Rotary Cow Days 2025
What’s New This Year?

The following sections describe improvements for 2025 around pricing, payment options, and deadlines.

NEW ORDERING OPTIONS:

  • Food booths redefined and pricing reduced: The location and pricing for vendors offering/selling food/drinks has been simplified. The previous types of food booths (For-profit and Non-profit, regardless of location) used in prior years have been eliminated. Instead, going forward, the new booth type “Food Court” indicates you’re requesting to have your booth located within the Food Court area (along West Court St). The price for the new Food Court type booth space (each 10x10ft space) is $200.

    • This is a reduction in price for most food vendors whether they are located on the Food Court, on the Public Square or along North Main St. As in prior years you could offer or sell food or drinks anywhere at Cow Days. For vendors who previously paid For-profit Food Booth prices while located on the Public Square or N. Main St, this is a drop from $250 to $100 per 10x10ft space. For most vendors on the Food Court, this is a drop from $250 to $200 per 10x10ft space.

    • Food/drink vendors can select the Food Booth Category whether you’re ordering a Standard booth (located anywhere on the Public Square or N. Main) or a Food Court booth in the Food Court area. The Food Booth category is a checkbox or dropdown selection (online) on the Application Form. Selecting the Food Booth Category places your booth under the Food Booth category in the Booth Directory (regardless of where your booth is located) and requires adherence with Section 3. Insurance and Inspections in the Terms of Service (on pages 2 & 3 of the Application).

  • Online Ordering One-Step vs Two-Step: Previously, when ordering online, you first selected your booth type, size, answered all the booth questions (name, description, etc.) and clicked Add-to-Cart. Then you also had to click the Cart-Icon or button to actually checkout and pay. This year it’s simplified to a simple Purchase button (as opposed to Add-to-Cart then remembering to Checkout). This avoids confusion and possibly lost and incomplete orders. Note: Previously folks could, and a small number did, add two separate booths (name, type, description, maybe side-by-side) into the cart and then checked out in one transaction. These folks will now have to make two separate booth purchase transactions. Two transactions, same price, same end result.

  • New Payment Options: On the final checkout screens, under the debit/credit card fields, you will see options for Klarna and, if the booth total is $250 or more, an option called US bank account. You may have to click a > MORE PAYMENT OPTIONS button to reveal them.

    • Klarna provides buy-now-pay-later services. We don’t encourage it’s use (our processing costs are increased) but selecting Klarna does allow you to complete your booth-order now and then make 3 or 4 interest-free payments (interest-free to you, not to Rotary!) over a 6-to-8-week period. If you do use Klarna, your order is placed at that time getting you into our first-come, first-assigned queue. Klarna will present a number of questions to complete your transaction.

    • If your booth price total is $250 or over, you will see the US bank account option. If convenient, we do encourage using this option, sometimes referred to as an ACH transaction (and our processing costs are reduced). Have your bank Routing Number and Account Number handy and available when picking this option.

  • Deadline-date for returning vendors: While we’ve always tried to ensure returning vendors the right to the same booth space(s) as the prior year, we’ve found we have to implement an order-deadline-date to do this fairly. For returning vendors to receive the same booth space(s) as last year, their order must be placed by August 15th. Most orders are in by then anyway, but not always, and we need commitments by this date in order to start the process of booth space assignments. This gives us enough time to layout booths assignments and get them transmitted to all vendors in advance of the event. Note: As in prior years, booth orders placed after August 15th are also charged an additional $50 Late Fee per order.