For makers · Ceramics
Packing ceramics takes time, padding, and a good system. Unpacking at load-in is its own project. MyEventPrep helps you plan the layout and track what sold so each show gets a little easier to repeat.
A pottery week in the life
Plan
Mugs in volume, statement vases for the front. MyEventPrep looks at what sold at similar events and tells you how many of each form to pack — so you’re not hauling out the serving platters that haven’t moved since spring.
Pack
A weather-aware checklist that knows your booth: shelving, risers, signage, packing materials, and the small things you only remember at 6 a.m. (you forgot the dolly strap last September).
Learn
Per-piece sales come back from Square. Next time you prep, you can see at a glance which mugs flew off the shelf, which glaze got picked up most, and which one-off everyone asked about.
Heavy. Breakable. One-of-a-kind. And built around production timelines you can’t shortcut, no matter how full the show calendar is.
Newsprint, bubble wrap, foam, towels. Every piece padded. The wrong system, and one mug shifts and takes three with it.
Each piece is its own SKU, with its own glaze, its own size, its own price. Spreadsheets give up. So do you.
Throwing, drying, bisque, glaze, glaze fire. Booking the next show means knowing what you can actually have ready in time.
A returning customer remembers the speckled blue. You sold the last one in March. Without a record, you can’t even confirm whether you made it.
“You’re a potter, not an inventory manager.
Stop running the show like one.”
MyEventPrep keeps your full catalog in one place — every form, every glaze — so each event’s pack list comes from your inventory, not from a count the night before.
Connect Square once. Your forms come with you.
Including the glaze and form detail you’d never type into a spreadsheet twice.
Add the event, then choose pieces from your catalog — mugs by the dozen, statement vases by name. Padding, the dolly, and the wrap paper are already on the checklist; the forecast lives there too. After the show, Square shows you which forms moved by glaze and price. That’s where the next firing schedule starts — not from a hopeful guess.
That’s how a ceramics booth gets easier.
One firing at a time.
Plan the shelves before load-in
Drag the heavy pieces low and to the back. Keep mugs and cups in browse range. Save your setup once and reuse it next show — or branch a new layout for the rare booth where you have wall space.
A 10×10 ceramics template is included as a starting point: low and sturdy, with customer flow that respects how pottery is actually shopped.
Built around what ceramic artists actually track
See which mugs, bowls, and vases moved at each event — and which sat the whole weekend. Plan your next throw and the next pack list from data, not gut feel.
Bins, padding, risers, dolly, signage, wrap paper, gift bags. Edit it once and it carries forward to every event you create.
Per-event notes capture the “can you make a matching set?” conversations so they don’t live and die in a single Saturday.
Jot a note when someone buys — the speckled blue mug, the matching bowl set. When they come back to your booth six months later, your reflections do, too.
Start with one event. Bring your forms. See how it feels.
Hero photo by Judy Beth Morris on Unsplash.