Every other pin type on Brikoula is free and open to everyone. Business pins are the exception twice over: they are reserved for professionals, and they are rented by the day. Both rules exist for the same reason — to keep the map honest and make the visibility real.
What a business pin is
A pin on your shop, workshop, clinic, agency or restaurant, visible to everyone browsing the map in your area for the days you have booked. Your profile, your photos, your opening hours and your reviews travel with it. It is a shop sign, except it hangs on the map everyone actually looks at.
Why day rental is the right model
Because your visibility should follow your business. A pastry shop wants the map in the week before Eid; a stationery store wants September; a beach restaurant wants the summer. Renting by the day means you pay for presence when presence pays — and the map never silts up with dead pins of businesses that closed two years ago.
Making the pin earn its cost
- Complete your professional profile first: verified identity, real photos of the place, opening hours. A pin that leads to an empty profile is a paid dead end.
- Time it: market days, holiday seasons, the week of a local event pulling crowds to your street. An event pin nearby is free foot traffic — be on the map when it happens.
- Say what a visitor gets: the description is your window display. "Fresh msemen every morning until 11" beats "bakery".
- Reviews compound. Every happy customer you serve through the app makes the next rented day work harder.
Fair rules, applied to everyone
Professionals only means verified professionals only — the same identity checks that protect customers in the taxi category protect the map here. One pin, one real place: the map is a public square, not a billboard farm.
Where Brikoula fits
Book the days, place the pin on your door, and the neighbourhood's map traffic becomes your storefront traffic. For customers it is just as simple: the businesses you see pinned are real, professional and there today — which is exactly why being among them is worth something.