Glossary
What does listing blocked mean?
This answers one question: can the public see this business at all? When it is on, everything is hidden, free and paid alike, and you cannot publish anything. It happens when a venue is waiting for review, has been paused, or has been turned down.
Fidella has two gates and they answer different questions. Conflating them produces incorrect and damaging merchant-facing copy, so this pair is worth learning properly.
The question it answers
Does this business exist publicly? If listing is blocked, no.
Total, not partial
This gate hides everything: the venue page, free offers, promotions, search results and the directory. It also blocks publishing in the first place.
The other gate
Sales blocked is narrower and only applies to a venue that is already listed. A venue can be perfectly visible and still unable to take money.
Related terms
- Sales blockedThe venue is visible but cannot take money, so paid content is hidden.
- Lifecycle stateWhere a venue sits in its life: pending review, active, suspended, declined.
- Merchant approvalFidella's review of a business before anything it publishes becomes public.
- Venue pageA venue's public page in Fidella, listing its programme and offers.