Glossary

Marketplaces grow their own vocabulary. Here is every term Yard Snail uses that isn't obvious, in plain words.

Finding things

Listing

One thing posted to the map — a yard sale, a market, a food truck, a community event.

Item

One thing for sale inside a listing or a shop, with its own page, price and photos.

Classified

A single item posted on its own rather than as part of a sale — the marketplace equivalent of a small ad.

Shop

A seller's permanent storefront page. It outlasts any individual sale and is what people follow. This is the only public word we use for it.

Shop item

Something in a shop rather than attached to a specific sale day.

Collection

A named section inside a shop — 'Mid-century finds', 'Kids' books' — that groups items together.

Pinned

Placed on the map. A listing with no location saved can still be searched and messaged, but it can't be pinned.

Locality

A town-level location — 'Ogden, UT'. A shop shows only a locality, never a street address.

Getting there and arranging things

Favorite

A listing or item you saved with the heart. Private to you, and groupable into folders.

Folder

A group of favorites, so a long list stays useful.

Route

An ordered list of stops you plan to visit, which can be handed to your maps app.

Area alert

A place you watch — Home, a parent's town — that tells you when something new appears nearby.

Offer

A formal price you propose for an item, which the seller can accept, decline or counter. Not a payment.

Hold

A promise to keep an item for a buyer until a date. Comes with a short pickup code.

Pickup booking

A specific time window you've claimed for a handover, once the seller accepts it.

Confirmation code

A short code shown at handover so the right person is collecting, without sharing contact details.

Meetup spot

A public, vetted place suggested for a handover.

Finder / Scout

A member who spots a sale in the real world and puts it on the map, including sales run by people not on Yard Snail.

Selling and vendors

Draft

An unfinished listing or item. Saved automatically, private to you, and never on the map until you publish it.

Boost

A paid, time-limited top placement and highlighted pin for one listing. Bought per listing and it expires on its own.

Regular

An item you star as something you bring to every sale, so recurring inventory can be added in one tap.

Vacation mode

Hides your shop's items and shows a notice while you're away, without deleting anything.

Vendor

Someone selling as a business rather than clearing out a garage — a food truck, a market stall, a maker, an organizer.

Vendor hub

Your vendor tools: today's spot, the weekly schedule, the licence vault and vendor matching.

Today's spot

Where a vendor is set up right now, in their own words. Paired with a live Open badge.

Licence vault

The private place a vendor keeps permits and licences. Only the vendor and admins can see them.

Permits reviewed

A badge meaning a vendor supplied current documents to us. It does not mean we checked them with the issuing authority.

Stockist

A shop that carries a maker's goods with no commission or custody passing through Yard Snail.

Consignment

Leaving items with a Yard Snail pop-up to be sold on your behalf for an agreed share of the price.

Helper

A local person or group who supports sales and vendors — hauling, cleanup, storage, estate organizing, sale-day labour.

Vendor Connect

Where market and event organizers looking for vendors meet vendors looking for somewhere to sell.

Lineup

The list of vendors and performers at an event.

Safety and money

Community Guidelines

The rules for what you can post and how you treat people. Enforced by moderators.

Report

Flagging content for a moderator. Separate from a support ticket, which is about the app itself.

Support ticket

A message to us about a problem, with a reference number so you can follow it.

Block

Stops someone messaging you. Private — they're not told.

Mute

Keeps a word or phrase out of your comments and messages. Private to you.

Strike

Recorded when we remove content of yours following a valid copyright notice. Three strikes puts an account into termination review, decided by a person.

DMCA

The US law that sets out how copyright takedowns and counter-notices work.