Cavendish Beach Music Festival
Festivals

Cavendish Beach Music Festival

A fully cashless festival on PEI: 108,000+ transactions and $2.75M processed across 35 vendors.

2025
$2.75M Processed on-site
108K+ Transactions
60,000+ Fans attended
The client

Cavendish Beach Music Festival is Atlantic Canada’s largest, drawing 60,000+ fans to Prince Edward Island for headliners like Shania Twain and Lainey Wilson. Run by Whitecap Entertainment since 2009 on a former cow pasture on PEI’s north shore, it’s a two-time CCMA Festival of the Year.

The challenge

Run a fully cashless festival at high volume across a large multi-vendor footprint, and settle 35 independent vendors accurately, by day and by tender.

Our approach

We deployed the wrstPOS cashless platform across all 35 vendors with card-present and wrstBUCKS stored-value, per-transaction tip and tax handling, and auditable per-vendor settlement.

The results

WRSTBND processed 108,000+ transactions and $2.75M+ in vendor sales at a $25.27 average order: fully cashless, 98%+ card-present, and zero cash on site.

Behind Every Great Event

Let’s power your next great event

Tell us what you’re building. We’ll show you how one platform, and a crew that shows up, handles access, credentials, payments, and data from load-in to load-out.

Questions? hello@wrstbnd.com