XALA SAN DIEGO · TIJUANA / EST. 2026
Selected work · 2025 Field ops

BIGTOP.

The booking and quoting software MLC runs its day on. It ended the from-scratch spreadsheet: a quote that used to take an hour now takes a few minutes.

Context

The brief.

MLC rents carnival games and rides across Southern California. Every event started as a fresh spreadsheet: same fields, same math, typed again. The booking team lost hours a week to it, and each franchisee reselling locally had their own quote format. So we built BIGTOP.

Scope

What we built.

Project data

Quick facts.

VerticalField ops · Franchise
Year2025
StackNext.js · Neon · Better Auth · Stripe
Used byMLC + franchisee team
StatusLive
Status

Now.

BIGTOP runs the booking floor now. What used to take an hour a quote takes a few minutes.

It stopped being a quoting tool somewhere along the way. It invoices, tracks deposits and over-payments, carries the crew schedule and a close-out scorecard per event, holds the signed contractor agreements, and sends the day-of confirmation with the invoice attached. In August we added the page the office actually asked for, which answers one question and no others: when does the money hit the bank. It reads Stripe's payout and balance data live on each load, with no mirror table to drift.

Still open: when someone asks for a quote from one of the city pages, it should land in BIGTOP already filled in.

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