Your regulars invoiced once a month instead of once a date. Unpaid bookings releasing themselves to the waitlist. Insurance chasing itself. Gazebos that stop selling when you run out. This is the market TEKRAM was built for, in detail, by people who watched it done badly.
Sound familiar?
Monday is chasing last week’s unpaid bookings. Tuesday is three new applications, two of which have no certificate attached. Wednesday somebody cancels and you try to remember who was next on the list. Thursday is site numbers, redrawn because a food truck changed size. Friday is the run sheet, printed twice because the first version was already wrong.
Saturday you are on the ground at five, working from a clipboard, being asked whether that stall paid for power. And on Sunday somebody emails to ask when next month’s dates open.
Your ground, our screens
Not a generic booking system with market words pasted over it.
| On your market day | In TEKRAM |
|---|---|
| Your regular traders, week in week out | Permanent stallholders — held pitch, discounted rate, one monthly invoice |
| Casual stallholders booking date by date | Self-service booking and card payment, confirmed the moment it clears |
| A 12m food truck on a 3m pitch | Multi-unit footprints — it consumes four spaces, and the system knows |
| Your permit says 60 stalls maximum | A permitted count enforced alongside your physical space pool |
| Twenty gazebos on the trailer | Add-on stock counted as real inventory, so it stops selling the twenty-first |
| Certificates of currency in a folder | Compliance documents with automatic expiry chasing and booking blocks |
| The site map redrawn every Saturday | Drag-and-drop allocation that refuses a pitch which will not fit |
| The clipboard at 5am | Mobile check-in, with a printed run sheet as your paper backup |
What it does for you
Pick a stallholder, pick a month, tick the dates. Every date books as one linked batch sharing a single invoice, a single due date, their held pitch and their discounted rate. Roll the entire market forward to next month in one action — with a dry run first that tells you exactly what would happen before anything is written.
A casual booking still unpaid 48 hours later is cancelled automatically, the stallholder is emailed, and the freed pitch is offered straight to the next person on the waitlist with a time-limited window to accept. Checked hourly. Full market days keep filling themselves overnight.
Set your total 3m×3m spaces and your permitted stallholder count as two separate numbers, and both are respected at once. A 6m site takes two spaces, 12m takes four. You cannot oversell ground and you cannot breach your permit.
You own twenty gazebos, so it sells twenty. Power is counted as outlets, the same way space is counted in spaces. Per-date overrides for the Saturday the trailer is at another market. Stallholders see “3 left” rather than an option that silently disappears.
Stallholders upload public liability and food safety certificates from their own dashboard. Expiring and expired notices go out daily to them and to you. Turn on booking blocks and an uninsured trader simply cannot book — the control you are currently relying on someone to remember.
Tap stallholders in as they arrive, with live counts of total, arrived and still waiting. Each row shows the add-ons they have actually paid for, so nothing is handed out twice. Print the run sheet the night before, because showground phone signal is the thing most likely to let you down.
Every other industry we work with — showgrounds, council venues, caravan parks, exhibition halls — is running software that was designed for a market first.
That is why the details are right. Permanent stallholders were not bolted on. Counting a 12-metre food truck as four spaces was not a feature request. The printed run sheet exists because someone lost signal on a showground. Markets get the version everything else was adapted from.
Once confirmed for a date, a stallholder’s business, photo, products, website and socials publish themselves to your public vendor directory — a free listing that makes traders want to be on your list, and gives your customers something to browse before they arrive.
They book in under a minute, pay by card, download their own tax invoice, upload their own insurance and cancel their own casual bookings. Which is roughly the same as saying they stop phoning you.
Markets are the one vertical our published tiers map to directly, because they are built around exactly this — the number of market locations you run, event dates per month, and how many stallholders are active on your roster.
Every plan includes a one-off setup where we configure your markets, dates, site types, pricing, add-on stock and application forms, migrate your existing stallholder list, and write your operations manual. See current pricing — and note that TEKRAM never takes a percentage of a stall fee, so what your traders pay is what you keep.
Tell us how your market runs now and we will show you what next month looks like when most of it runs without you.