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    <description>Running a UK fireworks display company, and what PyroPortal does on real data.</description>
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      <description>What to look for in fireworks company software: the office, the magazine, the crew, show day, the client and the platform, plus the questions to ask any vendor.</description>
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      <title>How to price a professional firework display, from the company's side</title>
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      <description>The cost stack behind a display price: landed product, crew, transport, time on site, consumables, insurance, overhead, and why list-price markup loses money.</description>
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      <description>PyroPortal and FWX Pro compared for UK display companies: who each is built for, features side by side, and pricing at 10, 30, 70 and 150 shows a year.</description>
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      <description>The same 30-display season run on spreadsheets, WhatsApp and a paper register, then run in PyroPortal. Where each holds up, and where each one breaks.</description>
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      <description>The register is fine. The problem is that it is the only record. What changes when every In, Out, Transfer and count is a typed movement against a store.</description>
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