// SELLING

Free, Featured and Featured Max listings

At the last step of creating a listing you choose how it goes live. Here's what each of the three tiers gives you, how the cards look on the home feed, and how to decide which one suits your item.

The three publish tiers

Every listing is published on one of three tiers. You pick yours on the final step of the create-listing flow, after you've reviewed your item. Featured and Featured Max are paid once, at publish, and last the full run of your listing (up to 30 days).

Current prices are shown in the app at that last step, before you confirm, so you always see what a tier costs before you commit to it.

Post Free

The standard listing, free to publish. It appears in its category ordered by recency, right alongside every other item, so buyers browsing that category will find it. A free listing is not shown on the home feed: that space is reserved for Featured listings. If you're not in a hurry, or your item is niche enough that category browsers will spot it, Post Free does the job at no cost.

Featured

Featured lifts your listing onto the home feed, the first thing people see when they open the app, so it reaches buyers who aren't yet browsing your category. On the home feed it shows as a compact card: the cover image on the left, the item detail on the right, with a FEATURED badge (no star) in the corner of the image. In its own category it also renders as a larger card than a free listing, so it stands out there too. A Featured listing carries to your first relist only: relist the expired item once and it stays Featured, after that it relists as a normal listing.

Featured Max

Featured Max is the top tier and the most prominent placement on the app. On the home feed it's a large card with a full-width cover image above the detail, framed to draw the eye, carrying a FEATURED badge with a star (that star is what tells it apart from a standard Featured card). It's the largest your listing can appear anywhere. The paid perk: Featured Max stays featured on every relist, at no extra charge, for as long as you keep relisting the item.

A free listing shown as a standard card within its category on TradeSoft
Post Free: a standard card in its category, not on the home feed.
A Featured listing shown as a compact home-feed card with the image on the left and a FEATURED badge
Featured: a compact home-feed card (image left, detail right).
A Featured Max listing shown as a large home-feed card with a full-width image and a FEATURED badge with a star
Featured Max: a large home-feed card with a full-width image and a starred badge.

Which should I choose?

It comes down to how much exposure you want and how quickly you'd like to sell:

  • Post Free if cost matters most, or your item will get found by category browsers on its own.
  • Featured for a helpful lift onto the home feed and a bigger card in its category, at a low one-off price.
  • Featured Max for maximum reach on higher-value gear, plus the relist carry-over if you expect it to take more than one 30-day run to sell.

More exposure means more eyes on your listing, which tends to mean more questions, more offers and a faster sale. You can also start free and upgrade to a higher tier later by editing the listing.

No commissions, no sale fees. TradeSoft never takes a cut of your sale: there are no success fees and no completion fees, so what you agree with your buyer is yours to keep. Optional Featured upgrades (and bump credits) are one of the ways we keep a dedicated Kiwi airsoft marketplace running, so choosing one also helps keep a service like TradeSoft going for the community.
Featured vs a bump. Featured is home-feed placement bought when you publish. A bump is different: it re-surfaces an existing listing to the top of its category whenever you choose. See bumping a listing for how that works.
Not launched yet? TradeSoft is in pre-launch. Download TradeSoft and we'll let you know the moment listings open.

Related help

New to selling? Start with listing an item for sale, or head back to the Help Centre for more selling guides.

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