Stall Allocation Scoring Worksheet

No decision a market manager makes generates more friction than who gets which stall. The only defensible approach is to decide the criteria before you look at applications, write them down, and apply them the same way to everyone. This worksheet gives you one row per applicant and one column per criterion so the scoring happens in the open. Fill in the vendor's category, seasons at the market, attendance record from last season, and the commitment they are asking for, then score each row using the weighting you published in your rulebook and assign a stall only after every row has a score.

The example rows are illustrations, not benchmarks. Your own weighting might favor seniority, attendance, category balance, full-season commitment, or a lottery for otherwise equal cases; there is no universally correct formula. What matters is that the same formula applies to every row and that a vendor can see why they landed where they did. Keep the completed sheet with the season's records so a placement dispute in July can be answered with a document from March. Our article on fair stall allocation walks through building the criteria and the market map together, and the stall capacity calculator in our tools section helps you settle how many stalls there are to allocate in the first place.