BoothScout

BoothScout is a searchable directory of craft fairs, festivals and markets across the United States that are accepting vendors, paired with a set of tools for running the booth once you've got one. The listings carry the details a vendor actually needs to decide, booth fees, application deadlines and a link to the organizer's application, and the site counts more than 18,000 active events across all 50 states, refreshed daily.

The problem it goes after is how scattered this information is. Event calls are spread across Facebook groups, organizer websites, county pages and word of mouth, and a maker who sells at markets can spend more hours hunting for the next show than making product. BoothScout pulls those calls into one place, verifies them, and makes them filterable by location, category, fee and date so the search takes minutes rather than evenings.

The workflow is simple. You search events near you, open the ones that fit, read the full details, and apply directly through the organizer's own site, since BoothScout is a directory rather than a middleman for applications. A free vendor profile puts you in the vendor directory, and you can save a handful of events to keep track of them. Scout, the site's AI assistant, answers questions about events and about your own sales, and the AI-powered discovery side analyses event data to generate summaries and match events to what you sell. Discovery is organised the way vendors think. There are pages for events by state, with California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Michigan, Illinois and Georgia called out and every other state a click away, and the search filters narrow by category, fee and date on top of location. The site describes its events as real and updated daily, with a daily listing refresh, and the AI discovery layer analyses event data to generate detailed summaries so you're not reading twenty organizer pages to compare three shows. Upcoming events on the front page, a gift show here, a farmers market there, make it obvious the listings are live rather than a static scrape.

Pro is where the toolkit lives. Sales Insights shows what each event earned you, so you can stop booking the shows that don't pay. Promo Studio turns out polished graphics for your next market in minutes, the Tag and Sign Maker produces print-ready price tags and table signs, and a Brand Kit stores your names, logos and style so everything matches. Email List collects customer emails at the booth, QR Maker generates print-ready booth codes, and Calendar Sync pushes application deadlines into your calendar app. Pro also unlocks unlimited saved events and searches, email digests, deadline alerts, organizer contact details and unlimited Scout questions, with 100 AI credits a month.

It's built for independent makers, artists, food vendors and small brands who sell in person at fairs and markets, from someone doing a few weekend shows to a vendor touring a circuit. The state pages for California, Texas, Florida, New York and the rest make it useful for planning a route, and the sales tracking is aimed at people who treat the booth as a business rather than a hobby.

What sets it apart from a general events site or a Facebook group is the vendor angle. Listings are chosen because they accept vendors and are verified with the fee and deadline attached, and the Pro tools are shaped around booth life rather than ticket sales. The limits are just as clear. It's United States only, organizers take applications on their own sites so there's no in-app application tracking beyond your saved list, there's no mobile app mentioned, and the Pro tools are convenience tools rather than a replacement for a full design or accounting package. Compared with the usual routine of Facebook groups, a spreadsheet and a wall calendar, the appeal is that the whole season lives in one place. You find the shows, save them, get a deadline alert, apply on the organizer's site, print the tags and signs, collect emails at the table, and then log what the event earned so next year's decisions come from numbers. None of those steps is hard on its own. Together they're the admin that makes vending feel like two jobs, and that's the load BoothScout is trying to take off.

Access is freemium. The Free plan covers nationwide search, unlimited browsing, full event details, the vendor directory, a vendor profile, five saved events and three Scout questions. Pro is $20 a month, billed through Stripe with an annual option, cancellable at any time with prorated changes between billing intervals. No contact email is published on the site, so support runs through the site itself.