Customization checklist

The Sharetribe Web Template provides a great starting point for developing your marketplace. This article provides a reference list of articles and guides you can use when you start customising your marketplace's visual appearance, content and configurations.

Visual appearance

The Sharetribe Web Template is styled as a fictional marketplace for bicycles. To customize the default styles of the template to match your marketplace’s brand and style, follow these steps:

• Apply your branding by changing the default images and marketplace colours
• Change the default background image and social media images
• Change the branding of your template
• Learn more about the CSS architecture in the Sharetribe Web Template

Content and microcopy

In addition to customizing the default styles of your marketplace, it is also important to change the content and microcopy to reflect your brand and messaging. There are several places where you can edit the content and copy texts in your marketplace:

• Learn about what is microcopy
• Change the content and microcopy in your marketplace
• Update your terms of service and privacy policy page
• Configure the footer of your marketplace in Flex Console.
• Update the email templates: you will want to update the templates to reflect your brand and messaging.

Configuration

The configuration file of your marketplace template is a valuable resource that allows you to easily adjust a wide range of options in your marketplace. Configuration files can be found in the src/config directory. Before you begin modifying the configuration files, it is important to ensure that you have properly configured any environment variables that your marketplace uses. These variables are typically used to store sensitive information such as API keys, and must be set up correctly in order for your marketplace to function properly.

• Configure your environment variables. You can also run yarn run config in the root directory of the template, which will walk you through the setup process.
• Go through the configuration files of your marketplace following this guide

Other optional changes

In addition to customizing the default styles, content and copy texts, and configuration options of your marketplace, there are a number of other changes you may want to make. Some of these options include:

• Customize pricing
• Update your transaction process
• Create new static pages
• Update the routing in your marketplace
• Update transaction email templates. For more information, see Edit email templates with Flex CLI tutorial and Email templates reference article.
• Add more content pages: How the templates render content pages using the PageBuilder
• Update other existing pages