A canopy, particularly a pop-up or EZ up canopy, can be stored easily and quickly opened to protect your investments. A pop-up canopy is small enough to be kept in the back of a car or at a flea market booth and then assembled in case of an emergency. The primary benefit of a pop-up canopy is that it needs only one person to assemble it. As pop-up canopies are fairly common quick shelters, you might even have one at home that you have used for a backyard party or a family event at a beach. If not, most canopy dealers carry several types of pop-up canopies.

A pop-up canopy is constructed of an aluminum frame and a polyester or vinyl canopy. The roof is usually peaked for the rain to run off. In terms of setting up a pop-up canopy, no additional tools or parts are needed. While a permanent canopy like a portable garage will need to stay in place for months at a time, a pop-up canopy simply needs to go up and come down in a day. However, when setting up a pop-up canopy at a flea market, particularly if the flea market is set up on blacktop or asphalt, additional sandbags will be needed to keep the canopy in place. But if the flea market is outdoors on a dirt field, the pop-up canopy won’t need to be held in place with sandbags.