How local selling works
If you own a 3D printer, laser cutter, CNC machine, vinyl cutter or UV printer, you can offer work to people nearby and let them collect it from you. The steps are: list your machine or service, put an ID on file (or verify your identity for delivery), agree the job and the handover in messages, and let the buyer confirm what they received. Buyers can find a fabricator to start.
ID before offering pickup or delivery
When you tick local pickup on a machine or service, its ID verification chip asks you to upload a photo of the front of your government photo ID. It is kept privately as a record (buyers never see it; PrintCommons staff may check it), and pickup goes live as soon as it is on file. Local delivery, where you go to the buyer, needs the full check instead: a hosted Stripe Identity document and matching-selfie check, started from the delivery option or your profile. Do not send an ID in messages or put it on your public profile. Fabricators without these stay out of pickup and delivery search; they can still keep their profile and other listings.
The Stripe check is optional. Passing it shows an Identity verified badge in local search (on the local map, and when buyers look for local delivery) and still ranks you higher in search. It confirms an identity check; it does not certify equipment, product quality, professional credentials or a company. Enterprise company review is separate.
Offer work you can deliver
Register your equipment in Business Center and describe the processes, materials and turnaround you can support. Enable local pickup only when you can arrange a reliable handover. Keep availability and prices current, and use your profile to show examples of your work.
Open Business Center. Read the Fabricator Agreement before accepting work.
Agree on the pickup
Use order messages to agree on a place, time and any access requirements. Directory distances are approximate; they do not publish a precise pickup address. Share the meeting address with your buyer when you arrange the handover. Choose a suitable public or business location and avoid sharing identity documents in messages.
The fabricator records the handover on the order. The buyer confirms delivery after receiving and checking the item. A handover claim by itself does not count as a completed local pickup.
Your local reputation
Local search uses ratings from buyers whose completed orders were confirmed as local pickups. The next figure is the number of completed pickup jobs, including jobs without a review. Shipped, digital and historically unclassified orders contribute to the separate other-order figures on your profile.
The Returning pickup customers tag means at least two distinct buyers have each completed two or more pickups with that fabricator. Completed jobs and repeat customers improve local recommendations; distance breaks ties. Ratings with few reviews receive less weight. Refunded orders and orders with an unresolved dispute do not build this reputation.
Every buyer has one review per order. Do not arrange artificial purchases or reviews. A repeat-customer tag describes past pickups; it does not guarantee future work.
Payments and problems
Keep payment on PrintCommons and confirm the scope in your offer. Local pickup does not remove payment holds or change the order's dispute and return terms. Check those terms before checkout, and report a problem from the order page.