Vendor Insurance Links for Craft Fairs
Makers and crafters at your fair buy their own booth liability coverage through one link, with your event named as additional insured.
Set up my link →How insurance works at craft fairs
Craft fair vendors are makers first and businesses second. Someone selling candles, jewelry, or woodwork at four shows a year has a tax ID and a square reader, and usually nothing resembling a commercial policy.
Meanwhile the venue hosting your fair — a community center, a church hall, a school gym — almost certainly requires proof of insurance from the event, and often from the booths as well.
A vendor link lets a maker satisfy that in a few minutes for the dates of your show, which is the difference between a requirement that gets enforced and one that gets waived.
What you're actually exposed to
- A shopper is injured by a display, a shelving unit, or a table that tips at a booth.
- A candle, soap, or food product sold at a booth causes a reaction or injury later.
- A vendor's heat tool, sample station, or demo causes a burn or a fire.
- The host facility requires certificates the fair organizer has no way to produce.
There are two links — most places need both
A renter's policy covers their event. It does not cover the food vendor they hired or the band they booked. Those are separate businesses with separate exposure, so they need their own coverage — and you need to be named on that too.
Vendor link
For each business working inside the event — they buy their own policy for their own booth or act, and your grounds are named on each of those policies.
Food vendors, entertainers, product and merchandise sellers, antique dealers, clothing sellers, crafters, service vendors.
Whole-space link
For the person or company renting your entire space for their own event. They buy a TULIP for the dates they have the place, and you're named as additional insured on it.
Weddings, receptions, reunions, birthday parties, clubhouse rentals, conferences, corporate offsites, fundraisers, memorials.
You can set up one or both on the same form below — there's no extra cost either way, and the renters and vendors buy their own coverage.
How it works for your grounds
Require proof of insurance from your vendors and space renters without collecting it by hand. One set-up, then the certificates come to you instead of you chasing them.
You Sign Up
Complete a short one-time form to open your grounds' account — free, no obligation.
We Create Your Links
We build a custom link for whoever rents the whole space, and one for your vendors.
You Share Them
Put the links in your vendor packet, booth application, rental contract, or event page.
They Buy Coverage
Each vendor or space renter buys their own event liability policy in minutes.
Certificates Auto-Issue
A certificate naming your grounds as additional insured is emailed to them and to you.
Your vendors are eligible too
It isn't only the person who rents your fair. The businesses that work your events can buy their own event liability coverage through your vendor link — for a single day, a weekend, or a whole season of dates.
Booths, stands, concession trailers, and food trucks serving at your event.
Bands, DJs, dancers, magicians, face painters, and stage acts.
Booths selling goods, gifts, souvenirs, or packaged products.
Flea market, swap meet, and estate dealers selling from a booth.
Boutique, vintage, and apparel vendors working your market.
Handmade goods, art, jewelry, candles, and maker booths.
Rentals, staffing, inflatables, photo booths, and setup crews.
Host something that isn't on this list? Tell us on the set-up form and we'll confirm whether it's eligible.
Each vendor is named on their own policy and your fair is named as additional insured — so one vendor's claim stays with that vendor.
Ready to set up your link?
Set-up takes about two minutes and costs you nothing — the renter or vendor pays for their own policy. We provision your custom link from there.
Free to set up · No contract · The renter or vendor pays for their own policy
Set up your link
Complete this one-time form and our team will provision your custom link. You'll receive it by email once your account is set up.
Frequently asked questions
Do craft fair vendors need insurance?
Most organizers and host facilities require it — commonly $1,000,000 per occurrence — with the fair and the host facility named as additional insured. A vendor can buy short-term coverage for the dates of the show.
What if a maker does several shows a year?
An annual policy covering all their shows is usually the better value past a handful of events. The link offers both short-term and annual so the maker picks.
Can we name the host facility as well as the fair?
Yes. Your link can be configured with more than one additional insured, so the hall, school, or church hosting the fair is named along with your organization.
What does the link cost us?
Nothing. Set-up is free and the renter or vendor pays for their own policy.
Is everything eligible?
No. Coverage is subject to the carrier's eligibility rules, and some events and activities can't be written. Your link tells someone up front if they don't qualify, so nobody shows up thinking they're covered.