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Two settings control the entire vendor booking flow for your event: how vendors add tables to their cart, and how they pay. Both live in the same place — Edit Event → Tables → Table Settings — and they’re independent of each other, so any cart method can be combined with any payment method.
Create your table tiers first (Edit Event → Tables, then Create New) so vendors have something to buy. Neither setting does anything until at least one table tier exists.

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Cart methods

The How should vendors add tables to their cart? selector has two options: Standard is the default. Choose it when you sell tables by size and price only. Choose Table Select when you want vendors to claim their own location.

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Requirements for Table Select

Table Select depends on a published venue map, so three things have to be true before vendors can use it:
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Every selectable booth has a table type

In the map editor, each booth a vendor should be able to claim must be assigned to one of your table tiers. A booth with no table type is not selectable — vendors see it as unavailable.
2

Every selectable booth has a booth number

Select a booth and set its number in the bottom toolbar, or number many booths at once with the Number tool. The booth number identifies the reservation, so a booth without one can’t be claimed.
3

The map is published to Vendors Only or Everyone

Open the publish control in the map editor and set Who can see this map? to Vendors Only or Everyone. While visibility is Hidden, the tables page has no map to show and Table Select will not work.See Venue maps for the full publishing walkthrough.
When a vendor adds a Table Select booth to their cart, that booth is locked for 20 minutes so no one else can claim it. If they submit an application, the booth stays reserved while it is pending; otherwise, the lock clears when it expires or when they remove the booth from their cart.

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Payment methods

The How should vendors pay? selector has three options. These determine both when money moves and whether you review the application at all: Accept then Checkout is the default.
Immediate Checkout removes your review step entirely. Any vendor who completes the form gets a table. Use it for open table sales, not for curated vendor lineups.

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How each method interacts with Table Select

With Accept then Checkout and AutoPay, a booth claimed during application stays locked while the application is pending. If you accept, the booth stays assigned to that vendor. If you reject, the booth becomes available again. With Immediate Checkout, the booth is confirmed at payment, so there is no pending window. The same Table Settings tab has other controls that affect whether vendors can book at all:

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Vendor settings

The Vendor Settings tab, next to Table Settings, controls what vendors and attendees see:

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Table transfers

When Allow Table Transfers? is on, a vendor can send some or all of their paid tables to another person, who has 7 days to accept. The tables move into a new cart under the recipient’s own application, marked as paid. The original order isn’t changed and can’t be refunded for the transferred tables. A cart that gives away its last table shows as Transferred on your vendors list.
Priced tables require a connected Stripe account before table sales can be enabled. See Payouts for Stripe setup.

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Next steps

Vendor management

Review applications, respond to applicants, and request changes to a vendor’s cart.

Venue maps

Build your layout, number your booths, and publish the map Table Select depends on.