Patio guide

The Patio rules

• Browsing listings requires nothing: no account, no sign-up. Anyone can read.
• Publishing requires an account — and it works right away, nothing to wait for.
• Commercial listings (selling, renting out, offering a service) cost 1 credit. Giving away, lending or sharing, trading, looking for, and all of “Lost and found” are free. Your account starts with 3 credits; when they run out, ask the administrator for more — or top up by Yape from your account.
• Your first 9 listings go through a review — a person looks at them before they appear. After that, your listings publish directly.
• If a commercial listing is not approved, you get its credit back: fix it and resubmit. Deleting a listing that never appeared also returns its credit — a free listing has no credit to return.
• A published listing lasts 30 days, then it expires and stops showing. You can republish what is still current.
• Closing is not deleting: closing removes the listing from the list (it's sold, it's found); deleting erases it for good, photos included.

Creating an account

1. Tap Create an account.
2. Enter your name (the one people will see), your email and a password of 8 characters or more — a simple phrase works, spaces allowed. The eye next to the field shows what you type, against typos.
3. Your account works right away: you sign in with your email and password, with 3 credits to publish.

Publishing a listing, field by field

Type

What you're doing: Selling, Renting out, Lending or sharing, Giving away, Trading, Offering a service, or Looking for.

Title

Short and clear: “Selling 26-inch mountain bike” says more than “Great deal”.

Description

The details: condition, size, where to pick up, hours… What you would ask.

Category

First the section (Services, Buy and sell…), then the subcategory. It's how people find you.

Place

Department → province → district. This is what the listing shows.

Point on the map

Optional. Tap the map to mark the spot — useful for a house, premises, a plot.

Price

Optional: empty = “to be agreed”; 0 = free. Pick the currency (S/., €, $) and, if it applies, the unit — per hour, day, month, or product.

Natural or handmade

Tick the box if yours is handmade or grown — the listing gets a badge.

Photos

Up to 5 photos of 8 MB each. The first one is the list thumbnail. If you upload a POSTER with text (an event flyer, say), you can set each image's language: readers see the version in their language. A photo with no language (“All languages”) always shows — the normal case for a motorbike or a plot.

Versions in other languages

The title and the description can have a per-language version too: from the listing's edit page (“Versions in other languages”) you write them in Spanish and French. Each reader sees them in their language if it exists, otherwise in the original.

Event date

Under “Events and festivals”, enter the event dates; the listing is deleted on its own one day after it ends.

Your listings and your account

• The statuses: Under review (your first listings, awaiting approval); Published (visible 30 days); Not approved (fix it and resubmit — you get the credit back); Expired (the 30 days have passed); Closed (you closed it).
• Edit / close / delete: from My account, each listing has its links. Editing also manages photos: order, language, remove, add.
• Your phone: if you add it in My account, it shows on your listings so people can reach you. Tick the WhatsApp box and the number becomes a direct link — below the field you see the exact link that will be shown: check it.
• Your area: pick a district and a radius, and the listings page offers the “near my area” filter.
• Changing your password and signing out: also from My account.

Category alerts

If you add a WhatsApp number in My account, turn on category alerts: tick the categories you care about. When a new listing is published in one, you get a WhatsApp with the title, the price, the area and a link to the listing page. The “Only from my area” box on a section limits its alerts to your area (it first needs an area saved in My account).