# bindro — Farmers markets

> bindro sells farmers-market pitches to traders: every market day is a slot with its own pitches, and a vendor picks a date, answers the market’s questions and uploads their public liability certificate in one form. With application review turned on, no card is charged and no payment intent even exists until somebody at the market has opened the file and approved it. A pitch fee can be invoiced to a business against a purchase order instead. Money reaches the market two days after the market day has run, never before. Insurance expiry dates are read back: cover running out on a booked trader is listed on your vendors screen and emailed to you once. Nothing is blocked.

Canonical page: https://bindro.io/vertical/farmers-market-management/
Reviewed: 2026-08-09

## Facts
- Inventory model: timed slot.
- Pricing models: flat, tiered.
- Fees: 2.5% + $0.99 per paid pitch; free market days cost nothing.
- Payouts: one payout per event, released 2 days after that event's LAST session has ended (low risk tier, 0% reserve). Never before delivery, and a market day sold as a run of dates pays out once, after the final date.
- Check-in: name list, works offline. Visitors can come back in: a scan after they were admitted reads as a re-entry rather than a used code, at whichever entrance they come back to, and says when they first arrived. A second scan within a few minutes of the first is still read as the same code presented twice, so a screenshot passed down the queue does not get anybody in. The visit is counted once however often it is scanned.
- Joining: free, alone, in minutes. No contract, no monthly fee and no card at signup. A payout destination is verified before the first payout, never before the first sale.
- Booking fee default: the vendor pays it. A market can absorb it or split it per market day; the fee itself does not change with the choice, only which side of the sale it comes from.
- Overselling is structurally impossible: inventory moves only under a row lock inside the transaction that confirms the order, with a database constraint behind that as a backstop rather than as the mechanism.
- The number this vertical is run on: Pitch occupancy. Also tracked: vendor retention, insurance lapse rate, waitlist depth. The console computes the north-star figure and prints the arithmetic under it, beside this market's own funnel with the drop-off at each stage, where the traffic came from, refund, transfer, turnout, no-show, add-on and repeat rates each shown with its numerator and denominator, gross, fees and refunds per market day, live remaining capacity during the market day, and CSV exports of orders and vendors. A step the platform cannot observe says so rather than reporting a zero.
- Data export: orders and vendors as CSV from the console at any time, behind a fresh one-time code. No export fee, no notice period, no lock-in.
- Required before checkout, enforced on the money path: Certificate of public liability insurance; Food handling permit / health registration.

## Not supported for this vertical
- bindro warns you about insurance expiry but never suspends a vendor. The expiry date is a required question, the certificate is attached to the application, and both are in front of you when you review it. From then on the date IS read back: traders booked onto a date still to come whose cover has run out — or runs out within a month — are listed on your vendors screen and emailed to you once, and the lapse rate is on your analytics page. What does not happen is enforcement: nothing stops a trader with lapsed cover booking the next date, because whether to let them trade is the market’s decision and not ours.
- bindro does not check any document. The certificate is bytes for a person to open and the permit number is a string nobody validates: no insurer, no council and no food-safety register is contacted. Approving an application means a human at the market looked.
- No season booking and no recurring billing. A vendor books one market day per order, because this vertical does not resolve the multi-day basket, the season pass or subscriptions — a trader taking a pitch every Saturday until October checks out once per Saturday, and no card is stored to be charged again later.
- No pitch map and no allocation. bindro sells a pitch of a stated size in a stated slot; which physical spot on the street that becomes is your plan, made wherever you make it today. Nothing here draws a layout or assigns a stand to a location.
- No trader rate for booking two pitches: two pitches cost twice one pitch. Paid extras are real — power, a table, a gazebo, extra frontage are add-ons a trader buys with the pitch — but the "power required" box on the form is still only a question, and a pitch that costs more with power is best published as its own pitch type at its own price.
- No sales tax is calculated, added or reported. The pitch price you publish is the amount the vendor pays, and what you owe on it is between you and your state.
- No card terminal at the market. A trader who turns up unbooked is either sent to the booking page on their phone or recorded in the console as a back-office booking, with the cash or card machine being yours, not ours.
- No transfer of a pitch to another trader, and no credit note for a rained-off date. Money out is the only lever: a full refund. A vendor who cannot trade is refunded, not moved to the following week.
- A refunded pitch does not go back on sale by itself. The money moves and the pitch stays counted against that date, so raise the capacity by one if you want to resell it.
- bindro cannot enforce a cancellation deadline. A vendor refunds themselves in full from the link in their confirmation email at any time up to the moment the market day starts — there is no notice window to configure and no fee to withhold. After the start time the decision is yours in the console.

## Questions the landing page answers
- Can a trader book a whole season in one go?
- If I publish a whole season, when does the first payment arrive?
- Does bindro tell me when a vendor’s insurance is about to run out?
- What does a market operator have to decide before opening the first date?
- What should an operator check before moving a market off its current system?
  https://bindro.io/vertical/farmers-market-management/

## Pages
- FAQ (23 questions): https://bindro.io/vertical/farmers-market-management/faq/
- bindro vs Manage My Market: https://bindro.io/vertical/farmers-market-management/compare/manage-my-market/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- bindro vs FarmSpread: https://bindro.io/vertical/farmers-market-management/compare/farmspread/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- Opening a season of market days for pitch bookings: https://bindro.io/vertical/farmers-market-management/blog/opening-a-season-of-market-days-for-pitch-bookings/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- Vetting a new trader before you take their money: https://bindro.io/vertical/farmers-market-management/blog/vetting-a-new-trader-before-you-take-their-money/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- The board pack a funder actually asks for: https://bindro.io/vertical/farmers-market-management/blog/the-board-pack-a-funder-actually-asks-for/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- Running the market day when there is no signal: https://bindro.io/vertical/farmers-market-management/blog/running-the-market-day-when-there-is-no-signal/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)