A Place is somewhere in your community rather than someone: a real local spot such as a shop, a studio, a café, a garden or a community space. The Person profiles connected to it stay their owners' own.
A Place profile carries a name, a description, photos including a cover banner, its kind, its community, optionally a street address and opening information, and the items it offers.
Places appear under three lenses: Businesses, Community Spaces and Community Life.
They are the three ways a Place can be found.Businesses is for places that trade. Community Spaces is for gardens, rooms, libraries and the places a neighborhood shares. Community Life is for what is happening: the groups, efforts and gatherings that are not a shop.
A Place picks at least one, and can be in more than one.
Any signed-in neighbor can create a Place profile (you do not need a special account type) and one account can hold up to ten.
Every Place goes through review before it appears publicly, and you should only create a Place you are actually entitled to represent. Creating a profile for a business you have nothing to do with is a violation of the Community Guidelines.
If a Place profile about you exists and should not, use a removal request.
The account that created it. A Place profile belongs to one Localsville account, and that account manages it.
There is no way to transfer a Place to another account, and no multi-user management. If a Place needs to be run by someone else, the new owner creates the Place and the previous owner deactivates theirs.
If a Place profile about you exists and should not, use a removal request.
No. An address is optional, and even when you add one it stays private unless you choose to publish it. Two separate things have to be true before neighbors see a street address: the address has to be confirmed, and you have to turn on the public-address setting.
A Place only appears on the map when both of those are true.
A Person profile cannot have a street address at all.
Changing the address clears its confirmation and switches off visits, pickup and delivery until the new address is confirmed. That is deliberate: a stale confirmed address is worse than none.
Address changes apply immediately rather than waiting for review, but the confirmation has to be redone.
A Place with a street address has to be listed in the community that matches that address.
A Place can list items. Services and experiences belong to a Person profile: the person who provides them.
So if your Place does something a human performs, put that on the Person profile of whoever performs it, and link the two with an "at [Place]" association.
Yes. A signed-in neighbor can start a conversation from a Place profile, and you reply from the account that manages it.
A conversation is between two people rather than two profiles. If someone messages your Place and later your Person profile, it is the same thread: there is no separate inbox per Place.
Yes, when both the Person and the Place agree. A Place can invite a Person; once the Person approves, their profile can carry an "at [Place]" line. Either side can end it at any time, and the Person profile stays its owner's own.
It is never guessed. The link only appears when both sides have agreed and the Place is live and complete.
A person reviews every Place profile before it appears, but Localsville does not check business registries or licenses. Review is a judgement about whether the profile is honest and appropriate, not a legal verification.
Address confirmation is a separate step and only affects whether a street address and map pin can be published.
There is no paid or unpaid "verified" badge on Localsville.
