Festival Management
Is your festival stuck in the dark ages? Still requiring applicants to submit slides? Managing mounds of paper applications?
The Skypanther Festival Management System can help! Our powerful web-based application is the modern and complete solution to managing your festival.
Our system is great for:
- Arts & Crafts festivals
- Collectibles shows
- Food festivals
- Antiques expos
- Music festival
- ...any event where exhibitors apply for entry, are selected to participate, and could be listed on your web site for the duration of the show
"We have worked with Skypanther for 5 years now and they have consistenly provided excellent service, creative solutions, and prompt upgrades to our website. We like the attention to detail and ease of workiing with Skypanther and look forward to many more years of great teamwork."
-- Nancy Ragus, Fairport Canal Days
The Skypanther Festival Management System is in use at these great festivals:
- Fairport Canal Days — Drawing more than 250,000 attendees and hundreds of artisan exhibitors, Fairport's Canal Days is one of the northeast's largest arts & crafts festivals.
- Rochester Park Ave Summer Arts Festival — Over 300 artists and exhibitors make this juried festival one of Rochester's favorite and most lively events since 1976.
- Brockport Summer Arts Festival — 25,000 attendees and 100 artists make this juried festival a popular regional festival.
Contact Skypanther today to see how you can add your festival to this list!
Festival System Features
With the Skypanther Festival Management System, you can:
- Accept exhibitor applications online, eliminating costly and time-consuming paper-based application systems.
- Accept credit card and debit card payments online.
- Add, edit, and delete exhibitor information using simple web forms.
- Enable your exhibitors to upload digital photos rather than mailing slides or prints. (Entertainers can even upload an MP3 clip!)
- Jury online applicants using the web based slideshow, with either blind (anonymous) or named applicant output.
- Manage exhibitor locations, performance schedules, festival contacts, and more through the administrator pages.
- Send reminder and booth assignment emails with just a simple click
- ...and much more!
Festival System Screenshots
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Admin system home page from which you access the festival management system's functionality. |  |
Simple menus help you navigate the admin system |
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The artisan/vendor application page |  |
Festival organizers, you can edit an artisan's application, too |
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Manage festival fees, on a per applicant-type basis |  |
Manage artisan/vendor categories |
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Manage sponsorship levels |  |
Manage event sponsors |
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Reports provide details on who has applied, when, their status, etc. |  |
Need more control? Export applicant data to Excel! |