County fair app
A county fair app guests can open on the phone they already have.
Fair week moves faster than a printed booklet. Midway Metric is the visitor app and the operations system behind it: one public site for the grounds map, the daily schedule, the vendor list, parking, and announcements.
Guests do not create an account to look around. The fair’s link opens the event site. Staff publish changes from the same system, so the phone in someone’s hand matches what the office just decided.
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What the public gets
Each fair has its own public portal. The address is the fair’s slug on midwaymetric.com, and the same site can live on a fair subdomain. Login is optional for guests.
- Daily schedule, including events that moved during the week
- Interactive grounds map with booths, gates, and parking
- Vendor directory so people can find a booth without a paper packet
- In-app announcements when a show, barn, or gate changes — these appear in the app, not as lock-screen push notifications
- Optional tickets, with checkout that can collect a first name, last name, email, and phone so an order can be looked up later
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What the fair board gets
The visitor app is not a separate product from operations. Maps, schedules, vendor records, and staff access live in one admin. Attendee Lite starts at $49 a month for a branded visitor site, a public schedule, a vendor directory, and a pin map. Community, County & Regional, and State & Enterprise add a fuller grounds map, vendor self-service, and more staff tooling. Details and annual prices are on the pricing page.
It is a website your guests open in the browser, branded with the fair’s name, logo, and colors. Native App Store and Google Play apps are not part of the product.
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Where it came from
Midway Metric was built for the Summit County Fair in Ohio. James Boyle, the Junior Fair Board president, built it for that fair with the board and executive fair manager Cathy Cunningham, after the board had looked at commercial mapping tools around $3,000. Summit County Fair is the fair it was written for. Cathy’s review of the live schedule, map, and parking is on the reviews page.
FAQ
Questions fair boards ask
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Vendor managementOne vendor list for staff, a public directory for guests, and a portal where vendors update their own listing.Read the guide
Fair mapAn interactive grounds map for booths, gates, and parking, edited by staff and opened by guests.Read the guide
Ticketing and gatesSell tickets on the public event site and admit guests at the gate. $500 a year, plus $1.25 per ticket paid by the buyer.Read the guide- PricingLite through State & Enterprise, plus the ticketing add-on.View the plans
Talk it throughon your grounds.
A walkthrough is a live look at the map, schedule, and vendor list with your board — not a slide deck of someone else’s fair.