In The Limelight
Guidelines for Creating a Successful Rental Shop Order

Comparing apples to apples

Putting together a detailed shop order may seem tedious, however if you are not specific in what you ask for, you may be less than pleased with what you get.

Putting together a shop order is an opportunity to carefully think through your production needs ensuring a smooth load-in, set-up and tech process with out missing pieces, multiple trips to pick up forgotten items or last minute compromises.

One very real value of being exhaustively explicit in putting together a shop order is that you will be comparing apples to apples when soliciting bids from multiple vendors.

Shop Order Checklist

• Show Details - venue, dates, etc
• Contact Information - including who to contact for clarification/questions
• Delivery Details - where, when, who, etc
• General Notes
• Lighting Instruments
• Lighting/fixture Accessories - top hats, etc
• Dimming & Control
• Feeder Cable - cable and tie-ins for dimmers
• Stage Cable - including twofers, adapters, etc
• Multicable
• Data (control) Cable - control to dimmers, etc
• Special Effects Equipment - foggers, scrollers, etc
• Hardware - booms, truss, etc
• Perishables - tape, gel, gobos, fog fluid, etc

Download detail guidelines for creating a shop order [pdf]

Download a sample shop order [pdf]

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