Firing from a barge, a pontoon or a breakwater changes the logistics end to end. Large-calibre shells finally get the setback they never have in town, waterfalls and curtains hung from a bridge fall into their own reflection, but everything has to be lashed down, the tide sets the launch time and the sea breeze blows harder than forecast. Salt and humidity attack products, fuses and connectors: you wrap, you sleeve, you fire as soon as you can. Seaside resorts stack dates from June to September, harbours celebrate their patron saint, nautical events want a finale.
The client is a coastal municipality, a tourist office, a marina or the organiser of a regatta. They book a year ahead, want a bigger show than the neighbouring town and leave you the coordination with the harbour master or the water authority, the barge hire and the tug. Failures come from there: a launch slot that ignores the tide, an exclusion zone poorly communicated to boaters, products that took on moisture in a badly closed container, a barge subcontractor who never received the plan.
PyroDesk keeps the site plan, the tide window, the harbour master’s contacts and the list of documents to supply on each dossier. The quote lists barge and tug as separate lines, the contract is signed on the client portal and the authority declaration is built from the firing plan. You share the dossier with the barge operator or the reinforcement crew without exposing your prices, and the national listings surface available pyrotechnicians for the mid-August peak. The calendar shows three harbours on the same weekend at a glance.
What PyroDesk brings
- Show files and Kanban pipeline for pyrotechniciansOne show, one file: from the first call to payment received, you know exactly where every deal stands.
- Pre-filled CERFA 14098 and prefecture watchThe fireworks display declaration filled from the file, and the orders of all 101 French départements monitored for you.
- Season planning and firing calendarYour whole season at a glance, synced with Apple Calendar and Google: never two shows on the same July Saturday again.
- Collaboration, subcontracting and seasonal contracts between pyrotechniciansShare files with your team, hand a show to a subcontractor without revealing your prices, sign your seasonal staff's CDDU contracts.
- National job board between fireworks companiesNeed a pyrotechnician for a national-day show, or a mission for your crew? Post, filter by region and talk to the candidates.