Keeping your address private

Nobody needs the house number three weeks early.

Publishing an address weeks ahead invites people to knock on the door, peer in windows, or worse. Pickerty never shows the full address right away. You decide who eventually sees it, and when.

Two kinds of visibility

On the Address step, under Address visibility, you pick one of two:

• Public — the full address appears on the sale page at a date and time you choose. Right for most sales. Carries a WALK-INS ALLOWED tag.
• Private — only people who sign up ever get the address. The full address never appears on the sale page. Carries a NO WALK-INS tag.

Neither is selected on a new sale, so this is a choice you have to make rather than one you can skip past.

Public: choose when it appears

Set the Date and Time the full address should appear. Until then the sale page shows the city, state, and zip only.

Pickerty suggests 9:00 a.m. the day before your first sale day. That is a sensible default: people can plan their morning, but nobody has a week to wander past.

The text underneath shows exactly what your customers will see — Everyone sees Miami, FL until September 17 at 9:00 AM. After that, the full address is shown. Double check it before you move on. It is the fastest way to catch a wrong date.

Private: choose who gets it, and when

Private sales still let you control the timing, with two options:

• As soon as a customer signs up — each person gets the address the moment they register.
• On a date I choose — people who sign up early see Address sent September 17 at 9:00 AM until that moment arrives, then they get it. Useful when you do not want the address circulating days before the sale, even among people who have signed up.