Questions vendors and organizers ask

A map of 20,076 published US events in all 50 states. 9,934 of them are taking applications right now. Each event page shows the dates, the booth fee and deadline when the organizer publishes them, and the address. When you apply, Vendorbound fills in the organizer’s application with answers you saved once, and you send it. Organizers can take their applications on Vendorbound too.

People who sell at events: makers and crafters, food trucks and food stands, farmers, artists, and resellers. Organizers use it to keep their events’ pages right and to take applications.

Browsing the map and every event page is free, with no account. A free account opens each event’s application and the organizer’s email and phone. Membership is on the Pricing page.

The family behind Love Mini Donuts, a Humboldt County concession stand since 2011, who have filled out vendor applications for just as long (About). Vendorbound is operated by Agustin Garcinuno, a sole proprietorship doing business as Monadiko Studio.

From what organizers publish: their event websites, application forms, social media posts, and event listing sites. Vendorbound reads them and pulls out each event’s dates, booth fees, deadlines, and vendor rules. Organizers who claim their page keep their own events right.

Each listing shows what the organizer published, and Apply opens the organizer’s own form, so you apply on their current terms. When a certified organizer updates a listing, the event page says so and shows the date.

Vendorbound checks each deadline against today’s date. Once it has gone by, the event shows “Deadline passed” and leaves the list of events taking applications.

• Applications open: the organizer is taking applications, usually until a deadline.
• Rolling applications: the organizer takes applications on a rolling basis, without a fixed deadline.
• Applications closed: the organizer has closed applications for this edition.
• Unconfirmed: Vendorbound couldn’t confirm whether the event is taking vendors. Ask the organizer.
• Deadline passed: applications were open, and the deadline has gone by.
• Cancelled: the organizer cancelled this edition.

It’s the fee the organizer published, in US dollars. A range such as $60–$90 means the price depends on the booth or the kind of vendor, and the event page lists each fee. “Not listed” means the organizer hasn’t published one.

Under “Apply by” on the event page. An event with more than one application, such as food and non-food vendors, shows a deadline for each. “Not announced” means the organizer hasn’t published one.

Write to hello@vendorbound.com with the event’s link and what’s wrong. If you run the event, claim its page and correct it yourself.

All 50 states. Vendorbound lists 20,076 published events, the most in California, Florida, and Texas. 9,934 of them are taking applications right now. Open a state under Events by state.

Festivals, farmers markets, community events, holiday markets, pop-up markets, street fairs, car shows, county fairs, concert series, parades, rodeos, and state fairs, plus other events that take vendors. Festivals lead with 6,894 listed. Farmers markets come next with 3,192. Craft fairs and art fairs are among them, and the map’s search finds them by name.

Search the map for what you want and where, such as craft fairs in Ohio in November. The search reads the place and the month, and finds craft fairs by name and by what they are, so craft shows, artisan markets, and holiday craft fairs come up too.

On the map, set the type to Farmers market and Applications to “Applications open” or “Rolling applications.” Or open your state under Events by state, which has a farmers market page for each state with enough of them.

Holiday markets have a type of their own. Choose Holiday market on the map, or open your state under Events by state and choose its holiday markets.

Search the map for food truck and your state, or paste your truck’s website or Instagram on the home page to see the events near you that fit it.

Yes. Paste your business’s website or social profile on the home page. Vendorbound reads it and finds the upcoming events near you that are open to a business like yours, best matches first, and tells you which won’t take you and why. It’s free: save your business to a free account at the end to see them.

No. Vendorbound covers the US: all 50 states.

Yes. When the organizer takes applications on Vendorbound, you apply right there with your saved answers already in the form, and your Applications list shows their decision. Otherwise Vendorbound opens the organizer’s own form and fills it in. Either way, you check it and send it.

Yes. Vendorbound fills in vendor applications from answers you give once: your business, contact details, what you sell, and your setup. Google Forms and PDF applications open from the Vendorbound app with your answers in, and the Vendorbound Chrome extension fills other web forms on the organizer’s page. How it works.

No. It never submits a form, signs for you, agrees to terms, or enters payment details. You check what it filled and send the application yourself.

Google Forms and PDFs, from the Vendorbound app. With the Chrome extension, web forms on organizers’ own sites, on form builders such as Jotform and Wufoo, and on vendor portals. It leaves file uploads, signatures, and questions about one event, such as your dates or booth choice, for you.

Chrome on a computer and a Vendorbound account with your application answered. It’s free to install from the Chrome Web Store. On a vendor application, click “Fill with Vendorbound” in the corner of the page.

The extension keeps your saved answers in your browser. When you fill a form, it sends the form’s questions to Vendorbound to work out what each one asks, and for a question it can’t place for certain, the saved answers that might fit. It never saves answers about one event, signatures, or sensitive numbers such as Social Security or bank details. The privacy policy has the details.

Claim your organization’s page first: find it under Organizers, open it, and choose “Claim this page.” Vendorbound checks every claim by hand. Once yours is approved, open an event and build its application: choose the standard questions, add your own, list the documents you need, and set a closing date if you want one. When you open the form, every application link for that event on Vendorbound leads to it.

Nothing. Claiming your page, posting events, and taking applications on Vendorbound are free. Vendorbound doesn’t handle booth fees, so it takes nothing from them either.

Every application lands in one inbox, newest first. Open one to read the vendor’s answers and documents, then approve it, waitlist it, decline it, or ask for changes. You can note the vendor’s booth or space and download your applications as a CSV. The vendor’s own Applications list follows your decision.

No. If you keep your own form, Vendorbound links to it and fills it in for vendors from their saved answers.

Yes. Once your claim is approved, you can change your events’ dates, deadlines, booth fees, and application link, and post new events. If your organization isn’t listed, write to hello@vendorbound.com.

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