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Running Fairs And Markets
Practical guides for organizers and vendors, from pricing the first booth to the queue at the door.
Card Fairs
How To Run A Trade Night For Card Collectors
Collectors trading binders, not vendors selling tables: the format, the cap and fee, house rules for fair trades, safety, the room and building regulars.
Vendors
The Market Stall Checklist: What To Bring
Everything a vendor packs for a market stall, indoor and outdoor, with a printable list and a candle maker's first outdoor market worked through.
Tickets
Free Or Paid: Should Your Fair Charge An Admission Fee?
What an entry fee does to footfall and vendor sales, whether it can cover your costs, free tickets for headcount, pay what you want, concessions and the door. A 60-stall indie toy and figure fair, worked through.
Payments
A Vendor Refund Policy For Fairs And Markets
Cancellation windows, postponements, weather, transfers, credit and no-shows, how refunds go back by PayNow or card, and a plain-language template you can copy.
Card Fairs
Choosing A Card Show Venue In Singapore
The five kinds of venue that host card shows in Singapore, the eight checks to make on a site visit, the SCDF fire certificate question, and how to book each one, with a three-venue comparison for a 50-table show.
Running A Fair
The Market Day Checklist: From Setup To Teardown
The organizer's box, an hour-by-hour run of show, load-in waves, volunteers, the rain rule, no-shows and teardown. A 40-stall Mid-Autumn evening market, run start to finish.
Running A Fair
How To Find Vendors For Your Market
Where vendors actually come from, what a good vendor call says, when to post it, and how to fill a 30-stall makers market without five candle stalls in a row.
Payments
Setting Up Your PayNow For Events: Vendors And Visitors
Personal or UEN, what payers see now nicknames are gone, static or amount QR, references, and why stall fees and gate entry need different setups. A 20-stall plant and pet market, worked through.
Card Fairs
Your Card Fair Vendor Rules: What To Put In Writing
The written rules a card fair gives its vendors: fakes and proxies, price tags, slabs and condition, buying from kids, trading, setup, payments, disputes and what gets someone banned.
Running A Fair
What To Ask On Your Vendor Application Form
The questions to ask vendors, which to make required, what to leave off, and how to score and answer applications, worked through for a curated 35-stall vintage market.
Payments
How To Verify A PayNow Payment And Spot A Fake
Check every PayNow stall fee against your own bank, spot edited screenshots, match order numbers, and ask about a missing transfer without accusing anyone.
Card Fairs
Run Your Card Fair Table Booking Without First-Come Chaos
How to give out tables at a card fair without a Telegram race: ballots, returning-vendor windows, hold times, payment deadlines, waitlists and the rules to post first.
Running A Fair
Your Fair Floor Plan: Laying Out Booths And Aisles
Mark what you can't move, build blocks to SCDF's row limits, keep aisles wide enough to browse, and put food where it pulls people through. A 45-stall flea market, laid out.
Payments
How To Collect Booth Fees From Vendors
Payment methods, references, verifying against your bank, part payments, refunds and records: the whole job of collecting booth fees, with an 80-table artist alley worked through.
Card Fairs
How To Run A Trading Card Fair
What changes when the fair is about cards: the crowd, the venue, vendor rules, trade nights, entry, table booking without a Telegram race, cash and a timeline.
Running A Fair
How To Run A Market Or Fair: An Organizer's Playbook
Every stage of running a market or fair, in order, from the date and venue to the day after. A 25-stall school bazaar, budgeted and timed.
Running A Fair
The Temporary Fair Permit In Singapore, Explained
The S$60 SFA permit every fair with stalls needs, what to prepare, when to file, and the Temporary Fair Food Stall Licence that sits alongside it.
Running A Fair
How To Price Booths At Your Fair Or Market
Start from what the day costs, add the profit you want, divide by the tables you'll actually sell, then tier by spot. A 40-table card fair, worked through.