How it works
Every step,
start to finish.
Two journeys through the same marketplace. Pick the one you are on.
- 01
Create your account
Email or Apple, under a minute. Choose detectorist when it asks, and the app sets itself up around finding land rather than listing it.
- 02
Build your profile
Name, photograph, roughly where you are based and what you swing. A landowner sees this when you ask for a day on their ground, and a filled-in profile gets accepted a great deal more often than an empty one.
- 03
Verify your identity
A government document and a selfie, checked by our verification provider. The documents are held by the provider and never by us. Nothing is bookable until it clears, because the whole reason landowners list is that the person who turns up is accountable.
- 04
Find ground worth a day
Filter by state, county, acreage, price and what is on the land, or work the map: LiDAR relief for what the ground used to be, historical topographic quads for what stood on it, and the restricted layer for where you must not go. Save what looks promising.
- 05
Request the day
Instant or by request, depending on what the owner set. Your payment is taken and held, not sent. Say when you plan to arrive.
- 06
Get accepted, get the detail
Until somebody accepts you, a listing shows an approximate area. On acceptance the exact boundary opens up, along with which entrance to use and where to put the truck.
- 07
Sign the search agreement
Both names, the dates, the boundary and what happens to anything you find. Signed before the visit and kept in your account. This is the written permission you show anybody who asks what you are doing there.
- 08
Work the day
Follow the pin to the entrance the owner named. Record dig tracks where you have actually swung so you finish the field instead of covering the same forty yards four times. Tap Analyse anywhere to pull every active layer together for that spot.
- 09
Rate the day, log the finds
Three screens when you are done: rate the day, log what came out with photographs, and watch your finds collection build. The log sits against the booking, so you and the landowner hold the same record of what left the ground.
- 10
The landowner gets paid
The money you paid releases once the visit is marked complete. The service fee was shown before you confirmed and nothing is added afterwards.
- 01
Create your account
Email or Apple, under a minute. Choose landowner and the app sets itself up around listing and approving rather than searching.
- 02
Build your profile
Who you are and roughly where the land is. This is what a detectorist sees when they are deciding whether to ask you for a day.
- 03
Verify and connect payouts
One step, handled by Stripe. It gets you the verified badge that shows on every listing you publish and links the bank account the money lands in. Your documents are stored by Stripe and never by FieldFinders. A listing can go live while payouts are still connecting; the money simply waits until they are.
- 04
Map the land
Draw the whole farm as one shape, or draw each field separately. Fields are numbered as you go and you can rename them, which is what lets you tell somebody that fields one, three and four are open today and two is under water.
- 05
Drop entrances and parking
Step through entrances and then parking and drop the points, numbered the same way. After that the instruction is "come to Entrance 2 and park in the yard" rather than a phone call and a description of a hedge.
- 06
Say what is actually there
Photographs, the history of the ground, soil, what is growing, and anything off limits. The listings that get booked are the ones that describe the land honestly, including the parts of it you do not want anybody near.
- 07
Set your rate and your days
Your number, not ours and not the market. Choose which days you are willing to allow and block out anything around calving, harvest or hunting season.
- 08
Publish, then approve who comes
Requests arrive by name with verification status attached. Accept, decline or leave it. Nothing obliges you to say yes to anybody, and you can pause or remove the listing at any time.
- 09
The agreement writes itself
On acceptance a search agreement is generated carrying your terms: the dates, the boundary, what happens to finds, and the parts of the land that are excluded. Both parties sign it before anyone arrives.
- 10
Day of, and paid after
Tell them which fields are open and which entrance to use. Once the visit is marked complete the money releases to your bank. Track earnings, bookings and reviews from one dashboard.
The document
Permission, in writing,
every single time.
A verbal yes at a farm gate protects nobody. It cannot say where the boundary was, which day was agreed, or what happens to the thing that came out of the ground. Every booking generates a search agreement carrying all three, signed by both parties before anyone sets foot on the land.
It is also what settles an argument six months later, when a find turns out to matter and memories differ. Read the standard wording before your first booking.
Money
- Held, not sent
- Payment is taken when the booking is confirmed and held until the visit is marked complete, then released to the landowner.
- Cancel free at 48 hours
- More than two days out, full refund. Inside that, the landowner has already turned others away.
- Landowner cancels, you are refunded
- In full, whenever it happens, including on the day.
- One service fee
- Shown to both sides before anything is confirmed. Nothing is added afterwards.
Ground near you that nobody has asked about.
Free to join, either way. You only pay when a day is booked.