Finding things to buy
Market shows what is near you and inside your circles; a shop link works for anyone, account or not.
Three ways in
- Market
- Browse by what is close to you and what people you follow are selling. If your device already shares its location, Market starts from where you are and shows the city on the chip — one tap changes it or clears it, and a place you pick yourself sticks.
- A shop link
- Every published shop has its own address. It opens for anyone, including people with no account, and it is the link a seller is meant to paste everywhere.
- The feed
- Sellers can post a listing like anything else, so things also arrive the ordinary social way.
What a shop page tells you
1234- The name and what the shop sells. Under it is the shop's own link — the address a seller pastes anywhere.
- The earned badge. New shop means no completed sales yet, not that anything is wrong.
- How you can get things and how you pay. Pickup, card protected, or paying the seller direct — worth reading before you fall in love with an item.
- The catalogue, filtered by category. A price on the card means it can be bought here and now.
Standing in the shop
Some shops let you scan and go: open their page (or the sign by their door), scan things off the shelf as you pick them, pay in the app, and show the pass on your screen on the way out. Anything that will not scan — weighed, loose, not in the app yet — you pay for at the counter.
A shop with a loyalty card shows your card on its page: how many stamps you have and what the full card gets you.
Reading a shop before you buy from it
Shops carry a badge the seller earns across all their shops, from settled sales and real reviews, so it cannot be improved by editing a profile. An experienced seller's new shop shows the seller's existing badge.
- New shop
- No completed sales yet.
- Rising
- At least one completed sale.
- Established
- At least five completed sales.
- Trusted
- At least ten completed sales, at least five reviews, and an average of 4.6 or better.
A verified check, where a shop has one, sits beside the badge and means something different: it is about the person behind the shop, not about how much they have sold.
Some pages are not shops yet
You will find places listed that nobody has claimed — a shop we know about with a shelf we have surveyed, but no account behind it. Those say so, and they send you to the business's own site rather than pretending you can check out.
If one of them is yours, you can claim it and turn it into a real shop without rebuilding the page.