Street market management for Spanish municipalities

The everyday work you already know

• The stall list lives in a spreadsheet only its author can read.
• Absences are noted on paper on market day and typed up back at the office.
• Expired insurance is chased by email, one trader at a time.
• The published schedule is an old PDF, and residents phone to ask whether the market is on today.

The public layer: your market, published and easy to find

Every market has its own page. Residents, visitors and traders see it, and so does Google.

• One page per market

  Days, times, exact location, market type and municipal rules, at its own web address.

• On the map

  Anyone opening the map sees the markets nearby and gets to the exact spot where the stalls go up.

• In three languages

  Every page reads in Catalan, Spanish and English.

• A schedule you keep up to date

  The council corrects and confirms the schedule from the console, including monthly markets, markets on a set weekday of the month and special dates.

• A link for the council website

  Each market's address is stable: link to it from the council website instead of republishing the PDF.

Publishing and maintaining your market's page is free.

The management layer: stall register, attendance and bylaws

The council officer signs in to a console with their municipality's markets and works on the same data that gets published.

• Know who holds each stall

  Available
  • Licence register per market: stall number, frontage in metres, authorised goods, licence status and seniority.
  • Holder, co-holders and authorised people for each stall, with a history of changes.

• Run market day

  Available
  • Take attendance stall by stall from the console.
  • Unjustified absences are counted automatically, following the rules in your bylaw.

• Apply your own bylaw

  Available
  • Set your rules: stall sizes, consecutive and alternating absences, holiday days, fine amounts and the market fee.
  • When a licence is created, its size is checked against your bylaw.
  • Each licence's annual cost is calculated from your fee.

• Keep the data current and at hand

  Available
  • Edit the market's page and schedule; changes go straight to the public page.
  • Export the licence register as CSV whenever you need it.
  • One console for several markets and, where needed, several municipalities.

Coming soon

• Documents with expiry warnings

  Coming soon

  Insurance, food handler certificates and other documents per licence, with the expiry date in plain sight.

• Transfers and sanctions

  Coming soon

  A record of licence transfers and sanctions, linked to each stall.

Why the technology matters

The rules are yours.

Each municipality sets its own sizes, absences, fines and fee. Nothing is fixed by default.

Everyone sees their own municipality.

An officer can only view and edit their own municipality's markets. The limit is enforced in the database, not just on screen.

Changes leave a trail.

Changes to the market page, schedule, attendance and rules are recorded with who made them and when.

Data in the European Union.

The database is hosted in Paris.

Nothing to install.

It runs in the browser, in Catalan, Spanish and English.

How to get started

1. 1

   Check your market's page. Free

   Review days, times and location, and tell us what needs fixing.

2. 2

   Maintain it yourselves. Free

   We give someone at the council access to update the page and schedule directly.

3. 3

   Council console.

   We add your bylaw's rules and the markets you manage.

4. 4

   Licence register.

   Add stalls and holders, and start taking attendance.

The first two steps carry no cost and no commitment.

For trader associations and stallholders

If you have a stall at a market listed on Appmercat, you can claim it. Find the market on the map, open the Stalls tab and press Claim. The council or the Appmercat team reviews the request and, once approved, the stall shows your business.

Associations that want to talk about one or more markets can write to us.

Frequently asked questions