How Listings Get Onto Homjo
Almost every listing on Homjo was posted by the person behind it — someone letting a room, selling a sofa, offering a service, organising an event. A small number are not, and this page is about those.
Homjo records, on every listing, where that listing actually came from. This page explains what those origins are, what each one commits us to, and what the software refuses to do regardless of what anyone here would prefer.
Homjo sells nothing
Homjo is a marketplace, not a shop. We own no inventory, we hold no stock, we provide none of the services advertised here, and we are not the counterparty on any arrangement made through the site. When you deal with someone on Homjo, you are dealing with them.
There is one origin value in the software — house — for the case where Homjo itself would be the seller, and a Provided by Homjo label that would appear on any such listing. Homjo is not selling anything of its own, so that machinery sits unused. If that ever changes, the label appears before the listing does, and our Terms change with it.
The five origins
Every listing carries exactly one of these.
| Origin | What it means | What you see on the listing |
|---|---|---|
| Organic | The person behind the listing posted it themselves. This is the default and the overwhelming majority. | Nothing. A real person's listing is never marked second-class. |
| House | Homjo is the seller or provider. Unused — see above. | Provided by Homjo, plus a panel explaining that your agreement would be with Homjo. |
| Concierge | Homjo posted the listing on behalf of a named real provider, with their written permission. | [the provider’s name] — listed by Homjo with their permission, plus a panel explaining that your agreement is with the provider, not with Homjo. |
| Partner | Content sourced from a third-party feed. Never transactable. | Nothing — because nothing is sourced this way. Partner content is excluded from search, browse and every other discovery surface. |
| Demo | Sample content used to check how something renders. | Example listing, and only the account that owns it can see it. It never appears in public results. |
Listings we hold for a provider
Some good local providers are not on Homjo yet. Where one is happy for us to, we put their listing up so you can find them. That is the concierge origin, and it is the only case where a listing on Homjo is held by someone other than the person who will do the work.
The label names the provider, not us
A concierge listing reads "X — listed by Homjo with their permission", naming the provider first. That is deliberate and it is the whole point: on a listing we hold, the provider is the counterparty and you should know their name before you contact them, not after. We do not publish a listing that says only "Listed by Homjo" — a label that named us and not them would hide the person you are actually dealing with. Where we cannot name the provider, we show no label and publish nothing.
We ask first, and the database checks that we did
Yelp and Google create business listings with no permission at all: a business discovers a page about itself already published and has to go and claim it. Homjo does not work that way, and it is not a matter of intent. A concierge listing cannot be created without two things recorded on it — the provider's name, and a reference to their written permission on file. A row missing either is rejected by the database (listings_concierge_needs_provider_and_consent). The database will not store the row otherwise, which is what turns “ask first” into something the software enforces rather than something we remember.
We also do not copy anyone's listing from anywhere. We may notice a provider advertising elsewhere and contact them, openly, as Homjo — but the words and photographs on a concierge listing are the ones the provider gave us, licensed by them for this purpose. Nothing is scraped or republished.
Permission runs out on purpose
Permission to list someone is not permanent. Each concierge listing records when permission was given and when it lapses, and a re-confirmation date is set in advance. When permission lapses, the listing stops being published. It does not stay up pending a tidy-up: an hourly sweep unpublishes lapsed listings, and a separate rule in the database's read policy hides an expired listing from everyone but its owner in the meantime. A listing whose permission has expired is not a listing we are entitled to keep showing, and "X — listed by Homjo with their permission" would be an untrue sentence sitting on a public page.
We do not hold home or room listings this way at all: concierge is refused outright on the Stay pillar. That is a deliberate hold while we take advice on how Ireland's property-services rules apply to holding a letting on someone else's behalf. If that advice says the restriction is unnecessary, this page changes with it.
These listings get no advantage, and cannot buy one
- They are not ranked higher. Search and browse are ordered by the sort you choose — newest, price, distance, departure time, event date — and by nothing else. There is no term in that ordering for who owns a listing or where it came from. The full disclosure is on How listings are ranked.
- They can never be Boosted. Boost is our paid visibility product, described on Advertising & Boost. All three ways of obtaining a Boost — paying for one, redeeming a coupon, and using a plan's monthly credit — refuse any listing that is not organic. The free coupon route is included on purpose, because it is the one that would have left no payment record behind.
- Reviews belong to the provider. A rating left after a job on a concierge listing is credited to the provider who did the work. It does not build a public reputation for Homjo, and it is not counted in any score shown for us.
If a listing here is yours
You can have it taken down, and you do not have to give a reason. Email support@homjo.com from any address we already correspond with you on, or reply to the thread where you gave permission. We aim to unpublish within 72 hours of receiving the request, and we will confirm when it is done. Withdrawing permission at any point ends the arrangement — permission you gave once is not permission you owe us later.
Taking the listing over into your own account is not something you can do yourself. There is no claim button, and we are not going to describe one that does not exist. What we commit to today is the removal above. Where we can hand a listing to you instead of taking it down we will, once we have confirmed we are talking to the right person — a call back to the contact details on your own advert, checked against the permission we hold. That is a case-by-case conversation, not a feature you can use, and we would rather say so than let a button-shaped promise sit here. If that changes, this page changes with it.
What we do not do
To be plain about the negatives, because a list of what a platform does is only half of it:
- We do not sell anything ourselves, and we are not a party to arrangements made here.
- We do not create listings for businesses that have not agreed to be listed.
- We do not copy listing text or photographs from other platforms.
- We do not give our own or held listings better placement, and we cannot buy them any.
- We do not accrue reviews or ratings from work someone else performed.
- We do not keep a held listing published once permission has lapsed or been withdrawn.
Questions
Write to support@homjo.com for anything about a listing we hold, or legal@homjo.com for anything about this page. Other addresses, and what each is for, are on Contact Homjo.
Version 1.1 · Published 23 August 2026 · Updated 2 September 2026