Calculator
What your stall fee has to cover this season
Put your season costs, your market days and your typical fill on one line and see the daily stall fee that actually breaks even.
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.
Board members ask two kinds of question. The money question sounds like why the stall fee has to go up, and the operations question sounds like why load-in feels like a traffic jam every week. Both have arithmetic underneath them, and the arithmetic is not complicated once your own numbers are on the page.
These calculators run in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere. Use round figures from last season to start, then swap in your real insurance premium, your real market day count and your real average fill. Print the result and bring it to the meeting. A defensible fee is much easier to hold when the math is on one page.
Calculator
Will every truck be parked before the opening bell?
Enter your vendor count, how many trucks unload at once and the honest minutes each one takes, and see whether your load-in window holds.
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.
Why the market calculators are open with no sign up
Every market manager already does this arithmetic by hand. It happens on the back of a deposit slip in the truck, or on a legal pad the night before the board meeting, when you divide the liability premium, the use permit and the restroom pumping bill by the stall days you think you will actually sell. The load-in math gets done the same way, with a phone timer at the gate and a count of how many trucks fit in the aisle at once. Nobody should need an account to do division, so we did not put one in front of it.
Both pages are worth keeping even if you never open a StallDeck market. The break-even page hands you a stall fee you can defend to your growers line by line, with the empty stall cost shown next to it, and the load-in planner tells you whether your vendors can unload, park and clear the lane before the opening bell. Print either one, bring it to the board or the vendor meeting, and use it against whatever system your office runs today.
Knowing the number is the easy half
The arithmetic tells you what a stall day has to be worth. The season is the other half: charging it, marking who actually stood in the stall, and settling the grower who is certain they paid on the third Saturday of June. StallDeck posts every fee against the market day it belongs to. Bring the figures you just worked out to a demo.