{"slug":"add-new-vendor","title":"Add a vendor yourself","description":"Create a vendor who never applied online, and put them straight into your events.","section":"market","sections":["market"],"tags":["vendors"],"aliases":["walk-in vendor","create a vendor","add vendor manually","vendor did not apply"],"updated":"2026-09-05","published_datetime":"2022-04-28T12:00:00.000Z","promoted":true,"related":["manual-add-vendor-event"],"links":[],"images":{},"video":{"provider":"vimeo","id":"704316833","url":"https://vimeo.com/704316833","embed_url":"https://player.vimeo.com/video/704316833","title":"Manually Create a New Vendor","duration":101},"source_commit":null,"body_format":"markdown","nav":{"section":"market","group":"Review and accept vendors","previous":{"slug":"request-access-to-edit-a-vendor-application","title":"Request access to edit a vendor's profile"},"next":{"slug":"manual-add-vendor-event","title":"Add a vendor to an event without an application"}},"related_articles":[{"slug":"manual-add-vendor-event","title":"Add a vendor to an event without an application","description":"Put a vendor you already know into an event, without waiting for them to apply."}],"body":"Not everyone applies online. For a walk-in, or a vendor you signed up over the\nphone, you can create the vendor yourself and approve them into your events in\nthe same step.\n\n## Check they are not already there\n\nOpen **Vendors** and search for the business name first. A vendor who has\nworked with you before already exists, and adding them again gives you two\nrecords for one business.\n\n## Create the vendor\n\n1. In **Vendors**, click **Create** in the top right.\n2. Type the vendor's email address and click **Next**. If you do not have one,\n   click **Continue without Email**.\n3. Fill in the form.\n4. Under **Which Event(s) is this Vendor Attending**, tick the events you want\n   them approved into.\n\n   ![The create-vendor form scrolled to Which Event(s) is this Vendor Attending, with the event to approve them into](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/add-new-vendor/01-event-list.png)\n\n5. Click **Save & Create**, or **Save & Schedule** to go straight to\n   **Scheduler** and give them a booth.\n\nThey now appear in your vendor list, approved for the events you picked.\n\n## Let the vendor take over their own account\n\nYou created the account, but the vendor can run it themselves. Ask them to go\nto the sign-in page, use **Forgot Password or Username?**, and enter the email\naddress you put on their record. Setting a password from there gives them the\nsame control as if they had signed up.\n\n!!! note \"There is no application behind them\"\n    A vendor added this way has no application for the event, because they\n    never filled one in. Everything else — scheduling, invoicing, messaging —\n    works exactly as it does for a vendor who applied."}