Sell Process¶

The selling process of Particl Marketplace gives you more privacy, security, and censorship resistance than any other online marketplace. It is entirely free to use except for the tiny sub-cent transaction fees usually associated with cryptocurrency transactions. The price to pay for these previously impossible benefits is that you are required to do things a bit differently than what you are used to.

Rest assured, it’s not complicated at all. Just follow this quick user guide, and you’ll be up to speed in no time!

Table of Contents

Publish Items
- Publish a Single Item
- Publish Multiple Items at Once
Accept an Order
Make the Security Deposit
Package and Shipping an Order
Receive and Verifying Payment

Publish Items¶

Attention

To put an item for sale on Particl, you need to have PART coins in your Public or Anon balance so that you can pay for the listing fees. Funds in your Anon balance are also required to make security deposits into escrow contracts (which are equal to the value of any item purchased by a buyer).

Hint

Wallet Unlocking

To receive orders or to complete order steps, your Particl Desktop client needs to be unlocked. You will not receive any order or get notifications on the progress of active orders if you keep your wallet locked. For this reason, make sure the padlock icon at the top-right corner of the status bar is unlocked.

To make a sale on Particl, you need to first put items up for sale. 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.

Create a listing template¶

Open Market -> SELL -> Inventory & Products followed by the New button.
Fill up all the text boxes with the information on your listing and upload an (or multiple) image of your product or service.

If you want to publish now¶

Click on Publish right away tile to select which market you want to publish your listing and set the correct category for your item accordingly.
Click on the Save and Publish button and choose the duration time for the item’s listing.
Click on Publish Listing.

Hint

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

If you want to publish it later¶

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

Open Market -> SELL -> Inventory & Products, locate your saved listing, and click on its tile to expand the details. Its status will show as Listing unpublished.
You can still edit the listing by clicking on the Edit button or publish it by clicking the Publish icon (rocket).
You can also publish your listing in other community markets or 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.
Choose the amount of time you want your listing to show up on the new market and click on Publish Listing.

Hint

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

If you want to publish on multiple markets¶

You can also publish your listing on multiple community markets and storefronts. This option is only available if you have joined additional markets with publishing rights.

Open Market -> SELL -> Inventory & Products, locate the listing you want to publish on other community markets, and click on its tile to expand the details.
Click on the green Clone Product to Market button and select which market (and category) you want to add your listing template to.
Choose the amount of time you want your listing to show up on the new market and click on Publish Listing.

Hint

After one (1) blockchain confirmation (approximately 2 minutes), your listing will be live on the previously selected market(s). From this moment, a new market will be connected to your listing template. Repeat these steps for all community markets you want to publish your listing on.

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 the time of listing each item one-by-one.

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

Create listing templates¶

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.

Open Market -> SELL -> Inventory & Products followed by a click on the Import button.
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.
One listing template per item will be created. Review each template and, if needed, click on their tiles to expand and edit their details.
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.

(Re)Publish your listing templates¶

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

Open Market -> SELL -> Inventory & Products followed by a click on the Batch (Re)publish… button.
Click PUBLISH TO to select on which markets you want to publish your listings.
Click PUBLISH DURATION to select for how long you want your listings to be available.
Click their Publish checkboxes or hit Select all in the SELECT… dropdown menu to individually choose the items you want to publish.
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.

Accept an Order¶

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.

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.

Open Market -> SELL -> Orders and check the Orders requiring attention checkbox to only see orders that require your attention or filter them by status.
Look for any new order marked as REQUESTING.
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 (equal to the cost of the item + shipping) into a two-party escrow smart-contract. Once that happens, you will be required to also send a security deposit that matches the one of your buyer.

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

After making your security deposit into the two-party escrow contract, you will need to process and ship your buyer’s order.

Package and ship out your item.
Open Market -> SELL -> Orders and check Orders requiring attention to only see orders that require your attention or filter them by status.
Look for any order marked as PACKAGING, click on the tile to expand its details, add a package tracking number if needed, and click on the Mark as shipped button.
In the window that appears, you can send your buyer a tracking number. This is optional and can be used to send over other types of data as well (i.e., download link). Confirm the order as shipped by clicking on Yes, Order is shipped.

Receive and Verifying 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.

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