{"slug":"set-a-vendors-status-for-an-event-day","title":"Set a vendor's status for an event day","description":"Mark whether a vendor is pending, waitlisted, accepted, rejected or not attending for one event day, before you give them a booth.","section":"market","sections":["market"],"tags":["vendors","events"],"aliases":["vendor staging","stage a vendor","pending vendors","waitlist a vendor for a day","vendor day status","not attending status"],"updated":"2026-09-13","published_datetime":"2018-11-14T16:44:05.000Z","promoted":true,"related":["booth-booking-overview"],"links":["booth-booking-overview"],"images":{},"video":null,"source_commit":"d6cdbeb","body_format":"markdown","nav":{"section":"market","group":"Book vendors into booths","previous":{"slug":"book-and-manage-booths-from-your-dashboard","title":"Book a vendor into a booth from your dashboard"},"next":{"slug":"stage-a-vendor-to-assign-stalls-at-a-later-time","title":"Stage a vendor to assign stalls at a later time"}},"related_articles":[{"slug":"booth-booking-overview","title":"Book vendors into booths","description":"See which vendors still need a booth, then assign or unassign them from an event day in Scheduler."}],"body":"Every vendor carries a status for each day of an event — Pending, Waitlist, Accepted, Rejected or Not Attending — separate from whether they actually have a booth. Set that status from the vendor's own page, then find everyone still waiting for a booth without leaving Scheduler.\n\n## Set a day's status\n\n1. Open **Vendors** in the left-hand menu.\n2. Click the vendor's name.\n3. Click **Events**.\n4. Click the event you want.\n5. Next to the day, choose a status from the dropdown: **Pending**, **Waitlist**, **Accepted**, **Rejected**, or **Not Attending**.\n\n![The vendor's Events tab, with a day's Status dropdown set to Pending](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/set-a-vendors-status-for-an-event-day/01-day-status.png)\n\n!!! note\n    A day starts as **Not Attending** until you mark it, or the vendor asks to attend it.\n\n## Find vendors waiting for a booth\n\n1. Open **Scheduler** in the left-hand menu.\n2. Leave the vendor dropdown empty. Each event day shows a badge for how many vendors are waiting, like **1 pending**, and one for how many booths are free, like **4 free**.\n\n   ![Scheduler with no vendor selected, showing a pending badge and a free-booths badge for the day](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/set-a-vendors-status-for-an-event-day/02-scheduler-badges.png)\n\n3. Click the **pending** badge for the day you want to fill.\n4. Next to the vendor you want, click **Select**.\n\n   ![The Pending assignments list for the day, with Select next to the vendor](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/set-a-vendors-status-for-an-event-day/03-pending-list.png)\n\nThis selects the vendor in Scheduler, so you can [give them a booth](https://articles.marketspread.com/v1/articles/booth-booking-overview#assign-a-vendor-to-a-booth)."}