Applications are their own part of the job. You apply months ahead, hear back at different times, and it's easy to lose track of what's pending. This short video shows FairKeep's applications tracker.
What You Track for Each Application
- The booth fee.
- The date you applied.
- The status, so you know what's still waiting on an answer.
Accepted? One Click to the Calendar
When a show accepts you, you can add it to your event calendar in one click. The application becomes a show, without retyping anything, and it shows up alongside the rest of your season.
Why Track Applications at All
Seeing every pending application with its booth fee in one place helps you budget before acceptances come in. It also helps you spot dates that might double-book if more than one show says yes. If you're still looking for shows to apply to, my FairTracker post covers finding craft fairs and markets near you, and the break-even calculator helps decide whether a booth fee makes sense.
Try It Yourself
The step-by-step guide on the FairKeep site walks through the applications tracker 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.