Listing page and form fields

Every listing has a title, a category and photos. Everything else on the posting form is up to you: a car marketplace needs a price and a location, a jobs board probably doesn’t need photos, and a community swap site may not want phone numbers at all. The same settings page controls what visitors see on each listing.

Both sections are on Listings › Settings:

1. In the admin panel, go to Listings › Settings.
2. Use the section menu to jump to Form fields or Listing details.
3. Switch fields on or off and click Save changes in the bar at the bottom.

Form fields

Title, category and photos are always on. Choose the other fields on the post-a-listing form.

Setting	What it does
Description	The listing’s main text. When it is on, sellers must fill it in.
Price	A price field. Listings are shown in the currency and format you set in Currency and price format.
Location	Lets sellers pick one of your locations. Turn it off if your marketplace serves one town only.
Phone	A phone number, with a country selector (its starting country is Country in Settings › General).
Address	A street address. With maps set up, sellers can place a pin and the listing gets a map.
Website	A link to the seller’s website.
Upload file	Lets buyers attach a file when they contact the seller through the contact form. Hidden while the Messaging add-on is on, because messages don’t take attachments.
Number of Images	The most photos per listing. Set 0 to remove photos from the form. Your plan allows up to N. — you can’t go above your plan’s limit.

Need more than this, like mileage, number of rooms or a salary? Click Add custom fields under the list, or see Custom fields.

Switching a field off hides it on the form for new listings. Existing listings keep what sellers already entered.

Remove a field from the posting form

Field	How to remove it
Description, price, location, phone, address, website	Switch it off under Form fields (above) and click Save changes.
Photos	Set Number of Images to 0.
A custom field	To keep it for some categories only, limit it to those categories. To remove it everywhere, open it in Listings › Custom Fields and click Delete field (this also deletes what sellers entered in it).
Title and category	Can’t be removed: every listing needs them.
Captcha or the terms box	Captcha and Terms of Service under Posting on the same page. See Publishing options.

Listing details

What visitors see and can do on a listing page.

Setting	What it does
Contact Form	Shows a form on each listing so buyers can write to the seller. The message goes to the seller by email, or into their inbox when the Messaging add-on is on.
Require Login to Contact	Only signed-in members can contact sellers. With Messaging on, contacting always needs an account.
Price on Contact Form	Adds a Price field so buyers can make an offer. Only works when Price and the Messaging add-on are both on.
Require Login to View Listing	Visitors can browse lists of listings, but must sign in to open a listing. For a whole members-only site, use Private site instead.
Count Visits Listings	Counts views of each listing and shows the number on the listing page, in All listings and in the sellers’ Stats. It also enables Popular Listings Last Month on the home page.
Show Sharing Buttons	A Share button so visitors can pass the listing on.
Show Report this Listing Button	A Report button. See Reported listings.
Show QR Code	A QR code of the listing’s address, handy for printed flyers.
Show Free Tag	Shows Free instead of a price when the price is 0 or empty.
Rich Snippets	Adds product details (structured data) to each listing page so search engines can show price and photo in results. See SEO for your marketplace.

Contact settings that work together

• A buyer can only contact a seller about a published listing.
• If you turn Contact Form off, buyers need another way to reach sellers, such as the Phone field or a WhatsApp number in user custom fields.
• Messages from the contact form go through your email settings; if sellers say they never get them, see Emails aren’t arriving.

Settings that live elsewhere

Some things you see on a listing page are switched on in other places:

Feature	Where
Map on the listing and on the posting form	Maps
Comments (Disqus, Facebook)	Comments on listings and posts
Reviews and star ratings	Reviews and ratings
Buy Now button	Let members sell with Buy Now
Favourites (the heart)	Always on for signed-in members. See Favourites
The look of the page	Your theme and its theme options

Related guides

• Publishing options — the rest of the Listing Settings page.
• Custom fields — add your own fields.
• Photos — photo sizes and quality.
• How members post a listing — the form your sellers see.