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A submitted listing enters Checking and locks for edits while automated checks run against its assets. Follow them on the listing page, under Quality checks below Listing status. Every kind of listing goes through the same flow.

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Read the report

Quality checks shows the latest run as three steps. Each step with verdicts has a bar with one segment per check and a count of how many passed. Until the recommended checks run, the Verified badge bar ends in an empty Recommended checks segment, because the badge needs them. Issues are grouped under the listing or the asset they ran on; expand an issue to read why it failed. Passed checks fold into a list you can open. Read together, the first two steps put a listing in one of four states:
  • Running: checks are still in progress.
  • Blocked: a required check failed, so the listing cannot go live.
  • Not earned yet: every required check passed, but a badge check failed, was skipped, or has not run. The listing can go live without the badge.
  • Earned: every check passed. Buyers see the verified badge.

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Required to publish

Mandatory checks are free and look for problems that would block a sale. They depend on what the listing holds. For example: DataVendor maintains the exact set, so the checks on your listing can differ from this table. A failed check, or one marked On our side because it could not finish on DataVendor’s side, shows Blocked and moves the listing to Needs attention.

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Verified badge

The verified badge, DV quality certified, is DataVendor’s approval that a listing meets its marketplace quality standards. Buyers see it next to the title in the catalog and on the listing page, certified listings rank ahead of comparable ones, and buyers can narrow the catalog to Verified only. A listing earns the badge when all of these hold on the latest run:
  • Every required check passed.
  • Every other check under Verified badge passed. A skipped check, one that could not inspect what it grades, withholds the badge in either step.
  • Every recommended check that applies to the listing’s assets passed. A listing with no recommended check that applies to its assets cannot earn the badge.
Recommended checks run your environments and cost credits. Start them from the Verified badge step with Run recommended checks; the price shows beside the button before you start. Their failures are listed under AI review. Badge checks never block publishing. The badge belongs to the listing, not your vendor account: editing the listing or refreshing its assets removes it until the checks pass again.

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Insights

Insights report where each asset sits on a measure, such as commit density or test coverage for a codebase. Measures run down the side and each asset has its own column, graded from A, the best, to D; wide listings scroll sideways. A dot means the measure does not run on that asset. Hover a grade for its reading. When a measure could not be graded and you can fix that, a note under the table says how, such as including a coverage report in the archive. Insights never block publishing or affect the badge.

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After the checks

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Fix anything blocking

When Required to publish shows Blocked, read the reason under each issue, edit the listing, and submit it again. If a check failed on DataVendor’s side, choose Run checks again in Manage listing to re-run every check without editing.
2

Earn the badge, or publish without it

When a badge check other than a recommended check fails, the listing can stay at Needs attention with editing unlocked. Fix it and resubmit, or choose Skip review in Manage listing: the unresolved optional checks are marked skipped and the listing reaches Ready without the badge. Skip review is available only once every required check has passed.A failed recommended check does not hold the listing back. Re-run it on its own from its row, at that check’s current credit price, or start the recommended checks again.
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Go live

A listing at Ready publishes to the catalog with Go live, becoming Active.
Editing a submitted listing returns it to Draft, removes the badge, and re-runs the checks on resubmit. If DataVendor rejects a listing outright, it shows Rejected and cannot go live.

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Next

Manage a listing covers what changes once it is live.