What you get with a Promoted listing.

Send the sign-up form on the For businesses page (business name, phone, website and email), choose Promoted, then press Subscribe. A person reads your website, works out your category, the jobs you do and the towns you cover, and builds your listing. Already in the directory? Use the claim form instead and choose Promoted.

By monthly subscription through Stripe's secure checkout: Apple Pay, Google Pay or card, where your device supports them, £4.99 a month. The checkout asks for your email and business name, so use the same email address as on the form; that is how we match your payment to your listing. We never take card details by phone or email.

Within one working day of us seeing your payment. Nothing is automated: a person matches the payment to your form by email, adds your logo, photos, website, phone, hours, description and service points, publishes your profile page and emails you when it's live. Your free Aide report follows by email.

Your logo (square or wordmark; WebP, SVG or PNG), up to 8 photos with a short caption each, up to 20 service points of up to 80 characters, a description of up to 2,000 characters in as many paragraphs as you like, the towns you cover (or all of Lincolnshire), your website, phone number and opening hours. Reply to the sign-up or payment email, or write to hello@lincsdirectory.co.uk, with the files attached and the text in the message; there is no upload form. We resize photos (max 1,600 pixels wide, under 400 KB), read the text, and put it live within one working day. Plain words, no prices in the service points; we may ask you to change wording that is misleading or unsuitable.

Yes, any time: from the link in Stripe's receipt emails, through the claim form, or by emailing hello@lincsdirectory.co.uk. There is no minimum term. Your listing stays Promoted until the end of the month you've paid for, then goes back to free; your name, area, category and ratings stay. We don't refund part of a month unless the law requires it, and we give at least 30 days' notice of any price change.

Join through the For businesses form. We create your free listing first (usually within a few days) and, if you chose Promoted, switch the extras on once your payment shows. You can also start free and upgrade later through the claim form.

If you work from home or travel to the job we show the towns you cover instead of an address. A free listing covers your home area, up to 3 towns. A Promoted listing covers as many of the 22 Lincolnshire towns as you serve, or the whole county (shown as “Covers all of Lincolnshire”), and appears on each of those towns' pages and job pages for your category. Tell us the towns on the sign-up or claim form; you can change them any time.

Your business name, your category, your address or the towns you cover (up to 3), a pin on the map, customer ratings, and, when you add or claim the listing yourself, one line about your business (up to 100 characters), up to 3 service bullets and a short description of about five lines (up to 400 characters), all in your words and read by us before they appear, an “Added by the business” tag and an Update details link. Listings built from public records show the name, address and category only until the business claims them.

By email. When someone sends a Get local help request for a job you do in a town you cover, or presses Request a quote on your listing, the request comes to LincsDirectory first. A person reads it and passes it on as an email marked “Lead from LincsDirectory”, with the customer's details and what they need. Promoted businesses that cover the job and town get requests first. Free listings get a forwarded request only when no Promoted business covers that job and town (a fallback). We aim to pass requests on within one working day. We can't promise how many you'll get, and being listed is not a recommendation; the customer deals with you directly.