Comparison
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.
Comparison
StallDeck vs Manage My Market: which one seats your vendors
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.
The short answer
If your hardest hour is between 5 am and the opening bell, choose StallDeck. It is organized around a market day: a drawn site plan, numbered stalls, fees posted to the stall a vendor actually stood in, and a shopper facing lineup that updates when you publish. If your hardest work is the application season, jurying a long list of applicants and keeping a full vendor file for the year, Manage My Market is aimed at that shape of office. Neither answer is universal. Look at which pile of work eats your Thursdays.
StallDeck and Manage My Market side by side
| What you are deciding | StallDeck | Manage My Market |
|---|---|---|
| Core job | Seat vendors on a stall map, collect the day fee, mark attendance, publish the lineup. | Broader market administration organized around vendor records and the season. |
| Stall assignment | A drawn site plan with numbered stalls, fire lanes and drag to seat placement per market day. | Booth handling sits inside a wider vendor and application workflow. |
| Fee handling | Fees post against the stall day, so a vendor balance reads as a list of mornings. | Payment handling is part of the platform; confirm the current shape with them. |
| Public vendor list | Publishing a market day writes a shopper page naming the farms at market that morning. | Public listing options exist; ask how they connect to your own market website. |
| Who operates it | One manager plus a weekend assistant, no configuration week. | Suits offices with staff time to set up a full season workflow. |
| Setup shape | Draw the site once, import your vendor list, publish the first Saturday. | Wider scope means more to configure before the first market. |
| Pricing shape | Flat monthly: $39 Single Market, $89 Market Season, $189 Association. | Quoted by the vendor to market organizations; ask them for current terms. |
| Best fit | Markets whose week is decided by Saturday morning logistics. | Offices that want one file for the whole administrative season. |
The right hand column places Manage My Market by scope and by the sort of operator it serves, with no attempt at a priced feature list. Software shifts month to month, so read their own pages before you commit. StallDeck is published by MLJ, SASU and this page is written by Jimenez Julien.
Choose StallDeck when
- You redraw the stall map most weeks because trucks, canopies and the fire lane keep moving.
- You want Saturday attendance and the fee ledger to be one record instead of two clipboards.
- Your shoppers ask on Friday night who is coming, and that page should update when you publish.
- You run the market yourself and cannot give a week to configuring software before opening day.
Choose Manage My Market when
- You want one system to also carry applications, jury scoring and season long vendor communication.
- Your board already standardized on it and your returning vendors know the login by heart.
- Administrative depth across several staff roles matters more to you than a live stall map.
What each tool assumes about your week
Manage My Market treats the season as the object. Applications arrive, a jury approves some and holds others in reserve, the office communicates with them, and the year is administered from a vendor file. Plenty of US markets run exactly that way, especially juried markets on a downtown block where twice as many farms apply as there are stalls.
StallDeck moves the center of gravity to the market day. You open a Saturday, drag vendors onto numbered stalls, record who paid and who was a no show, and push the lineup out. Vendor records exist to serve the day rather than the other way around. That is why the stall map, not the application form, is the first screen you see.
Where the fee ledger meets the attendance sheet
Almost every dispute in a market office is about one specific morning. Was the vendor there on the second Saturday in June, which stall did they use, did they pay, and did the rained out week get credited. When attendance lives on paper and fees live somewhere else, the office reconstructs the answer from memory and a coffee stained clipboard.
StallDeck attaches the fee to the stall day, so a vendor balance reads as a list of mornings rather than a single total. If you charge a flat daily fee and everyone pays at the gate, this matters less. If you run season dues with makeup days, half stalls, shared canopies and weather credits, it matters a great deal.
Moving across in the middle of a season
You do not have to move everything on one weekend. Markets commonly run StallDeck for stall assignment and the public lineup for a few weeks while the old system still holds applications and history, then move fee collection at a natural break such as the first of the month or the start of the summer schedule.
Ask both vendors what an export looks like before you commit to anything. Your vendor list, contact details and payment history belong to your market and should come out as a plain spreadsheet without a support ticket. StallDeck exports vendors, stall days and fee lines as CSV whenever you ask for them.
Questions people ask before they choose
Can I run both systems during the same season?
Yes, and a lot of markets do for four to six weeks. Keep applications and vendor history where they are, and use StallDeck only for the stall map, attendance and the published lineup. Once the Saturday routine is settled, move fee collection at a monthly boundary so nobody has a split balance.
Do my vendors have to create accounts to use StallDeck?
No. A manager can run the whole market day without a single vendor logging in, which matters when half your growers check email once a week. Vendors can be given access to see their own stall assignment and balance if you want that, but it is optional and off by default.
Which one suits a juried market with more applicants than stalls?
If jurying is the bulk of your work, a platform built around applications and scoring will carry more of that load than StallDeck does. StallDeck holds an applicant list and a standby order, which is enough for many markets, but it is not a scoring system. Judge it on where your hours actually go.
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Comparison
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.
Run one real market morning head to head
A page like this can only take the decision so far. Send us your stall count and your vendor list and we will walk a single Saturday through StallDeck on a call, from seating the back row to closing out the fee sheet. Ask the other tool the same questions and pick whichever one handles your worst morning better.