How Community Marketplace Works in Plinth

How community marketplace works in Plinth

Residents post and manage listings at Marketplace; admins review reports and moderate at Admin → Marketplace. Listing status is explicit no honour-system edits in a chat thread.

Resident: post a listing

1. Open Marketplace.
2. Tap Post listing (or equivalent).
3. Choose listing type: sell, buy, rent out, rent wanted, service offered, or service wanted.
4. Enter title and description; add optional price (₹) and category.
5. Submit listing is created via listing creation with retry-safe idempotency and status active.

Resident: manage your listings

1. Open My listings on Marketplace.
2. Edit title, description, price, or category while the listing is still active.
3. Mark sold when the item or deal is done status becomes sold.
4. Remove to take it down early status becomes removed.

Resident: report a listing

1. Open the listing detail.
2. Tap Report Plinth submits your report with your reason and retry-safe idempotency.
3. Listing moves to pending_review until an admin decides.

Admin: moderate and view reports

1. Open Admin → Marketplace.
2. Review the pending_review queue and reported listings.
3. Approve listing returns to active if the committee finds it acceptable.
4. Remove listing status becomes removed via listing moderation.
5. Every resident/admin status transition is audit-logged with before/after context.

Listing statuses

Resident guide · Admin guide · FAQ.