Lost & found for renaissance faires
Retire the binder behind the info booth.
Lost at Faire lets your volunteers log found items with photos in seconds, take patrons’ reports right at the booth, and suggests the matches, so more tankards, phones and car keys make it home.
Lost something at the faire?
Visit the info booth. Staff can take your report in a couple of minutes, and they’ll contact you if it turns up.
The shoebox of lost things, and everything wrong with it
Every faire has one: a bin of sunglasses, a clipboard of scribbled descriptions, and a volunteer trying to remember whether that blue phone came in on weekend one or three.
Paper logs nobody can search
“Black backpack” appears eleven times. Which one has the inhaler in it?
Patrons calling for weeks
Every call means someone digging through the bin again, and most never get a callback.
IDs and cards with no paper trail
Driver’s licenses and credit cards sit in a drawer, with no record of when they were destroyed or by whom.
How it works
Three steps, on the tablet you already have at the booth.
Log it
A volunteer snaps up to two photos, picks a category and the bin it’s going in. Every item gets a short tag like 7K2M to write on the label.
Report it
When a patron comes to the booth, staff take their report in a couple of minutes: what they lost, when, and how to reach them. It works even for someone who’d rather just check back.
Match & return it
Lost at Faire suggests likely matches by category, date and, for IDs, the name on the card. Your staff make the call and mark it returned.
Built for how faires actually run
Multi-weekend seasons, rotating volunteers, a busy booth and a cabinet full of IDs.
Every weekend, every faire
Run several events from one account, with weekend-by-weekend holding bins.
Volunteers see only their faire
Staff and admins are assigned to events. Access changes take effect instantly.
Your categories, your fields
Nest categories as deep as you like and add fields such as card type or name on ID.
Suggested matches, both ways
Log a found item and see open reports it might belong to, while the owner may still be on site.
Holding periods & disposal
See what’s due to go, and record whether it was donated, destroyed or discarded.
Every call on record
Log each call, text and email to a patron, so the next volunteer knows where things stand.
Safe with the things people care about most
Wallets, IDs, prescription glasses, a grandmother’s ring. Lost at Faire is built to keep them, and the people who lost them, private.
Patrons never browse the inventory. They describe what they lost; your staff do the searching.
Staff see only their own faire. Internal notes stay internal.
Nothing is ever lost twice. Every item, claim and disposal is kept on record.