> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://tradepost.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What Trade Post is

> A workspace behind real Reddit posts.

Trading subreddits enforce a title schema by hand, lose offers in comment threads,
confirm trades by bot convention, and carry the rest through moderation. Trade Post
keeps all of that on Reddit and puts a workspace behind it.

## Features

**Guided composer.** Traders pick items from their inventory, then fill in the
details on a screen that shows the generated title as they type.
Trade Post generates the title in your subreddit's format: region tag, `[H]`/`[W]`
tags, price convention. A listing that breaks the rules is never posted.

**Private inventory.** Items are entered once and reused. Marking an item traded
updates every live post advertising it.

**Offer inbox.** Making an offer posts a real comment, as the trader, in the
listing's thread. The app adds ordering, so serious offers are a list rather than
buried replies.

**Two-sided trade record.** Each side marks tracking added, sent, received. Both
confirm and the trade completes, updating the trade count. A trade nobody finishes
closes at a deadline and frees both sides' goods.

**Trade ledger.** Every resolved trade lands on a mods-only wiki page with a
permalink to the thread.

## Limits

* **No money.** No payments, escrow, held funds, or links to payment sites. A
  payment method is recorded as text.
* **No arbitration.** Both parties confirm outcomes and the app keeps the record.
* **No cross-subreddit data.** Storage is separate per community. No public
  reputation score, no searchable trade history.
* **Short retention.** Almost everything expires. The durable record of a trade is
  the Reddit comment it produced.

## Surface

One pinned post per subreddit, plus the listing posts traders publish from it. No
separate site, no account to create.

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    Moderator documentation.
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    Trader documentation.
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