NACS SHOW · ATLANTA · OCTOBER 5 – 8, 2027

A sold-out floor.
Follow up on every buyer you met.

MeetDrop is a lead capture app for trade shows. After each conversation you speak one sentence into your phone, and the follow-up email is written and sent before they reach the next aisle.

The NACS Show floor is sold out at over 1,200 exhibitors, and the people walking it decide what goes on the shelf in thousands of stores. A category manager who liked your product on Wednesday has met forty other vendors by Friday.

October 5 – 8, 2027 Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta

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Free for the NACS Show — limited spots. Or see the plans and start free today, no card.

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1 · You say it

Snap their card or badge, tap the mic, and say what you would have scribbled on the back. Seven seconds, in your own words.

Just met Jack from Northwind, wants the partner agreement, review Thursday.

2 · MeetDrop writes it

Name, company and what they asked for are pulled out. The email is written in your voice, with the right link already in it, and the lead is scored against the people you came for.

The partner agreement — as promised at the booth

3 · You press send

Read two lines, press Send, and it leaves from your own address. Nothing ever goes out that you did not press. Replies land in your inbox.

"So you’ll email me?" — "Already sent, Jack."

Seventy-three seconds, start to finish. The booth is a dramatization; every phone screen is the real app, recorded live.

How the NACS Show actually goes

Tuesday — conference day, before the floor opens

Sessions and the first meetings. The expo has not started and the team is still writing proper notes.

Wednesday — the floor opens and fills

Category managers, franchisees and distributors, one after another. By lunch the notes on the backs of cards have become initials.

Thursday and Friday — the buyers you came for

The conversations that justify the booth happen on the days you have the least capacity left to record them properly.

With MeetDrop, the follow-up left with the conversation

After each buyer walks away, whoever spoke to them taps the mic and says the chain, the region and what they asked for. The email is written in your voice and sent when you press send.

MeetDrop is free for the NACS Show. Ten spots on each side of the aisle.

Ten Pro plans for buyers walking a sold-out floor, ten Team plans for booths. The price is one public post saying you are going.

A woman with a badge walks a wide convention centre aisle speaking a voice note into her phone

WALKING THE FLOOR

Pro, free through October 31 $99 / mo

10 of 10 left

For category managers, franchisees and distributors attending on their own badge.

Unlimited AI follow-up emails for the show, not the 10 a month on Free
Follow-ups sent from your own email domain
Lead scoring, ideal-customer profiles and CRM sync
The show recap: who opened, who replied, who went quiet

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A visitor shaking hands with an exhibitor at a small trade show booth, a phone on the counter

WORKING A BOOTH

Team, free through October 31 $199 / mo

10 of 10 left

For the whole crew on the stand across all four days.

Everything in Pro, for everyone on the booth
One shared lead pool with dedupe — three seats included
Assignment, so the rep who had the conversation sends the email
Team recap by rep, by day, by hall

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How to claim it

Post that you are going

On LinkedIn or X, public. Use ours or write your own — it has to name the NACS Show and mention MeetDrop.

We're exhibiting at the #NACSShow in Las Vegas, October 6–9 — booth number. Come find us. This year every conversation at the booth gets its follow-up the same day, thanks to @MeetDrop. meetdrop.ai/events/nacs-show

Heading to the #NACSShow, October 6–9 in Las Vegas. If we meet on the floor, expect an email from me before I'm back at the hotel — I'm running my follow-ups with @MeetDrop. meetdrop.ai/events/nacs-show

Paste the link to your post

In the form on the right, with the email you will sign in with.

We switch it on

A person checks the post and turns the plan on within one business day. You get one email saying it is live. Nothing else.

Going to the NACS Show with MeetDrop

Updated as spots are claimed · each name links to their post

ATTENDING · 0 OF 10 CLAIMED

First name
goes here

Open

BOOTHS · 0 OF 10 CLAIMED

First booth
goes here

Open

Listed with permission, from the box on the claim form. Ask us and you come off the same day. Once the free spots are gone the wall stays open — post that you are going and you are listed, whether or not a plan came with it.

What that looks like on the floor

The chain and the count

Say "regional chain, ninety stores, wants the margin sheet and a sample case" and the follow-up answers that instead of thanking them for stopping by.

Their badge does the spelling

Scan the badge or photograph the card. Names and companies arrive spelled the way they print them, not the way a microphone heard them on a loud floor.

One booth, one pipeline

Everyone working the stand captures into a shared pool with dedupe, so two reps who met the same buyer send one follow-up, not two.

What we checked with the organizer

8 facts about NACS Show, each with where it came from.

The 2027 edition moves to the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA, held October 5-8, 2027. source
2027 booth space is priced at $41.00 per square foot for NACS and PEI members, with a minimum booth size of 10'x10' and a NACS supplier membership fee of $1,450.00 per year. source
2027 booth location selection runs in stages: NACS Hunter Club members select via virtual appointment in early December 2026, PEI Priority Club members from mid-December, and NACS/PEI member space selection runs January-May 2027; the 2027 floorplan is stated as available January 2027. source
The exhibit hall is organized into five main qualifying areas ('shows within a show'), plus a separate New Exhibitor Area for new exhibitors with extended hall hours. source
The PEI Convention is co-located with the NACS Show and runs October 5-8, 2027 at the Georgia World Congress Center. source
NACS states it does not sell exhibitor lists or contact information to anyone, and provides that data only to official show contractors. source
The 2025 edition drew 25,136 total attendees including 7,046 buyers from all 50 states and 73 countries, with more than 1,150 exhibiting companies across 420,000+ net square feet. source
A mailing list of NACS Show attendees is made available only to current exhibitors. source

What you are actually setting up

Your links, your tone of voice, who you are trying to meet. Then the app writes each follow-up in your words and you press Send. Scoring, your own sending domain, CRM sync and the shared team pool come with Pro and Team — the whole walkthrough is on one page, with what each plan includes.

The capture screen: add a photo or a business card, then tap the microphone — Snap the card, tap the mic

A drafted follow-up email opening with the document the lead asked for at the booth — The email, in your words

Who is worth chasing

The events screen with a trade show set as the current event — One show, one lead list

The Today screen: counts for sent, opened and replied, and a lead who wrote back — Sent, opened, replied

The per-event recap: leads captured, follow-ups sent and who replied — The recap you fly home with

What it costs after the NACS Show

You can start free today with no card. If the NACS Show is the only show you work this year, the Event Pass covers it. The twenty free spots above are Pro and Team at no charge through October 31.

Free

Every lead you meet, kept

Unlimited leads, forever

10 AI follow-up emails a month written and sent for you
Unlimited captures: voice note, card scan, AI extract
Every lead saved, searchable, exportable to CSV
Basic counts
Emails carry a “Sent with MeetDrop” footer

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Unlimited leads. No credit card.

Event Pass

One show, everything captured and followed up

$49/ show

Unlimited leads, forever

200 AI follow-up emails written and sent for you for one show. 30 days from the first one.
No “Sent with MeetDrop” footer
Replies come back to your address
CSV export
Event recap analytics
Email support

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One payment, no subscription

Pro

FREE FOR THE NACS SHOW

For people who work events all year

$99/ month

or $79 a month billed annually

Unlimited AI follow-up emails written and sent for you
Send from your own domain
CRM sync
Always-on adaptive follow-up
Drop a list
Lead scoring
Advanced analytics, priority support

Claim it free

Ten spots, one public post.

Team

FREE FOR THE NACS SHOW

For booths worked by more than one person

$199/ month

3 seats included, then $49 each

Everything in Pro for the whole team
Shared lead pool with dedupe
Drop a list for the whole team
Assignment and routing
User management
Team and per-rep analytics
Priority support and onboarding

Claim it free

Ten spots, one public post.

Enterprise

Ten seats and up, with the pieces a larger organisation needs.

API + webhooks
10+ seats
Everything in Team
Named success manager

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Prices in US dollars. Cancel any time; your leads stay exportable.

Questions people ask before the NACS Show

What exactly is MeetDrop?

A lead capture app for people who meet prospects in person. After a conversation you photograph their card or badge and speak one sentence about what was said. MeetDrop pulls out the name, company and what they wanted, writes a personalised follow-up email in your voice, and sends it when you press Send — usually within a minute of the handshake. It runs in your phone's browser and there is nothing to install.

When and where is the NACS Show 2026?

The NACS Show 2026 runs October 6 to 9, 2026 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, with the expo floor open October 7 to 9. It is the convenience and fuel retailing industry's principal annual trade show.

How big is the NACS Show?

The 2026 expo floor carries over 1,200 exhibitors and is sold out. The people walking it are the category managers, franchisees and distributors who decide what goes on the shelf across thousands of convenience stores.

What does MeetDrop cost?

Free to start: unlimited leads, with 10 AI follow-up emails a month written and sent for you. An Event Pass is $49 for one show: 200 AI follow-up emails, for 30 days from the first one, with replies coming back to your own address. Pro is $99 a month, or $79 billed annually, for unlimited AI follow-ups, sending from your own domain, lead scoring and CRM sync. Team is $199 a month with three seats included, then $49 per extra seat.

Does the NACS Show have lead retrieval for exhibitors?

Exhibitors can order lead retrieval through the show, and it captures what is printed on an attendee's badge. It does not record what the buyer actually asked for, and it does not write the follow-up. MeetDrop works alongside it: scan for the record, speak one sentence for the conversation, and the email goes out the same day.

How soon should I follow up after a trade show?

The same day, from the show. Most trade show leads never get a meaningful follow-up at all, and the ones that arrive a week later compete with every other vendor the buyer met. The first specific email — the one that names the thing they actually asked about — is the one that gets remembered.

I am a buyer walking the floor, not an exhibitor. Can I use it?

Yes. Exhibitors scan your badge and you leave with nothing. Capture the suppliers you want to follow up with by voice as you walk, and the notes turn into emails before you fly home.

Can the whole booth use one account?

Yes, on Team. Every rep captures into one shared pool with dedupe, so two people who spoke to the same buyer send one follow-up rather than two. Each lead keeps the name of the rep who had the conversation, and the recap breaks results down by rep and by day. Three seats are included, then $49 each.

Does MeetDrop send emails without me seeing them?

No. Every follow-up is written and then waits in a queue for a person to read it and press Send. You can review them one at a time or send the whole queue at once, but nothing leaves the account that a human did not approve.

Do I need to install anything?

No. MeetDrop runs in your phone's browser, and there is an iOS app if you prefer one. Sign in with Google or with a code emailed to you, set the show as your event, and the capture screen is ready. There is nothing for your booth staff to download, and it keeps working when the hall wifi does not.

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