Ranking Charter
How search and shelves order what you see — published in plain words, the same for every stall. The factors are public; there is no other recipe.
The order, factor by factor
- Relevance to your search. A listing matches on its title first, then its tags, then its shelf. Words you typed are matched against those — nothing else invents a match.
- Listing quality. Among matches, a complete listing stands ahead: a title that says what the thing is, tags chosen, a clear price, the choices (sizes, formats) inside the one listing, and delivery and settlement terms stated. The seller checklist that earns this is public — it is the same list sellers run for themselves.
- The record. Completed in-app sales and the signed reviews they carry. Reviews exist only from completed purchases, each one signed by its buyer; the record is read from those receipts, nothing else.
- Recency. Newer listings stand ahead of older ones among equals — and a new listing is never buried for being new (see the opening window below).
New listings start neutral — the opening window
Every new listing starts at neutral: no penalty for having no record yet, and no boost money can buy. For its first thirty days a listing carries the New in the Hive mark, and recency counts in its favour, so a fair share of first looks reaches it while it earns its record.
What never affects the order
Payment. There is no paid placement in organic results, no boost to buy, and no house favourite. A seller's bad reviews never remove them or bury them off the shelf — the record shows on their stall, in the open, and the order follows only the factors above. Ranking reorders; it never hides. The only things out of your sight are what your own filters put there, and the search page says out loud what they hid.