Run a food festival with a page that is right on the day and tickets that pay you directly

A festival is a few days a year. The rest of the time its page is a poster for last June, a vendor list that has changed twice since it was printed, and a ticket link that lives on someone's personal account. Diners cannot tell what is current, and every vendor does its own marketing.

On Mosey a festival keeps one page and a separate edition for each year. A date appears on the page only once an edition is published, never before. Until then the page says it is usually held in a given month and points to your own website.

An organizer account holds the festival. For each year you add an edition with a session for each day, and the vendors for that edition. Starting a new year from the last one brings the old line-up across as invitations to accept again, with their stall labels and pins. You can also bring vendors in from a file.

To publish an edition you need a description, a site point on the map, at least one session, at least five vendors on the line-up and an edition that is not over. If something is missing, the page lists every blocker at once. Dates cannot be changed once tickets have been sold.

Tickets are paid to your organization's own Stripe account. It is the organization's account, never a person's: if the person who set it up leaves, the account stays. A festival that no approved organizer holds, or whose account is not yet active, has no ticket line at all.

You choose the ticket price and the number of tickets for the edition. A ticket is refunded through the same engine as any Mosey event. A guest's email never reaches your team: the door list shows names and seats. A door sale is cash you took yourself, which Mosey records and never touches.

• Ticket money is a payment to the organizer, not to Mosey, and Mosey holds none of it.
• Mosey approves an organizer before it can change a festival.
• Only an owner seat can set up the payout account.

A diner sees the vendors, a site plan, the sessions and, once the ratings are in, the best dishes and vendors. Each vendor writes its own dishes with a price, allergens and a photo, and marks one sold out with a tap. A dish that lists no allergens says allergens not listed, never none.

You see whether a vendor's menu is done or missing, and you can nudge a vendor once for each edition with a single email. You never write or change a vendor's dishes.

Everyone on an organizer team can work the door: check guests in from the guest list or by a ticket code. Refunds, comps, cash door sales and the ticket numbers sit with owners and managers. A team member sees check-in and the guest list and nothing else.

While a session is on, the page switches to live mode, and a live board shows counts for you: no person, no rating text. A free passport turns every vendor into a stamp, and a diner collects a stamp at each vendor and earns a badge. The morning after, people who were there get one message, and nobody who only saved the page does.

A diner can ask to be told when the next edition is announced. That request is also their yes to hear from the festival, and when you publish the next edition they get one message, held back if they have quiet hours or have reached their daily limit. Taking the request back removes it.

What Mosey is about

• Affordable tools for food businesses

  Tools priced for independents and small chains, not for the big groups.

• A full suite, in one login

  The tools a restaurant, café or bar needs sit together, so you are not paying for a stack of separate subscriptions.

• You keep more of your revenue

  Mosey is built so that more of every sale stays with the business that made it.

• Free to list and claim

  Your menu, your replies to guests and your photos cost nothing to put on Mosey.

• No hidden fees

  What Mosey charges is published, in full, so nothing arrives as a surprise on a statement.

• Made for local food businesses

  Mosey helps diners find independent food businesses by dish and mood, and lets people rate what they actually ate.

More for your business

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  Food halls and markets

  A page of its own with every stall on it, market days, a site plan, best dishes and the vendors you invite.

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  For vendors at halls, markets and festivals

  Claim your listing, accept an invitation, confirm each market day and write your own festival dishes.

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  Events and tickets

  Ticketed tasting nights and supper clubs, with a capacity, a waitlist, door scanning and tax at purchase.