ATLANTA, GA, UNITED STATES, August 28, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Burnet Chamber of Commerce, which organizes Texas's Bluebonnet Festival and is recognized as the state's official Bluebonnet Capital, reduced vendor check-in from over five hours to just two and a half hours after transitioning its vendor management to Eventeny.
Key Takeaways:
– The Bluebonnet Festival achieved a 50% reduction in vendor check-in time thanks to Eventeny.
– The Burnet Chamber of Commerce swapped out a manual system involving printed applications, hand-drawn vendor maps, and paper check-in envelopes for Eventeny's cloud-based platform.
– The Chamber currently oversees over 300 vendors for the Bluebonnet Festival and more than 170 for Christmas on the Square using Eventeny.
According to Events Director Kristi Buck, the transition also saved hundreds of hours previously spent on printing applications and manually redrawing vendor maps for a festival that attracts 60,000 attendees and over 300 vendors over three days. The Chamber's experience is highlighted in a new case study from Eventeny, the platform event organizers rely on for vendor, ticket, and volunteer management.
"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."
By what means can Chambers of Commerce and DDAs manage vendor-heavy festivals more efficiently?
The majority of Chamber and DDA event teams operate with a small staff and a lengthy roster of manual tasks. For an event as large as the Bluebonnet Festival, which draws over 300 vendors and tens of thousands of visitors across six city blocks, that workload previously consumed most of the events team's time. Adopting an integrated event management platform like Eventeny freed up hours for the Chamber that can be redirected toward vendor recruitment or event improvements, rather than redoing the same paperwork each year.
In what ways can festival organizers reduce vendor check-in duration?
