DFW Fiber Fest Collects 80% of Payments in One Day

Eventeny, the platform organizers use to manage vendors, tickets, volunteers, and event maps, has helped DFW Fiber Fest, an annual fiber arts festival held at the Irving Convention Center in Irving, Texas, collect 80% of its vendor payments in a single day. The festival, which draws knitters, crocheters, spinners, weavers, and dyers from all 50 states to a 50,000-square-foot marketplace and four days of classes, has now entered its 22nd year.

Joined by Eventeny in August 2025, DFW Fiber Fest opened vendor applications for its 2026 festival while the 2025 show was still running. Before Eventeny, every vendor went through three manual steps: the vendor coordinator wrote a contract, the treasurer issued an invoice, and the coordinator matched the two and chased payment, often for months. Now, the festival collects payment details with each application and charges every accepted vendor on a single publicized date, with automated reminders as the date approaches. 80% of vendor revenue arrived on that first charge date, something that used to take months.

The festival now manages vendor applications, contracts, invoicing, payments, and booth mapping in one event management platform, Eventeny. Building contract terms into the application removed a separate contract step, and automated invoicing removed months of manual payment follow-up. The festival's volunteer board, which runs the event entirely without paid staff, has also been able to assign all booths in Eventeny's mapping tool, spacing out competing yarn sellers in a market where about 80% of booths sell yarn.

In 2026, the festival filled the entire Irving Convention Center for the first time, with roughly 200 booth spaces and classes for more than 800 students across two floors. The team assigns all booths itself in Eventeny's mapping tool, spacing out competing yarn sellers in a market where about 80% of booths sell yarn.

Eventeny, the platform organizers use to manage vendors, tickets, volunteers, and event maps, is a software solution that brings these functions into one system, replacing the disconnected tools most organizers piece together. Its founders created Eventeny after seeing their sister, an event planner, worn down by the manual chaos of the job, with a mission to make event planning less stressful. Eventeny has processed more than one million applications from vendors, artists, and exhibitors and saves organizers up to four months of manual work each year. Customers include GalaxyCon, Fanatics Fest, the Florida Renaissance Festival, and DFW Fiber Fest.