What you get
- A page on this site for your brokerage, with your listings, your attribution and your own website linked.
- Every listing shown as you published it, with your named broker's real phone number and email on it.
- A verification mirror: your listings exactly as any partner receives them, with the document itself one click away.
- Changes on your side reflected here within the hour. Withdrawals too.
What it takes
1. Run a node
Your listings need to be published from a server that speaks OpenYacht. The
protocol site links the reference
implementation and the plugin for sites built on WordPress; a brokerage with its own listings
system can implement the specification directly. Either way your server publishes a signed
feed of your listings and a small document at /.well-known/openyacht naming your
node and its signing key.
2. Partner with the demo node
Partnering is a handshake between two nodes: yours offers, the demo node's operator accepts, and each side verifies the other's key from its well-known document. There is nothing to register on this site; it follows the node.
3. Check your page
From the next build your brokerage appears under Partners with what the node holds from you: your listings, your key fingerprint, when the node last heard from you and how many listings changed in the last thirty days.
What this site will not do with your listings
- Rank, feature or promote them, or anyone else's.
- Put a form, a gateway or an enquiry tracker between your broker and a buyer.
- Keep a copy you have withdrawn, or use a photograph beyond the listing's own page unless your usage terms allow it.
- Claim your inventory as its own, or describe the node's holdings as a market.
Get in touch
The demo node is run by the people who maintain the protocol. Everything about it is public:
the node's own address is demo-node.openyacht.org, and the way to reach its operator is
through openyacht.org.