Create and Join Markets

On Particl Marketplace, you can create your own markets and storefronts or join a wide variety of user-generated ones.

The only difference between a market and a storefront is user permissions. On a market, anyone with access to it can buy or sell anything. On a storefront, only those in possession of a publish key can sell. Others with access to the storefront but not its publish key can only purchase items.

Note

To simplify the terminology, “markets” and “storefronts” may both be referred to as “markets”.

There’s no limit to how many markets you can join or create, and each of them can host an equally-unlimited number of listings.

You can easily create a new market by following these simple instructions.

Open Market -> MANAGE MARKETS -> Your Markets and click on the Create new Market button to start the market creation process.
Enter a title, a short description, and an image representing your market, and then choose the region it targets (can be worldwide).
Select the Community Market or Storefront option depending on your permission preferences.
Click on Confirm & Create Market to review the information about your market.

Your market is now created. You can promote it to the Market Browser to enable public access or keep its Access Key private. In the latter case, only those in possession of the market’s Access Key will have access to it or even know the market exists in the first place. Its content will be encrypted and indecipherable to everyone else.

Attention

Anyone in possession of the Access Key of your market will be able to join and sell. If you’ve created a storefront instead, they will require an additional publish key to sell, which you may or may not want to share with others.

Publish Listings

To publish listings to your new community market, go through the normal product listing process and choose your community market when ready to publish your item(s).

By default, a community market isn’t publicly visible and is only known to its creator and those in possession of its Access Key. However, a market can be published publicly within Particl Desktop’s Market Browser.

Open Market -> MANAGE MARKETS -> Your Markets.
Click on the tile of the market you want to promote and open the market promotion window by clicking on the Promote in Market Browser icon at the bottom of the expanded tile.
Select the number of days you want to promote your market on the Market Browser and confirm with a click on Promote Market.

You can browse through all the markets promoted by the community and join those that interest you by navigating the Market Browser.

Open Market -> MANAGE MARKETS -> Browser.
Browse the publicly listed markets and find one that interests you.
Click on its tile to expand its options, and click on Join this Market to connect to it.

Hint

Open Market -> MANAGE MARKETS -> Your Markets to see all the markets you have joined.
You can browse the market’s listings by going to Market -> BROWSE and selecting the community market in the FILTER section.

If you are in possession of the Market ID and Access/Publish keys of a particular market, you can directly join it even if it’s not promoted in the Market Browser. If you only possess the Access Key of a storefront, you will only be able to buy items. If you also possess its Publish Key, then you’ll be able to sell items as well.

First, make sure you possess the Market ID and Access Key of the market/storefront you want to join. You may need to collect this information from private sources if its creator or users do not publicly broadcast them.
Open Market -> MANAGE MARKETS -> Browser and click on the Join via Market ID button to expand the window to join a new market.
Fill in the community market’s information. You can decide to enter the information that feels the most helpful and relevant to you.
Enter the community market’s Market ID and Access/Publish Key, and then click on the Join this Market button to join the community market.

Hint

Open Market -> MANAGE MARKETS -> Your Markets to see all the markets you have joined.
You can browse the market’s listings by Market -> BROWSE and select the community market in the FILTER section.

Just like with undesirable listings, you can flag an entire market if you see content that you deem appropriate. If enough people downvote the market with you, it will be filtered off by Particl Marketplace’s moderation system. To learn more about the Particl Marketplace moderation mechanism, read Market Moderation Explained.

Open Market -> MANAGE MARKETS -> Your Markets.
Click on the tile of the community market you want to flag to expand its options.
Click on Report Inappropriate Market to open the Flagging window and click on the Flag this market button to flag it.

Hint

The total number of coins you hold in your Public balance will now be used as downvotes for this community market. If the market’s moderation score goes below the remove threshold of -9,000 PART, it will be taken off the Particl Network.

Sometimes, other users may flag markets that you believe should remain on Particl. In those cases, you need to make your voice heard by upvoting the market, essentially countering the downvotes. To learn more about the Particl Marketplace moderation mechanism, read Market Moderation Explained.

Open Market -> MANAGE MARKETS -> Your Markets.
Click on the tile of the flagged market you believe should remain on Particl. Flagged markets will have their flag icon highlighted in red instead of black.
In the window that appears, click on the Keep Market green button to confirm that you believe this market shouldn’t be moderated out.

Hint

The number of coins you hold in your Public balance will now be used as upvotes for this community market. As long as the market’s overall moderation score doesn’t go below the removal threshold of -9,000 PART, the market will remain on the Particl Network.