Software for New Year’s Eve fireworks displays

A New Year’s Eve display has a constraint the others don’t: it starts at midnight, not a minute early, not a minute late, on the crowd’s countdown. Winter adds cold that stiffens fingers, damp that threatens fuses and igniters, darkness that fell hours ago and ground that may be frozen or muddy. The shows are short and intense: medium calibre shells, candles, fast cakes, a dense finale on the twelve strokes. Clients are hotels, restaurants, ski resorts, municipalities or private parties.

New Year’s Eve sells in autumn, often late, with enquiries in December when suppliers’ stock is running out. The hotel wants a display “for its guests”, visible from the dining room or terrace, without smoke drifting in or noise bothering occupied rooms. The restaurant wants a launch from the car park. You need a pyrotechnician available on the night of the 31st, a crew that sleeps on site or drives home late, and a plan B if snow or wind blocks the set-up. The classic delay: a permit requested too late during the holidays.

With PyroDesk, the New Year’s Eve dossier is set up with a quote in five minutes and an online contract signature, before the client changes their mind or their supplier. The firing plan specifies the midnight cue and the sequences, and the 3D simulator lets you show the result as seen from the hotel terrace. The authority declaration is pre-filled and the regulatory watch flags end-of-year decrees that sometimes restrict firing. Stock reserves the items before the December shortages, and the invoice can be paid by transfer on the portal.