Creating and running a Person profile: help, things, stories, photos and offerings.
A Person profile is a neighbor's own page on Localsville: who they are, what they care about, and anything they can help with, make or offer.
Every account may have exactly one Person profile. It carries your name, a short line about you, your story, your community, your photos, and optionally the things you offer.
A Person profile appears under one or more of three lenses: Help, Things and Stories.
They are the three ways a Person can be found on Localsville. Help is for neighbors who can do something for someone: a skill, a hand, a service. Things is for people who make, grow or sell something. Stories is for neighbors who simply want to share who they are.
You pick at least one when you set up your profile, and you can be in more than one. They are how someone browsing decides what they are looking for, not a category you are locked into.
From Me → Create profile, and the app walks you through it.
You will be asked for a display name, a short description of at least ten characters, your story, your community, at least one lens, at least one way to connect, an approved profile photo, and at least one offering. The app keeps a checklist and tells you what is still missing.
When it is complete you submit it for review, and a person at Localsville looks at it before it appears.
No. Creating a Person profile is free, and it stays free: there is no listing fee, no subscription and nothing to unlock.
See How much does Localsville charge People? for the whole picture.
Before a Person profile can be submitted you need a display name, a short description of at least ten characters, your story, your community, at least one lens, at least one way to connect, an approved profile photo, and at least one offering.
A Place needs all of that plus a neighborhood and a place kind, and its offerings are items.
The app shows the list as a checklist and tells you what is still missing, so you do not have to remember it.
They are how a handoff actually happens: whether people can visit you, collect from you, have something delivered, or simply message you.
They are not decoration. Turning delivery off means no delivery can be arranged; turning pickup off removes it as an option. At least one has to be on before a profile can be published.
You can change them at any time.
You do not have to sell anything, but a published profile does need at least one offering listed. That is what the app asks for before it will let you submit.
An offering does not have to be commercial. It can be something you are happy to help with, something you make, or something you would share: it does not have to carry a price.
Localsville is a People-first community discovery platform rather than a catalog of listings, and the first thing a neighbor meets on your profile is you and your story.
Yes. Nothing about a Person profile assumes a business. There is no minimum, no volume expectation and no commercial threshold.
You can list one thing, offer it when you feel like it, and pause it whenever you want.
A person who bakes on weekends is exactly what a Person profile is for.
Localsville never asks for one, and does not check. Nothing in the app requires a license, a registration number or a permit.
Whether your own activity needs a license is between you and your local rules. Under the Terms of Use you are responsible for complying with the law that applies to what you do.
If you are unsure, ask someone qualified where you live.
Yes. Services are one of the three offering kinds a Person can list, alongside items and experiences.
You decide how it is priced (a fixed price, a starting-at price, quote-required, or conversation only) and you set your own availability.
Any professional obligations you have (licensing, insurance, qualifications) remain yours. Localsville does not verify them.
Up to six photos on a profile, and up to six on each offering. The limit is enforced by the server, not just the app.
One of your profile photos can be your main photo: the one people see first. A Place also gets a cover banner; a Person profile does not have one.
JPEG, PNG, WebP and HEIC, up to 8 MB each. Photos straight from an iPhone or an Android camera are fine.
A profile can hold up to six photos.
If an upload is refused, the app tells you which of those two it was. See Why did my photo fail to upload?
Tap the photo you want and choose to make it your main one. Switching between photos that are already approved happens immediately, with no new review.
A photo that is still waiting for review cannot be made your main photo yet: it becomes eligible once it is approved.
Your main photo and a Place's cover photo have to be two different images.
Yes, but on a live profile a name change is reviewed before it appears. Your profile keeps showing the current name until the change is approved.
Display names are one of the five things that are checked when you edit a live profile: the others are your tagline, your story, your neighborhood, and a Place's kind.
Your name, your short description, your story, your photos, the lenses you chose, your community, what you offer and how you like to connect.
Alongside those: your published availability if you set any, an "at [Place]" line if you and a Place have both agreed to it, and a rough distance label such as "About 2 mi away" for whoever is looking.
If you turned on Localsville's summary of your profile, that also appears publicly: it is written by Localsville using AI, not by you. See Does Localsville use AI?
Your phone number is never shown, and a Person profile never carries a street address or a map pin. A Place shows an address and a map pin only if its owner confirmed the address and chose to publish it.
Yes. Every active profile has a public web page you can share with anyone, whether or not they have the app.
The web page shows the same thing a signed-out person sees in the app, no more.
Deactivating hides a profile and keeps it. Deleting your account removes you. Deactivation is reversible; you can bring a profile back yourself.
A deactivated profile disappears from Discover, Explore, search and the map immediately, and its public page stops working.
Reactivating requires that you have accepted the current Terms. If the Terms have changed since you last accepted them, you will be asked to accept again before the profile goes back up.
One Person profile, and up to ten Place profiles.
Profiles you have removed do not count against either limit.
No, they have to be two different images. A cover is a banner and a main photo is an identity photo; the same picture rarely works as both.
Only a Place has a cover. A Person profile has one photo collection and one optional main photo.
It is removed, and if it was your main photo the earliest of your remaining approved photos takes over.
If it was your only photo, nothing takes over and your profile is left without one. Add a new main photo and let it be reviewed: a profile is meant to have one, and you will not be able to submit anything for review until it does.
Yes. A profile cannot be submitted for review without an approved main photo. The Submit button stays off until you have one, and the server enforces the same rule.
It does not have to be a portrait of your face. It has to be a real photo you are entitled to use, and it goes through review like everything else.
A cover banner or a gallery photo on its own does not count: the main photo is the one that has to be approved.
Still stuck? Contact support. A person reads every message.