How to look after your own page.
Every job on the site, one at a time, in the order you would meet them. Nothing here takes longer than a few minutes.
Three things you can put up, and people mix them up.
Read this part before you need it. The rest can wait until you are doing the job.
A sale
Money off, for a while. It shows on your page and in the town-wide list of what is on.
A notice
Something you want people to know. Closed Monday for stocktaking, or the road is dug up but the door is open.
An event
Something happening at a time people can turn up to. It goes on the town calendar.
All three come down on their own on the day you said, so nothing is left up by accident.
What do you want to do?
- Signing in Every time you want to change something. There is nothing to install and it works on a phone.
- Your details and your hours When anything on it changes. Winter hours, a new phone number, closing for two weeks in February.
- Your logo or your sign Once, when you start. Again if you get a new sign.
- The big photo at the top of your page Once, and then whenever you take a better one.
- Put a sale on A weekend special, end of a season, twenty percent off the winter stock.
- Put a notice up Closed for a funeral, or you have moved to the unit next door.
- Add an event A late night, a launch, a book signing, a demonstration in the window.
- How many people looked Whenever you want to know whether this is doing anything for you.
- Your email and your password If you change email address, or if you want a password you can remember.
You need to be signed in to do any of it. The link is at the bottom of every page on the site, and it says Member Sign-In.
Contents
Signing in
What it is for
Your own desk on the site, where everything below happens. Nobody else can see it and nobody else can change your page.
When you would use it
Every time you want to change something. There is nothing to install and it works on a phone.
- Go to the bottom of any page on the site and press Member Sign-In.
- Put in your shop’s name and your password, the ones in the email you were sent. Press Show beside the password box if you want to check what you typed.
- You land on your own page, with a row of buttons across the top: Listing, Events, Sales, Notices, Photos, Numbers, Account.
Forgotten the password? Press Ask for a reset under the boxes and the site sends a link to the address on your account. Nobody here can see your password, so there is nothing to ask for.
Your details and your hours
What it is for
The page people find when they look you up: what you sell, where you are, how to reach you, and whether you are open right now.
When you would use it
When anything on it changes. Winter hours, a new phone number, closing for two weeks in February.
- Press Listing.
- The page is in parts, and each part opens when you press its heading. What the shop is, Where you are, How people reach you, When you are open, Parking and getting in.
- Change what you came to change. You do not have to fill in the parts you did not come for.
- Under Words people might search for, put the things you sell in the words a customer would type. Commas between them. Start typing and it offers words other shops have used.
- Press Save my listing at the bottom. It is live straight away.
The hours are what make the site say Open now or Closed on your page, so keep them right even when nothing else changes. There is a box for anything odd, like a holiday, and it prints under your hours in your own words. The search words are worth a minute: somebody looking for boots will only find you if one of your words is boots.
Your logo or your sign
What it is for
The small picture beside your name, in the list of shops and at the top of your page. It is what somebody scanning the list recognises.
When you would use it
Once, when you start. Again if you get a new sign.
- Press Photos. The first part, Your logo, is already open.
- Press the file box and pick the picture off your phone or your computer.
- Press Add it.
- Look at it. If it is hard to see, press one of the choices under What shows behind it to put it on white or on the page colour.
A photograph of the sign over your door works. So does the file whoever made your sign gave you. If you have neither, leave it and your name shows on its own, which is not a problem.
The big photo at the top of your page
What it is for
The wide picture across the top of your own page. The front of the shop, or whatever you make behind the counter.
When you would use it
Once, and then whenever you take a better one.
- Press Photos, then press the heading Your main picture to open it.
- Press the file box, pick the photo, and press Add it.
- It goes up straight away. Press View my page at the top to see it.
Hold the phone sideways. A tall photo gets cut down to a wide strip, and the top and bottom of it are what goes. Anything you send up is kept in your picture library, so you can put the same one on a sale later without sending it again.
Put a sale on
What it is for
Money off, for a set number of days. It shows on your own page and in the list of what is on downtown, which is the page people check.
When you would use it
A weekend special, end of a season, twenty percent off the winter stock.
- Press Sales, then Put a sale on.
- Under What the sale is, write the offer the way you would say it over the counter.
- Under When it runs, put the first day and the last day.
- If you want a picture behind it, press A picture behind it and send one up or pick one you already have. It looks right without one.
- Press Put it on the site.
It takes itself down the morning after the last day, so nothing goes stale while you are busy. Four weeks is the longest one sale can run. Put up as many as you like; the town-wide list shows two from any one shop so that everybody gets a look in, and your own page shows all of them.
Put a notice up
What it is for
Something people should know that is not a sale and not an event. It goes near the top of your own page, above any sales you have on.
When you would use it
Closed for a funeral, or you have moved to the unit next door.
- Press Notices, then Put a notice up.
- Under What it says, write it plainly.
- Under How long it stays up, put the first day and the last day.
- Press Put it on the site.
If it has a time people turn up to, it is an event rather than a notice. If it is money off, it is a sale. Everything else is a notice.
Add an event
What it is for
Something happening at a time, which goes on the town calendar as well as your page.
When you would use it
A late night, a launch, a book signing, a demonstration in the window.
- Press Events, then Add an event.
- Under What it is, give it a name and a couple of lines.
- Under When it is, put the day and the time. If it runs over more than one day, there is a last day as well.
- Where it is and Cost and room are there if you need them. Leave them alone if it is at your own shop and free.
- Press Put it on the site.
It goes on the calendar under your shop name, so people can see whose it is. It comes off the calendar on its own once it has been and gone.
How many people looked
What it is for
A count of how many times your page was opened, month by month, and which website sent them if they came off a link.
When you would use it
Whenever you want to know whether this is doing anything for you.
- Press Numbers.
Nobody is told who looked, because nothing here knows. It is a number and nothing else. A listing with hours and a photo on it gets opened far more often than one without, and this is where you can see that for yourself.
Your email and your password
What it is for
Where the site writes to you, and how you get in.
When you would use it
If you change email address, or if you want a password you can remember.
- Press Account.
- Where we reach you is the email address. Change it and press Save this address.
- Your password takes a new one twice. Press Change my password.
This email is for the site writing to you. It is not put on your public page. The phone number and address people see are the ones on your listing, and those are the ones you chose to publish.
If it is not doing what you expected.
Nothing you press here can break the website, and nothing goes out to anybody until you press the button that says it will. If you are stuck, say so and somebody will sort it out or do it for you.