NY NOW Summer 2026 · Aug 2–4 · Javits Center
Scan the buyer’s badge, voice-note the collection they wrote up. Every order conversation lands in a sorted Google Sheet, with a personalized follow-up drafted before the buyer’s open-to-buy closes.
Free for the full opening day. No credit card.
New York, NY · Aug 2–4
Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA (CC BY 2.0)
Karolina / PexelsFor makers and brands exhibiting
Working the booth solo? Scan the badge, voice-note who was a serious order-writer. BoothBot files each buyer in your Google Sheet and drafts a personalized follow-up from your notes — referencing the line they wrote up when you ask.
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Photograph the piece, voice-note the wholesale terms and the maker. SourceBot files each line with the minimums and contact pulled in — sorted before you’re back at the store.
Start SourceBot free →About the show
NY NOW is a wholesale trade market for the home, lifestyle and gift industries, held twice yearly at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. The Summer 2026 edition runs August 2–4. It is organized around two collections — HOME (décor, furnishings, textiles, tabletop and gourmet housewares) and LIFESTYLE (gifts, personal care, accessories, stationery and children’s products) — plus curated sections including Handmade Global Design, Indie NOW and Sustainable NOW.
The exhibitors are makers, importers and consumer-product brands. The buyers are independent specialty retailers, boutiques, galleries and interior designers who come to discover lines and write wholesale orders on the spot. With a lineage stretching back over a century to the New York International Gift Fair, NY NOW remains one of the defining order-writing markets on the US calendar.
For a small maker working the booth, the market is an order-writing sprint. Buyers move fast and decide later, building their open-to-buy lists in the days after the show. A line that does not get a follow-up while that list is still open is a line that gets forgotten — and the order goes to the brand that followed up first.
How it works
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One field. Pick your channel: WhatsApp, Telegram, WeChat, or web. Your Google Sheet is ready in seconds.
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HOME, LIFESTYLE, Handmade and Indie NOW. Scan badges, photograph product, voice-note terms — everything routes to your sheet in real time.
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Personalized drafts wait in your inbox, each referencing the buyer’s order conversation. Review, hit send, move on.
The Open Data Model
Everything you capture at NY NOW Summer 2026 stays in your Google Sheet, shared with you, whether you pay or not. Payment keeps the capture and follow-up engine running beyond opening day. It does not gate access to data you already built.
Get the dates in your calendar now — detailed visit information for this show is being compiled.
Budget reality check
Space only · small booth (9 m² / 10×10)
$3,000–5,000
Realistic all-in (build, freight, drayage, travel)
$10,000–19,000
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often free with early registration; $50–150 late or on-site
Space rental is only a quarter to a third of the true cost — budget 3–4× the space rate before deciding. These are industry-typical planning ranges for a show of this region and scale, not organizer quotes — confirm against the official exhibitor prospectus, and watch the advance-freight deadline: it quietly decides half the logistics bill.
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That is exactly who it is built for. Scan a badge in seconds, voice-note who was serious. DaGaMa does the filing and drafts the follow-ups, so a solo maker covers a full three-day market without a second pair of hands.
Sign up with your email. The first 24 hours after your first capture are free. Every buyer and voice note flows into a Google Sheet shared with you. Payment continues the capture beyond day one.
It stays yours. Everything you captured at NY NOW remains in your Google Sheet and dashboard, whether you pay or not. Most platforms lock the data behind a renewal. We don’t.
Yes. You add one line of context per buyer. DaGaMa Intelligence drafts the follow-up from your notes, ready to send from your Gmail or Outlook. Nothing leaves your inbox without your approval.