What is the Best Vendor Management Software for Markets and Pop-Up Events?
The best vendor management software for markets and pop-up events handles six things well: event and series setup, vendor applications and approvals, booth and floor-plan management, payments and payouts, event-day operations, and reporting — all in one place, priced in a way that doesn’t punish you for growing. Here’s what to actually look for in […]
Market Vendor Management Software: What It Actually Replaces, Task by Task
Market vendor management software replaces the spreadsheets, inboxes, payment apps, and paper booth maps that market organizers use to run their vendors. It puts vendor applications, approvals, fees, booth assignments, and event-day details in one connected system. If you’ve been running your market on a spreadsheet, a Google Form, and a lot of email, that’s […]
A Smarter Way to Manage Vendor Insurance For Your Market is Here
If vendor insurance is part of your event requirements, you know the drill. One vendor already has coverage. Another needs to get it. Someone emailed you a COI three weeks ago. Someone else swears they sent theirs. And suddenly you’re digging through your inbox trying to figure out who’s actually ready for event day. We […]
How to Manage Vendor Insurance Requirements Without Chasing a Single COI
It’s ten days before market day and you’re staring at a spreadsheet with three columns you dread: “Has COI,” “Needs COI,” and the honest one, “No idea.” If that sounds familiar, you’re not disorganized… you’re just doing a job that was never built for one person to track alone. Vendor insurance requirements rarely get the […]
How Do I Build a Booth Layout or Map for a Market or Event?
You build a booth layout by designing your space on a visual canvas — placing booths, backgrounds, and arrival zones — then assigning approved vendors to specific spots before publishing the finished map so everyone knows where they’re set up. That’s the short version. The long version is that most organizers are still doing this […]
Best Vendor Management Software for Markets and Pop-Up Events
The best vendor management software for markets and pop-up events handles six things well: event and series setup, vendor applications and approvals, booth and floor-plan management, payments and payouts, event-day operations, and reporting — all in one place, priced in a way that doesn’t punish you for growing. Here’s what to actually look for in […]
CASE STUDY: From Operational Chaos to One Unified System. How a Multi-Market Operator in Indiana Streamlined Vendor Management with Hivey
If your market operations still live across forms, spreadsheets, and inboxes — you’re not scaling. You’re managing chaos. That’s where most multi-market operators end up. The first market is fine. The second one stretches things. By the third, you’re holding a duct-taped backend together with sticky notes, browser tabs, and the kind of hope that […]
Where Did All the Vendors Go? The Farmers Market Recruitment Slump in 2026 (And What Managers Can Do About It)
It’s 9pm on Sunday. You’re at the kitchen table, laptop open to a vendor application spreadsheet, and the math isn’t mathing. You have 18 confirmed vendors for 30 spots. The market opens in six days. If this scene feels uncomfortably familiar, here’s the first thing you should know: it’s not just you, and it’s not […]
How to Stop Spending 30 Hours on Vendor Booth Assignments (And Use Software To Do It in Minutes)
If you’re a farmers market or pop-up market manager, booth assignment day probably looks something like this: A color-coded spreadsheet. A handful of sticky notes. A Canva map you’ve rebuilt three times. And somehow — despite all that effort — you still end up with two competing food vendors back-to-back and a vendor texting you […]
Why 100% Vendor Adoption of Your Event Software Matters
And why market managers are making the switch to Hivey Running a successful market or event isn’t just about curating the right vendors — it’s about keeping them. And keeping them starts with giving them tools they actually want to use. Yet, time and again, market managers invest in event management software only to find […]