The operating system for mobile vendors

Built for solo operators and small teams running any kind of mobile vendor business — from food trucks to pop-up retail.

Built by a St. Louis food truck operator who ran his own truck for five years before realizing no one had built the tool he needed.

6 phases shipped · 1 building now · 1 planned

Your data stays yours

VendBook is built on a simple principle: your business data is yours alone.

  • No other operator can access your events, contacts, sales, or customer information. Ever.
  • Your data isn't sold, licensed, or shared with third parties.
  • The only cross-operator information is privacy-first performance signal — patterns, not records — used solely to improve everyone's forecast accuracy.
  • Every administrative action on our end is logged and auditable.
SHIPPED

Phase 1 — Operational Foundation

The daily tools every mobile vendor needs, in one place.

  • Event scheduling with catering and vending modes
  • Organizer contacts and customer follower management
  • Public booking page with inbound inquiry inbox
  • POS sync with Square, Clover, and SumUp — Toast connects through its daily summary email
  • Spreadsheet and CSV import for historical data
  • Install-to-home-screen mobile app with push and email notifications
  • Fully responsive on any device, built for one-handed use at the window
SHIPPED

Phase 2 — Forecast Intelligence

Honest revenue forecasts that get sharper over time.

  • Weather-aware sales predictions with confidence ranges
  • Auto-derived event performance tiers based on your history
  • Network-enhanced forecasts: your predictions improve as similar operators join
  • Honest confidence on every forecast — ranges widen when data is thin, tighten as your history grows
  • Plain-English forecast explanations, not raw numbers
SHIPPED

Phase 3 — Professional Account Experience

VendBook runs like the serious tool your business needs.

  • Clean signup with email verification and secure password handling
  • Simple subscription management with monthly or annual billing (20% annual discount)
  • 14-day trial with transparent pricing
  • Two-factor authentication and new-device login alerts
  • Activity log of your team's changes
  • Direct support for operator questions
SHIPPED

Phase 4 — Event Lifecycle

Every stage of an event, captured in one tool.

  • Inquiry intake with event details, dates, attendance, and notes
  • Booking requests linked to the events they become
  • Calendar view with weather integration
  • Post-event sales tracking through your POS
  • Performance analysis against forecasts
SHIPPED

Phase 5 — Financial Clarity

Know what every event is actually worth.

  • Distinction between contract-fee events (catering) and variable-sales events (vending)
  • Payment tracking that matches your POS day totals to events automatically
  • Anomaly flagging for disrupted or boosted events
  • True forecast accuracy measurement on comparable events only
  • Prep, stock, and waste tracking with ingredient and recipe cost rollups
  • Revenue, cost, and event-type breakdowns in Insights
BUILDING

Phase 6 — Design & Experience

A refined visual identity that matches the quality of the product underneath.

  • Brand identity live across marketing, auth, and public operator pages
  • Refreshed interface that prioritizes operator clarity and speed
  • Continued polish across every surface as the dashboard migrates to the brand system
SHIPPED

Phase 7 — The Operator Network

Your business profile becomes your booking channel.

  • Custom vendor profile URLs for sharing and SEO
  • Embeddable booking widget for your website, Linktree, or social
  • Public vendor profiles as lead-capture surfaces
  • Cross-operator data enrichment at the venue level
  • Metro discovery pages with search-friendly markup and calendar feeds
  • A public city directory — linked site-wide, suggesting your nearest market
LATER

Phase 8 — Vendor Discovery

Event organizers find the right vendors. Vendors find the right gigs.

  • Organizer tools to discover and book vendors directly through VendBook
  • Vendor matching based on historical performance and fit
  • Transparent ratings and reviews
  • Built on the data foundation of Phases 1–7

Up next

What's coming, in the order we're building it.

  • Your public page, fully yours — every headline and section on your page becomes editable, with an optional catering storefront for trucks that cater.

Just shipped

The newest additions, live now.

  • In-service mode for the live-day card — when service starts, the day-of card flips from setup countdown to an In Service view with the time remaining until close. No more false “setup overdue” alarms mid-service.
  • The food-truck directory, front and center — the city directory is linked from the site, suggests your nearest city automatically, and lets you browse every market.

Ready to run your business from one place?

Inquiries, bookings, calendar, sales, and forecasts — in one place. 14-day free trial, no credit card required.

Built by a food truck operator of five years. vendbook.com