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title: "Show your traders in a directory on your website | Ticket Fairy Guides"
description: "Publish a public list of the food, drink and market traders at your event, and check each trader's listing before it goes up. Ask a trader to change it, choose how the list looks, and put it on your own website with the embed code."
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# Show your traders in a directory on your website

Your festival and market goers want to know who is selling what before they arrive: the vegan street food, the coffee roaster, the craft stalls. With a trader directory, each approved trader describes what they sell, you check every listing, and your website shows the list without you retyping a word of it.

Takes:  7 minutes

- [Open the directory](#step-1)
- [Open a listing](#step-2)
- [Change the listing if you need to](#step-3)
- [Publish the listing](#step-4)
- [Ask the trader for changes](#step-5)
- [Choose how the directory looks](#step-6)
- [Put the directory on your website](#step-7)
- [Check the public directory](#step-8)

## Before you start

- You are an owner, admin or producer on the event. Only those roles can open the event's **Operations** page.
- The traders are approved, as in the guide to taking trader applications. Only approved traders can be in the directory.

1. ## Open the directory

   Open the event, select **Operations**, select **Traders** in the list of sections, then select **Directory**.

   **Note:** A trader sends their listing from their own trader page with **Send for review**, and it waits under **Listings to review**. If Traders is not in the list, select **More sections** and open it there.

   ![Trader directory for a festival, with one listing waiting for review, one in the directory, the embed code to copy and the directory settings](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-event-traders-finished--directory.png)    
   *Traders, Directory.*
2. ## Open a listing

   Select a trader to open their listing, with what the public sees and its history.

   **Note:** The listing only has the **Name in the directory**, **What they sell**, **Kind of trader**, **Words people can filter by**, **Website** and **Instagram**. Contact names, emails and phone numbers never go into the directory.

   ![Listing for Smoke & Salt BBQ waiting for review, with the name, what they sell, the kind of trader, the words people filter by, the website and Instagram, and the history](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-event-traders-finished--listing.png)    
   *One trader's listing.*
3. ## Change the listing if you need to

   Optional: change any of the fields, then select **Save listing**.

   **Note:** Add up to 6 words people can filter by, separated by commas, such as Vegan, Coffee or Gluten free. Enter the Instagram name only, for example @bestcoffee.
4. ## Publish the listing

   Select **Publish**. The trader shows in the directory straight away as **In the directory**.

   **Note:** You only see Publish for a trader you approved. If the trader changes a published listing, people keep seeing the published one until you publish the change.
5. ## Ask the trader for changes

   Optional: select **Ask for changes**, enter **What should the trader change?**, then select **Ask for changes**.

   **Note:** With **Email the trader** on, the trader gets an email, and their trader page shows what you asked. The listing shows **Changes asked for** until they send it again.

   ![Dialog to ask Smoke & Salt BBQ to change their listing, with what the trader should change and the switch to email them](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-event-traders-finished--ask-for-changes.png)    
   *Ask a trader for changes.*
6. ## Choose how the directory looks

   Close the listing, select **Directory settings**, make your choices, then select **Save**.

   - **How the directory opens**: **Cards** shows each trader as a card, and **List** shows one trader to a line.
   - **Introduction at the top of the directory**: A few lines above the traders, for example where the food court is.
   - **Show each trader's pitch**: Adds each trader's pitch, so people can find the stall on the day.

   ![Directory settings, with cards or list, the introduction at the top and whether each trader's pitch shows](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-event-traders-finished--directory-settings.png)    
   *Directory settings.*
7. ## Put the directory on your website

   Select **Copy embed code**, then paste the code into the page of your website where the list goes.

   **Note:** The same code is on the event's Embeds page, under **Trader directory**. The list on your website shows every trader you publish, with no code change.
8. ## Check the public directory

   Select **Preview the directory**. The directory opens in a new tab with each published trader, and people can filter it by kind of trader and by the words you added.

   **Note:** The directory shows 24 traders at a time and is live from your first published listing.

## Or have it done for you

Fai, your AI teammate, can check sales, update your event or change a ticket when you ask.

Fai reads your trader directory and its embed code, changes a trader's listing, publishes it, asks the trader for changes or takes it out of the directory. She shows you each change and waits for your yes first.

### In your dashboard, with Fai

```
Which trader listings for <EVENT NAME> are waiting for review, and publish the ones that say what they sell
```

## Take a trader out of the directory

1. ### Hide the listing

   Open the trader's listing, select **Hide from the directory**, then confirm.

   **Note:** People stop seeing the trader at once. Select **Publish** to show them again.

Fai takes a trader's listing out of the directory after you confirm.

### In your dashboard, with Fai

```
Take <BUSINESS NAME> out of the trader directory for <EVENT NAME>
```

## Questions you might have

**Where does a trader enter their listing?**

 On their own trader page, under **Your listing in the trader directory**. It starts with the business name, kind and website from their application, and they select **Send for review** when it is ready.

**Can I add a listing for a trader myself?**

 Yes. Open the trader under **Not in the directory**, enter the **Name in the directory** and the rest, select **Save listing**, then select **Publish**.

**Why can't I publish a listing?**

 The trader is not approved yet, or the listing has no name. Approve the trader in the Applications view, and enter the **Name in the directory** first.

**What happens to the listing if I cancel or decline a trader?**

 The trader leaves the public directory at once, because it lists only traders who are trading at your event. If you approve them again, their published listing shows again.

**Does the directory show a trader's phone number or email?**

 No. A listing only has the name, what they sell, the kind of trader, the filter words, a website and an Instagram name, so contact details never reach the public page.

**Who can see the Directory view?**

 The event's owners, admins and producers, who can also change, publish or hide a listing.

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## Related guides

- [More ways to use Ticket Fairy](https://www.ticketfairy.com/features)
- [Take food, drink and market trader applications for your event](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/take-trader-applications-for-your-event)
- [Get your traders ready for show day](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/get-your-traders-ready-for-show-day)
- [Publish your event line-up and set times](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/publish-your-line-up-and-set-times)
- [Place your traders on pitches on your event site map](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/place-your-traders-on-pitches-on-your-site-map)
- [Check your traders' takings after your event and invoice their share of sales](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/check-trader-takings-and-invoice-a-share-of-sales)
- [Give exhibitors a lead scanner for their booth at your event](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/give-exhibitors-a-lead-scanner-for-their-booth)
- [Every Ticket Fairy guide](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides)

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