A free commonplace account is available for individuals and businesses. The free account allows you to create up to 3 Places and with up to 17 pages each. You can upload or import up to 100 Items and collect an unlimited number of Items from commonplace.

Account upgrades will be available in the near future. Contact us if your requirements exceed the limits of the free account.

Here are just a few of the things commonplace Members have created.

• Collector Showcase
• Gallery & Community Wall
• Group Meet up Space
• Personalized Catalogs
• Wish List

• Online Store Window
• Custom Catalog
• Group, Club or Community
• Personal Sales Channel
• Showcase, Showroom or Gallery

1. Type your current password.
2. Type the new password.
3. Enter the password a second time.
4. Click Save Changes.

1. Enter your new email address.
2. Retype your new email address.
3. Enter your commonplace password.
4. Click Save Changes.

1. Click Forgot Password beneath the Login button
2. Type your email address in the field
3. Click Reset Password

• Public and private Places with Participants are expired and remain for others to view
• Public and private Places without Participants are deleted
• Offline and disabled Places are deleted
• Places without participants will be deleted

• All comments remain

• Collections with subscribers remain
• Collections without subscribers are deleted
• Unpublished Collections are deleted
• Items collected or contributed remain
• Items not collected or contributed are deleted
• Unlisted, disabled or retracted Items are deleted

The fields on the Basic Information page captures a little bit about who and where you are. Some of the information on this page may displayed on your profile. You choose what to make public. When you are finished editing the information, click Save Changes at the bottom of the page.

1. Click Browse.

   Find a picture that you’d like to use. You can use jpg, gif or png files. When you’ve located a picture file,

2. Click Upload Picture.

   The picture you selected appears with a selection rectangle. You can drag the handles on the rectangle to crop the image and drag the rectangle to reposition it.

3. Select the portion of the picture you wish to display.

4. Click Make Picture.

The new image appears on your profile page.

You can click the Best Fit link and let commonplace crop the image for you, too.

Activity settings let you determine which of your activities on commonplace appear in public activity feeds. You can also select which member activities appear in your activity feed.

1. Click the “+” link on the blue navigation bar at the top of the page.
2. Select Create Place from the pull down menu. The Create Place form appears.
3. Fill out the Create Place form and click Save Settings button. The Place and settings will be saved, but your Place will not be launched yet. To publish your Places immediately, click Launch Now.

• Who can view your Place
• How Members join your Place
• Who can add pages to your Place
• Who can contribute Items to a Place page
• Whether you will share your Collections with other Participants
• Whether Items in your Place can be collected
• Who can add comments to your Place
• Whether your Place will expire at a specific time/date

1. Members are not required to join
2. Members are required to join
3. Members must send a request to join to the Place host
4. Members must receive an invitation from the host to join

1. Click Manage on the My Places tab.
2. Click Cover in the left column.
3. Click Browse to find an image on your local hard disk.
4. Click Upload

• Visitors cannot enter your Place
• Those currently in the Place are sent to the Place cover
• The Place cover displays a Place offline message
• The Place appears in search results
• Notification of offline status is sent to Place participants
• The Place host can add and delete pages, contribute move and remove Items while the Place is offline

1. Assuming you have permission, you can collect an Item by,
2. Click an Item to display the badges beneath the Item.
3. Click the collect badge. It’s the one that looks like a suitcase.

1. Click Contribute in the lower left corner of the Place. The Contribute Pane opens and your collections appear in the list. Even if you haven’t made a Collection, there’s a collection that’s been set up for you.
2. Choose the Collection creator from the pull down menu.
3. Select the Collection and drag an Item from the collection into the Place. A red X indicates that your Item cannot be dropped outside the bounds of the Place.

1. Click the Invite a Friend tab.
2. Click the Guests radio button.
3. Click the webmail address books to import your email contacts to the Invite a Friend email field.
4. Click Send Email.

1. Click Invite a Friend.
2. Click the Members radio button.
3. Click each friend’s thumbnail to select them. You can type a personal message in the field below.
4. Click Send Invitations at the bottom of the page.

1. Go to the Place page of the Place you want to embed.
2. Click the Embed tab beneath the Place.
3. Select the Place dimension, 100% or 50%.
4. Copy the embed script from the field.
5. Paste the embed script into your web page HTML source or add it to your blog.

1. Click Manage Place. The manage Place page appears.
2. click Delete Place

1. On the my Places page, click Delete Place.
2. Click Transfer Ownership.
3. Select Show Participants or Show Friends from the pull down menu.
4. Click the checkbox next to the Participant(s) or Friend(s) to whom you wish to transfer the Place.
5. Click Send Request.
6. Type a personal message if you wish.
7. Click Send Request.

1. Click the plus sign in the navigation bar.
   A pull down menu appears.
2. Choose New Collection.
   The New Collection page appears.
3. Fill out the Collection detail fields with a Collection name, description and tags.
4. Choose to make your Collection public or private.
   Select Published, anyone can view and subscribe to this Collection if you want to let others view your Collection. Select Unpublished, only you can view this Collection of you do not want to allow others to see your Collection.
5. Click Create Collection.

1. Find the Collection you want to edit and click Edit Items.
   Each Item has a radio button that you can click to select the cover of your Collection. Find the Item you’d like to use as a Collection cover and,
2. Click the Collection Cover radio button
3. Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page.

• All Collection information will be permanently removed.
• Members who collected Items added by you will retain their collected Items.

1. Click an Item in a Place to reveal the Item badges.
2. Click the collect badge beneath the Item. The collect badge looks like a suitcase.
   A pull down menu appears that lists all of your Collections.
   
3. Choose a Collection from the pull down menu.When you choose a Collection, a message appears at the bottom of the Place confirming your action. This action is added to the Place’s activity feed.
   

1. Click the collect link that appears in the Item record.
2. The collect link appears when the Item is collectable. Once you click the link, the collect overlay appears.
3. Choose a Collection name from the pull down menu.
4. Click Collect Item

To import an Item,
1. Click the + link on the navigation bar.
   A pull down menu appears.
2. Choose Add Items.
   The Add Items to Collection page appears.
   The tabs across the top of the page allow you to import Items from a web address, eBay, Esty or from a hard disc you have access to. The import options vary according to the source you choose.

1. Choose one of your Collections from the pull down menu.
2. Type in the URL of a specific image or all of the images on a page.
   (www.websitename.com)
   
   You can use the Results per page drop down menu to choose how many Items to show on the page.
3. Click Submit.
   commonplace will try to import all of the image files associated with that URL. To import a specific image, use the URL associated with that image file. You can also selectively add Items once the Items appear.
   
   Take the time to fill out the Item’s metadata. Giving it a meaningful name, short description and tags will make it easier for other commonplace Members to find. You can Import all of the Items on the page by clicking Import all 9 Items. To import Items selectively,
4. Click Add Item for each Item on the page you’d like to import.
   You can click the page numbers at the bottom of the page to see additional Items that may have been imported. Make sure you import the Items you’ve added metadata to before going to the next page.

1. Choose one of your Collections from the pull down menu.
   You can search eBay by Keyword, eBay Store Name and Keyword, eBay Seller ID and Category or the eBay Item Number and Category. You can choose one your search option from the Import Items by searching eBay pull down menu.
   Once you’ve filled in the field(s) and selected a category,

2. Click Search.
   The eBay Items that match your search parameters will be displayed on the page below the search button.

1. Click the Etsy tab.
2. Choose a Collection for the Items you intend to import.
3. Choose how to search Etsy.

1. Click the my Computer tab.
   
   The my Computer tab allows you to add up to 10 files to a list of files to upload.
2. Select the Collection you wish to add the Items to.
   Click Add Files.
3. Select up to 10 files to add.
4. Click Upload Selected Files.

1. Click the my Collections tab.
2. Click the name of the Collection you wish to edit.
3. Click View Item.
   The Item detail page appears.

4. Click Remove
5. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Delete
6. Click Delete Item
   When you delete an Item, all collectors including yourself will permanently lose access to it within their Places and Collections. You can also remove, retract or disable an Item.

1. Click Collect.
   A drop down menu appears.

2. Select the Collection to which you wish to add the Item.
   You can add it to published or unpublished Collections.

3. Click Collect Item.
4. Click Close.

1. Click the Item details icon.
2. The Place shrinks and the Item detail screen appears.
3. Click Edit Item on the Details tab.
   Edit the fields that you’d like to change.

4. Click I’m Done Viewing.

1. Click your name at the top of the page to go to your Profile.
2. Click Edit Profile.
3. Click Privacy and Activity in the left column.

• Messages you’ve received from other Members
• Messages you’ve sent
• Friend requests you’ve received
• Friend requests you’ve sent
• Invitations to Places
• Requests to join Places you’ve sent
• Requests to transfer Place host

1. Click Compose New Message
2. Title the message.
3. Write your message.
4. Address the message.
5. Click Send Message.

1. Click the Block This Person link at the top of the page.
   A confirmation page appears.

2. Click Block User.

You can unblock people by clicking Unblock This Person.

To report a Member,
1. Click the Flag this person link on the offender’s Profile page.
   
2. Select a reason for your report
3. Describe the miscreant’s actions
4. Click Send Report