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The marketplace turns Vouch.’s reputation ledger into something people actually transact against: listings that carry a seller’s real track record with them, rather than living alongside it as a separate, disconnected system.
The marketplace is an optional feature — toggle it from /vouch-admin → Configuration. If it’s off, /market create and /market browse return a “disabled in this server” error. See /market for the full command reference.

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Listing types

Every listing is one of three types, chosen at creation:
  • Want to Sell (WTS) — offering something.
  • Want to Buy (WTB) — looking to buy something.
  • Service — offering a service rather than a physical or digital good.

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Lifecycle

  1. Create — /market create opens a modal (title, description, category, price, image URLs), shows a confirmation preview, then posts a public listing card with a Contact Seller button.
  2. Browse — /market browse returns paginated, filterable results (by type, category, or keyword), each with a View button.
  3. Manage — /market manage shows a seller their own listings, each with pause/resume, mark sold, close, renew, and remove actions.
  4. Expire — listings expire on a schedule automatically rather than sitting stale forever; a seller can renew one before that happens from Manage.

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Contact workflow

How a buyer reaches a seller after clicking Contact Seller is a per-server setting (/vouch-admin → Marketplace Settings), not fixed behavior:
  • Show contact info ephemerally to the buyer.
  • Open a private thread between buyer and seller.
  • Open a ticket channel.
  • Link to an external storefront.
  • Just mention or copy the seller.
This lets a server match its moderation posture — a private thread keeps a moderatable record in Discord, while a storefront link hands the conversation off entirely.

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Seller reputation, not just a listing

A listing isn’t reputation-blind. /profile view on a seller surfaces their trust badges, rating distribution, and reputation summary — the same ledger that backs vouches — so a buyer can check a seller’s history before clicking Contact. And if a transaction goes wrong, /report can link the report directly to the listing’s ID, so a moderator working the case in /vouch-admin → Reports can remove the listing as part of resolving it. Marketplace activity and trust & safety share the same underlying case management rather than being two separate systems that happen to reference the same user.