For Vendors

Everything else in these docs speaks to market organizers. This page is for you — the farmer, maker, or food truck applying to sell at a market that runs on VendorStreet. It covers the journey from application link to paid invoice, and it’s honest about what you can’t do yet.

How do I apply to a market?

Organizers share an application link that looks like /markets/<market-name>/apply. Opening it walks you through three phases:

1. Create your account — name, email, password. You’ll need to pass a quick human-verification check.
2. Verify your email — click the link in the email we send. You can’t continue until this is done, so if it hasn’t arrived, check spam and use the resend option after logging in.
3. Complete your profile and submit — business name, contact details, and whatever the market asks for. Submitting puts your application in the organizer’s review queue.

One account, one market organization: if you sell at several markets run by the same organizer, one application covers you for their markets. Markets run by different organizers currently need separate accounts under different email addresses.

How do I know I’ve been approved?

Check your dashboard — your status is shown there. VendorStreet does not currently email you when an application is approved or rejected, so if you’re waiting, log in and look rather than watching your inbox.

What’s this checklist on my dashboard?

Markets can require things before you’re allowed to book: a complete profile, signed agreements, insurance certificates, permits, or submitted sales reports. Your dashboard shows the checklist with an action for each item:

• Document uploads — submit the file; if the market reviews uploads, it clears once approved. Documents with expiration dates stop counting once they lapse, and you’ll see the requirement reappear — upload the renewed certificate.
• Agreements — read and sign or acknowledge in the viewer.

Anything unfinished on the checklist can block booking, and the booking screen will tell you what’s missing.

How do I book a space?

Bookings → New booking opens the booking wizard:

1. Pick the market and date(s). Some dates are grouped into a required set — a festival weekend, a holiday series — which you book together or not at all; the wizard adds the whole group.
2. Pick your space (on booth-mapped markets) or your quantity (on capacity markets).
3. Add any extras the market offers — electricity, tables, parking. Some extras are required and pre-added.
4. Review the price preview and submit.

Your booking goes to the organizer for approval; approved bookings get an invoice. Note booking cutoffs: markets can close booking a set number of hours before each date, and some charge a late-booking penalty close to the date.

How do I pay?

Invoices lists everything billed to you. An issued invoice has a Pay now button that takes you to a secure Stripe checkout page — your card details go to Stripe, not VendorStreet. The invoice flips to paid automatically when the payment completes.

Paying the organizer directly — cash or check at the market — also works if they accept it; they record it and the invoice shows paid the same way. If the market charges sales tax on booth fees, you’ll see it as its own line on the invoice.

What about sales reports?

Some markets require a sales report after each market day — your dashboard will prompt you when one is due. Enter your day’s sales (or mark no sales) under Sales reports; you can export your own history as CSV there too. Heads up: an overdue sales report can block your next booking until it’s submitted.

Things you currently can’t do (so plan around them)

• Cancel or change a submitted booking. Once submitted, only the organizer can act on it — contact them directly if you can’t make a date.
• Message the organizer in-app. There’s no messaging inside VendorStreet yet; use the contact channel the market gives you.
• Get an emailed approval decision — check the dashboard.
• Get a refund in-app. Refunds are handled by the organizer outside the platform.

Notifications and email preferences

The bell icon holds your in-app inbox — organizer announcements and booking updates land there, and optionally in your email. Every non-critical email we send has an unsubscribe link, and you can toggle non-essential email any time from your profile settings. Critical account emails (like password resets) always send.

Next steps

• Terms of Service — the agreement your account operates under
• Questions about a specific market’s rules, pricing, or refunds go to that market’s organizer — they configure everything this page describes.