Folks who do craft faires and share booths with friends, do you have a communal checkout and divvy later or do customers coming into your shared booth do separate transactions for each vendor? Doing my first non-solo non-furry craft faire with a friend and figuring out logistics.

In the past when I’ve shared tables, I always did separate check outs. Customers never minded and even expected it.

Pros: customers don’t need to make multiple transactions at one booth Cons: need diligent record keeping, and one person must dole out earnings to other person and figure out transaction/card fees

Separate checkouts

When I’ve shared a table, I do separate transactions. When things go quickly it’s hard to remember to write down sales.

Situational. With the person I usually did this with it was generally a way to split the table fee & hope we could at least make it back. I would NOT communal checkout with anyone you aren't literally best friends with. One of you does significantly better or worse, it could cause issues.