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id: LS-1
title: Adding a listing
group: Listings
summary: Starting a new listing, what its form holds from top to bottom, and how its name and web address are made
keywords: [new listing, add, create, editor, draft, headline, title, publish, plus]
---

A listing is one thing on your site: a car, a painting, a tool. You add it with a few photos, fill in what you know, and publish.

## Starting one

Tap or click **+** in the header of the listings page (*Inventory*, or what your first tab is called). A new listing opens straight in its form; on the iPhone it opens full screen, on the iPad and Mac beside the grid. With a keyboard, **⌘N** does the same; on the Mac, so does **File → New Listing**, and you can drop photos on the listings page to start a listing with them. See Drag and drop (MAC-3).

One new listing at a time: until you publish or discard it, **+** and **⌘N** bring it forward.

A new listing starts in your schema's first status, such as *Available* or *In the shop*.

## What the form holds

From the top:

- **Photos and video.** The first is the cover. **Take a Photo…** (iPhone and iPad), **Add from Files…** and **Add from Photos…** add them. See Photos and video (LS-2).
- **Status**, and a **Note** for any status but the first. See Statuses and the status note (LS-3).
- **Details**: the fields of your listing schema that are on the website, such as Year, Make, Model and Price.
- **Only in this app**: fields kept off the site, if your schema has any. See Only in this app (LS-5).
- **Summary**: one line people see in the list.
- **Description**: as long as you like, with a little formatting. See Details, summary and description (LS-4).
- Any long-text fields your schema has, then, once the listing is published, **Delete Listing…**.

## Its name and its address

A listing's name, its **headline**, is made from the fields your schema puts in the headline: for vehicles, *Year Make Model*. Change which fields make it in the schema. See Headline, search and When empty (SC-3).

The address of its page on the site is made from the headline the first time you publish, and stays the same afterwards, so links to it keep working. A listing whose headline fields are empty has no title on the site; in the app it is named by the date it was added.

## Publishing

Tap or click the check mark in the header (or press **⌘S**). The **✕** beside it lets a new listing go, asking first if you added anything. Nothing reaches the site until the check mark.

The photos and video go up first, then the listing. *Sending 3 of 12…* shows how far it has got. See Publishing, hiding and deleting (LS-6).