---
title: "MarketStage"
description: "one of the four stages of a market"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/marketstage
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# MarketStage

one of the four stages of a market

[figure: MarketStage is a value at none scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | value |
| scope | none |
| key | none |
| store | none |
| family | market |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | `one of aware \| evaluating \| trialling \| buying` | yes |  |
| `count` | [Summary](/concepts/summary) | yes |  |
| `value` | [Summary](/concepts/summary) | no |  |
| `note` | `text` | no |  |
| `mode` | `one of present \| to be cultivated \| unknown` | no | read from the counts against the bar of the intend family, never set |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns MarketStage directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.