Tutorial introduction

Welcome to The New Sharetribe tutorial! In this tutorial, you'll learn how to build and launch a marketplace website without coding.

In this tutorial, we will be setting up a rental marketplace. However, we'll also give guidance on what to do if you're building a marketplace for selling products or services instead.

We will focus exclusively on using the no-code settings of The New Sharetribe throughout this tutorial. Our step-by-step instructions will navigate you through the process of configuring your marketplace in Console. Please note that all work will be carried out in your marketplace's Test environment.

What are we building?

In this tutorial, we're going to kick things off with the default Sharetribe theme, and tweak it into a peer-to-peer marketplace for renting bikes. We're going to call it "Biketribe." Now, while we're guiding you with specific steps to build Biketribe, feel free to mix things up a bit to create your unique marketplace concept instead. Just remember, if you switch things around, you'll need to keep track of those changes when following other steps in this tutorial. Along the way, we'll also cover a few key concepts to help you better understand the process.

At the end of the tutorial, you will have a fully functional bike-themed rental marketplace. It will be in your Test environment, an environment you can use to explore the user experience and user design of your marketplace and to test the marketplace functionality. At the end, we'll explain the necessary steps to launch your marketplace live on your own domain, and start inviting real users to it.

How does building a marketplace without coding work?

Building your marketplace without coding happens through the menus in the "Build" section of the sidebar navigation in Console. This is where all the no-code customization takes place.

Under "Advanced" you'll find things like "Transaction process visualizer", "Applications", "Social logins & SSO", etc. These are needed only when doing custom development with code. For now, you can ignore them, and focus on things in the other menus.

The steps in the process

Below are the steps that we will follow in this tutorial. We recommend following the tutorial in this order, but feel free to jump directly to the step of your choice.

1. Adjust marketplace branding
2. Choose marketplace layout
3. Modify the landing page
4. Adjust listing type
5. Create listing fields
6. Customize listing search
7. Configure commission and minimum transaction size
8. Decide your vocabulary
9. Edit the footer

Let's get started!

It's time to start building! Go to Step 1: Adjust marketplace branding.