilled to introduce our latest feature: the Dashcard Designer!

What is the Dashcard Designer?

The Dashcard Designer is a brand-new tool within Middletwin that allows you to create stunning, professional-quality dashcards in just minutes. No more struggling with external design software or manually inputting participant details. With this new feature, you can generate dashcards that seamlessly integrate with your registered participants’ information and print them with a single click.

Key Benefits:

  • Seamless Integration – Your dashcards automatically pull participant details from Middletwin, eliminating errors and saving time.
  • Easy Customization – Choose from our professionally designed template or create a unique design that fits your show’s branding.
  • One-Click Printing – Once your dashcards are ready, print them instantly with all necessary details included—no additional data entry required.
  • Professional Presentation – Impress your participants with sleek, well-organized dashcards that enhance their experience at your event.

How It Works:

  1. Select a template or create a custom design within the Dashcard Designer.
  2. Drag and Drop elements into the dashcard area and arrange them where you want them.
  3. Middletwin automatically fills in the participant’s details, including name, vehicle info, and registration number.
  4. Review and finalize your dashcards.
  5. Print them instantly—no hassle, no extra steps!

Why You’ll Love It

Car shows are all about presentation, organization, and a smooth experience for both organizers and participants. The Dashcard Designer streamlines the process, reduces administrative work, and ensures that every dashcard is accurate, legible, and visually appealing.

Ready to try it out? Go to https://www.middletwin.com/demo-signup/ to signup for a demo today.

We’d love to hear your feedback—let us know how this feature is helping your car show run smoother than ever. Stay tuned for even more exciting updates from Middletwin!

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Revolutionizing Car Club and Car Show Management: Middletwin’s Latest Enhancements

At Middletwin, we’re passionate about making car clubs and car shows easier to manage and more enjoyable for everyone involved. That’s why we’re excited to unveil our latest enhancements, designed to streamline event management and enhance the experience for organizers, participants, and volunteers alike. Here’s a closer look at the features we’ve added to Middletwin’s robust platform.

  1. Random Picking for Event Tickets

Fairness and excitement go hand-in-hand with our new random picking feature for event tickets. Whether it’s selecting winners for a raffle or determining door prize recipients, Middletwin can now handle this process seamlessly. Say goodbye to manual processes and hello to an automated, impartial system that keeps your audience engaged.

2. Ticket Sales Management at Events

Managing ticket sales on the day of your event has never been easier. With our enhanced system, you can manually enter in tickets for spectators at the event.

3. Pre-Register Multiple Cars at Once

For participants showcasing more than one vehicle, we’ve introduced multi-car pre-registration. This feature simplifies the pre-registration process, allowing users to register all their vehicles in one go. It’s faster, more efficient, and ensures no car gets left behind.

4. Custom Show Purchase Agreement

Tailor your terms to match the unique needs of your car show with our new custom purchase agreement feature. Whether you need specific clauses for liability, sponsorships, or vendor requirements, Middletwin lets you create agreements that reflect your event’s priorities, providing clarity and protection for all parties involved.

5. Marketing Email Opt-In Support

Boost your event’s visibility with built-in support for marketing email opt-ins. Attendees, participants, and vendors can now choose to receive updates, promotions, and exclusive content related to your events. This feature helps you build a targeted mailing list for future engagement, ensuring your community stays informed and connected.

6. Custom Gift Options for Volunteers

Volunteers are the backbone of any successful car show. With our new feature, you can define a custom list of gift options to show your appreciation. Whether it’s merchandise, vouchers, or exclusive event perks, this flexibility allows you to recognize and reward their invaluable contributions in a way that feels personal and meaningful.

Why Choose Middletwin?

These updates are just the latest in our ongoing mission to simplify and enhance the management of car clubs and shows. By listening to your feedback and understanding the unique challenges of your events, we continue to innovate and deliver tools that save time, reduce stress, and foster stronger connections within your community.

Ready to elevate your next car show or club event? Go to www.middletwin.com today and explore how Middletwin can help you!

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Introducing Event maps

Simplify Space Management for Your Car Show!

We’re excited to announce Event Maps, a powerful new feature in Middletwin that allows car show coordinators to manage event spaces like never before. Whether you’re selling vendor spots, organizing swap meet areas, or ensuring smooth logistics, our new mapping tool has you covered.

What Can You Do with Event Maps?

  • Create Unlimited Maps: Set up as many maps as your event requires, each tailored to different areas or purposes.
  • Add Unlimited Spaces: Layer on as many spaces as you need for each map. Each space can be customized with a row, number, price, and type (e.g., Swap, Food, Merchandise).

How Does It Work?

Setting up a map is quick and straightforward—no tech expertise required!

  1. Create a New Map: Simply upload a background image. Use a screenshot of an online map (like Google Maps) or design your own layout.
  2. Layer Spaces: Add, label, and organize spaces directly on the map. Each space is customizable to fit your pricing and event needs.
  3. Go Live or Manage Internally: Publish the map online to sell spaces with ease or keep it private for admin-only management.

Features Your Team Will Love

  • Sell Spaces Online: Activate your map for a specific timeframe, allowing vendors to purchase spaces online.
  • Automated Notifications: Send beautifully branded confirmation emails to buyers and get instant notifications for every sale.
  • Intuitive Admin Management: Prefer manual control? Manage spaces directly in the Middletwin admin portal with an easy-to-use interface.

Enhance Spectator Experience

During the event, spectators can access the maps on their mobile devices to search for and locate vendors, food trucks, or swap meet booths. No more wandering aimlessly—your attendees will love the convenience!


Whether you’re streamlining space sales, organizing vendor layouts, or enhancing the spectator experience, Middletwin’s Event Maps makes it all simple and efficient.

Ready to see it in action? Sign up now for a demo and explore how Middletwin can transform your car show!

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More than just a ticket

Sometimes you need a ticket to be more than just a ticket, meaning you need to sell something but you need some additional info. Middletwin has you covered. With our new ticket options feature you can add options to any ticket that you want to sell. Some examples might be:

  • Get a guests name to go with a ticket
  • Let a guest choose a shirt size and color (multi-option)
  • Choosing a meal option

The two types of options that you can collect are text, like a name, or multiple choice, like shirt color or size, or mean choice.

There are many reasons you might want to add options to a ticket, and now we have you covered. Just another reason that Middletwin is the software of choice for car clubs and car shows.

Schedule a demo today to learn how Middletwin can help you.

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Sell vendor spaces at your event

With Middletwin you can quickly and easily create a map for your event/show venue of spaces that you can sell online in your clubs member portal. This can be used to allow vendors or swappers to see available spaces at the event, reserve them, and pay for them online.

  1. Easy to create spaces to sell
    With a few clicks of the mouse you can create a user friendly map that you can use to sell spaces at an event for vendors or swappers to purchase online.
  2. Its like picking seats on an airplane
    Vendors or swappers can go to your member portal/events section and pick spaces the same way we pick movie theater seats or airplane seats today. After they purchase spaces they will get a confirmation email that you create and you will get a notification of the purchase
  3. Day of show checkin
    You can download a csv of all the vendors and during the show you can checking vendors using the list. 

By using venue/vendor maps you can eliminate the need to manually manage spaces for vendors and having to deal with checks in the mail. You can also reduce having to accept cash or checks at the show.

You can also manually create vendors and assign them to spaces on the map at anytime, giving you complete control!

If you have any questions or want to see a demo you can sign up for one now

Case Study

Case Study: Mustangs at the Island

If you are a fan of Ford Mustangs, the Mustangs at the Island car show is a Must attend show. The 3-day annual show is held at Treasure Island Casino just south of the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and attracts around 300 Mustangs from every era of the cars production. The show schedule includes a driving experience with Gary Curtis, a cruise, poker run, movie night, and many other activities to keep the participants active all weekend long.

The club that hosts the show, The Lake Country Mustang Club, uses the Middletwin suite for managing membership, and used the Middletwin car show software to manage the car show.

They started by setting up the show in Middletwin, with the dates and show description. Since all the cars would be Ford Mustangs, setting up makes and models was easy, however if they had more, it would not have been difficult to setup. And with Middletwin you can even let the participant manually enter their make and model rather than defining a list to choose from.

Since the car show portion of the event is held in the casino parking lot, the club decided to set sections of the parking lot up as classes in Middletwin and created “placeholder” registrations for all available spaces in the parking lot. Then, when a car would arrive and be parked, the car would be entered into the placeholder registration.

Onsite, doing the car show, Middletwin provided 3 chromebooks for volunteers to use to enter in participant details as they arrived, and a printer to print out voting results. Voting was open from 12:30 to 2:30 on Saturday and the show used Middletwin’s new mobile voting, providing one time use QR codes to all participants. This allowed the vote to be entered by the participants, and allowed the show to be able to be able to print out the voting results at 2:30, the moment voting closed.

Simple and flexible setup along with mobile voting really took away the stress from the club volunteers when it came to the car show management, and ran smoother than it ever had in past years.

Find out how Middletwin can help your car club, sign up for a demo today

 

Case Study

Case Study: Power on Tower Muscle Car Show

The Power on Tower Muscle car show is an all makes and models charity car show in Superior Wisconsin and is hosted at the Benna Ford car dealership on Tower avenue and run by the Twin Ports Mustang and Ford club.

The annual car show was held on August 20 2024 (originally planned for August 15th but changed due to weather). Participants were encouraged to pre-register by the Benna Ford dealership and the Twin Ports Mustang and Ford club through online posts that included a QR code that took participants directly to the pre-registration page. Pre-registration was low due to the car shows date change.

The show was setup with a total of 18 classes based on car year and weather it was modified or not.

On the day of the show a total of 106 cars showed up and registered for the car show. The show was held from 5-7:30 and all car registrations were entered in manually by volunteers using 3 computers, and custom dash cards were printed out for each participant by a volunteer immediately after the participants were entered into the system.

Participant voting was handled using Middletwins new mobile voting process. This worked extremely well even with participants who initially considered themselves to not be technically savvy enough to figure it out. Because of how well this worked, only 6 ballots had to be manually entered, and when 7:30 came the Twin Ports Mustang and Fords club was able to print out the voting results. It only took a few minutes to add in special awards and the awards ceremony started right away.

Because this is a charity car show the Benna Ford dealership and the Twin Ports Mustang and Ford club were able to raise, and match, a very generous donation for the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Fund in Douglas County and the Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans in St. Louis County.

Find out how Middletwin can help your car club, sign up for a demo today

Case Study

Case Study: Midwest Mopars in the Park

The Midwest Mopars in the Park car show is one of the top national all Mopar car shows in the nation, with an average of 1200 show cars and 7500 spectators over a 3 day weekend, it draws cars and spectators from all across the nation and Canada.

The show is run by a twin cities based car club called Midwest Mopars. The Midwest Mopars club started back in 1984 and currently has around 450 members. The club utilizes Middletwin for member management (sign up and renewal), newsletter distributions and other club emails, the member portal for member engagement and the activities calendar, and managing their 2 annual events, Midwest Mopars in the Park car show and the winter banquet ticket sales.

For the Midwest Mopars in the Park car show they have roughly 50 different classes for cars at the show, all of which is configured in Middletwin. They are able to setup pre-registration for the show and configure Middletwin so that members can get a special member only discount when they pre-register after logging into the member portal. Pre-registration typically begins in January and by the time the club ends pre-registering cars (mid May) the club will have anywhere from 500-600 cars already entered into the system. And all the data was entered by the participants, improving data accuracy. Pre-registrants also use credit card when signing up, so there were no checks to deposit, the funds are automatically deposited into the clubs account without any intervention.

All the dashcards for the pre-registered cars are printed using Middletwin ahead of time. Middletwin can be customized to create beautiful dash cards, with all the members data printed from the computer, not hand written, making them much easier to read for all.

Midwest Mopars also uses Middletwin to sell digital/mobile tickets online to the show before the show opens, as a discount. The passes are scanned at the spectator entrance and can only be used one time.

During the show another 500-600 cars will come that were not pre-registered. These cars are entered into Middletwin during the show by volunteers using 3 chrome book computers. The dashcards for these day of show participants are handwritten to simply speed up the sign up process.

Participants are given a ballot and asked to choose their favorite cars in each of the 50 classes. Ballots are due on the last day of the show. These ballots have all 50 classes listed out and a line next to each class for the participant to write in the registration number for the car they are voting for. Prior to Middletwin this data was manually tabulated using grids and tick marks on large pieces of cardboard and the process typically took over 3 hours. With Middletwin all this data can be keyed in by volunteers within 20-30 minutes using the same 3 chrome books that were used for day of show registration data entry.

As of this writing, Middletwin has added a new feature to allow the participants to vote using their smartphones, the process is very easy and had already been extremely successful at other car shows by other Middletwin customers.

After all the votes are in, and voting is closed, access to the results is simply a click away. The results are printed out on a standard printer and display the top 10 cars for each class, ordered by vote count, with the name and car information for the participants. Then it is simply up to the show staff to separate out any special awards from the vote counts and they are ready for awards.

From the pre-registration process to the ballot counting Middletwin has really streamlined the Midwest Mopars in the Park national car show, helped to reduce stress for the show staff, and improved the experience for all the participants and club members.

Find out how Middletwin can help your car club, sign up for a demo today

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Run car shows smoothly using Middletwin

On August 20th the Twin Ports Mustang and Ford club, along with the Benna Ford car dealership in Superior Wisconsin, hosted the Power on Tower car show. This was a one day car show from 5 – 7:30pm. The Twin Ports Mustang and Ford club made the decision to use Middletwin for managing their membership and events, and this was their first event that they ran using Middletwin.

Setting up the event in Middletwin was simple, there were 18 classes that needed to be created, pre-registration was setup with a few clicks, and then just setting up dates, details, and uploading the images. We also helped with setting up a nice response email template, so everyone who pre-registered for the show would get an email confirming their registration.

Next came a date change, a few days before the original scheduled show date of August 15th the weather predictions showed severe storms would be in the area on the 15th, so the decision was made to move the event to the 20th. For the Middletwin system, this just meant changing the dates in the shows setup, and creating a nice email template and sending the email to those who had already pre-registered, informing them of the date change.

On the day of the event, Wade Girard, owner and creator of Middletwin traveled to Superior and brought 3 Chromebooks with full size keyboards and mice, as well as a printer to use to print dashcards for the cars as they registered. The Chromebooks were used for volunteers to manually enter in each participant’s registration, and after they were entered a dashboard would be printed for them to put in their car. There were about a dozen cars pre-registered and 106 cars total at the show, so around 95 cars were manually input into Middletwin during the show. One way to encourage pre-registration is to raise the day of show registration cast by $5, motivating participants to save $5 by registering ahead.

As a side note, If your club uses Middletwin and Wade is available, Wade would come to your event, with equipment, and help setup and train volunteers on how to use Middletwin live, at your event. Just ask.

Next came balloting/voting. The club decided to use the new mobile balloting feature within Middletwin. The way it works as that the club can create one time use ballots within Middletwin (see Digital Voting Made easy) and hand them out to each participant. The club also had some manual ballots as a backup in case anyone did not have a smartphone or was having issues using the ballot. At last years show, tallying 100+ ballots at the end of the show took the longest, and participants are stuck waiting around to find out who won in the various classes, however this year was much different. Using the mobile ballots the votes were captured immediately, in fact the club was able to go into the system and see the results of the ballots being captured in real time. About 6 hand written ballots were turned in, that’s 6 out of 106, and with Middletwin they were entered in manually, taking only about 3 minutes, then the results were printed out in a nice easy to understand format, allowing the club and dealership to know the winners within a few minutes, not hours.

With Middletwin, the results are presented by class, showing the top 10 cars to receive votes, ordered by vote count, and the car details and names of the participants all in the results. This allowed the awards to be handed out easily, knowing who got each award as opposed to just announcing a number, and the show was all wrapped up within a half hour.

This was a charity car show, and 100% of the proceeds, as well as some matching funds, went to the Soldiers and Sailors relief fund in Douglas County and the MN Assistance Council for Veterans in St. Louis County. Middletwin is very proud of our veterans and happy to have had the opportunity to be at this show with the Twin Ports Mustang and Ford club and Benna Ford to raise money for our veterans.

Setup a time for a demo and see why Middletwin is the right fit for your car club.

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Digital voting made easy

With Middletwin’s new online balloting system, your event participants and other voters can vote on their favorite cars using their own iPhone or Android mobile devices. Middletwin allows you to generate as many one time use ballots that you need for your event, print them out using a standard printer, and all you need to do is distribute them.

You set the time that voting begins and ends, so voters will not be able to submit votes too early or after you have closed voting, allowing you to ensure accurate results.

Even with the online participant voting, you will still be able to manually enter in votes as well, this allows you to handle any situations where network connectivity or any other unforeseen issues might arise.

Other solutions might offer this as an additional feature for hundreds extra, but with Middletwin it is included as a part of the suite. No additional cost.

Setup a time for a demo and see why Middletwin is the right fit for your car club.

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