What is Listing Quota
What is Listing Quota on Carousell?
Listing quota refers to the number of listings you can create or mark as active within a specific time frame. The duration of this time frame can vary depending on the country of your marketplace.
How does Listing Quota work?
- Each seller is allocated a certain number of free listings in each category. This free quota refreshes periodically, the frequency may differ depending on the country of your marketplace.
- A quota is consumed once a listing is successfully listed as active. Deleting or marking a listing as sold/reserved does not free up the used quota.
- When a seller uses up their free quota in a category, they can either purchase a CarouBiz subscription, additional custom quota or wait for the free quota to refresh to list more items.
Due to market dynamics, listing quotas vary by category and are different in each country where Carousell operates. We have 2 different quota system that applies to (a) the General goods categories, and (b) Autos, Property, Jobs and Services categories.
Please find the appropriate article for your situation from the options below.
Autos, Property, Jobs and Services Categories
- Singapore Listing Fees and Quotas for Property, Autos, Jobs and Services
- Philippines Listing Fees and Quotas for Autos, Property and Jobs
- Hong Kong Listing Quotas and Fees for Autos, Property and Services
- Malaysia Listing Quota and Fees for Property and Autos Categories
General Goods Categories
- Singapore Category-based General Listing Quota for General Goods Categories
- Hong Kong Category-based Quota for General Goods Categories
- Malaysia Category-based listing quota for selected goods categories
Why do we have Listing Quota?
The aim of having a Listing Quota mechanism is to;
- Encourage sellers to maintain their inventory with fresh, up to date listings to increase the quality of listings in the marketplace.
- Provides visibility for sellers' listings which helps their items sell faster.
- Reduce the number of duplicate listings, spam or low quality listings to make it easy for buyers to find their desired items in the marketplace.
By improving the quality of marketplace listings, the Listing Quota system aims to create a better buying and selling experience for everyone in the Carousell community.