There are a few things different about market set up this time around. If you’ve already set up your market for this year, we made the changes for you. Go in and check them out!

On the other hand, if you’re waiting to set up your market, thank you for waiting, and now you can go in and get crazy. If you’d like us to copy over anything from last year, like your legal agreement, let us know. Otherwise, it’s probably better to start from scratch.

• We’ve eliminated the vendor type by stall size “fee grid” that was so confining for managers. Instead it’s very free form and much more applicable for markets that charge mostly by the season rather than mostly by the day. It’s called “payment options” rather than payment plans.
• We added a section at the end called “statements” for vendors to check off to make sure they have read. It’s a bit more straightforward than yes/no, if you just want to make your vendors pause and say, yes, I have read the “no plastic bag” policy or something.
• You can now edit font styles in your legal agreements and messages to vendors!
• You can also change the order of your list items — so if you want vendors to answer questions in a certain way, you can just drag the questions around. Same goes for payment options.

It’s a new year, so it’s time for a new look for managemymarket. That’s not all, though — look out for new features such as new market set up, enhanced accounting features, and more! Whether you’re a manager or a vendor, now’s a great time to visit managemymarket.

Do you link to your organization’s product search on your website?

Did you even know that was an option?

Now it’s easier for you to find. Go to your Organization tab, and scroll down. The last link on the bottom is the link to your product search page. You can put this on your website — and that’s fairly easy to do. It’s called “wrapping it in an iFrame” (see example below, although you’ll want to have your orgID, not mine).

But wait! There’s more! Search for something that any of your approved vendors (in any of your markets) sells, and you won’t just see their next market date, you’ll see all following market dates.

Like this:

This update is for the vendor’s side of things:

After a vendor creates a profile, they can then apply to markets in their area. Now, searching for markets is fast and easy! Due to a rather technical (aka nerdy) fix, vendors can search for markets 50, 100, 500 miles from them lickety split! And the system is much more forgiving with spaces or dashes — it even will search for markets near an intersection or a town!

See below:

Due to popular demand, managemymarket just got easier for vendors to use!

When a vendor applies to your market, they choose dates. This is the only time they are able to make updates, which can be problematic for some managers, since as a manager, you have to go into the vendor’s account and edit every date.

We found a way to streamline that process! See the screenshot below:

Now, from the same screen, you can edit the number of stalls they request, edit the dates they’ve been approved for, and make comments all without clicking the “edit” link!

Changing # of stalls requested from 0 to 1 automatically approves that stall, and changing it from a number to zero automatically disapproves that vendor’s date.

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Some of you might have already noticed that the emails have changed.

For those of you who haven’t noticed, check it out! Go to your email section. See, look? Very different.

The tutorial is posted in our online resources, and linked here.

Recently, we added a feature where when an approved vendor updates their product list, each user with the “administrative privileges” star in each organization where the vendor was approved would get an email.

Some users emphatically disliked getting six thousand emails when a vendor changed their product list. This is entirely understandable.

There are several ways to adjust this:

• Filter emails so that all emails that say “Alert from managemymarket.com” go into a folder instead of annoying you with a pop-up all the time
• Take away your administrative privileges. This will keep you from getting the pesky emails from managemymarket, and will keep your email address from being available in the “email” section.
• Don’t want anyone in your organization to get these updates? There is a place in the Organization tab where you can opt everyone out of the alerts.

In the Organization tab, click the pencil icon (if you leave your mouse there for a bit, you’ll see the words “edit organization”. Scroll down to the part where it says “Send Product Alerts” (right after Application fee) and click the check box to opt everyone out of product alert emails.

These tips are spread all over the blog, but here’s a one-page reminder of how you can incorporate the following additions to your website:

• Embed the Interactive Market map on your site– wrapping the code in an iframe makes visitors to your map think that they are not leaving your site (note: this trick can also be used for the Product Search feature)
• Product Search feature — use these instructions to add the Product Search link to your site so that customers can type the product they’d like — kale, for example, and they’ll see all the vendors who sell kale, and when they can find that vendor. Clicking the date brings up the Interactive Market map.
• Complete Vendor list — this one lists all your vendors in alphabetical order, where customers can come and look to see who all has been approved to sell, and what they’re selling, and when they’ll be at the market next.

The only thing you need for this is your orgID, which are the last three digits in your online application. To find this, go to your Organization tab, and scroll all the way down.

Now, managemymarket comes complete with a comprehensive accounting package.

This is for active, non-archived markets.

In order to get started, here’s what your market can do:

1. Set up an application fee in the Organization tab.
2. Click on Accounting.  Here is what you will see:

This is what you’ll see after you have vendors in the system and have started invoicing them or keeping track of their application fees.

In order to get to this point, you need to go into the settings and edit your Entry Types and Payment terms.  This will be very helpful for when you start invoicing vendors.  We’ll get to that soon.

Want to see what vendors see?

Sign up as one! Then, apply to your market.

This is a really great step to take when you’re wondering just what kinds of questions you need to ask.

If you haven’t done so already, sign up your market, set up your market, then apply as a vendor.

Example below:

This is a list of all approved vendors in an organization (for those of you with more than one market, that’s all vendors in all markets).

Now, this is much more technical tip, so if you don’t understand, and don’t have a web person who understands, we can do this for you, for a small one-time fee of $75.

Basically, you’re creating a JSON feed that pulls from your “approved vendor” list.

Contact us for the link for the JSON feed:

Here is the script that you can use for rendering:

var arrVendors;
function ox(arr) {
arrVendors = arr;
var html = ”;
for (var i = 0; i < arrVendors.length; i++) {
var v = arrVendors[i];
html += '

‘;
html += ‘

‘;
}
$(‘#dOX’).html(html);
$(‘.vendor a’).toggle(function(e) {
var idx = $(this).attr(‘index’);
var vendor = arrVendors[idx];
var html = ”;
html += ”;
html += ”;
html += ‘

‘; html += ‘‘ + vendor.company + ‘ ‘ + vendor.city + ‘, ‘ + vendor.state + ‘ ‘; html += vendor.phone1; if (vendor.website) html += ‘ ‘ + vendor.website + ‘‘; html += ‘ ‘; html += ‘‘ + vendor.description + ‘

‘; if (vendor.photo) { html += ‘‘; } else { html += ”; } html += ‘

‘;
$(‘#sub’ + idx).html(html).show();
}, function(e) {
var idx = $(this).attr(‘index’);
$(‘#sub’ + idx).hide();
});
}

Here is the code for the head:

body
{
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 14px;
}
#dOX
{
width: 470px;
margin: 0 auto;
overflow: auto;
}
.vendor
{
clear: both;
/*background-color: #FAFBF2;*/
border-top: 1px dotted #C8D172;
padding-top: 6px;
padding-left: 6px;
padding-right: 6px;
padding-bottom: 12px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 14px;
}
.vendor a
{
display: block;
color: #663300;
text-decoration: none;
}
.vendor a:hover
{
background-color: #EDECCC;
}
.vendorinfo
{
display: none;
clear: both;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 14px;
padding: 6px;
}
.avail
{
width: 50px;
background-color: #C8D172;
}
.noavail
{
width: 50px;
background-color: #F7F8E9;
}

http://www.managemymarket.com/api/productsearch.aspx?orgid=xxx

Type in a product to see the vendor who sells it, and when they’ll be at the market next.

Contact us to get the rest of the link!

Once vendors are approved and scheduled, they can log in to their account and see which dates for which they’re scheduled. They hover over the date, see which market they’re going to, and see which stall they’ve been assigned.

A sample Interactive Market Map:

Markets that use managemymarket email us their layout, then vendors apply online, provide a picture and a company description, and are approved and scheduled for the season. Customers then go to the market’s website and can see a live market map, and click through the stalls or the vendors to see what’s going on for market day.