Working document
The market day run sheet, Friday night to lockup
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.
Free resources
Free resources for people who run markets
Practical tools and honest comparisons for US market managers, all free, none of them requiring an account.
Running a farmers market is mostly small decisions made quickly, in a parking lot, before coffee. These pages exist to make a handful of those decisions easier: what to charge for a stall, whether your load-in window actually holds, which software fits the way your office works, and what a written market day routine should contain.
Everything here is free to use and free to print. The calculators run in your browser and send nothing anywhere. The comparison pages describe real alternatives at the level of shape and fit rather than inventing feature claims, so confirm current details with any vendor before you sign. If a page is missing something your market needs, write and tell us and we will fix it.
Free tools
Market math you can run before the board meeting
Two free calculators for the numbers a market manager gets asked about in public and has to answer on the spot.
Comparisons
StallDeck compared with the other tools on your list
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.
Main guide
How to Build a Farmers Market Stall Map Before Load-In
It settles how to measure your site, place fire lanes and seat every vendor on a numbered stall map before the first truck arrives.
Magazine
Market Bell
Field notes, rules and budget math for the people who run American farmers markets, one Saturday at a time.
About
Who writes all of this
Meet the person writing Market Bell, the stall map guides, the fee comparisons and the run sheets, and read why the notes come from actual market mornings rather than a software office.
Take the free material, then look at the software
The run sheet, both calculators and the comparison pages stay free and need no account. If you are tired of printing gate sheets, reconciling the token drawer against a fee sheet and retyping the lineup onto your website every Friday, book a demo and watch one market morning run from a single screen.