Updated September 2026. This post originally announced three one-time "Spotlight" tiers ($19, $39 and $129) bought by emailing me for a Stripe invoice. Those tiers are retired. Featured placement is now part of the Pro and Expert organizer plans and you switch it on yourself from the dashboard. The post below describes how it works today.
If you organize a farmers market, craft fair, festival, or pop-up, listing on VendorsMap stays free. Always has. But if you need to fill spots fast, you can feature your event so it sits at the top of the map and the state and city pages where vendors look.
What Featured placement does
- A gold-ringed pin on the map that stays visible instead of collapsing into a cluster.
- Top placement on the state and city pages where your event appears.
- A "Featured" pill on your event card everywhere it shows up.
- It runs until it expires, then bows out on its own. You can release it early and feature a different event.
What it costs
Featured placement is not sold as a one-off fee. It comes with the organizer plans:
Pro: $50/mo or $500/yr. One featured event at a time, plus the live map booth designer, bulk vendor messaging, jury scoring, vendor invites and team seats.
Expert: $100/mo or $1,000/yr. Unlimited featured events, plus everything in Pro, the satellite booth designer, vendor booth self-selection and a wider reach radius for new events.
Current pricing and the full feature list for each plan are on the pricing page.
Who it's for
Featuring pays back at one filled booth. If your booth fee is $75 and top placement brings in even one extra vendor application that converts, a month of Pro is covered. Expert is for organizers running large season-long markets or multiple shows per quarter who want more than one event featured at once.
Don't bother featuring an event that is already at capacity. Don't bother if you have 6 months of lead time and casual demand. The sweet spot is 30-90 days out from your event date with at least 5 spots still to fill.
How to start
Sign in to your organizer dashboard, open Promote, and pick the event you want to feature. If you are on Pro or Expert it activates immediately, no invoice and no waiting on me. If you are on the Free plan, the same screen shows the plans and you can upgrade in a couple of clicks.
Questions, custom needs
Larger events and multi-event organizers with needs that do not fit the plans can email me directly at james@vendorsmap.com. Just ask.
See the organizer plans or open your organizer dashboard to start.
- James