How to Use Saledar to Fill Your Yard Sale With Buyers

Saledar is free, and we've designed it so every listing pulls in more buyers than a Facebook post would alone. Here's the full playbook for using it to its potential.

1. Post your sale as far in advance as you can

Subscribers in your area get an email when a new sale is posted in their radius. The earlier you list, the more email cycles you appear in. Aim to post on Tuesday or Wednesday for a Saturday sale. That gives:

• Instant subscribers immediate notice
• Daily-digest subscribers in your radius see you Wednesday morning
• Weekly-digest subscribers (Thursday) see you with full lead time

Post your sale here.

2. Pick categories carefully

Subscribers can filter their alerts by category — toys, kids' clothes, furniture, tools, plus anything custom you type. Check every category that genuinely applies. Missing categories = missing subscribers.

Custom categories are powerful: "vintage Pyrex", "LEGO bins", "vinyl records" — these pull dedicated collectors who specifically subscribe to alerts for those terms.

3. List all payment methods you accept

Buyers with no cash will keep driving if they don't know you take Venmo. The list of payment methods appears on every place your sale shows up:

• Browse cards
• Sale detail page
• Email alerts to subscribers
• Personal feed pages

Pick all that apply. Cash App, Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, and Check are all supported.

4. Write a description that names specific items

Subscribers' alert emails preview your description. Generic "lots of household items" gets ignored. Specific descriptions ("mid-century coffee table, Carhartt jacket size L, full LEGO Star Wars set, vintage Pyrex bowls") pull buyers who specifically wanted those things.

A good description names 5–10 specific items in the first 200 characters.

5. Include exact start and end times

The route planner uses your start/end times to slot your sale into multi-stop Saturday routes. Sales without accurate hours don't show up cleanly in route plans. Saturday 7am–1pm is the standard — set it exactly.

6. Use the Saledar map and "Plan Route" features in your own listings

Mention in your Facebook / Nextdoor posts: "Listed on Saledar — they have a free route planner if you're hitting other sales in the area." Helpful, not pushy. Brings new traffic to both you and the platform.

7. Share your listing's URL directly

Every sale has a permanent URL (something like saledar.com/sale/abc123). Share it:

• In your Facebook posts
• In neighborhood group chats
• In your kids' school class Whats-app
• In a text to friends

The URL pulls a clean Open Graph preview with photos, address, and time — much better than copy-pasting your description.

8. Set up a personal feed for yourself

Every subscriber gets a /feed/[token] URL — a bookmarkable page of every active sale matching their criteria. Use yours as a quick check before your own sale to see who else is hosting nearby (so you're not directly competing with another sale on the same block).

Subscribe to alerts here.

9. Link to your city page

Every city has a landing page (like /sales/tn/franklin). Share your city's URL in local groups — it surfaces every sale in your area and grows the whole local market, which benefits you. Yard-sale traffic is non-zero-sum: more sales nearby = more buyers driving around = more traffic to your driveway.

10. Update mid-sale

Mid-Saturday, edit your listing to add "still going! Lots of new items put out at 11am!" Subscribers refreshing their feed see the update. Saledar is designed for live updates, not static listings.

What we're not doing (yet)

• Photos — for now, your listings are text-only. We're working on this. For now, post photos to your Facebook / Nextdoor / Craigslist listings and use Saledar for the time / location / category data.
• Buyer messaging — we don't connect buyers to you in-app. They'll show up Saturday or contact via your other channels.

How to find sales (if you're also a hunter)

Most yard-sale hosts are also yard-sale shoppers. Subscribe to alerts in your ZIP, then plan your Saturday morning using the Route Planner. Multi-stop routes — exported to Google Maps in one tap — turn what used to be a chaotic morning into an efficient one.

If you're hosting AND hunting on the same Saturday: schedule yourself to host Friday or skip your morning hunting. Trying to do both is how you miss your own early birds.

The full Saledar loop

1. Post a sale → it appears on browse, in the city landing page, in subscriber alerts, in route plans
2. Subscribe to alerts → get emails about new sales near you, plus a personal feed page
3. Plan a route → use the multi-stop planner to hit several Saturday-morning sales efficiently

Each piece is free. Each piece feeds the others. The more hosts and subscribers we have in your city, the better all three pieces work — which is why we focus on one market at a time.

Welcome to Saledar. Now go fill your driveway.