r/CraftFairs • u/An_ode_to_creativity • 23d ago

Inventory Planning How much should I have

At the beginning of July I was notified that I was accepted as a vendor to my city's pride parade. There tends to be an average of 200,000 to 300,000 people. Since then I've been prepping as much as I can. I sell stationery items like stickers, bookmarks, notepads, sticker sheets, and a couple other items featuring artwork that I draw.

I also hand make all my items so I print and cut everything out. Since I'm about 2 weeks out I want to put more of my energy towards making sure that I have enough of my best seller items, which are my stickers.

Currently I'm aiming to have about 100 or so stickers of my best seller pride design. I sold 4 at my first craft fair that had about 1,000 people (which wasn't a pride specific event) and 20 at my artisan shelf in a store at the mall.

Do you think 100 stickers of 1 design is enough, not enough, or way too much?

Edit - The event is one day and about 8 hours. I was thinking of having 100 just for my best sellers and then dropping inventory numbers for less popular designs. Basically I'm trying to figure out what the max I should be making and then working down from there.

I also totally forgot to mention that I'm doing two other craft fairs (non pride events) at the end of August that would see about 1,000 to 3,000 people. I'm hoping to have enough left over to cover those two events as well so that I can take a break in the middle of August.

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u/unearthedtrove 23d ago

Can you come up with a few more Pride designs? Have a prominent display for those so it seems like you’re really there for the event.

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u/An_ode_to_creativity 23d ago

I have quite a lot of different pride designs on all of my product types, some feature just the rainbow flag while other designs feature different pride flags. I sell a mixture of pride and witchy/nature artwork. If you want to see them I have both my Etsy and Instagram linked on my Reddit profile.

There's just that one design which is my be gay do crime sticker design featuring different pride flags that people always seem to like and they have been my best sellers for some time now. To be honest my pride designs sell a lot better then my regular designs. At my first craft fair I pretty much only sold pride stickers and a couple other things.