When you run a market, festival, or event, trust isn’t optional.

You’re choosing systems that affect livelihoods, public spaces, compliance, and community experience. For many organisers or event managers, including councils and long-running events, the frustration is familiar: tools that only solve part of the problem, leaving the rest to emails, spreadsheets, and manual follow-ups.

LocalStalls was created to change that.

Why LocalStalls Exists

LocalStalls wasn’t built as just another online form or booking tool.

It was created because market, festival, and event organisers needed end-to-end solutions, not fragmented systems that only handle applications while everything else sits outside the platform.

Markets and festivals are complex. They involve bookings, approvals, payments, compliance, communication, and ongoing relationships with stallholders and vendors. Treating them as simple transactions doesn’t reflect the reality of how events actually operate.

From the beginning, LocalStalls has been shaped around real-world use cases - from small, monthly, volunteer-run community markets through to large city markets operating every week, and even annual festivals.

End-to-End Solutions, Not Just Forms

At its core, LocalStalls focuses on what matters most to organisers: bookings, approvals, and payments.

These core processes sit at the heart of the platform, helping organisers manage applications, approvals, communication, and financial workflows in a clear and consistent way - from start to finish.

Beyond that core functionality, LocalStalls also supports the broader operational side of running markets, festivals, and events. Organisers can access tools such as:

• Map building and position allocation

• Volunteer management

• Sponsorship management

• Ticketing

• Other supporting tools and integrations that help simplify event delivery

This means organisers can manage both the administrative and operational sides of their events in one place, without losing focus on the fundamentals that keep everything running smoothly.

Built to Flex Around Real-World Scenarios

No two markets or festivals operate the same way - so LocalStalls was built with that reality front of mind.

The platform is intentionally flexible, allowing each event to be configured to suit its specific requirements. For example:

• Some markets require payment upfront

• Others accept bank transfer only

• Some use credit card payments

• Some operate with permanent stallholders

• Others work with rotating or casual vendors

• Many require additional documentation, permits, or compliance checks

Rather than forcing organisers to change how their events operate to suit the software, LocalStalls can adapt to a wide range of events.

Suitable For Events of All Sizes

LocalStalls is used by a wide range of markets, festivals, and events.

That includes small community-run markets, local festivals, busy city markets, and large-scale programs managed by councils. For more complex environments, enterprise solutions are available, with configurable setups and tailored support designed specifically for councils and large organisations running multiple events.

As events grow, evolve, or scale, the platform is designed to grow with them.

Backed by a Dedicated Development Team

LocalStalls is backed by a dedicated team of developers and testers who focus on stability, security, and reliability.

Updates are carefully tested, improvements are made thoughtfully, and feedback from organisers, market committees, and stallholders directly informs how the platform continues to evolve. This helps ensure LocalStalls remains dependable - whether managing a single community event or a full calendar of council-run markets and festivals.

Trusted Locally, Used Globally

While LocalStalls is built with local communities in mind, it’s supported by a growing global user base.

Market, festival, and event organisers use LocalStalls in many regions such as Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. This reach isn’t about scale for its own sake - it reflects trust from organisers facing similar challenges in different regions.

A Long-Term Commitment to Communities

LocalStalls isn’t here to replace what makes markets and festivals special.

It exists to support the people behind them: organisers, councils, volunteers, sponsors, and stallholders - with tools that are practical, flexible, and genuinely useful.

Whether it’s a small community market, a local festival, or a major city event held every weekend, the commitment remains the same: to provide reliable, end-to-end solutions that make events easier to run and better for the communities they serve.