Creating and running a Person profile: help, things, stories, photos and offerings.
A Person profile is a neighbour'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 neighbours 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 neighbours 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.
Sign in, then create your profile from the Me tab. It starts as a private draft that only you can see, and nothing is public until you submit it and it is approved.
You will be asked for a display name, a short tagline, your community, at least one lens, and how you like to connect. Adding your story and at least one thing you offer is how the app knows the profile is ready.
When it is ready you submit it for review. See Why is my profile in review?
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.
A display name, a tagline of at least ten characters, your community, at least one lens, and at least one way you like to connect. Without those the profile cannot be submitted at all.
The app also expects a story and at least one offering before it treats the profile as ready — that is what makes a profile worth reading rather than a blank card.
Field limits: display name 80 characters, tagline 140, story 2,000.
They are the four ways you are willing to meet a neighbour: they visit you, you visit them, pickup, or courier delivery. You must choose at least one.
They are honest signals rather than promises — they tell someone how a handoff would probably work before they get in touch.
You can change them at any time on a live profile, and the change applies immediately with no review.
Yes — and plenty of people do. The Stories lens exists exactly for neighbours who want to be part of the community without offering anything for sale.
Localsville is not a marketplace, and a profile with no price on it is a completely normal profile.
Yes. Localsville does not require you to be a business to offer something. A neighbour who bakes on weekends and a neighbour who runs a shop use the same profile.
You set your own availability, and "conversation only" is a perfectly good way to price something if you would rather talk first.
Localsville does not ask for a business license and does not check for one. There is no such field in the product.
That is not the same as saying you do not need one. Whether your local law requires a license, permit or insurance for what you do is your responsibility, and Localsville does not give legal advice. See the Terms.
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, HEIC and HEIF, up to 8 MB each. The size limit is checked on the server against the file that actually arrived.
HEIC and HEIF are what an iPhone produces by default, so photos straight from your camera roll are fine.
If an upload is refused, it is almost always the size. Most phones can export a smaller copy.
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 neighbourhood, and a Place's kind.
Your name, tagline, story, photos, lenses, community, what you offer, and how you like to connect. That is the whole public profile.
They do not see your phone number, your email, or your street address. A Person profile cannot have a street address at all — the server refuses to store one.
If you share your location for discovery, neighbours see a rough distance label like "About 2 mi away", never a point on a map and never an exact figure.
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 live profile and is completely reversible. Removing is only available for a profile that never went live.
If your profile has been public, deactivating is the way to step back — it disappears from Discover and from search, and you can bring it back later. Reactivating asks you to accept the current Terms again, because it republishes your content.
You cannot deactivate while you have commitments in flight — a confirmed appointment or a pickup or delivery that is paid or under way.
Removing a profile is not the same as deleting your account. See How do I delete my account?
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 from your profile and the stored file goes with it.
If it was your main photo, the earliest of your remaining approved photos takes over, so your profile is never left without one.
A photo is not one of the things required before a profile can be submitted.
In practice a profile with a photo reads as a real neighbour and one without does not, so it is worth adding one — but it is your choice.
Still stuck? Contact support — a person reads every message.