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Compare them with ExpoFP's interactive floor plans: live booth sales, exhibitor profiles, wayfinding.",{"home":25,"compare":26,"page":27},"Home","Compare","ExpoFP vs SmartDraw",{"badgeText":29,"headline":22,"subheadline":30,"ctaLabels":31,"bullets":35},"Comparison Guide","SmartDraw's templates help you draw a trade show layout quickly. ExpoFP turns that layout into a live floor plan where exhibitors book booths and attendees find them.",[32,33,34],"Try ExpoFP Free","Book a Demo","See Pricing",[36,37],"Prepared by the ExpoFP product team","Last verified: {lastVerified}",{"stats":39},[40,42,45,47],{"value":41},"Free to start",{"value":43,"caption":44},"{trialDays}-day trial","No credit card",{"value":46},"DIY from {diyPrice}\u002Fmo",{"value":48,"caption":49},"No app needed","For attendees",[51,52,53,54,55,56],"Overview","Comparison","Costs","How to switch","FAQ","Related pages",{"heading":51,"lead":58,"paragraphs":59},"SmartDraw is a long-standing diagramming tool with a very large template library, and events are one of the areas it covers well. Its examples include a trade show layout, a trade show map, trade show booth layouts, conference and banquet plans, and a dedicated seating chart maker. Its event floor plan template comes with ready-made symbols for booths, tables and chairs. You can draw to scale and import a venue's existing floor plan as a starting point. For an organizer who needs a clean, professional-looking layout fast, SmartDraw is a capable and affordable tool.",[60,61],"The gap appears when that drawing has to run the event. A SmartDraw trade show map is still a static diagram: each booth is a symbol, not a sellable unit with a status, an exhibitor and a price. The tool doesn't track which booths are available, take reservations or payments, host exhibitor profiles, or let attendees search for a company and follow a route to its stand. So the drawing gets exported to PDF or an image, emailed around, and re-exported every time a booth changes hands, while the real booth inventory lives in a spreadsheet.","This page is for organizers who **draw their floor plan in SmartDraw** and are looking for a **SmartDraw alternative for trade show floor plans**. That could be expos, conferences, fairs, festivals or corporate events. Below we compare the two feature by feature, walk through what the manual workflow really costs, and show how to move your layout to an **interactive floor plan** with **online booth sales** and **attendee wayfinding**.",{"heading":63,"cards":64},"Quick verdict",[65,72],{"title":66,"items":67},"Keep using SmartDraw if",[68,69,70,71],"You need a quick, good-looking layout or seating chart for an event where nothing is sold on the plan, such as a banquet, gala, wedding or internal meeting.","The output only needs to be printed or shared as a PDF or image.","Your floor plan is for setup crews, caterers and AV, not for exhibitors and attendees.","You already use SmartDraw for other diagrams and the event layout is occasional.",{"title":73,"items":74},"Switch to ExpoFP if",[75,76,77,78,79],"You sell booths and want exhibitors to see live availability and reserve or pay by credit card directly on the map.","Booth statuses currently live in a spreadsheet and you're recoloring symbols after every sale.","Exhibitors should update their own logo, description and contacts through a personal link.","Attendees need search, category filters, bookmarks and turn-by-turn wayfinding on their phones, with no app.","You want to earn sponsorship revenue on the map and show sponsors analytics on searches, booth views and routes.",{"heading":81,"featureColumnLabel":82,"rows":83},"Feature-by-feature comparison","Feature",[84,91,98,105,112,119,126,133,140,147,153,160,167,174,181,188],{"title":85,"cells":86},"Purpose-built for event floor plans",[87,89],{"text":88},"Yes. 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Check current pricing on SmartDraw's website",{"heading":196,"paragraphs":197},"What the old workflow really costs",[198,199,200],"With SmartDraw, the drawing part is fast. You open the trade show layout template, drop in booth symbols, number them and export a polished PDF for the prospectus. The trouble starts after that. Every booth inquiry turns into an email thread: check the spreadsheet, confirm the booth, send an invoice, then reopen the drawing to recolor the symbol and add the company name. When two people sell from the same plan, the spreadsheet and the drawing fall out of sync, and double-booking a prime corner becomes a real risk.","Each change means another export. The PDF on the website, the one in exhibitors' inboxes and the one your sales team has open are soon three different versions. Exhibitor logos and descriptions arrive by email and get pasted in manually. The printed show map goes to the printer weeks before opening, so it's out of date the moment a booth is swapped or cancelled. Attendees on the floor get a static image with no search and no route to the stand they came to see.","SmartDraw isn't doing anything wrong. It's a diagramming tool, and a good one. But the hours spent keeping a drawing, a spreadsheet and an inbox in sync add up, and the static output leaves booth sales and sponsorship revenue on the table. One organizer who switched to ExpoFP said: \"I understood your system in 7 days better than I understood our previous system in 7 years.\"",{"heading":202,"columnLabels":203,"rows":207},"Before vs after",[204,205,206],"Step","Before","After",[208,212,216,220,224],{"title":209,"before":210,"after":211},"Layout changes","Edit the SmartDraw file, re-export the PDF, re-upload and re-email.","Edit in FP Designer and the live map updates instantly.",{"title":213,"before":214,"after":215},"Booth status","A spreadsheet plus manual recoloring of booth symbols.","Live availability on the map and reservations tracked in one place.",{"title":217,"before":218,"after":219},"Booth sales","Email inquiries, manual invoices and double-booking risk.","Exhibitors reserve or pay by credit card on the map and the organizer approves.",{"title":221,"before":222,"after":223},"Exhibitor content","Logos and descriptions collected by email.","Exhibitors update their own profiles via a personal auto-login link and the organizer approves.",{"title":225,"before":226,"after":227},"Attendee experience","A PDF or printed map that's already outdated.","A mobile-ready map with search, filters, bookmarks and turn-by-turn wayfinding, with no app needed.",{"heading":229,"paragraph":230,"buttonLabels":231},"Ready to turn your SmartDraw layout into a live floor plan?","Start with a {trialDays}-day free trial, no credit card required.",[32,33,34],{"heading":233,"steps":234},"How to move from SmartDraw to ExpoFP",[235,238,241,244,247],{"title":236,"text":237},"Export your SmartDraw layout","Save your trade show layout as a PDF or image. It becomes the reference for the hall outline, aisles and booth numbering.",{"title":239,"text":240},"Upload it or draw it in FP Designer","Upload the file and let the ExpoFP team build the interactive map (Light, Standard and Pro plans), or draw the booths yourself in the drag-and-drop FP Designer on the DIY plan, merging and resizing booths as needed.",{"title":242,"text":243},"Bring in your exhibitors","Add exhibitors and link them to booths. For a repeat event, copy last year's map and exhibitors. If you use registration, ticketing or CRM systems, integrations let exhibitor data flow both ways.",{"title":245,"text":246},"Open booth reservations","Turn on reservations (and credit card payments if you want them) so exhibitors book directly on the map. Send each exhibitor a personal auto-login link to complete their logo, description and contacts.",{"title":248,"text":249},"Share, embed and deploy","Publish on your custom URL, embed the map on your website or event app, and set up on-site kiosks with \"you are here\" and offline mode.",{"heading":251,"paragraphs":252},"When SmartDraw is still the right choice",[253],"SmartDraw is still a great fit for layouts where nothing is sold and no one needs to navigate: banquet and gala seating charts, wedding table plans, classroom or meeting-room setups, and furniture or staging plans for setup crews. It's also a convenient place to keep a to-scale reference drawing of a venue. Many organizers keep SmartDraw for those jobs and use ExpoFP for the exhibitor-facing floor plan, where booth inventory, exhibitor profiles, sponsorship and wayfinding have to live on one interactive map.",{"heading":55,"items":255},[256,259,262,265,268,271],{"question":257,"answer":258},"Can I import my SmartDraw floor plan into ExpoFP?","Yes. Export your SmartDraw layout as a PDF or image and upload it. On the Light, Standard and Pro plans the ExpoFP team builds the interactive map from your file. On the DIY plan you can use the export as a reference and draw booths yourself in FP Designer, dragging, dropping, merging and resizing them in the browser.",{"question":260,"answer":261},"Is SmartDraw good for trade show floor plans?","SmartDraw is good for drawing them. It has trade show layout and trade show map templates, booth symbols and scaled drawing. What it doesn't provide is the event layer on top: live booth availability, online reservations and payments, exhibitor profiles, attendee search and wayfinding. The result stays a static file that has to be re-exported and redistributed after every change.",{"question":263,"answer":264},"How much does ExpoFP cost compared with SmartDraw?","SmartDraw is sold as a low-cost per-user subscription with Individual, Team and Site\u002FEnterprise options, and published rates include introductory discounts for new customers. Check SmartDraw's website for current pricing. ExpoFP is free to start with a {trialDays}-day trial and no credit card. DIY is {diyPrice}\u002Fmo with booth reservation and sponsorship included. One-time plans built by the ExpoFP team are Light at {lightPrice}, Standard at {standardPrice} and Pro at {proPrice} (for up to 100 booths; price scales with booth count). ExpoFP replaces a sales process and a visitor map as well as a drawing tool, so weigh it against the staff time and booth revenue involved.",{"question":266,"answer":267},"Do attendees need an app?","No. ExpoFP maps run in the browser and are mobile-ready, with no app download and no sign-in. Attendees can search by company, booth or category, filter by category, bookmark exhibitors and follow turn-by-turn routes. The map can also run on kiosks and be embedded in your event website or app.",{"question":269,"answer":270},"Can exhibitors book booths themselves?","Yes. Exhibitors see live availability on the map and can reserve a booth, or purchase it by credit card if you enable payments, without emailing your team. You approve and track every reservation in one place, so there's no separate spreadsheet and much less risk of double-booking. Booth reservation is included on the DIY, Standard and Pro plans.",{"question":272,"answer":273},"Can I keep using SmartDraw alongside ExpoFP?","Yes, and many organizers do. SmartDraw works well for seating charts, banquet layouts and internal setup drawings, while ExpoFP runs the exhibitor- and attendee-facing floor plan. When the expo layout changes, you update it once in ExpoFP and everyone sees the new version immediately.",{"heading":56,"items":275},[276,280,284,288,292,296],{"title":277,"text":278,"linkLabel":279},"Compare ExpoFP","All comparison pages in one place.","Browse comparisons",{"title":281,"text":282,"linkLabel":283},"ExpoFP alternatives","How ExpoFP stacks up against other floor plan tools.","Read the guide",{"title":285,"text":286,"linkLabel":287},"Pricing","DIY, Light, Standard and Pro plans.","See pricing",{"title":289,"text":290,"linkLabel":291},"Exhibition floor plan software","What an interactive expo floor plan does.","Learn more",{"title":293,"text":294,"linkLabel":295},"ExpoFP vs Lucidchart","Collaborative diagrams vs a live event floor plan.","Read the comparison",{"title":297,"text":298,"linkLabel":295},"ExpoFP vs PDF floor plans","Why static files hold booth sales back.",{"heading":300,"paragraph":301,"buttonLabels":302},"Your layout is already drawn. Now make it sell booths.","Trusted by 1,000+ trade shows and expos in 50+ countries.",[32,33,34],{"heading":304,"body":305},"Disclaimer","Information on this page is based on publicly available product materials and may change over time. SmartDraw is a trademark of its respective owner. 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