A food truck till that travels.

A field in Wicklow, three thousand people, and every one of them on the same mast. Eclyde keeps taking orders on the tablet through it and syncs the lot once the connection returns, so you are not writing on a pad and typing it up on Monday. The honest limit is card authorisation. No reader on any system can authorise a card with no connection at all, so if a site has no coverage for hours, know your fallback before you drive there: a cash float, clear signage, and a queue that will wait.

Not much, and nothing you have to bolt to a counter you do not have. A tablet on an arm mount, a Bluetooth reader that lives in an apron pocket, and a small printer only if you want paper tickets. It all runs off a power bank when the generator is outside and the cable is not.

A Saturday market pitch and a three-day festival cost very different money, and the festival is not always the winner once the fee, the extra pair of hands and the diesel come off. Eclyde tags every sale with the pitch, so at the end of a season the reporting puts takings against what each one cost you and ranks them properly. Most operators find at least one date they have been doing for years out of loyalty rather than profit. Your numbers will not look like anyone else's, which is exactly why you need your own.

Your following is the whole asset, and every order adds a name to it. Ordering ahead for collection at the hatch cuts the queue and banks the sale before you have driven anywhere, which matters on a wet Sunday when footfall is a coin toss. Set collection windows for the dates you are trading and share the link. The honest part: a truck's list builds slowly. Think in seasons rather than weeks, and put the link on the truck, on the bag and on the board.