Creating your marketplace listing

Your marketplace listing is your public storefront on Draftl — the profile students see when they browse Find a Reviewer looking for someone to review their essays. Each organization gets one listing, managed from the Marketplace page at /dashboard/marketplace.

At the top of the page you will see a status banner showing where your listing stands: DRAFT (still building), PENDING (submitted and awaiting approval), APPROVED (live in the marketplace), or REJECTED (sent back with a reason).

Filling out your profile

Start with the listing type: Individual if you review essays yourself, or Business if your organization has a team of advisors. This choice matters later — see the note on review assignment below.

Then complete the profile fields:

• Display name (max 100 characters) — the name students see on your card.
• Headline (max 160 characters) — one line that sells your value at a glance, since it appears directly on your marketplace card.
• Bio (max 5,000 characters) — your full pitch: background, approach, results. Students read this on your detail page before buying.
• Specialties (up to 12 tags, 50 characters each) — students can filter the marketplace by specialty, so pick tags that match what students actually search for.
• Avatar — a clear photo or logo.

Creating review offerings

Offerings are the products on your listing — the specific reviews students can purchase. On the Marketplace page, click Add offering and set:

• Name (max 100 characters), like "Common App essay deep dive"
• Description of what the student gets
• Price — $0 is allowed, which is a smart way to collect early ratings
• Turnaround in hours, from 1 to 720 (up to 30 days) — this becomes your delivery deadline, counted from the moment the student pays
• Active toggle — only active offerings are purchasable

You can edit, delete, or deactivate offerings at any time. Offering two or three tiers (a quick pass, a standard review, a premium deep dive) gives students an entry point at every budget.

Set turnarounds you can genuinely hit. Late deliveries are flagged to students with a "Late" badge, and your ratings drive your marketplace ranking.

Submitting for approval

When your listing is ready, click Submit for approval. Draftl requires four things before the button will work:

1. Display name filled in
2. Bio filled in
3. At least one active offering
4. Stripe Connect connected with charges enabled

The Stripe requirement trips up most new consultants — if you have not finished payment setup, do that first on the Payments page. Getting paid on Draftl walks through it.

Submitting moves your listing to PENDING while a Draftl admin reviews it. If approved, your listing goes live in Find a Reviewer immediately. If rejected, the banner shows the reason; edit your listing to address it and resubmit.

How students see your listing

In Find a Reviewer, your card shows your display name, headline, avatar, average star rating with review count, the number of reviews you have completed, and your minimum offering price. Students can filter by listing type and specialty, and sort by rating or price. Clicking through shows your full bio, specialties, every active offering with its price and turnaround, and your customer ratings.

Once approved, you also get a visibility toggle: you can temporarily unlist your profile without losing approved status, useful when you are at capacity and want to pause new requests.

Listings are sorted by rating by default, so your first handful of reviews carries outsized weight — deliver them on time and thoroughly, and consider a free or low-priced offering to get those early stars on the board. Delivering essay reviews from your queue covers how to make each one count.

Individual vs. Business and review assignment

Your listing type controls what happens when a student purchases:

• Individual listings auto-assign every purchased review directly to you.
• Business listings with a single advisor also auto-assign.
• Business listings with two or more advisors send purchases to a shared Claimable queue, where any advisor on the team can claim the request.

Pick Business if you expect teammates to share the review workload; otherwise Individual keeps things simple. Either way, once your listing is approved, you are one purchase away from your first review — the consultant launch checklist covers what comes next.