Why can't I publish my tour?
Last checked 29 October 2026
The red message on the Publish tab tells you which of a few causes it is. Save Settings is gray until you change something, so tick Publish to Global Showcase first. If it then shows an error, the usual cause is room: free publishing holds 250 panoramas in 10 tours, and a tour is listed as a whole. Take another tour off Explore, remove panoramas, or host the tour in a Vault.
A tour kept open only by its link or a password cannot be listed on Explore: change Who can open it on the Hosting pane first. A tour in your plan's hosting stays private until you tick Published on that pane and save. Host in my plan is gray when the plan has no room or no hosting, and a line under it says which.
Only the tour's owner can list it on Explore or change its hosting: a collaborator, an Admin too, cannot. If you are sent to the Check your inbox page, your email address is not confirmed, which holds back publishing and buying. If a red notice says our team has taken the tour down, you can keep editing, but it cannot be published again until the hold is lifted. Why can't I publish my tour? has each message and its fix.
Read more: Why can't I publish my tour?, Free publishing, plan hosting or a Vault: where your tour lives, Who can see a tour: private, published, link only or password