How to Sell

Selling products and services on Particl Marketplace gives you more privacy, security, and freedom than on any other online marketplace. It is also entirely free to use, except for a tiny sub-cent cryptocurrency transaction fee, as well as a small anti-spam fee that is then redistributed to the network.

All these benefits are available through Particl Marketplace. And due to its unique decentralized architecture, the process of selling may be slightly different than what you’re used to.

As we’ll see in this user guide, this process isn’t complicated at all. Simply read through it, and you’ll be up to full speed in no time!

Publish Listings

Attention

To list an item for sale on Particl Marketplace, you need to have PART coins in your Public (default) or Anon balance so that you can pay for listing fees. Funds in your Anon balance are also required to make security deposits into the two-party escrow smart contract.

The first step of selling on Particl is to first put an item up for sale on one of the available markets. There are many ways to create listings on Particl. The right way for you depends on your requirements.

Publish a Single Item

If you only want to list a single item, then simply follow these steps.

  1. Open Market -> SELL -> Inventory & Products followed by the New button.

  2. Fill up all the text boxes with your listing information and upload one or more images of the product or service you intend to sell.

  1. Click on Publish right away tile to select on which market you want to publish your listing and set the correct category for your item.

  2. Click on the Save and Publish button and choose the duration time of your listing.

  3. Click on Publish Listing.

Hint

After one (1) blockchain confirmation (approximately 2 minutes), your listing will be live on the desired market(s).

Instead of publishing your listing immediately, you can save its template for later. When creating your listing, instead of clicking on Save and Publish, you can click on the Save button to save your listing template for later.

  1. Open Market -> SELL -> Inventory & Products, locate your saved listing, and click on its tile to expand its details. Its status will show as Listing unpublished.

  2. You can still edit the listing by clicking on the Edit button or publish it by clicking the Publish icon (rocket).

  3. You can publish your listing in additional markets and storefronts by clicking on the green Clone Product to Market button and selecting which market (and category) you want to add your listing template to.

  4. Choose the amount of time you want your listing to show up on the additional market and click on Publish Listing.

Hint

After one (1) blockchain confirmation (approximately 2 minutes), your listing will be live on the desired market(s).

You can also publish your listing on multiple markets and storefronts. This option is only available if you already possess publishing permissions on one or more markets.

  1. Open Market -> SELL -> Inventory & Products, locate the listing you want to publish on multiple markets and click on its tile to expand its details.

  2. Click on the green Clone Product to Market button and select which market (and category) you want to publish your listing in.

  3. Choose the amount of time you want your listing to show up on the market and click on Publish Listing.

Hint

After one (1) blockchain confirmation (approximately 2 minutes), your listing will be live on the desired market(s).

Publish Multiple Items at Once

If you are selling multiple items, then you may want to create a CSV inventory file and list all of your products at once. This will save you valuable time as you won’t be required to manually list each item one by one.

Publishing multiple listings at once is separated into two steps: (1) creating listing templates and (2) publishing them.

The first step of the process is to import your inventory into Particl Desktop using a CSV file and create a listing template for each item.

  1. Open Market -> SELL -> Inventory & Products, followed by a click on the Import button.

  2. To process your inventory, import your CSV file by clicking on the Choose file button of the IMPORT FROM CSV FILE section and click on the Process CSV import button.

  3. One listing template per item will be created. Review each template and, if needed, click on their tiles to expand and edit their information.

  4. Click Import & Save to create your listing templates.

Tip

You can download a .csv template file from the Market -> SELL -> Inventory & Products -> Import section after selecting CSV file as source. Follow the formatting of the template.

The second step of the process is to publish the listing templates you’ve just created.

  1. Open Market -> SELL -> Inventory & Products followed by a click on the Batch (Re)publish… button.

  2. Click PUBLISH TO to select in which markets you want to publish your listings.

  3. Click PUBLISH DURATION to select for how long you want your listings to be available.

  4. Click their Publish checkboxes or hit Select all in the SELECT… dropdown menu to individually choose the items you want to publish.

  5. Click on Publish selected products and wait for Particl Desktop to publish your listings. A progress bar at the bottom of the screen indicates the progress.

Sell and Process Orders

Attention

For your Particl Desktop client to receive any bid from buyers, it must be online and unlocked. New orders won’t show up in your Orders or Overview until you unlock your wallet. To do so, click on the padlock icon in the status icons bar at the top right corner.

Accept an Order

When a buyer wants to buy something you’re selling, they’ll first make an order request that you need to accept. Accepting an order indicates to your buyer that you are willing to process his order.

  1. Open Market -> SELL -> Orders and check the Orders requiring attention checkbox to only see orders that require your attention or filter them by status.

  2. Look for any new order marked as REQUESTING.

  3. Click on the order’s tile to expand its details and accept it by clicking on the Accept order request button.

Make the Security Deposit

Once you accept your buyer’s order, they will be required to send their payment as well as a security deposit into a two-party escrow smart contract. After they do so, you will also be required to match that security deposit.

See also

Check out the Two-party Escrow Explained page to know more about it!

  1. Open Market -> SELL -> Orders and check Orders requiring attention to only see orders that require your attention or filter them by status.

  2. Look for any order marked as ESCROW. Click on the order’s tile to expand its details and make your security deposit by clicking on the Complete escrow button.

  3. In the window that appears, you can leave your buyer a note. This is optional. Confirm your security deposit by clicking on the Confirm & Fund.

Package and Ship an Order

After making your security deposit into the two-party online escrow system, you now need to process, package, and ship your customer’s order.

  1. Package and ship out your item.

  2. Open Market -> SELL -> Orders and check Orders requiring attention to only see orders that require your attention or filter them by status.

  3. Look for any order marked as PACKAGING, click on the tile to expand its details, and click on the Mark as shipped button.

  4. In the window that appears, you can send your buyer a tracking number. This is optional and can be used to send other information as well (i.e., a download link). Confirm the order as shipped by clicking on Yes, order is shipped.

Receive Payment

Once your package is shipped, keep an eye out for your payment. Once your buyer receives their order and marks the transaction as complete, you will receive your security deposit back as well as the full payment for the order at no fee.

  1. Open Market -> SELL -> Orders and check Orders requiring attention to only see orders that require your attention or filter them by status.

  2. Check COMPLETED to only see orders that have been completed. Click on the order’s tile to expand its details and see the date and time it was completed.

See also