{"slug":"reviewing-new-applications","title":"Review a new vendor application","description":"Find a new application, move it through review, and check the vendor's event and product choices.","section":"market","sections":["market"],"tags":["vendor,applications,reviewing"],"aliases":[],"updated":"2026-09-13","published_datetime":"2020-03-09T12:00:00.000Z","promoted":true,"related":[],"links":["vendor-application-status-guide","customize-vendor-status-messages","booth-booking-overview"],"images":{},"video":null,"source_commit":"d6cdbeb","body_format":"markdown","nav":{"section":"market","group":"Review and accept vendors","next":{"slug":"wait-listing-vendors","title":"Wait-list a vendor"}},"related_articles":[],"body":"When a vendor applies to your market, Marketspread flags it for you in two places: your dashboard notifications and your vendor list. From there you open the application and move it through review. Once you approve the vendor, check the event and product choices they made.\n\n## Find a new application\n\nClick the **flag icon** at the top right of your dashboard to see your notifications, including any new vendor application.\n\nYou can also find every new application at once from your vendor list. Open **Vendors** in your side toolbar, click **General** in the filter bar, then turn on **New Application Review**. Every vendor with an application waiting on you shows up here.\n\n![The Vendors list filtered to New Application Review, with Hollow Oak Orchard's new application](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/reviewing-new-applications/01-new-applications-filter.png)\n\n## Review the application\n\nClick **Review** on the vendor's row to open their Vendor Record. It has a tab for each part of their file — Details, Events, Applications, Notes, Forms, Surveys, Requests, Documents, Products, Sales and Payments.\n\nClick the **Applications** tab. An application with something new for you to see carries a green **N** badge next to its name. Click its **Review** button to open it.\n\n![The vendor's Applications tab, with the Review button for the new application](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/reviewing-new-applications/02-applications-tab.png)\n\nThis opens the application itself, with the statuses you move it through across the top: **Decline**, **Resubmit**, **Withdraw**, **Receive**, **Pre-approve** and **Approve**. See [Vendor application status guide](https://articles.marketspread.com/v1/articles/vendor-application-status-guide) for what each one means and when to use it. A common pattern is **Receive** first to let the vendor know you have it, then **Approve** or **Decline** once you have looked it over.\n\n![The application review screen, with the status buttons a market chooses between](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/reviewing-new-applications/03-application-review.png)\n\n!!! note \"Vendors get an email\"\n    Changing a vendor's status emails them and posts a notification to their dashboard. To change the wording, see [Customize status messages](https://articles.marketspread.com/v1/articles/customize-vendor-status-messages).\n\n## Check their event day status\n\nThe application also lists the event they applied to, under **Events**. Click its own **Review** button (or the **Events** tab on the Vendor Record) to see their day selections.\n\nFrom there you can set their status for each day of the event, separately from their overall application status — **Pending**, **Waitlist**, **Accepted**, **Rejected** or **Not Attending** — one day at a time or in bulk with **Swap Statuses**. The vendor sees each day's status on their own dashboard.\n\n![The event review screen, with the vendor's day statuses and the Products card](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/reviewing-new-applications/04-event-review.png)\n\nOnce their days are set, assign them a space with Scheduler — see [Assigning vendor booths with Scheduler](https://articles.marketspread.com/v1/articles/booth-booking-overview).\n\n## Review their product selections\n\nIf you turn on **Review vendor products** for the event, the same screen also shows a Products card with how many of the vendor's products are accepted and how many are still pending. Click its **Review** button to accept or reject each one, then click **Save**."}