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Featured listings and bring to top

Sell featured spots for a number of days and paid bumps back to the top of the list, and choose where featured listings show up.

Featured listings are the easiest extra to sell. Sellers pay to have a listing highlighted with a Featured badge for a number of days, and you decide where featured listings get extra exposure: the home page, the top of search results, a widget. Bring to top is the cheaper sibling: a one-off payment that moves a listing back to first place, as if it had just been posted.

Both need at least one payment method connected, unless you make them free. You can also switch them on, with suggested prices, in the guided Make money set-up. For a package that combines featured days with several moves to the top, see Boosts.

  1. Go to Settings › Payments.
  2. In Featured listings, switch on Sell featured listings.
  3. Click + Add a plan, enter the number of Days and the Price, and click Save. Add as many plans as you like, for example 7 days, 30 days and 90 days.
  4. Click Save changes in the bar at the bottom of the page.

The plans are listed from shortest to longest. To change one, click Edit; to remove it, click Delete.

Members always start on your shortest plan and can switch to another at checkout, so make the shortest one your entry price. A plan priced at 0 features the listing for free, without a checkout.

How sellers feature a listing

Sellers can feature a published listing from:

  • My Listings in their account: the Featured button on each listing.
  • The page they see right after posting a listing.
  • Their listing page, where most themes show the owner a promotion box with Go Featured!.

If you also sell boosts, the Boost button takes the place of these offers on the seller’s listing in Nova, and of the Featured button in other themes.

They pick a plan at checkout, pay, and the listing is featured at once. A listing that is still waiting for review or payment starts its featured period when it goes live, so no days are lost; if it never goes live, the seller is refunded (see Promotions bought before a listing is live).

When the plan runs out, the listing goes back to normal and the seller gets an email saying it is no longer featured but still live, with a button to feature it again (or to boost it, if you sell boosts). To write your own text, create an email template named ad-featured-ended in Email templates, using [AD.TITLE] for the listing and [URL.FEATURE] for the link. Sellers who unsubscribed from emails don’t get it.

Sellers on a membership plan that includes featured listings can use a credit instead of paying.

Feature a listing yourself

  1. Go to Listings › All listings and find the listing.
  2. Open its menu and click Featured. You go to the checkout page for that listing’s owner.
  3. Choose the plan and click Mark as paid to feature it without charging anyone.

To stop featuring a listing early, open the same menu and click Remove Featured. You can also filter All listings to show only featured listings.

If a seller asks for their money back, refund the order from Orders: the listing stops being featured at the same time.

Featured listings always carry a Featured badge in lists. To give them more exposure:

Where How to set it up
Home page Listings › Settings › Listing pages › Listings on the Home Page: choose Featured Listings, or Features Listings Randomly to rotate them.
Top of search results and categories Listings › Settings › Listing pages › Sort Listings: choose Featured. Featured listings come first, then the newest.
A box on any page Add the Featured Ads widget in Design › Widgets. See Widgets.
A slider on listing pages Some themes have a slider option in Design › Theme Options. See Theme options.

Visitors can also choose Featured in the sort menu on listing pages.

Bring to top

Bring to top moves a listing back to the first position, by resetting its publish date to now. It doesn’t add a badge and doesn’t change when the listing expires.

  1. Go to Settings › Payments.
  2. In Bring to top, switch on Bring To Top Listing.
  3. Enter the To Top Price.
  4. Click Save changes.

Sellers then find Go Top! in the menu of each published listing in My Listings, and in the promotion box on their listing page. After paying, the listing is at the top straight away.

With a price of 0, sellers can bump their listings for free as often as they like. That can flood the top of your lists, so keep a small price if you want to discourage it.

Bring to top is only useful when listings are sorted by date. If Sort Listings is set to Featured or Price, a bumped listing won’t move to first place.

Tips for pricing

  • Offer two or three featured plans with a discount on the longer ones.
  • Give new sellers a free first feature with a coupon for the featured product.
  • Combine with membership plans or pay to post only if your members are used to paying; otherwise start with featured listings alone.

Updated 16 October 2026 · Suggest an edit