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How to list your plate

Listing is free, with no time limit and no commission.

Selling a personalised plate on PlateYard is quick and free. Here's what you need. List your plate free.

What it costs

  • Basic listing: free, forever. No commission either — buyers pay you directly.
  • Featured (optional, coming soon): NZ$9.95 for 30 days. Your plate will appear in the home page Featured row with a Featured label.

Before you start

You'll need:

  • The plate combination (up to 6 characters) and the style (standard white, black & silver, white on black, red on white, euro band or silver fern).
  • Whether you have the physical plates, or just the right to the combination (e.g. a certificate of entitlement that hasn't been made into plates yet).
  • That you're the person entitled to the plate. If it's in someone else's name (a partner, a company), they'll need to be the seller or sign the transfer. When you list, you'll tick "I am the registered holder or am entitled to sell this plate" (we record when you did).
  • Whether it's Plates made (physical plates exist) or Entitlement only / unknown (plates not made yet, or you're not sure). This is shown on your listing.
  • Your asking price, or "make an offer".

Writing the listing

  • Say what the plate means or why it's special (e.g. "BAKER — great for a bakery van").
  • Be upfront about condition and whether plates are already made.
  • Don't put your phone, email or address in the listing. Buyers contact you through PlateYard messages, which keeps you safe.

Pricing tips

  • Look at similar plates and the sold list on PlateYard, and what's sold elsewhere. Short, clean words, names and number-only plates usually go for more.
  • Our price checker gives an estimate only — it's not a formal valuation or appraisal.
  • Pricing a little above your bottom line leaves room for offers.

Offers

Turn Open to offers off if you only want your asking price; buyers then see Message seller but not Make an offer. Offers arrive in your inbox, where you can mark each one Accepted, Declined or Pending. That's a note for you and the buyer, not a binding contract, and it doesn't mark the plate sold.

When it sells

Agree the price with the buyer and who goes first: the buyer pays first (wait for cleared funds), or you transfer first (only with a buyer you've checked). Then complete the Transfer of Entitlement form. See our transfer guide. Then mark the listing sold in your dashboard.

PlateYard is an independent marketplace. We're not affiliated with, or endorsed by, NZTA (Waka Kotahi), KiwiPlates or LicenSys.