{"slug":"auto-tagging-vendors","title":"Auto-tag vendors from their application answers","description":"Set an application question to tag vendors by their answer automatically, then promote a tag to a vendor's profile.","section":"market","sections":["market"],"tags":["auto-tag","applications","vendor tags"],"aliases":[],"updated":"2026-09-11","published_datetime":"2024-08-28T12:00:00.000Z","promoted":false,"related":[],"links":["tag-based-vendor-fees"],"images":{},"video":null,"source_commit":"da55c2c","body_format":"markdown","nav":{"section":"market","group":"Build your application","previous":{"slug":"how-to-modifyextend-your-application-deadline","title":"How to modify/extend your application deadline"},"next":{"slug":"enabling-digital-signatures","title":"Turn on digital signatures"}},"related_articles":[],"body":"Add an Auto-Tag question to your application. Marketspread tags a vendor with their answer as soon as they apply — no extra work for you.\n\n## Add an Auto-Tag question\n\n1. Open **Event Configuration** > **Applications**, then click **Edit** on the application you want to change.\n2. Under **Vendor Questions**, click **Add question**.\n3. Write your question, then set **Type** to one of the three Auto-Tag choices: **Multiple Choice \\<Auto-Tag>**, **Multiple Choice (Dropdown) \\<Auto-Tag>**, or **Multiple Select \\<Auto-Tag>**.\n4. Enter the choices a vendor can pick from, one per line. Each one becomes a tag if a vendor picks it.\n5. Click **Save application**.\n\n   ![An application question set to Multiple Choice <Auto-Tag>, with its choices and the Auto-Tag Enabled notice](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/auto-tagging-vendors/01-auto-tag-question.png)\n\n## See the tag on a vendor's event\n\nWhen a vendor applies and answers the question, their answer shows up as a tag on that vendor's **Events** tab. It isn't on their profile yet.\n\n![The Events tab, with the Produce tag added automatically and its promote control](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/auto-tagging-vendors/02-event-tag.png)\n\n## Promote a tag to the vendor's profile\n\nA tag from an application answer only applies to that one event, until you promote it.\n\n1. On the vendor's **Events** tab, click the promote button (the up arrow) next to the tag.\n2. Check the tags you want to promote, then click **Promote**.\n\n   ![The promote confirmation, with Produce checked to promote](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/auto-tagging-vendors/03-promote-confirmation.png)\n\n3. Open the vendor's **Details** tab. The tag now shows under **Vendor Tags**.\n\n   ![The Vendor Tags field, with Produce now promoted to the top level](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/auto-tagging-vendors/04-vendor-tags-promoted.png)\n\n!!! note \"Event tags and profile tags aren't the same\"\n    A tag on a vendor's profile (**Vendor Tags**) follows that vendor across every market in your organization. A tag still sitting on one event only applies there. You can't promote it once you archive the event, so promote it first if you want it on the vendor's profile.\n\n!!! note \"Fee rules see both\"\n    An automatic tag fee (under **Other Fees**) applies whether the vendor's tag is on their profile or still on the event. See [Tag based vendor fees](https://articles.marketspread.com/v1/articles/tag-based-vendor-fees) to set one up."}