{"slug":"turn-on-manual-event-publishing","title":"Turn on manual event publishing","description":"Stop new vendor assignments from appearing on your public profile automatically, so you can publish each event day yourself.","section":"market","sections":["market"],"tags":["events","publishing","vendors"],"aliases":["hide vendors until ready","half full market","delay publishing an event","manual publish mode"],"author":"Farmspread Support","updated":"2026-09-14","published_datetime":"2018-11-14T21:39:16.000Z","promoted":true,"related":["manual-map-publishing"],"links":["manual-map-publishing"],"images":{},"video":null,"source_commit":"1cbd09a","body_format":"markdown","nav":{"section":"market","group":"Create your events","previous":{"slug":"cloning-an-event-or-event-series","title":"Clone an event or event series"},"next":{"slug":"cancelling-an-event-day","title":"Cancelling An Event Day"}},"related_articles":[{"slug":"manual-map-publishing","title":"Publish or unpublish a map manually","description":"Publish or unpublish a single event day's map when your market's Event publishing mode is set to Manual."}],"body":"By default, an event day's map and vendor list are public right away. Any change you make to booth assignments shows up immediately, too. Turn on manual publishing when you'd rather keep moving vendors around, or wait until a day is full, before customers see it.\n\n## Turn on manual publishing\n\n1. Open **Event Configuration**, then click **Events**.\n2. Click the arrow on the right of the event you want to change.\n\n   ![The Events list, with the arrow that opens Saturday Market](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/turn-on-manual-event-publishing/01-events-list.png)\n\n3. On the **Basic** tab, click the pencil.\n\n   ![The Basic tab, with the pencil that opens editing](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/turn-on-manual-event-publishing/02-basic-tab.png)\n\n4. Under **Event Layout**, open **Event publish mode** and choose **Manual**.\n\n   ![Event publish mode set to Manual, under Event Layout](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/turn-on-manual-event-publishing/03-event-publish-mode.png)\n\n5. Click **Save basic**.\n\n!!! note\n    **Auto-publish all** keeps every event day public automatically. **Auto-publish next** only publishes the next upcoming day. **Manual** never publishes a day on its own — you publish and unpublish each one yourself.\n\n## Publish or unpublish a day\n\nOnce manual publishing is on, every event day stays hidden from your public profile until you publish it. See [Publish or unpublish a map manually](https://articles.marketspread.com/v1/articles/manual-map-publishing) for the steps."}