Listings and waitlists
Cats for sale, litters, expected litters and their waitlists, Our cats, parents and the family tree, and when a listing locks.
How to list a cat
1. Open your dashboard
Sign in and press the person icon at the top right of any page, or Dashboard in the bar at the bottom on a phone.
2. Press New listing
On your dashboard's Overview, press New listing.
3. Choose For sale
Purry asks What is this cat? Choose For sale to open a new listing under Cats for sale; Not for sale, add to Our cats is for a parent, a retired breeder or a pet, which gets its own page instead.
4. Pick from Our cats, if she is there
Optional. If the cat is already in Our cats, choose her under Pick from Our cats and press Use this cat: the listing starts with her name, breed, sex, birth date, photos and parents.
5. Or start from Cats for sale
Cats for sale, under Selling, lists every cat you have up and has its own New listing button. Your listings live here once they are saved.
6. Add photos and the details
Press Add photos and choose your own photos of this cat, then fill in About this cat and the cards under it, from the price to how the cat gets home.
7. Put the photos in order
Drag a photo, or use its arrows, to change the order: the first photo is the cover buyers see first. The trash icon removes one.
8. Publish
At the bottom, press Publish to put the cat live, or Save draft to finish later. If anything is missing, the line above the buttons says what, and Publish opens the list of what is left.
9. See your listing
Your cat's page is live, as buyers see it. This is your listing, with Edit, takes you back to the editor any time.
Feature your cat
1. Find Feature this cat
Open an available cat's editor and press Feature this cat on its Featured card, or Feature · $5 on its row in Cats for sale.
2. Make it yours, then pay $5
Pick a border, one of six colors or a seasonal ring, and a sticker; the preview shows the card as buyers will see it. Press Feature for 30 days · $5 to pay once through Stripe, with no automatic renewal.
3. First on Find a Cat
For 30 days your cat comes first, in its border and sticker, on Find a Cat, Kittens, Free, breed pages and location pages while buyers keep the default sort, Featured first. Feature as many of your cats as you like, each its own $5.
What a listing has to say
An exact price. Not "contact for price", not "price on request". A buyer comparing four kittens cannot compare a number with an invitation to negotiate, and hiding the price is the single most common thing buyers complain about elsewhere. The one exception is an expected litter, which gives a price range until its kittens are listed.
Beyond that: your own photographs, the cat's date of birth, sex, color, and honest answers on litter training and whether the cat has met children, dogs or other cats. "Not sure" is an available answer and a better one than a guess: the filters treat it as unknown rather than as a no. The description has a small toolbar for bold, italic, headings, lists and links, up to 4,000 characters, and you can add up to two video links (YouTube, Instagram or TikTok) and up to five documents (a pedigree, health tests, vet records), which buyers see marked as uploaded by you and not checked by Purry.
What's included and Getting home start from your cattery defaults on the Site tab (What's included and Getting home), and you change anything for one cat on its listing. Registration papers included can be checked only once a person at Purry has checked one of your registries (Your registries); until then the listing says "Registration papers: Not available".
Registration, health testing, vaccination and pedigree claims have to be true and documentable. That is in the seller agreement because it is the line that matters most.
New listing
New listing is one step: add the photos and the details, then press Publish, or Save draft beside it to finish later. If anything a live listing needs is missing (how the cat gets home, say), it is saved as a draft and its page says what is left. Photos are not required: a cat with none shows Photos coming soon to buyers until you add some, and in search it comes after the cats with photos. On a live cat the same two buttons read Unpublish, which withdraws it, and Save changes. Your listings go live once you are verified; Getting verified has the steps.
To list one of your own cats, use Pick from Our cats at the top, or List for sale on her row under Our cats: the form starts from her name, breed, sex, birth date and parents, with her photos already in place.
A date of birth you are not sure of. Check Approximate under the date and pick a month and year under Born around. Buyers read "About 3 years" and "Born around March 2024", and age filters use the middle of that month. A kitten from one of your litters always takes the litter's exact date.
A breed that is not on the list. Every breed field ends with Other: type the breed's name and the cat shows it everywhere, and a name search finds it. It is in no filter and has no breed page until Purry adds it to the list.
Hybrid breeds. A Bengal, Bengal Longhair, Savannah or Chausie needs its Generation (F1 to F5, F6 and later, or SBT) before it can go live. Its listing tells buyers to check the law where they live, and under the generation you can add Places I will not sell to: one list for all your hybrid cats, shown to buyers on the listing and in the conversation. See Hybrid cats and the law.
Cats for sale
Your Cats for sale tab lists every listing with its status: Available, Expected litter, Pending, Reserved, Withdrawn, Draft, Found a home or Came back. Each row shows its views, saves and conversations, and its ... menu has View listing, Withdraw or Relist, Mark reserved, Mark found a home and Delete; what does not apply is grayed out with the reason. The All tab groups your cats, and you set the order of Available now, Expected litters and Found a home by dragging or with the arrows. Your cattery site and Purry profile use that order.
How long a listing runs
Your listings never expire. After 60 days we email you to ask whether the cat is still available. A nudge, not a deadline. Answering keeps the listing honest; ignoring it does not take anything down.
Changing who the cat is
Until somebody holds the cat, everything on a listing is editable. A change to the cat's name, breed, sex or date of birth is posted as a note in every conversation about the listing, so nobody is surprised by it.
This stops a kitten that has gone home being edited into a different cat, which is how a seller elsewhere keeps one listing's reviews and photos while quietly selling a new animal under them. Create a new listing for each cat.
One cat per listing
A listing is always one cat: one price, one set of photos, one sale, one review. There is no listing for a whole litter once it is born: each kitten is its own listing, and a litter groups them.
Litters
Set up a litter under Litters in your dashboard: a dam and a sire from Our cats, a breed (the dam's, with a second breed for a cross), and a birth date, or a due date for a litter not born yet. A hybrid litter can carry a generation, which its kittens take.
Once it is born, Add kitten for each one: each takes its breed, parents and date of birth from the litter. The litter's page shows each kitten as its own card with its own photo, price and status, and each kitten's page links back to the litter and its brothers and sisters. Once a kitten is listed, the litter's breed, parents and birth date are fixed.
Every litter has Edit and Delete. Deleting asks first; its kittens' listings stay, unlinked, and if it was listed as expected, that listing is withdrawn and everybody on its waitlist is emailed and taken off.
Expected litters
You can list a litter before it is born. In Litters, give it a dam, a sire and a due date, then List this expected litter. The expected listing takes the litter's parents, breed and due date, and changes when they do. It needs a price range, low and high, before it goes up.
Buyers press Join the waitlist on it: they say whether they hope for a female or a male and any color or pattern, and that opens a conversation with you. Add them with Add to waitlist in that conversation. Buyers can also ask to be told when the kittens arrive, and they are emailed when you list the first kitten.
An expected listing never turns into a cat. When the kittens arrive, press Mark as born on the litter and Add kitten for each one. Then, on the litter's page or Selling > Reservations, reserve a specific kitten for each person on the waitlist, in the order you choose; the buyer is told which kitten is theirs in a conversation about that kitten.
Waitlists
For a cat that is already spoken for, or a litter that is not born yet, you can keep a line of buyers who have written to you about it. For an expected litter, add them from your conversation with them; for a cat, from the Waitlist card in its editor, which shows once somebody has asked or is waiting. You set the order, you can reorder or remove anybody, and you can note a deposit you took. When a kitten is theirs you turn their place straight into a reservation. They see where they are in the line.
Our cats
Your dams, sires and retired cats live under Our cats: name, breed, sex, birthday, photos, registry number, a description and documents, and whether the cat is active, retired or has passed. Each has its own page on Purry and on your cattery site, with its photos, its litters and the kittens from them listed now, and members can heart it. Wherever a cat is named as a parent, the name links there.
Add a cat asks what the cat is first: For sale opens a new listing, while A parent or breeding cat and Retired or a pet add it here.
To sell one of them, press List for sale on its row. A new listing opens with the cat's name, breed, sex, birth date, generation and parents already filled in; the cat's photos are already in place among the listing's photos, to keep, reorder or remove; add the price and the rest and save, as a draft or published. The cat then shows Listed, linking to the listing (the Listed filter finds them), and the listing links back to the cat. While the listing is up she is left out of Our cats on your site and Purry profile, since she is under Available Cats; her own page and family tree stay. When the listing is marked Found a home, she becomes Rehomed by herself: never in those sections again, still in family trees and litters. If that is undone (the cat came back), she goes back to the status she had.
Each row's ... menu has Edit, View page and Remove, which asks first and deletes the cat with its photos and documents. A cat named as a parent on a listing, a litter or another cat stays on record: its menu offers Mark retired and Mark passed instead.
Parents and the family tree
Showing a kitten's parents is the fastest way for a buyer to see that it comes from tested, registered cats rather than take it on trust, and on a breed where a specific test matters, it is the thing that separates you from the seller who says "vet checked".
Every listing, litter and cat has a Parents card in its editor: a Mother and a Father, each one of your own cats, another cattery's cat on Purry (paste the link to its page), or typed in with a name, breed, color, registry and number, cattery and photo. A parent you type in can have its own parents typed in, so you can enter a pedigree by hand. Kittens take their litter's parents, and change with them, until one of them is reserved or has found a home.
The listing's page, the cat's and the litter's show the two parents and any grandparents: a cat on Purry has a solid border and opens its page, and one you typed in has a dashed border and shows the registry and number you gave. A cat's registry line shows for a cat on Purry only when its cattery's registry has been checked.
See the family tree under them opens the whole family: the cat with its full brothers and sisters, two, three or four generations of ancestors above, and, for one of your own cats, its kittens and theirs below, grouped by the other parent. Click any cat for its profile. It shows on purry.app and on your site in your own colors.
Reservations, from your side
A buyer asking to reserve writes to you. That is all it does: your listing does not move, nothing is frozen, and no clock starts. Before they can ask, they answer your questions and agree to your policies, if you have any.
You decide. From the conversation's header you can Reserve for that buyer, and later Mark found a home; from Selling > Reservations you can mark a reserved cat Found a home or put it Back to available, and the buyer is emailed when you do that last one. You may record that you took a deposit, and you may note a date you are holding until; we remind you on the day and change nothing ourselves.
Taking a deposit. Once you have connected your own Stripe account on Getting paid, Reserve for can ask the buyer for a deposit or the full price; payments are processed through your own Stripe account, and the cat is reserved for them once Stripe confirms it. A deposit paid to you outside Purry you record with Mark deposit received, and the buyer is asked to confirm it. Getting paid on Purry has the rest. Buyers are told that a verified breeder may take a deposit after a live call and a written contract.
The sale agreement
You can put a sale agreement on file in Selling > Agreement, and the buyer you reserve a cat for reads and signs it on Purry. Use Purry's template, where every blank is a field with a label and a preview shows the finished agreement as you type, or upload your own PDF of up to 10 MB. Each cat's own details (its name, breed, sex, date of birth, price, papers, breeding rights and go-home date) come from its listing when the buyer signs.
Choose when the buyer signs. At reservation, before any payment is the default: when you reserve a cat for a buyer, or ask them for a deposit through Purry, they are asked to sign first, and their Pay button waits until they have. At pickup: once the cat is reserved, the conversation shows Send the agreement to sign, to press when they collect the cat. Marking a cat Found a home never waits for a signature.
The buyer cannot edit the agreement; if they want a change, they write to you. Once they sign, you both get the signed PDF by email, and the conversation and Selling > Reservations show Agreement signed with the date. Saving the agreement again makes a new version: a buyer who has not signed yet reads the new one, and a signed agreement never changes.
Purry is not a party to the agreement. It provides the template and keeps the signed copy for both of you. You are responsible for what the agreement says and for making sure it meets the law where you and the buyer live.
Editing a reserved cat
Once a cat is reserved for somebody, or anybody holds a place on its waitlist, what they agreed to stays put until every reservation and place has ended: who the cat is (its name, breed, sex and date of birth), its parents, and the terms (the price, breeding rights, spay or neuter, the health guarantee, registration and papers, and how it gets home). Those fields are grayed out on the listing and the database refuses them too.
Everything else stays yours to update, because the kitten is still growing up at your house: the description, the ready date, vaccinations and the traits. You can add photos and reorder them, but not remove or replace them. Every change is recorded with what it was before and what it is now, and the buyer sees them at the top of the listing and in your conversation, under Updated since you reserved. Everybody else sees only "Updated" and the date.
If the reservation ends and the cat is reserved for somebody else, the next buyer sees only the changes made while it was reserved for them.
Once a cat has found a home
Mark it Found a home and say which buyer, chosen from the people who have messaged you about it. It takes one click and it is what lets that buyer leave a review with the Verified buyer chip on it. They are offered to add the cat to their own My cats, and to be shown as its owner.
The listing then locks. It is the record of a cat that has gone, and the review under it is about that cat. You can still edit the description, name the buyer if you marked it without one, and add photos (one of the cat in its new home is the best thing that page will ever show); a photo added after the sale can be removed again, the ones from before cannot.
A seller who never marks a cat Found a home ends up with no verified reviews, but not with no reviews. A buyer can tell you from your conversation that the cat is home with them, once you reserved it for them or once it left Available after they wrote; confirm it and that is the same as marking it Found a home for them, and if you neither confirm nor dispute it within seven days they can review you anyway, without the chip. Otherwise never marking anything would be the way to avoid ever being reviewed.
Cat came back. If a cat returns to you, Cat came back keeps the sale and its review and tells the buyer in your conversation. The buyer is asked to confirm it, and the cat leaves their My cats and their profile at once. The listing stays locked; Relist this cat makes a new draft of the same cat, with its photos, once the buyer has confirmed the return or seven days have passed. Until then the row says Return awaiting the buyer's confirmation with the date. If the buyer says it is not right, if it is the second return of the same cat, or if you had another return in the last 90 days, Purry looks first: the row says Purry is reviewing this before it can be relisted. Once relisted, the listing says how many times the cat came back. The buyer can still review the sale, and a review stays: marking a cat returned never removes one.
Notes about buyers
Once a sale is confirmed, you can leave one private note about the buyer, from your conversation with them, under the Found a home note: Would you sell to them again? Yes, No or Not sure, and up to 500 characters. A sale is confirmed when you marked the cat Found a home for them and they confirmed it (their review, the cat added to their My cats, or their own "is home with me") or seven days have passed, or when they told you the cat is home with them and you confirmed it or did not dispute it in seven days. You can edit your note at any time.
The buyer never sees it, and nor does the public. Only other sellers that buyer messages read it, beside their conversation with them, under the buyer's questionnaire, each note with its answer (Would sell to them again, Would not sell to them again, or Not sure), the seller's name and cattery, the cat and the date. When two or more different sellers would not sell to the buyer again, the notes start with "2 sellers would not sell to them again", and a person at Purry looks at that buyer's notes. Nothing is blocked. Above the notes, Purry shows its own record: each cat the buyer took home on Purry, with the seller and the month, and "Returned" with the month where a return was confirmed. You see the same for every buyer who messages you.
Message {cattery} under another seller's note opens a message to them about that buyer. The conversation between the two of you starts when you send it, and is then listed under Conversations with sellers on your Inquiries page. The buyer never sees it.
Keep a note honest and about the sale. The buyer can ask Purry to review the notes about them, and Purry removes a note that is untrue, unfair or breaks the rules; a removed note cannot be written again.
Withdrawing and deleting
Withdraw asks why: Found a home elsewhere marks it Found a home with nobody named, and Taking a break makes it Withdrawn, ready to Relist whenever you like.
Delete takes a draft away at once, and a published or withdrawn listing after you confirm. It is not possible once a listing has a conversation, a reservation, a waitlist place or a review, or has found a home: withdraw it instead.
Alerts
Most breeds have nobody listing them on a given day, so every breed page carries an email alert. When you publish a cat, everyone waiting for that breed, and for that breed in your state, hears about it in the next morning's email. Members who saved your cattery see it in their Alerts.
That is one reason to list a breed nobody else has: the people waiting for it are already on the list.
Hidden pending review
Anyone can report a photo on Purry, on a listing, a cat's page or your site's gallery, if they believe it is theirs or that it does not show your cat. A person at Purry reads every report. If it looks right, we hide the photo while we review it: it disappears from Purry and your cattery site, its link stops working, and we email you to say which photo and why. We never tell you who reported it.
In your dashboard the photo stays where it was, marked Hidden pending review, and nothing else about the listing changes. If the photo is yours, or you have the right to use it, press Ask for it back on that tag and say why in a sentence or two: it goes to the person reviewing the report, the tag changes to Review requested, and you can ask once for each hidden photo. You can also replace it with one of your own. A formal copyright notice or counter-notice goes through our Copyright page.