A community marketplace platform for the people you already know.
Yclas is a community marketplace platform for clubs, parishes, neighbourhood groups, alumni networks and associations: a place where members buy, sell, lend and give to each other. Keep it open to everyone, limit sign-up to your members, or make the whole site private.
Free for 15 days · No credit card · Open or private, your choice
Private community classifieds, or open to the street.
A neighbourhood marketplace and a members-only exchange need the same pages. What changes is who can see them and who can join.
What your members see.
Real screenshots of Loop, a demo community marketplace made with Yclas. The members are made up; the pages are the real product.
Decide who joins and who can look.
Three switches in Settings cover most communities. A private site shows nothing but your legal pages to visitors who are not signed in; they see a page you write and a form to ask for access, which emails you. Allowed email domains let only addresses like @yourclub.org sign up. Or keep sign-up open and approve new members' listings before they go live.
- Private site: nobody signs up alone; you add members, import them from a CSV file, or answer access requests.
- Verify email addresses before anyone can sign in.
- Require login to open a listing, to message, or to post.
- Hide from search engines while the community is private.
Messages, offers and questions on the site.
Members message each other in one thread per listing, with photos, "Seen" receipts and push notifications. Offers last seven days and can be countered. Questions on a listing can be answered in public for everyone.
- No phone numbers needed: contact stays on the site.
- Suggested replies by AI on paid plans, never sent without the member.
Bring members back every week.
The weekly digest sends new listings and coming events. Pages, a blog, an FAQ and a forum sit on the same site, so club news and the marketplace live together. Members follow each other and hear when someone they trust posts.
- Digest for existing members: one button adds members who agreed to emails.
- Reviews after a deal, shown on each member's page.
- Forum, pages and blog on every plan.
Everything a community marketplace platform needs.
On every plan unless it says otherwise. Starter is $19 a month; Professional adds moderator roles, your own account types and a multilingual site.
For members
- Search, filters and saved searches
- Messages with photos and offers
- Questions answered in public
- Follow members
- Reviews after a deal
- Weekly digest
Who can join
- Private site with an access request form
- Allowed and blocked email domains
- Email verification
- Login to view, contact or post
- Approval of new listings
- Your own account types with approval, on Professional
For organisers
- Import members from a CSV file
- Moderator and editor roles, on Professional
- Reports queue and blacklist
- Pages, blog, FAQ and forum
- Newsletters
- Your own domain
Covering the costs, if you want to.
Many communities keep everything free. If the site should pay for itself, these work without putting members off.
Prices are examples: you set your own, in your currency. Yclas takes no commission on what you earn. All the ways to make money →
From sign-up to your members trading.
- Describe the communityTell the wizard who your members are and what they swap.
- Set who joinsOpen, email domains, approval, or a private site.
- Add your membersImport a CSV file or send the invitation message to your group.
- Post the first thingsAsk five keen members to list something on day one.
What is a community marketplace platform?
Software for a marketplace that belongs to a group: members post things to sell, lend or give away, talk to each other and rate each other, under rules the organisers set.
Can I make private community classifieds?
Yes. With Private site on, visitors who are not signed in see only a page you write and a form to request access. Your legal pages stay public.
How do members join a private site?
You add them in the admin, import them from a CSV file, or answer the access requests that come to your email. Nobody can create an account alone while the site is private.
Can I let only people with our email address join?
Yes. List your domains under Allowed email domains, such as yourclub.org, and switch on email verification.
Can several people help run it?
Yes. On Professional you can add moderators and editors with their own rights.
Is a community marketplace platform expensive?
Starter is $19 a month with up to 5,000 listings, and Yclas takes no commission. Many communities charge nothing and cover it with one sponsor.
Can members pay each other on the site?
On the Marketplace plan, with your Stripe account. Most community deals are settled in person, and that works on every plan.
Can we move from a Facebook group?
Yes. Paste posts from the group and the AI turns them into listings, up to 20 at a time, with contact details left out.
Related pages.
The parts of Yclas this leans on.
A marketplace your members can call their own.
Set it up open or private in an afternoon. Free for 15 days, no credit card.
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