Local classifieds software for one town, done properly.
Yclas is local classifieds software for a town, an island, a county or a few neighbourhoods: things for sale, wanted and free, garage sales, lost pets and local services, all sorted by where people live. Your own domain, posting from a phone, maps, offers in chat, and a weekly email that keeps the town coming back.
Free for 15 days · No credit card · Plans from $19 a month
Built for one place and the people in it.
A local site wins on being close: the sofa is ten minutes away and the seller lives two streets over. These are the people who start town classifieds with Yclas.
Local classifieds software, screen by screen.
Real screenshots of two demo sites: Loop, a neighbourhood board, and the Harlow Bay Herald, a local paper's classifieds. The people are made up; the pages are the real product.
Your town's map, built into every search.
Set up your locations the way locals talk about them: the county, its towns and the neighbourhoods inside them. Every listing has a place and a pin. Buyers browse by area, search within a radius or sort by distance from where they stand.
- OpenStreetMap is free; Google Maps works with your own key.
- Saved searches with instant or daily alerts for "bikes in Hawthorne".
- Phone numbers for signed-in visitors only, if you prefer, to keep scrapers out.
A local classifieds website builder that helps you fill it.
An empty board stays empty. The Share your site page writes a message for your town's WhatsApp and Facebook groups, makes a QR code and prints an A4 poster for the library and the café. If people already sell in a group, paste their posts and the AI turns them into up to 20 listings at a time.
- Nothing is posted for you: each button opens your own WhatsApp, Facebook or email.
- Pasted posts are cleaned: phone numbers, emails and names are left out, with a dry run you can undo.
- Four example listings written for your town when the site is created.
A Friday email with what is new in town.
The weekly digest sends a round-up of new listings, and coming events if you list them, to everyone who asked for it. One button adds existing members who agreed to emails and signed in during the last year, so a site you move to Yclas starts with an audience.
- Events with a venue, an end date and repeats, and a calendar page.
- Newsletters for your own news, on every plan.
Reviews and reports, so the town trusts the board.
Buyers and sellers rate each other, and good sellers stand out. Anyone can report a listing or a conversation, and you work through one queue. New sellers can wait for approval, and AI checks hold listings that look like scams for you to look at.
- Safety tips in the chat when a message looks like a common scam.
- Banned words, a blacklist, reCAPTCHA and Akismet against spam.
Everything town classifieds need.
Starter is $19 a month for up to 5,000 listings. Professional adds memberships for shops and a multilingual site; Marketplace adds storefronts and checkout.
For locals
- Search by place, category, price and distance
- Map of every listing
- Saved searches with alerts
- Weekly digest of new listings and events
- Messages and offers
- Public questions on listings
- Reviews and reports
For sellers
- Post from a phone, with photos
- A listing from one photo, with AI
- Free tag for a price of zero
- Mark sold, renew, bulk actions
- Bump and featured listings
- Shop memberships, on Professional
For you
- County, town and neighbourhood locations
- Share your site kit and poster
- Listings from pasted group posts
- Moderation modes and a reports queue
- Banner spaces for local shops
- Community looks: Hometown, Village, Metro, Masthead
- Your own domain, no Yclas branding
How town classifieds pay for themselves.
Keep everyday posting free so the board fills. Charge where it is worth something to the seller.
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 the town's go-to board.
- Name your townTell the wizard the place and what people sell. Categories, an About page and example listings are written for you.
- Add your placesEnter the towns and neighbourhoods, or import them, and switch on the map.
- Pick a lookHometown and Village are made for town boards. Add your logo and colours.
- Fill itPaste posts from the old group and add a few things of your own.
- Tell the townSend the group message, pin the poster up, and switch on the weekly digest.
What is local classifieds software?
Software for a classifieds site that serves one area. Next to listings, search and messages, it sorts everything by place: locations people recognise, maps, distance and alerts for one neighbourhood.
Is Yclas good local classifieds software for a small town?
Yes. A town of a few thousand people is a common start. Starter at $19 a month covers up to 5,000 listings, far more than a town needs.
Can I cover several towns on one site?
Yes. Add each town as a location, with neighbourhoods under it if you like. Visitors choose a town or search across all of them.
How do I compete with Facebook Marketplace?
Go where Facebook is weak: search that works, categories, no algorithm hiding posts, a weekly email, local events and a name people know. Paste posts from the existing group to start full.
Can businesses advertise?
Yes. Sell banner space by the week, featured listings, and on Professional, memberships for shops that post a lot.
Can I run it from my newspaper's domain?
Yes. Point a subdomain such as classifieds.yourpaper.com at your Yclas site. SSL is included.
Do visitors need an account?
To post and to message, yes. Browsing is open unless you make the site private. You can also show phone numbers only to signed-in visitors.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. 15 days with every feature of the plan you pick, and no credit card.
Related pages.
The parts of Yclas this leans on.
Your town's classifieds, online this afternoon.
Tell the wizard your town and what people sell. Categories, example listings and the look are ready in under a minute. Free for 15 days.
Start my town's classifieds
Photo credits
The screenshots show demo sites with made-up sellers. Their photos come from Wikimedia Commons, some cropped or with signs and plates blurred; these ones are under Creative Commons licences: