How to Prep for Your First Palmstreet Live Show: A Plant Seller's Checklist
A checklist for the day before your first Palmstreet LIVE: lineup, pricing, staging, promotion, moderation, and sales tracking.
A good Palmstreet LIVE is mostly preparation: a locked lineup, prices you trust, a clean setup, and a plan for tracking sales while chat is moving.
Use this checklist the day before your first show so you can focus on buyers instead of scrambling for prices, handles, or plant details.
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Lock your lineup the day before
Choose the plants, set the order, and pull them physically so they are within reach. Lead with a strong mid-priced plant, save a few highlights for the middle, and keep simple crowd-pleasers in reserve. In PropBox, you can build the lineup digitally and mark queued plants Reserved.
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Set a price and a floor for every plant
Set a starting price and minimum for each plant before the show. Work from acquisition cost, then account for margin, fees, payment processing, and shipping or packaging. That way you can answer offers without doing math on camera.
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Stage your space, light, and camera
Use a clean background, even lighting, and a steady phone mount. Test your internet in that spot. Stage bags, labels, a pen, and a separate surface for sold plants.
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Promote the show hard before it starts
Promote the show to Instagram, Facebook plant groups, and Palmstreet followers a day ahead and again shortly before. Palmstreet's current Trendy LIVE deductions are based on bookmarks by the scheduled start time, with the first reduction starting at 100 bookmarks. For a first show, aim for 60–90 minutes.
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Recruit and brief a moderator
Invite a moderator if you can. Brief them on confirming sales, flagging buyer handles, handling holds or combined shipping, and managing distracting comments.
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Have a one-tap system for marking sold
Decide your tracking system before you start. The instant a plant sells, mark it sold and capture the buyer's handle. PropBox's full-screen live queue lets you mark Sold or Claimed, adjust price, use keyboard shortcuts, and watch revenue update live.
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Plan your post-show reconcile
Block 20–30 minutes right after the show. Match each sale to a buyer, confirm final prices, total combined-shipping orders, and update plant statuses while the details are fresh.
During the show
A live queue built for one hand and a fast chat
PropBox turns your prepped lineup into a fast selling surface for marking sales, buyers, and prices during the show.
One tap to sell
Mark plants Sold or Claimed and capture the buyer handle fast.
Locked for show prep
Queued plants are Reserved in PropBox and left out of your next export.
Revenue in real time
Items sold and revenue update as you work through the queue.
Reconcile in minutes
Match sales to buyers after you wrap and update inventory quickly.
Frequently asked questions
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