Choosing a tool
Most market offices end up choosing between a purpose built market platform, a broad administration suite and a database somebody on the board built themselves.
StallDeck does one job. You seat vendors on a drawn stall map, take the day's fee against the stall they actually occupied, mark who showed up and publish this Saturday's lineup where shoppers can read it. That is a narrow job on purpose. If your week is decided between Friday afternoon and the closing bell, a tool shaped around the market day beats a tool shaped around the season file.
The pages below compare StallDeck with three options a US market manager genuinely evaluates. We describe each one by shape and by the kind of office it suits, not by feature lists or prices, because those change and you should confirm them with the vendor directly. What we can say honestly is which operator each approach fits: a single Saturday market on a parking lot, a juried season with more applicants than stalls, or an association running several sites with shared vendors and one insurance certificate.
StallDeck vs Manage My Market
StallDeck fits a manager who wants the stall map, the fee and the public lineup to move as one record, while Manage My Market fits an office built around vendor applications and season long administration.
StallDeck vs Marketwurks
StallDeck fits a market office that wants Saturday to run itself, while Marketwurks fits an organization administering vendors, events and reporting across a wider program.
StallDeck vs Airtable
StallDeck fits a manager who wants stall assignment working this Saturday, while Airtable fits an organization with somebody in house who enjoys building and maintaining their own system.
Free tools
Two free calculators for the numbers a market manager gets asked about in public and has to answer on the spot.
Working document
A fill in run sheet that carries a market manager from locking the stall map on Friday evening to reconciling the drawer after the last canopy comes down.
Every tool on this list reads well on a website. What settles it is seeing your own parking lot on screen with numbered stalls, a fire lane and forty growers seated on it. Book a short demo and we will draw your site plan with you, so you can compare the options with your real market in front of you.