Your listing, answered

Sign up with what you do, where you work and what you charge, plus one number so we can confirm who you are — a CIPC registration if your business is registered, or your ID number if you trade in your own name. There is no application to be judged and no review queue: nobody looks at your work and decides whether you are good enough. The check runs the moment you give us the number, usually a few minutes, and your listing goes into the marketplace on its own as soon as it comes back — free, showing your name, your town and your price. We run the same check once a year afterwards, and a paid listing adds the rest of the page and makes every enquiry free to open.

venues, decor and flowers, photography and video, music, hair, makeup and attire, and catering. A listing lives in one category, and it is fixed once the listing exists — it is what sets your price, your place in the marketplace and the shelf couples find you on. If your business genuinely works in two, open an account for each; each one is priced for its own category and keeps its own enquiries.

Yes, by province. You pick the province you are based in and tick any others you travel to, and couples are matched on that — a couple in Gauteng sees vendors based there first, then everybody who travels there. There is no radius in kilometres and no per-town targeting: those sound more precise than they are, and "forty kilometres from Stellenbosch" is not something a couple planning a wedding thinks in. If your travel has conditions, there is a free-text note on your listing to say so in your own words.

Every listing in your category is visible to every couple who looks at that category, sorted with the closest to them first. A couple can filter to their own province or to what fits their remaining budget, and both of those are off unless they switch them on, so by default nobody is hidden from anybody. Being straight about it: you are on a shelf beside your competitors with your price showing. What a paid listing changes is how much of your work a couple can see before they decide — the full gallery and your availability — not whether you appear, and not your description or your answers to the standard questions, which are on every tier.

Yes, if they have an account. Listings are not on the open internet — nobody can see them without signing in, and they do not turn up in a search — but anybody signed in can browse the marketplace, and that includes other businesses in your category. Your price is public to that audience by design: it is the thing couples filter and sort on, and a marketplace where prices are hidden is one where nobody enquires. What is never visible to another vendor is your enquiries, your leads, your figures or anything a couple has written to you.

Yes. Your profile is yours to update — pricing, photos, description and availability.

Not beyond a Featured slot. The order a couple sees is worked out by our software from what they have told us — the province they are marrying in, the category they are looking at, and their remaining budget if they have set one. There are 3 Featured places in each category and those sit at the top; everything below them is ordered on that match and not on what anybody has paid. We can change how that ordering works at any time, and your visibility can move up or down with it.