ATLANTA, GA, UNITED STATES, August 28, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — After shifting its vendor operations to the Eventeny platform, the Burnet Chamber of Commerce—which organizes Texas's Bluebonnet Festival and holds the state's official Bluebonnet Capital designation—reduced vendor check-in from more than five hours to just two and a half.
Key Takeaways:
– The Bluebonnet Festival achieved a 50% reduction in vendor check-in time using Eventeny
– The Burnet Chamber of Commerce abandoned a manual workflow involving printed applications, hand-drawn vendor maps, and paper check-in envelopes in favor of Eventeny's online system.
– The Chamber now oversees more than 300 vendors for the Bluebonnet Festival and over 170 for Christmas on the Square through Eventeny.
Events Director Kristi Buck notes that the transition also eliminated hundreds of hours previously spent printing applications and manually redrawing vendor maps for a festival drawing 60,000 people and more than 300 vendors over three days. The Chamber's experience is highlighted in a new case study from Eventeny, the platform organizers use to manage vendors, tickets, and volunteers.
"I used to spend hours cutting and pasting vendor photos into printouts for my review committee," said Kristi Buck, Events Director at the Burnet Chamber of Commerce "Now that's all in one place, and I can spend that time finding better vendors instead of rebuilding paperwork every year. I've already recommended Eventeny to other Chambers who asked what I was using, because when something saves you this much time, you want to tell people about it."
How can Chambers of Commerce and DDAs run vendor-heavy festivals more efficiently?
Most Chamber and DDA events teams operate with limited staff and a lengthy list of manual tasks. For an event the size of the Bluebonnet Festival, which brings more than 300 vendors and tens of thousands of attendees across six city blocks, the workload previously consumed most of the events team's time. By adopting an all-in-one event management platform like Eventeny, the Chamber freed up hours that can now be directed toward vendor recruitment or event improvements, rather than recreating the same paperwork each year.
How can festival organizers cut vendor check-in time?
Before using Eventeny, the Burnet Chamber of Commerce handled vendor operations through a manual process that involved physically printing out vendor applications. After the switch, applications, photos, and approvals reside in a single online system, vendor maps update instantly across all locations, and check-in operates via QR codes scanned with a phone, with vendors staged offsite and released by street and time slot. These combined elements contribute to a shorter vendor check-in time.
ABOUT EVENTENY
Eventeny is an event management platform that unifies ticketing, vendor management, mapping, volunteer shift tracking, scheduling, and guest logistics into one system, replacing the assortment of disconnected tools most organizers piece together independently. The founders created the platform after witnessing their sister, an event planner, become exhausted by the manual chaos of the job. Eventeny has handled over a million vendor applications and reports saving organizers up to four months of manual work per year.
Cat McDevitt
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