# Market availability

> Track term-level readiness across locales with availability statuses.

**Category:** Terminology | **Tab:** features

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Market availability lets you control the readiness status of each term — both source and target — across your locales. This helps teams track which terms are live, planned, or blocked in each market.

## How it works

Market availability is set **per term**, not per concept. Every source term and target term has its own availability status. This gives you granular control: a concept's source term might be "Available" in English, while its Spanish translation is still "Planned".

## Availability statuses

| Status | Meaning |
|--------|---------|
| **Not Set** | Default — no availability decision has been made yet |
| **Available** | Live in market — this term is approved and in use |
| **Planned** | Coming later — the term exists but isn't live yet |
| **Unapproved** | The term exists but hasn't passed governance review |
| **Not Available** | Not planned for this market |

## Setting availability

When creating or editing a concept:

1. In the **Source Term** card, find the **Market Availability** dropdown
2. Select the appropriate status
3. For each **Target Term**, set its availability independently
4. Save the concept

Each term card — source and target — has its own Market Availability selector, so you can track readiness per locale.

## Comparing source and target availability

On the **Concept Detail** page, availability badges appear next to each term. This makes it easy to spot mismatches — for example, a source term marked "Available" while a target term is still "Planned" or "Not Set".

## Batch updates

You can update market availability for multiple terms at once from the **Concepts** table. Select concepts and use the batch action toolbar to apply a status across all source or all target terms.

## Common patterns

**Staged rollout** — Set the source term to "Available" and target terms to "Planned" until translations are reviewed and approved.

**Governance hold** — Mark a target term as "Unapproved" when it exists but hasn't passed legal or brand review for that locale.

**Deprecation** — Set a term to "Not Available" when it's being retired from a specific market.