Your market, managed. Your weekends, back.
Hivey is the market and pop-up event software for vendor applications, booth maps, payment collection, insurance tracking, and vendor messaging that actually work together. Built for recurring markets and events. No per-vendor software fees, no forced vendor accounts, and guided migration from the tools you use today. Starting at $25 per month.
Your market, managed. Your weekends, back.
Hivey is the market and pop-up event software for vendor applications, booth maps, payment collection, insurance tracking, and vendor messaging that actually work together. Built for recurring markets and events. No per-vendor software fees, no forced vendor accounts, and guided migration from the tools you use today. Starting at $25 per month.
From Apply to Approved, Automatically
Vendors apply, you approve or waitlist — no more chasing applications over email or DM.
NEW! Vendor Insurance Tracking + In-App Messaging
Vendors purchase insurance in the platform, you see who’s covered. Reach out to vendors in the app (with read receipts built in).
Automated Vendor Fee Collection
Collect application fees, booth fees, and commission fees — automatically, with a fee structure that fits how your market actually works.
Real Markets. Real results.
Hivey’s market management platform was born from the market community, and built to elevate it.
Built in Collaboration With
Vendor Fees Collected
Planning and hosting events, finally made simple.
Running a market isn’t a job, it’s a love letter to your community. But somewhere between chasing vendor payments over Venmo, tracking applications in a spreadsheet, and building your booth map at midnight, that love letter turns into a to-do list.
Hivey exists so you can spend your time on the community you built this for, not the admin work that’s been stealing it.
End the manual chaos. Book a 15 minute Demo.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Hivey?
Hivey is vendor management and event operations software for market organizers, including farmers markets, craft fairs, night markets, festivals, and pop-up events. Market hosts use Hivey to accept vendor applications, approve and waitlist vendors, assign booths on a visual floor plan, and collect application fees, booth fees, and commissions, all in one platform.
Hivey supports one-off, multi-day, and weekly recurring markets, including full-season series with Season Passes for full-time and part-time vendors. Hosts can automate tasks like fee reminders, late fees, and vendor notifications, and on market day they can run everything from a dedicated Event-Day Console. Vendors get their own dashboard to apply, pay, and see their booth assignment and arrival instructions.
Hivey uses flat monthly subscription pricing rather than per-booth or per-event fees. More than 4,000+ vendors have been onboarded and almost $1M in vendor fees collected through the platform.
Who is Hivey for?
Hivey is for market hosts and event organizers who manage vendors, including farmers market managers, craft fair and makers market organizers, night market and pop-up operators, and festival planners. It works for small weekly markets as well as large multi-day events and full-season recurring series.
Hivey is especially useful for organizers who are currently handling vendor applications, booth assignments, fee collection, insurance tracking, and vendor messaging through spreadsheets, email, and paper forms. Teams can invite staff with role-based access, and organizers who run several markets can manage multiple organizations from one account.
Vendors use Hivey too. Farmers, artisans, food vendors, and small businesses use it to apply to markets, pay fees, and see their booth assignments and event instructions.
How does Hivey help me run my event?
Hivey manages the full vendor workflow for your event, from application to post-event payment.
Before the event: You create a one-off, multi-day, or recurring market and build a vendor application with your own questions, vendor categories, and required documents. You review applications in one place and approve, reject, or waitlist vendors individually or in bulk, and Hivey notifies each vendor automatically. You design your floor plan in the Booth Layout Designer, drag and drop approved vendors into booths, and publish the assignments so vendors can see exactly where they’re set up. You can require certificates of insurance, review vendor COIs, and let vendors buy coverage in-app if they don’t have it.
Payments: Hivey collects application fees, booth fees, and Season Pass payments through Stripe. You can set different fees for each vendor category, send automated payment reminders, apply late fees, and record cash payments or waive fees when you need to.
On event day: The Event-Day Console gives you a live overview, vendor list, and booth map in one view. Vendors receive your arrival instructions ahead of time.
After the event: Vendors report their sales and pay commission through Hivey, and you can track revenue, payments, and booth utilization in the Reports Hub or export the data as CSV.
Because no two markets run the same way, you can save reusable templates for application forms, booth layouts, and vendor categories, and set which vendor actions trigger notification emails.
What problems does Hivey solve compared to spreadsheets and email?
Spreadsheets and email scatter vendor information across forms, inboxes, payment apps, and paper booth maps, so market managers spend hours copying data between them and chasing missing details. Hivey replaces that patchwork with one system where vendor applications, documents, payments, and booth assignments stay connected and up to date.
Vendors submit one application with your custom questions and required documents, and you approve, reject, or waitlist them in bulk, with automatic notifications instead of individual emails. Application fees, booth fees, and commissions are collected through Stripe, with automated reminders and late fees, so you don’t have to track down who still owes. Booth assignments live on a visual floor plan instead of a spreadsheet that’s out of date after every change, and vendors see their spot and arrival instructions ahead of time. Because everything is linked, you always know who has paid and where each vendor is set up.
How is Hivey different from other software?
Hivey uses flat monthly subscription pricing, so your cost stays the same no matter how many vendors, booths, or events you manage. Many market management platforms charge per booth or per event instead, which means your software bill grows as your market grows.
Hivey was built specifically for vendor-driven events like farmers markets, craft fairs, and festivals, so it handles the parts of market management that general event software doesn’t. That includes full-season recurring series with full-time and part-time Season Passes, a visual Booth Layout Designer with drag-and-drop vendor assignment, commission collection on post-event vendor sales, and fees set by vendor category.
Hivey is also designed to be easy for vendors to use. Vendors can apply and pay as a guest without creating an account first, and they get their own dashboard showing their schedule, booth assignments, payments, and event instructions. More than 4,075 vendors have been onboarded onto Hivey, and almost $1M in vendor fees has been collected through the platform.
How much does Hivey cost?
Hivey uses flat monthly subscription pricing, so your cost stays the same no matter how many vendors, booths, or events you manage. There are no per-booth or per-event fees. Plans start at $25 per month. To see which plan fits your market, book a demo at hivey.io/pricing.
Does Hivey track vendor insurance?
Yes. Hivey lets market hosts require a certificate of insurance (COI) for any event and track each vendor’s compliance status in one place. Vendors can upload their own certificate for you to review and approve or reject, or they can buy a policy that meets your requirement directly in Hivey. You can exempt specific vendors from the requirement and send automated reminders to anyone who isn’t yet covered.
Can I message vendors in Hivey?
Yes. Hivey includes in-app messaging, so your vendor conversations live alongside each vendor’s application, payments, and booth assignment instead of being scattered across inbox threads. You can message an individual vendor and vendors can reply from their dashboard. We also have built-in read receipts so you can see who’s ghosting you 🙂
Can Hivey manage recurring markets and season passes?
Yes. Hivey can run weekly recurring markets and full-season series as a single event, with one set of applications, questions, and payments for the whole season. Hosts can sell Season Passes with full-time and part-time tiers, and vendors choose a tier when they apply, with pricing shown for each. You can review pass applications and track, mark paid, waive, or refund pass payments, all from the same series view. NEW to Hivey– you can now set up monthly payments for vendors who want to pay in installments.
Do vendors need an account to apply to my market?
No. Vendors can apply to your market and pay their application fee as a guest without creating a Hivey account first. Vendors who do have an account can save their business profile and documents to reuse on future applications and get a dashboard showing their upcoming events, booth assignments, and payments.
