How Flipns works

From opening the app to money in hand, most items take about a minute of your attention to list and however long the right buyer takes to turn up.

• Photograph it — Open the sell flow and add a few pictures in decent light. That is the only part nobody can do for you, and it is the part that decides whether the listing sells.
• Let the assistant write it — Flipns reads the photos and drafts the title, the description, the category, a condition grade and a suggested asking price. Selling something with a product page online? Paste the link and it reads the specifications and images off that too.
• Check it and publish — Change anything you disagree with — the price especially, since only you know what you will accept. Publishing is free. Once published and active, your listing has a public page and can appear in Flipns browsing and search. Search-engine indexing is separate and is not guaranteed.
• Answer buyers and agree a price — Buyers message you in Flipns chat and can send structured offers you accept, decline or counter. Reply quickly; on a local marketplace the seller who answers first usually gets the deal.
• Meet, hand it over, get paid — Agree somewhere public. Confirm the money has actually arrived in your own banking or UPI app before you hand the item over — a payment screenshot proves nothing. Then rate each other.

Buying needs no account at all until you want to message somebody. Browsing, searching, the map and every category and city page are open to anyone.

• Find it — Search, browse the local feed, or open the map to see what is near you. Search understands what an item is as well as what it is called, so a description that never uses your exact words can still be the right answer.
• Check who is selling it — Open the seller's profile before you message. It shows how long they have been on Flipns, their rating from completed deals, and whether a moderator has reviewed a government ID for them.
• Message and make an offer — Ask your questions in Flipns chat and send a price if you want to negotiate. Keep it in the app — a logged conversation is what lets moderators act if anything goes wrong, which is exactly why a scammer's first move is to ask you to move.
• Inspect it in person — Meet somewhere busy in daylight and check the item properly before any money moves. For electronics ask for the bill and the IMEI; for a vehicle check the papers.
• Pay the seller directly — You pay the person, not the platform, once the item is in your hands. Never pay an advance, a booking amount or a delivery charge to somebody you have not met, and never share a one-time password.

Flipns is a classifieds marketplace: it introduces two people and gives them somewhere to agree terms. It does not process payment for items, hold money in escrow, or arrange shipping or delivery. The handover is between you.

That boundary is worth knowing precisely, because almost every marketplace scam in India works by convincing somebody that the platform is standing behind a transaction it has no part in. Nobody from Flipns will ever ask you for a one-time password, a UPI PIN or a card number.

If someone tells you Flipns is holding a payment, releasing funds, or guaranteeing a delivery, that is not how the product works and you are being set up.

Both sides rate each other, and both ratings are public. A seller builds a reputation that converts the next buyer; a buyer builds one that gets them taken seriously — someone who repeatedly fails to turn up has a history too.

If something went wrong, report it from the listing or the conversation. Reports escalate to moderators automatically once a target crosses a threshold, and takedowns leave an audit trail. You can also block someone outright without waiting for anyone to act.

Nothing. Creating an account, browsing, searching, messaging, making offers, listing and selling are all free, and Flipns takes no commission when something sells.

Credits are optional and pay only for extras a seller may want: 10 credits to feature a listing for a day, 8 to bump it back to the top, 0.25 to forward a buyer's message to WhatsApp. Pack prices are shown at checkout. Eligible new accounts receive the welcome credits shown in the app.