# Why can't I publish my tour?

URL: https://www.panoramr.com/about/faq/why-cant-i-publish-my-tour
Keywords: cannot publish, publish button, save settings gray, hosting limit, no room, explore error, confirm email, tour on hold, tour not published, admin collaborator and explore
Last checked: 2026-10-29

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](https://www.panoramr.com/help/vault-hosting).

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?](https://www.panoramr.com/help/why-cant-i-publish) has each message and its fix.

More: [Why can't I publish my tour?](https://www.panoramr.com/help/why-cant-i-publish), [Free publishing, plan hosting or a Vault: where your tour lives](https://www.panoramr.com/help/free-publishing-and-plan-hosting), [Who can see a tour: private, published, link only or password](https://www.panoramr.com/help/tour-privacy-settings-public-unlisted-and-password-protected)