AAOS 2027lead capture

The scanner cost

What does lead retrieval cost at AAOS 2027?

The published 2027 SWAP order form runs $470 to $705 per device or package, with one dated rate cutoff before the show.

These are current numbers, not a prior-year proxy. Maritz SWAP publishes the 2027 form in the open, and the form prints its own cutoffs. The advance rate runs through January 20, 2027; every order after that pays the second column. The last tier carries no end date. It runs to the show.

The add-ons ride on top of the device line, advance and after-cutoff: Event API $1,155 and $1,370; Bluetooth printer $150 and $175, pairing with one device only; custom qualifiers or surveys $155 and $175; booth delivery $210 and $240; Digital Backpack $250 and $275. Every activation past the three in the app package is $150, for single booths only. Processing is $9.99, waived when you order through the SWAP online portal, and sales tax is extra.

The form also prices the failure case. Purchase orders are not accepted; cancellation outside the last 30 days is $100, inside it no refund. Leads captured as badge images or handwritten badge IDs can be uploaded within 14 days after the event and carry a data services fee the form does not state. The fine print adds that every registrant agrees to terms of use that include sharing their personal information with exhibitors via lead retrieval, and that Maritz recommends exhibitors get their own privacy advice.

The 2027 Maritz SWAP order form (code AOS271) is public at the AAOS manual URL ahead of the full Exhibitor Service Manual on October 22, 2026. Orders go through exhibitor.swap.mge360.com, and the advance rate ends on January 20, 2027. Source.

The WiFi

Does the WiFi hold up at The Venetian Convention & Expo Center?

The Venetian does not sell or rent wireless routers, so a booth that wants WiFi brings its own access point and orders bandwidth to feed it.

The venue sizes that bandwidth order by device count: 3 Mbps for three devices or fewer, 10 or 20 Mbps for four to ten, then 30 Mbps and up in ten-megabit steps. It publishes no price for any of those tiers, and the ordering portal is not open to the public.

It gets worse under load. Show-floor WiFi is half-duplex, and per Cisco's high-density WiFi design guidance, a single access point degrades past roughly 25 clients per radio. The busiest hour on the floor is the hour the signal is thinnest.

Tendro captures to the phone first. Every scan queues locally with its real timestamp and syncs in order when the connection returns, so a soft WiFi bar never costs you a lead. The offline capture write-up covers how the queue behaves when the venue drops.