Once you've logged a few seasons of craft fairs and markets, the events list gets long. Scrolling for last spring's holiday bazaar or that one farmers market across town gets old fast. This short video shows the tools FairKeep gives you to find any show quickly: search, year switching, status filters and column sorting.
Four Ways to Narrow the List
- Search by name or location. Type part of a show's name or the town it's in and the list narrows to match.
- Jump between years. Switch to a past year to look back at old shows, or forward to see what's already booked.
- Filter by status. Show only the events in the status you care about right now instead of everything at once.
- Sort by column. Click a column heading to reorder the list by that column.
Why It Matters
The whole point of keeping every show in one place is being able to look back. When an organizer emails about next year, I want to pull up how that show did last time in a few seconds, not dig through old spreadsheets. Search and filters are what make a long history actually usable, especially when you're comparing the same show across several years.
Try It Yourself
The step-by-step guide on the FairKeep site walks through searching and filtering your events 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.