Luvvapet is built to keep adoption, rehoming, selling, and pet services clearer and safer. These standards set the baseline for papers-required selling, adoption-only rehoming, required documents, and behavior that is not allowed.
Baseline
Pet sale listings must have recognized association papers before they are treated as marketplace-ready. Pets without papers may not be sold on Luvvapet.
Allowed
Marketplace access is for approved sellers only. Identity review comes first, and public business identity may require separate business verification.
Higher trust
BAI certification is a seller-level trust badge for qualified sellers. Pet papers are still required at the listing level.
Not allowed
Backyard breeding sales, undocumented litters, and commercial pet sales without recognized papers are not allowed in the marketplace flow.
Priority
Adoption and rehoming stay prominent so rescue, foster, and rehoming paths remain visible and separate from selling.
Required
Adoption-only access still requires identity review so rehoming and placement can happen with clearer accountability.
Not allowed
PawMatch adoption must stay free. Requests for deposits, reservation fees, transfer payments, or payment-first handoffs should be reported.
Separation
Adoption and rehoming cannot be used to avoid the papers-required selling rule. Sale prices, deposits, and commercial breeding claims belong outside PawMatch.
Allowed
Service profiles are for real clinics, groomers, trainers, pet transport providers, and other legitimate pet-care businesses.
Required
If a service category requires permits, credentials, or other legal proof, those documents must be provided during provider review.
Review
Some documents apply to the whole provider profile. Others are required only for the selected service categories.
Visibility
Trust cues appear on login, listings, seller pages, service pages, and workspaces so users can see context before taking action.
Review
Upgrades and Pro features do not bypass seller, provider, identity, document, or listing-level paper review requirements.
Goal
Standards should stay compact, readable, and direct instead of becoming heavy legal walls or dashboard overload.
