Guide

Private, Showcase, marketplace: who can see your work

Published 23 September 2026 — Your collection

Everything you register on Veriroo is private until you decide otherwise. There is no step where something becomes visible because you forgot to stop it. This is the piece of the platform worth understanding early, because it is the one people worry about.

Level one: private

The default. The piece is in your collection, it has a full record, it builds provenance, it can hold a certificate, and nobody else can see any of it.

A private piece is not a lesser piece. It has the same record as a public one. Private only means it is not on display.

Level two: Showcase

Showcase is the public space for enjoying art rather than buying it. Any registered user can switch a piece on to it, collector or artist, which is unusual and deliberate: a collection is worth looking at whether or not the person who owns it made the work.

A piece on Showcase shows the artwork, its trust status and its provenance signals. It does not show your identity unless you choose to reveal it, and it never shows prices. If the piece also happens to be for sale, there is a quiet For sale link and nothing more.

Switching it on is one toggle on the item, and switching it off removes it from public view immediately.

Your own public artist gallery page, the one at your own address with your name on it, is a separate thing and needs Artist Pro. Showcase itself does not.

Level three: the marketplace

Listing a piece for sale is the point at which price becomes public, because a buyer cannot evaluate a listing without it. The royalty percentage is public too, so buyers can see how the artist is supported. After a sale completes the sold price is recorded on the item's record, and the owner can choose whether that shows on the public verify page.

This is the level people hesitate over, and the honest summary is that a marketplace listing is a public offer and behaves like one.

What stays private at every level

Personal data is kept minimal, and your identity is pseudonymised on public pages unless you opt in to showing it. Public views show what you chose to make visible and nothing behind it.

Your address is not shared at the point it is used for shipping estimates, and forensic evidence on a piece stays private to the artist even after the work is sold. Those both have their own guides, because they are the two that most often surprise people.

A note on removing things

Removing an item from your collection changes what you see in your account. It does not erase the underlying verification record, and it is not meant to: a record that could be deleted by whoever currently holds the piece would not be worth anything to the next person. This is the same reason images cannot simply be swapped out after the fact.