Residential construction · Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV · Feb 2-4, 2027

IBS 2027lead capture

The honest read on IBS 2027: what the organizer scanner really costs, what the badge encodes, and whether the venue WiFi holds up. Tendro is a lead capture app: your booth team scans badges and business cards with their phones, and it is $499 flat for the whole team at one event. One $499 fee covers every phone on your booth staff, instead of renting scanners per device.

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IBS 2027 fact sheet

Organizer scanner rental

$495 to $625

per device or package, the published 2027 SWAP order form

Show-floor WiFi

~25 clients

per access-point radio before half-duplex WiFi degrades

Show days · order clock

Feb 2-4, 2027

Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV. The advance rate ends on December 22, 2026; every order after that pays the second column.

Tendro (our line in this table)

$499 flat

whole booth team, one event, any badge from their phones

The basics

IBS 2027 at a glance

More than 1,700 exhibitors sell to home builders, remodelers, dealers and distributors here, and IBS shares Design & Construction Week with KBIS in the same building.

Show dates	February 2-4, 2027
Venue	Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV
Lead retrieval	Organized by NAHB. Registration by Maritz. Lead retrieval by Maritz SWAP.
Who exhibits	Residential construction

The scanner cost

What does lead retrieval cost at IBS 2027?

The published 2027 SWAP order form runs $495 to $625 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 ends on December 22, 2026; every order after that pays the second column. The last tier carries no end date. It runs to the show.

Device (2027 form)	Through 12/22/26	After 12/22/26
App package on your own devices (three activations)	$565	$625
Handheld rental (one activation)	$565	$625
Tablet rental (one activation)	$495	$565

The add-ons ride on top of the device line. Every activation past the three in the app package is $149. A Bluetooth printer is $100 through December 22 and $150 after, and pairs with one device only. Custom sales qualifiers or surveys are $99. Delivery to the booth is $150. Feeding scans into your own lead system is the Event API line, $825 then $925. Processing is $9.99, waived when you order through the online portal. Purchase orders are not accepted, and cancellation outside 30 days is $100, inside it no refund.

The same form prices the failure case. Leads captured as badge images or handwritten badge IDs are available for upload within 14 days after the show and carry a data services fee. That is the organizer's own fallback for a badge its scanner could not read.

The 2027 Maritz SWAP order form is public, linked as Maritz Lead Retrieval on the IBS official vendors page. Orders go through exhibitor.swap.mge360.com, and the advance rate ends on December 22, 2026. Source.

The badge

What does the IBS 2027 badge actually encode?

IBS has not published what its 2027 badge encodes. Assume an ID that only the Maritz SWAP scanner resolves.

NAHB publishes the IBS 2027 SWAP order form and says IBS registration also admits you to the KBIS floor, but no public 2027 source states the badge's code type or what it encodes. The conservative assumption is an organizer ID resolved only by the Maritz scanner, and the form's own provision for uploading badge images and handwritten IDs after the show points the same way. Tendro reads the printed face by OCR and enriches the contact; it does not resolve the organizer's ID. A vCard or MeCard QR, if a badge carries one, decodes directly.

No universal app, Tendro included, decodes the organizer's encoded badge ID; what Tendro reads is the printed face, the name, title, and company, and enrichment fills the verified email and firmographics the badge leaves off. Same for business cards and QR codes.

So the honest limit carries its own fix: without the organizer's licensed access (the rented scanner or a paid event API) no app resolves the encoded ID, and OCR plus enrichment returns the named, verified contact without waiting on the rental. The universal badge scanner explainer walks through how.

One more thing worth checking: exhibitor contracts vary on third-party capture policies, so read yours before the show.

The WiFi

Does the WiFi hold up at Las Vegas Convention Center?

Las Vegas Convention Center publishes no booth WiFi guarantee. Cisco's high-density WiFi guidance flags degradation past roughly 25 clients per radio.

With no venue guarantee, plan for the physics of the floor rather than a promised speed. Peak hours are exactly when your capture cannot stall.

IBS lists Cox Business/Hospitality Network as its official WiFi and internet vendor, ordered through Cox's own LVCC portal; no booth rate sheet is published on the show site.

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.

The alternative

What is the $499-per-event alternative?

Tendro is $499 per event with unlimited team members, never per device. A five-person booth pays one flat fee, not five rentals.

IBS and KBIS run the same three days in the same building for the 14th Design & Construction Week, with the same Maritz SWAP scanner, and two different price cards. KBIS gives its exhibitors the SWAP app free for up to six users. IBS charges for it: the 2027 App Package, three activations on your own phones, is $565 through December 22, 2026 and $625 after, and every activation past three is $149. A five-rep IBS booth is $863 before the cutoff and $923 after, and getting scans into your own lead system is the Event API line at $825 or $925. The same booth on Tendro is $499 flat. The traffic crosses over too: NAHB says an IBS registration also gets you onto the KBIS show floor, and together the two shows expect 120,000-plus attendees across 1.2 million net square feet.

One fee, not per device.$499 covers the whole booth. Unlimited devices, unlimited scans. A five-person team is one rental, not five.

Season pass for a full calendar.Running the year? The season pass prices shows in volume, a flat per-event rate that drops as you add events.

Any CRM with a public API.Salesforce, HubSpot, or any CRM with a public API. Sync starts with your first paid event, under 10 seconds scan to record.

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The desk trial

How do you test it before IBS 2027?

Run the free desk test before IBS 2027: scan old badges and business cards, judge the enrichment, then decide.

The free trial is the scan-and-enrichment desk test. Point a phone at last year's badges and a stack of business cards, watch what Tendro reads and enriches, and grade the data before IBS 2027 opens.

We do not publish a blanket enrichment match rate. Industrial badges enrich differently than SaaS ones, which is exactly why the desk test exists: run it on your own badge stack.

The free trial covers capture and enrichment; CRM sync switches on with your first paid event, so you test field mapping against a real show, not a sandbox. The desk test costs a lunch break and answers the enrichment question before any show is on the line.

Straight answers