Getting Started

• Saving searches and using your watchlist

  Save a search to get alerts on new matches, choose how often you are notified, and use the watchlist to follow individual listings.Popular

• Finding animals: search, filters, and distance

  Every filter and facet on the Creatures marketplace, what each one does, and how distance search works.Some readers

• Before you bid or buy: verification and payment

  What you set up once before your first purchase: a verified phone number, a saved payment method, and ID verification where it is required.Few readers

Bidding & Buying

• How auctions and bidding work

  Everything about auctions: starting bid, reserve, buy-now, the bid increment table, the 5% hold per bid, proxy (automatic) bidding, sniping protection, and winning.Popular

• Paying with Wallet, Credit, and ACH

  Each payment method explained, the Credit-then-Wallet-then-method order Creatures applies automatically, and how an ACH bank transfer clears.Popular

• Buyer applications: what they are and how to apply

  What a buyer application is, why a seller requires one, how to fill out the form, and how approval unlocks buying or bidding on that listing.Some readers

• Making an offer on a listing

  Propose a price on a fixed-price listing: the amount, an optional message, what the seller can do (accept, decline, or withdraw, with no counter), and how an accepted offer goes to checkout.Some readers

• Reserving from a breeder: applications and deposits

  How buyer-side reservations on count groups work: the interest, priority, and specific tiers, refundable deposits held by Creatures, and how a deposit applies to your final balance.Few readers

• How buying works: payments, held funds, and protection

  The canonical money article: you pay, Creatures holds the funds, you confirm delivery, the seller is paid. Plus the 5% buyer fee and how your purchase is protected.Few readers

• Buying at a fixed price

  How to buy a fixed-price listing: the listing page, any approval gate, boarding and delivery add-ons, and checkout with funds held until you confirm delivery.Few readers

• Keeping your purchase private

  The checkout choice to keep an animal you buy private: what it hides (the animal, search, your profile, the feed post, and sale alerts), what stays the same, and how the sale still appears as an anonymized price comparison.Few readers

• Using your cart: buy multiple animals or genetics in one checkout

  Add several animals or genetics to your cart and pay for everything in one secure checkout, even across different sellers, with Credit and Wallet applied automatically.Few readers

• Applying to a breeder's program: waitlists and offers

  Join a breeder's waitlist before a litter or group exists: the free program application, your numbered place in line, the time-limited offer when a place opens, and how withdrawing works.Few readers

After the Sale

• Receiving your animal and confirming delivery

  The three ways an animal reaches you, how to track it, and why confirming delivery is the step that releases the seller's payment.Popular

• I won an auction: what happens next

  After you win: completing checkout, what happens to your bid hold, and stepping into the held-funds delivery process.Few readers

• When does the seller get paid? Your role as the buyer

  Confirming delivery is what releases the seller's payment, with no fixed post-delivery delay. Plus a note on the seller's one-time 7-day first-sale hold.Few readers

• The health guarantee and if your animal arrives sick

  What the health guarantee means in practice, what to do if the animal arrives sick or not as described, and how reporting a problem keeps your funds held while it is sorted out.Few readers

• Reporting a problem with your purchase (disputes and the objection window)

  How to confirm a handoff, use your pickup code, and report a problem so your payment stays held while Creatures reviews it, plus what the objection window means.Few readers

• Paying outside Creatures

  Why paying a seller off-platform is discouraged, what protection you give up, and the off-platform transfer facilitation fee if a sale is still recorded on Creatures.Few readers