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Activate Your First Event

This guide will show you how to activate your first event on Farmspread/Marketspread.

Activate Your Next Event

Use this guide to easily activate your next event.

Add an Application Credit Card Paywall

Create a vendor application that forces vendors to submit payment with Credit Card before they can apply.

Adding late fees to invoices

Screencast tutorial on adding late fees to invoices.

Add Widgets to Your Website

How to embed Farmspread/Marketspread Widgets into your website.

Many larger markets and events will have sections that they allow single day walk on bookings. These are usually also anonymous. This support article walks through the basics of how to quickly book anonymous vendors.

Application Link

Where to find a link to your application.

Auto Tagging Vendors

Marketspread provides the ability to automatically tag vendors based on application questions and answers. This support article explains the basics of how to set up auto-tagging and how they get added to the vendor record.

Bypass automatic invoicing for certain vendors

This article explains how to manage the case where where you have automatic invoicing turned on but have some vendors that you need to not be automatically invoiced. An example would be when you have a set of vendors who pay upfront for your entire event season that should not get auto-invoiced.

Calendar - Getting Started

Marketspread Calendar allows you to manage all your team meetings, volunteer shifts, and staff schedules. Promote public events and meetings on your profile and event website. This support article will walk you through the basic usage.

Cancelling An Event Day

This article walks you through how to cancel an event day.

Changing event time

This article describes how you can update the start and end time of your event(s).

Claim your Market

This Guide is to help Market Managers claim their Market Profile on Farmspread.

Clone Market Application to Other Markets

Marketspread makes it easy for market organizations with multiple markets to share the same market application or base your market application on a common, core application.

Cloning an Event or Event Series

Learn how easy it can be to clone an event.

Collecting Payment Info for Approval Fees

When you charge vendors approval fees, you may want to collect their payment information upfront — during the application — so you can automatically charge them when they're approved.

Configuring Booth Fees with Terms

An walk through on configuring booth fees via your map layout and an introduction to creating Terms for bookings.

Connecting Data API to a Google Sheet

Learn how easy it can be to connect any Marketspread data report to a Google sheet removing the need to export / import.

Connecting your website domain

This support article reviews what is needed in order to connect your Marketpress website to your custom domain.

Control Vendor Stall Assignment Notifications

Learn how to reduce notifications sent to your vendors when assigning stalls.

Create Your Own Custom Storefront Web Address

Don't struggle with long and complicated URLs that do nothing to help brand and market your store! Create your own, free custom Storefront Web Address (URL) with Marketspread!

Creating an Event

How to create a new Event or Event Season.

Creating Applications

This support article reviews how to create applications to your event(s). Whether you want one application for all events or a separate application to each event we have you covered.

Creating a Vendor Alias

How to add a Vendor Alias where you may want to refer to a vendor as a name different than it is listed on their profile.

Creating Multiple Events that Share an Application

This screencast tutorial goes over how to create multiple separate events or seasons that share an application. With this setup vendors will only have to apply once - for each subsequent event the vendor will inherit the previous events application status.

Customize Vendor Status Messages

With Marketspread it is easy to customize the message that vendors receive when they are assigned an application status (ie. received, pre-approved, approved)

Day of Week Vendor Fees

How to configure automated pricing that can be specific to the day of week. If you run your market more than one day a week, and charge vendors differently based on the day, this article is for you.

Digital Signatures in Applications

This video screencast is an overview of Marketspread's fully integrated digital signatures for documents.

Double Bookings Overview

A walkthrough of double booking booths. Specifically, how to mark a vendor as not attending a booked event so that you can book another vendor in their place - without having to de-book the original vendor.

Download an Event Map as a PDF

This screencast video walks you through how you can download and convert a market map to a PDF file.

Enabling AutoPay as a Vendor

This video screencast walks a vendor through how to enable and disable AutoPay.

Enabling Digital Signatures

Marketspread supports fully integrated digital signatures. This feature is not included in your base activation but can be enabled for $5 a month plus $1 per signature.

Enabling Messenger Premium Plans

Marketspread Messenger Premium Plans are available starting at $30 a month. This plans include support for SMS Texting and custom contacts.

Exclude Vendors or Vendor types from Reporting Sales

This guide will show you how to exclude certain vendors or vendor types from reporting sales in an event or season.

Exporting vendors from Manage My Market

Current users of Manage My Market can easily export their vendor data and send it to our support team to have that data imported into our platform.

Extended Vendor Data

Marketspread's Extended Vendor Data is a great way to record and track any type of additional vendor data.

Finding Vendors/Exhibitors

How to find vendors/exhibitors to keep your market/event full.

Fixing booth Ordering in Scheduler

If you create and delete booths in your map over time you may start to see the booths listed in Scheduler out of order. This article explains how to easily correct this.

Forms Guide for Event Managers

Marketspread Forms lets you collect structured data tied to vendors or event days. Use forms to standardize data collection across your team and keep everything linked to the right records.

Full Map Creation Walkthrough

A screencast walkthrough of a complete market / event map creation. Includes all aspects of creating a detailed map. Also includes how to add / manage booth fees.

Get a direct link to your application

Learn how to get a direct link to your event application.

How To Archive Vendors

Vendors can remove vendors from active management via the archive feature.

How to Create a Marketspread Organization

This guide will help you create an Organization within Marketspread. Organizations will allow you to link multiple markets to the same accounts for payout, provide a global Messenger contact database and allow top level reporting.

How to create custom Vendor Types

This support article reviews how you can create your own custom set of Vendor Types.

How to modify/extend your application deadline

This article will explain how to change your application period, whether you want to extend your application deadline, or simply change the dates when you are accepting applications.

How to Sync a Survey to the Latest Form Version

When you update a survey form (for example, adding or removing questions), surveys that have already been sent to vendors will still use the older version of the form. The Sync to Latest feature lets you update an active survey so that all recipients see the most current version of your form.

Import vendors into your market or event

A step by step walk-through on how to import vendors into your market.

Integrate Reports with Microsoft Excel

Learn how to connect your reports to Microsoft Excel.

Layout Designer Howto

Overview of Marketspread's Map Layout Designer.

Linking Applications Between Events

Learn how to reuse applications across multiple events and enable automatic answer carry-over for returning vendors.

Managers Guide To AutoPay

This screencast reviews the basics of Autopay for Market Managers. Autopay is great for streamlining vendor payments!

Manage Sales reporting with Currencies

This article explains how Marketspread can help you track your vendor sales by individual currencies and nutritional program vouchers. Support for Vendor Sales Currencies includes: * Vendor Sales Tracking * Vendor Sales Reporting * Sales Metrics per-currency

Manage Your Association Directory and Map

In this article we will cover the basics of managing your Association in Marketspread. This includes how to update information on unclaimed markets in your Association. How to do outreach to your Association market managers and how to embed your Association directory and map.

Managing Vendor Credits

This support article walks through the basics of managing and applying vendor credits.

Manually Add a New Vendor

This video tutorial will review how to manually add a vendor as a market manager without having the need for the vendor to apply online. This solution is perfect for markets that accept walk-on vendors or for those who have vendors who are not capable of applying.

Manually adding a Vendor to an Event or Season

This screencast video will show you how to manually add one of your existing vendors to a new event or season without them having to apply online.

Manual Map Publishing

This article reviews how to manually publish and un-publish event maps.

Market Reports: Vendor Sales + Sales Currencies

This article walks you through advanced reporting for Vendor Sales and Sales Currencies.

Marketspread Invoice and Receipt Printing

This support article covers the basics of how to quickly print booth booking invoices and receipts.

Metrics Overview

An overview on how to access and use the Metrics platform.

Modifying Vendor Rentals

How to create and modify rentals after a vendor booking has been made.

Order Fulfillment in a Market Store

When participating in a Market Online Store there are two types of fulfillment; Market Fulfilled or Vendor Fulfilled. This support article reviews the specific vendor requirements of each.

Peak Pricing

Peak Pricing is an advanced pricing configuration that allows you to set price differences for vendors based on time of year.

Point of Sale - Invoicing Vendors

Learn the basics of Invoicing Vendors and Collecting Payments with our mobile Point of Sale App for Apple and Android.

Previewing your Application

This guide walks you through how to preview you application as any vendor type.

Publishing Your Event Maps

This article describes the three main ways you can publish your event maps. They include: auto-publish all, auto-publish next and manual publish.

Publish/Unpublish Season Events

How to unpublish season events giving the manager ability to make many stall assignments/modifications without notifying their vendor.

Quick FAQ on Invoicing Options

Marketspread offers extensive options of how and when to invoice your vendors. This article will help you decide which features will work best for your market operations.

Reporting Overview

Screencast Tutorial on how to use reporting.

Report Vendor Sales as a Market Manager

This article will teach you how to report sales on behalf of your vendors/exhibitors.

Request access to edit a vendor application

Walks through how a market manager can help edit/update a vendors profile including market application.

Reviewing New Applications

This support article walks you through the basics of reviewing applications and assigning vendors application statuses.

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Guide

A comprehensive guide to permissions and roles in Marketspread

Sending a Loading Email

This support article explains how easy it is to send loading emails to your vendors prior to each event. Let them know any details for the day and include an event map so they can see where they are scheduled to be.

Setting Individual Per-Vendor Percentage Pricing

How to change the sales reporting pricing percentage for an individual vendor.

Single Application For Multiple Markets or Events

Some larger organizations will have a situation where they have multiple markets of events but want a single application experience. With Marketspread this is easy.

Stage a Vendor in a Season

Review how to accept and stage a vendor into an event or season before actually assigning them a stall.

Surveys: The Complete Guide

Surveys are one of the most versatile tools available to you in Marketspread. Whether you manage a farmers market, a venue, or an association, surveys let you collect structured feedback and data from vendors, customers, and the public --- all from within your dashboard.

Taking vendor attendance

This support article walks you through the basics of taking vendor attendance.

Token Reconciliation

Learn how to enable token reconciliation

Understanding and Responding to Card Disputes

This article will help you understand what to do when a charge is disputed.

Understanding Scheduler Pricing Terms

Understanding how Scheduler pricing terms works and answers to commonly requested questions.

Updated Side Navigation

Our side navigation was recently updated with a 1/3 space reduction.

Update Market Application

How to update the market application.

Update Market Profile

Shows Market Managers how to update their Market Profile.

Update Vendor Sales

Use this guide to help you update vendor sales information.

Update your Event Map

This article will help guide you on how to make changes to a map/layout for an activated event.

Using a Coupon Code when Activating an Event

This article will show you how to apply a coupon code when you activate an event.

Using Marketspread Terminal

Marketspread Terminal gives you a full cash register (with drawer) experience to book and take payment for vendors in person. This article walks you though the basics of how to set up and use the Terminal.

Vendor Application Status Guide

Learn how vendor applications move through your market's review process. This guide explains what each status means—from Incomplete to Approved—and shows you the typical workflows markets use to process applications. Includes a quick reference for status transitions, available actions.

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