ATLANTA, GA, UNITED STATES, August 28, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Burnet Chamber of Commerce, which organizes Texas’s Bluebonnet Festival and holds the official Bluebonnet Capital designation for the state, reduced vendor check-in from over five hours down to two and a half after shifting its vendor management to Eventeny.
Key Highlights:
– The Bluebonnet Festival achieved a 50% reduction in vendor check-in time using Eventeny
– The Burnet Chamber of Commerce swapped a paper-based workflow, printed applications, hand-drawn vendor maps, and paper check-in envelopes for Eventeny’s online platform.
– 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 move also eliminated hundreds of hours previously spent printing applications and manually redrawing vendor maps for a festival that attracts 60,000 people and upwards of 300 vendors over three days. The Chamber’s experience is highlighted in a new case study from Eventeny, the platform organizers rely on to handle 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 event teams operate with a small staff and a long list of manual chores. 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—that workload used to consume almost the entire events team’s attention. Adopting an all-in-one event management platform like Eventeny freed up hours that the Chamber can now invest in recruiting vendors or improving the event itself, rather than re-creating the same paperwork annually.
How can festival organizers shorten vendor check-in time?
Before Eventeny, the Burnet Chamber of Commerce handled vendor operations through a manual approach that involved physically printing vendor applications. After the transition, applications, photos, and approvals reside in a single online system, vendor maps update instantly everywhere at once, and check-in relies on QR codes scanned via phone, with vendors staged offsite and released by street and time slot. All these elements contribute to a much faster vendor check-in process.
ABOUT EVENTENY
Eventeny is an event management platform that brings together ticketing, vendor management, mapping, volunteer shift tracking, scheduling, and guest logistics into one system, replacing the scattered assortment of tools that most organizers patch together on their own. The founders built the platform after seeing their sister, an event planner, burn out under the manual chaos of the job. Eventeny has processed more than a million vendor applications and reports that it saves organizers up to four months of manual work per year.
Cat McDevitt
Eventeny
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