Most small-town festivals live on a Facebook page. Type yours below and watch its site, schedule, vendor form and tickets build.
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Vendors
Food carts: apply by May 1
Volunteers
6 shifts open
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Every July festival in the 2026 Iowa festival guide and every September festival in the Kansas guide, one by one, in November 2026.
79%
had no website of their own.
46%
lived only on Facebook or Instagram.
0 of 10
festival homepages we checked took vendor booth payments online or listed sponsor prices.
2015
was still the date on one festival's homepage.
We classified every festival listed in the July section of FestivalGuidesAndReviews.com's 2026 Iowa guide (118) and the September section of its Kansas guide (124) by its main web presence, starting from the link the guide gives and then searching every 8th entry for a site of its own (none of the 16 entries searched had one the guide missed). Across 242 unique festivals: 52 (21.5%) had their own domain, 77 (31.8%) had only a sub-page on a city, chamber or host organization's site, 112 (46.3%) lived only on Facebook or Instagram, and 1 (0.4%) had only a radio listing. In total, 190 of 242 (78.5%, 95% Wilson confidence interval 72.9% to 83.2%, about plus or minus 5 points) had no website of their own; this is a two-state census, not a national figure. For the 10-site check, we inspected the homepages of 6 own-domain festivals from the Iowa and Kansas guides plus 4 own-domain community Porchfests from Wikipedia's North American Porchfest list: 0 of 10 homepages processed vendor booth fees online or published sponsor package prices (one had a food-truck form without payment, one a contact-form checkbox; vendor or sponsor sub-pages linked from several homepages were not opened, so prices may sit there).
Example schedule, to show how it works. Tap a set to save it.
Rain plan ready: Porch 4 moves to the library
The Larkspurs
Porch 12 / until 12:45 pm
Hollow Pine Trio
Porch 4 / until 1:15 pm
Cedar and Smoke
Main stage / until 1:45 pm
Fern and Fiddle
Porch 12 / until 2:15 pm
Brass on Birch
Porch 4 / until 2:45 pm
Marisol Vega
Main stage / until 3:45 pm
Night Owls Choir
Porch 12 / until 4:30 pm
Sunday Static
Porch 4 / until 5:00 pm
Street dance
Main stage / until 6:00 pm
plus sponsor reports the Monday after, insurance expiry reminders, a year-round patron club, and a festival page that never goes stale. Replaces a ticketing site, a form builder, a PDF schedule, a sign-up sheet and a sponsor spreadsheet.
Enter your ticket price and how many you expect to sell. Card processing is charged on every platform, so it is left out to compare like with like.
| Platform | Published fee | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Eventbrite | 3.7% + $1.79 per paid ticket, paid by buyers by default | $2,345 |
| Luma, free plan | 5% per ticket (or $708/yr on Luma Plus for 0%) | $750 |
| Eventeny | 3% per ticket on every plan (paid plans also $720–$2,880/yr) | $450 |
| fest.club Indie | 0% per ticket, $99 per festival (up to 1,500 attendees; $299 Pro up to 10,000) | $99 |
Tonight, before Saturday
Masa and Smoke Taco Truck
22 ft truck, 30 amp power. Insurance certificate on file, expires March 15, 2027.
$252.50 total if accepted. $2.50 due when applying; $250.00 booth fee charged only if approved.
Organizer reviewedRiverbank Credit Union, $1,000 package
Main gate, Saturday 11:00 am to 2:00 pm
2 of 4 spots filled. Next reminder Friday at 11:00 am.
3.0 service hours recorded after check-outMy Saturday
Vendor application fees and your first sponsor slot count toward your pass, so many festivals never pay out of pocket.
How it works: vendors pay a non-refundable $2.50 application fee to fest.club when they apply, shown in their total. It counts toward your pass and stops automatically once your pass is covered (or if you pay the pass up front). If you sell a sponsor slot through fest.club, the sponsor pays into your Stripe account and any remaining pass balance comes out of that payment once. Nothing is charged to you until your festival page is live.
You pay per festival, or once a year for a town or campus. Ticket sales go straight to your own Stripe account.
Block parties, Porchfests, campus club nights and first-year festivals.
$0total
Start freeA single-weekend film, book, craft or music festival.
$99total, per festival
Start freeFood, cultural, Main Street and multi-venue festivals.
$299total, per festival
Start freeParks departments, Main Street programs, chambers and universities.
$999total, per year
Start freefest.club takes 0% of ticket sales. Stripe's card fee (2.9% + 30¢ per payment in the US) comes out of your payout. Every price an attendee or vendor sees includes all mandatory fees. Need a W-9 or purchase order? Request a quote or W-9.
Every plan includes an offline-ready schedule, clash and walk-time warnings, a 1080×1920 lock-screen poster generator, volunteer shift sign-ups, and 0% fest.club ticket fees. Community ($0) covers up to 250 tickets or RSVPs, 1 main stage plus unlimited acoustic host porches, and 15 vendors. Indie ($99/festival) covers up to 1,500 attendees, 5 stages or screens, 40 vendor booths, 60 acts or films, QR gate scanning, printable passes, and verified audience-award voting. Pro ($299/festival) covers up to 10,000 attendees, 150 vendors, unlimited stages, sponsor passport booth QR stamps, automated Monday sponsor ROI reports with one-click renewal, vendor document expiry reminders, and verified volunteer service-hour certificates. Town and campus ($999/year) covers unlimited festivals all year (up to 25,000 attendees per festival), a shared cross-festival vendor document vault, custom domain or municipal/university subdomain, W-9 and non-renewing purchase-order billing, and plain HTML pages built to meet WCAG 2.2 AA.
Tickets, booths and sponsorships are paid straight into your own Stripe account. You are the seller of record. We never hold your funds.
Every ticket and booth shows its total, fees included, on the first screen (as the FTC's all-in pricing rule, 16 CFR Part 464, requires). No resale marketplace, no surprise fees at checkout.
We check vendor documents are complete and track expiry dates. Your team makes the call, and the record says Organizer reviewed.
Schedules and forms are built to meet WCAG 2.2 AA in plain HTML, with no accessibility overlay widgets, and stay legible in bright sun.
Questions committees ask
No. Your festival is a web link. Attendees save the sets they want, the schedule stays cached on their phone when cell service drops, and they can save a 1080×1920 lock-screen poster PNG in one tap.
You do. Sales go straight to your own Stripe account and you are the seller of record. fest.club never holds your funds and takes 0% of ticket sales.
Free festivals and RSVP-only events need no Stripe account at all. To collect paid tickets, vendor booth fees or sponsorships, you connect a Stripe account in the name of an individual, nonprofit, fiscal sponsor or municipality. Refunds, chargebacks and any applicable sales tax are handled by that account under your own refund policy.
fest.club. Vendors pay a non-refundable $2.50 application fee when they apply, and it is always included in the all-in total they see up front. It counts toward your festival pass and stops automatically once your pass balance reaches $0 (or if you pay the pass up front). Accepted vendors pay their booth fee straight to your Stripe account; rejected vendors are never charged the booth fee.
We check that uploaded files are present and remind vendors before expiration dates. We never verify or certify insurance coverage, policy endorsements or health permits. Your team reviews them and marks them Organizer reviewed.
The Town and campus plan is $999 a year for unlimited festivals, which is under the federal micro-purchase threshold ($15,000 since October 2025, FAR 2.101) and small enough for many towns' purchasing cards. Check your own single-purchase limit. We provide a W-9, non-renewing purchase-order invoicing, and plain HTML pages built to meet WCAG 2.2 AA ahead of the DOJ ADA Title II deadlines (April 2027 and April 2028). For a quote or W-9, email [email protected].
Your page stays live all year. It keeps this year's archive, collects next year's vendor and sponsor interest, sends Monday sponsor reports with one-click renewal, and can run a year-round patron club.
Start free. Build the whole festival before you pay anything.
