A tour of your dashboard

Your dashboard is the private page you land on after logging in. Nobody else can see it. This guide walks through every panel on it, so nothing on the screen is a mystery.

About 6 minutes to read

Before you start

  • A Market Hive SA account
  • You are logged in

Step 1: Getting to your dashboard

Log in and you are taken there automatically. If you wander off into the rest of the site, click your name at the top right and choose Dashboard, or type markethivesa.co.za/dashboard in the address bar.

Your dashboard is not the same as everyone else's

It changes depending on what you own. A vendor sees market applications; an organiser sees vendors waiting for approval. If a panel described below is missing for you, it is because it does not apply to your kind of listing, not because something is broken.

Step 2: The welcome bar at the top

The first strip says hello and holds the two buttons you will use most.

A welcome bar reading 'Welcome back' with the account name, the word Vendor underneath, and two buttons on the right: View analytics and Create a listing.
The welcome bar. Your role is printed under your name.
  • View analytics takes you to the numbers for your listings.
  • + Create a listing starts a new listing of any type.

Step 3: Membership

This panel shows which plan you are on and when it renews.

A membership panel showing the plan name, the word active, and a renewal date, with a Manage billing button on the right.
The membership panel.

What the membership panel lets you do

Renew now restarts a membership that is ending or has ended, monthly or annual. Add card stores a card at PayFast with a R0.00 check, so a free period can roll straight into a paid membership without you doing anything. Cancel membership stops future payments while your listing keeps its full features until the date you have already paid for. The plans and payment guide covers all of it in detail.

Step 4: Your listings

Every listing you own appears here, whatever type it is, with a status label next to the name.

A panel headed 'My vendor listings' with two businesses listed, each showing a published label, view counts, a star rating, an Edit profile button and a View button.
Your listings, each with its own Edit profile and View buttons.
  • pending means we have it and a person is still checking it. It is not on the public site yet.
  • published means it is live and anyone can find it.
  • Edit profile opens the form to change anything on the listing.
  • View opens the public page exactly as a visitor sees it.

The small numbers under each name are how many times the page has been seen, the number in brackets being how many separate people that was. The star is your average review score.

Step 5: Panels that vendors see

If you have a vendor listing, two extra panels appear.

My market attendance applications

A panel listing markets the vendor has applied to, each with a date and a status label reading Approved.
Where each of your requests to attend a market stands.

Upcoming markets

A list of upcoming markets with city, next date, view counts and vendor counts, each with an Apply for Attendance button and a date drop-down.
Markets you can apply to, with the next trading date for each.

Both are explained properly in the attendance guide.

Step 6: Panels that organisers see

If you run a market, your markets panel has two extra blocks inside it.

A gold-bordered block headed 'Vendor attendance applications' explaining that requests appear there to approve or decline.
Vendors who have asked to attend appear here for you to approve or decline.
A block headed 'Attending vendors' listing the vendors already approved for the market.
Everyone already approved, so you can see your line-up at a glance.

Step 7: Smart matches

Near the bottom you may see suggestions. These are worked out from your location, your categories and where you trade. Nothing is booked or shared on your behalf, they are only suggestions to follow up.

A panel headed 'Smart matches for you' with two columns, Markets to apply to and Suppliers for your business, each entry tagged with the reasons it matched.
Suggestions, with the reason each one was suggested shown as small tags.

Organisers get entertainment matches

If you ticked the entertainment question on your market, you will see suggested acts instead. Market Hive SA never takes a booking or a commission. You contact the act yourself.

Step 8: Where everything else lives

  • Your name, top right - profile settings and the log-out button.
  • View analytics - views over time for each listing.
  • Edit profile on a listing - every detail on the public page.

That is the whole dashboard. Next, create your first listing.

Next guideList your vendor business →For stallholders, makers, food traders and anyone who sells at markets. Every field explained.

Still stuck? Email [email protected] or use the contact form. Tell us which step you are on and we will walk you through it.