how to add a new business listing for free?
click on “add new business listing” button in the menu bar and you will find a form for submission of listing details. just fill this form and click the “submit listing” button at the end.
to make it easier, we have provided an import tool at the beginning of the form. in the text box there, you can either insert a url (link) for official facebook or tripadvisor page of the business. then just click the “import details” button. many of the details will get imported into this form. you will need to add the remaining detail. you can also drag images to re-arrange their order.
click on “add new business listing” button in the menu bar and you will find a form for submission of listing details. just fill this form and click the “submit listing” button at the end. not really. you don’t need to register / sign up with green business pages to search and access its database. you can avail this crucial service as a guest visitor too.
however, signing up an account gives you several additional features like bookmarking a listing, publishing a list of your chosen business listings (as a publicly visible or private collection), a dedicated dashboard with your profile photo, cover picture, an easily accessible collection of all your favourites, all reviews made by you, listings submitted by you, lists, subscriptions and invoices. you can also print and pay your pending invoices from your user dashboard. if you’re a new user, you would need to create a user account to access your dashboard. you can click on “sign in” text at top right corner or click “login” menu in the navigation menu-bar.
a small form will open in the window (as shown in image above). if you want to signup with any of your existing social media credentials, click the logo of your social media (given under login via social” and authorize with your password. you can always login to green business pages with the same social media account. otherwise, click “create account” and fill up the form. click the word “reviews” near the star rating in the right sidebar to open the review & rating interface. here you can submit your review and rate your experience with the business or read others’ reviews. you can also access this section by clicking the “reviews” tab. tabs are below the sliding images and just below the list of categories. “reviews” tab should be on the right side of tabs like description, photos, map etc.
if you are on mobile, click on “description” tab and then select “reviews” from the dropdown:
n.b.: you can add reviews and ratings without even creating an account. but you won’t get an organized collection of those in your personal dashboard, without signing up. yes, you can collapse and expand that window on the right of the map by tapping on the compress & expand icons placed at the bottom of category & title window as shown below:
click to collapse as shown above.
click / tap to expand as shown above. green business pages is on a mission to give limelight to only those businesses that sincerely work, produce & deliver to specifically facilitate vegan, organic, chemical-free or sustainable living for consumers. so we do not enlist any business or professional that does not make any extra effort towards this cause. in the absence of any reliable source, evidence or public knowledge, we merely trust the claims made by a business. if there is no such expressed claim by the business, we insist them to sign a written declaration in this regard. a potential consumers may also get an idea by going through other customers’ individual reviews and feedback for a business. we also take customers’ feedback and complaints seriously and investigate it on our own. we welcome all vegan businesses to our directory irrespective of their sustainability level. we also put a green “100% vegan” sticker & label prominently on such business listings to make them more conspicuous for the vegan community. we believe veganism to be highly sustainable stance though we would also like to encourage them for adopting sustainable practices in packaging, logistics and using chemical-free ingredients to make themselves more acceptable by our wider community.
we enlist all vegan businesses that adopts sustainable practice under “sustainably vegan” category in addition to vegan category. sustainably vegan businesses get a wider audience as they are sought after by vegan as well as sustainability loving community. yes, if your business explicitly label your vegan products as “vegan” and/or non-vegan products are segregated to make it easier for vegans. additionally, vegan products should make up a significant part of your product portfolio or revenue, we would love to have you in our directory. however, we don’t enlist such businesses in “vegan” category but assign them “vegan friendly” category instead.
also, vegan-friendly products and services are more than welcomed to be listed on green business pages. we provide a specially coloured “vegan friendly” badge to all such listings to make them stand out to give more visibility to your business. businesses offering organic products are welcome to be listed on green business pages. we also provide a distinct "organic" label to all organic & chemical-free businesses. but organic animal products like free-range chicken or eggs, grass-fed beef, ahimsa milk, forest harvested honey or organic meat etc. won’t be listed irrespective of their sustainability arguments. “recommended” banner and other custom banners are put up only on paid listings. please get in touch with our sales team to know more about it. your business may already be listed on green business pages by our own team or one of our website users. to manage, edit and upgrade that listing, you will first need to claim its ownership.
to claim your listing, you need to first search your business listing and go to your listing page (after signing in to your account). in the right side-bar, scroll down a little to “is this your business?” section. there you can click on “claim your listing” button and follow further instructions as you proceed. simply go to the "add new business listing" page from the menu bar and fill your business details in the form and click submit listing button at the bottom.
(check more details in login & signup section of faqs or get in touch with us). yes. green business pages does not believe in accumulating business leads and then re-distributing them to preferred businesses. unlike many other business directories, at green business pages, we believe in total transparency and fair play. hence we have designed our system in such a way that any visitors can communicate to you directly through phone, whatsapp, email, your website or contact form provided on your listing page. we don’t mediate to re-allocate business responses and leads to favour any particular business. at green business pages, everything is as transparent as it can get. yes, we welcome addition of free listings to our database for the benefit of green business pages community if that doesn’t already exist in our database. any user can add a business listing, if he / she knows the business well and is sure about its adherence to the sustainability principles. you must also have the required business details for submitting it for our approval.
but only the actual business owner or its authorized representative can claim that listing to manage it later on. to make it easier, we have provided an import tool at the beginning of the form. in the text box there, you can either insert a url (link) for official facebook or tripadvisor page of the business. then just click the “import details” button. many of the details will get imported into this form. you will need to add the remaining detail. you can also drag images to re-arrange their order. at the right end of the address field, you will find a small road-circle geolocation icon. just click on it when you’re at office and it will automatically fill your address and put it on the map. you can pin-point your location on the map by manually dragging the pin, if it’s not accurate.
if you are inserting your address manually, first select the state and then city from the dropdown. now before filling your complete address, click this button (set address on map):
now proceed to fill complete address, pin etc. and drag the pin on map to your exact location. click on the city dropdown and add your city name in the text box there. it will be added to our database on your submission. you can add multiple categories to your listing in the same box.
if you want to add a new category that doesn’t yet exist on our website, please get in touch with our team through “contact us” page yes, this is a premium feature. select a paid package and you will see an image box to upload your business logo there.