Logging every show is only useful if you can step back and look at the season as a whole. This short video tours FairKeep's reports, which turn a season of shows into answers.
What the Reports Cover
- Your year at a glance. The whole season summed up in one view.
- Progress toward an income goal. Set a goal for the year and see how close you are.
- Which booth fees paid off. The booth fee is the one cost every show has, and this shows which ones earned their keep.
- Every expense. All your costs in one place, not scattered across receipts.
Questions the Reports Answer
The question I care about most at the end of a season is which shows to apply to again. A big gross can hide an expensive booth fee, and a quiet-looking show can turn out to be one of the best once costs are counted. Seeing booth fees and expenses next to income makes those patterns obvious.
For a single show, income per hour is the other number worth knowing, and the mileage and tax report pulls the year together for tax time.
Try It Yourself
The step-by-step guide on the FairKeep site walks through each of the reports tabs screen by screen, so you can follow along at your own pace. FairKeep is free to start and doesn't ask for a credit card, so you can set up an account and try it with your own shows. If you haven't seen the app before, the two-minute tour of FairKeep covers the dashboard, events, applications, calendar, packing list, reports and integrations in one pass.
I recorded this video on a demo account for a made-up candle company, so the shows, names and numbers on screen are examples, not real data. For the bigger picture of what FairKeep does, see my FairKeep overview, and for the free calculators and tools that sit alongside it, the VendorTools hub.
More short how-tos on the VARØ Industries YouTube channel.