There’s no standard farmers market, so there’s no standard price
A 22-vendor street market that runs every Saturday from May to September and a 200-vendor Christmas market that runs for one day are both farmers markets. One price list can’t fit both. It’s the same reason nobody at your market sells just one kind of apple.
Your name, your market and a couple of sentences. A real price comes back in writing within one business day.
Is this going to be expensive?
Probably not. It depends on what you need, and you decide most of that. A market that runs itself on the software pays less than one that wants us on the phone all season. For some markets the total actually goes down, because they stop paying for four or five separate tools. Shop around and bring us a quote. We’ll be very competitive with it.
Tired of pricing that doesn’t fit?
Us too. Here’s how we work out your price.
Every one of these is a farmers market
Every market is different, and that’s a good thing. But it means simple pricing never works. Charge by vendor count and the pop-up gets a bargain while the Christmas market overpays. Charge by location and it flips. Some markets charge vendors by the spot, and some take a share of sales. So we quote each market on its own. We’ve quoted all of these and more:
A small town Saturday market
Twenty-two vendors on one street, May to September, run by two volunteers and a binder.
A multi-site weekly
Four locations on four days, with the same vendors moving between them all season.
A Christmas market
Two hundred vendors, one market day, and a year of applications to get there.
A pop-up
A dozen vendors and a dozen locations, rarely in the same place twice.
A year-round covered market
Permanent tenants, casual vendors on top, and leases and day bookings in the same building.
A regional market with a board
A hundred vendors, a waiting list, a paid manager and an audit every year.
Your price is based on your market, not a menu
Most managers we talk to have been stuck with pricing that didn’t fit. Pay per vendor, pay per site, pay extra for the feature you actually needed. We’d rather look at your market and give you one price for it. Here’s what we talk through with you to get there.
What goes into your price
How big and busy your market is
Vendor count, market days and locations are a good start, but they don’t tell the whole story. A 30-vendor market with a waiting list and weekly stall changes is a different job than a 30-vendor market where everyone has the same spot all season. We look at how your market actually runs.
How much help you want from us
Some markets want us to move their old records over, draw their site maps, and pick up the phone in the middle of July. Others just want the software. This makes the biggest difference to your price, and you choose.
What it needs to connect to
Your accounting software, your payment processor, and that spreadsheet your treasurer keeps. If you’re on something standard like QuickBooks, that part is straightforward. If your city or your funder needs numbers in a reporting system of their own, that’s more work, and it’s better we find that out now than in your second season.
What your board needs
If your board or funders expect things like user permissions, a say in where your data is stored, or records ready for an audit, we set that up.
If you’re holding a quote, show us
Send it over. We’ll price the same market and put the two side by side, so you can see what each one actually covers.
We won’t just match their number. We’d rather give you a price that holds for years than one that wins this week.
Everything you run
Every market, location, vendor and booth, all under one price.
The move, done by us
We bring your records over, check your billing on the way in, and draw your sites. Once, before you go live.
Help from the people who built it
When you call, you get someone who helped write the software.
Count what it replaces
One system can cost less than the five you have now. Most markets that come to us are paying four or five different companies every month, each doing one piece of the job, plus the hours it takes to copy numbers between them.
Add those up before you compare our price to anything. For a lot of markets, the number that matters isn’t what Bluefield costs. It’s what they stop paying for the month they switch.
What’s usually on the list
None of them draws a booth map, and none of them knows what the others are doing.
A couple of sentences, and you have a number
Tell us about your market in a couple of sentences, like a quick email. We’ll send back a real price within one business day, in writing.
Or book half an hour with us. We’ll work it out together using your own vendor list, and you can see the software while we’re at it.