Aro Software is designed to make uploading to portals easy by doing so automatically when a listing is moved to the Available stage. If you would prefer to ALWAYS manually activate a listing to be sent to a particular website, then we can disable the automation for you. 

Please send an email to support@arosoftware.com with the request to turn off "Automatic Updates" to portals globally or list the name of portals you would like it turned off for 

Should you wish to disable on a per property basis please see the help file "How to disable Portals/Websites"