Changelog

Sharetribe now has full, built-in support for digital product marketplaces. Recent features such as a digital download transaction process and message files let you launch a marketplace for selling files like design templates, knitting patterns, software plugins, or stock photos or music. Or custom work like art commissions, logo design, or custom illustrations.

Sharetribe’s newest transaction process, Digital download, is built for products that are delivered as a digital file. Sellers upload files to their listings, and buyers get access to them automatically after purchase. Everything happens and is stored in your Sharetribe marketplace. All files uploaded to a listing are held securely in Sharetribe-hosted storage and directly accessible through your marketplace and Console.

Customers and providers can now attach files to transaction messages: up to 10 files per message, maximum 1 GB per file. Add support for transactions where files need to change hands. Let users share project assets, deliver completed digital work, and send images or documents to each other without leaving your platform.

Run referral, affiliate, and influencer programs with Toppal, a service built specifically to work with Sharetribe’s referral source feature. Give partners unique affiliate links and see which partners drive sign-ups and revenue on your marketplace. Determine whether affiliates get a commission for each new user or completed transaction they bring to your platform.

Set up referral sources in your user type settings to capture where new users came from. Use referral sources to attribute sign-ups to specific referrers in affiliate programs or track which users come from paid ad campaigns or influencer partnerships.

The Sharetribe Docs now has two new tools to make development easier: an AI assistant and a documentation MCP server. Ask the Docs AI a question and get an answer that's pulled directly from the docs. The MCP server lets you connect Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, and other code editors directly to our documentation.

You can now choose which sorting options appear on your search page. Toggle the default options on or off and create custom sorting options based on numeric metadata fields. Use numeric metadata to create a fully custom search ranking order.

Add metadata to listings and profiles and use it to add trust signals, featured listing tags, custom search filters, unique sorting criteria, and more. Unlike regular, public listing and user fields, only you, the marketplace operator, can add or change metadata.

There's a new custom field type for user, listing, and transaction fields: single-line text. Add a single-line text field for a compact, short answers of up to 70 characters.

You can now launch a freelance marketplace with Sharetribe entirely without coding. With the transaction process price negotiation, your marketplace supports a transaction flow where every project is unique and needs individual pricing. Get built-in price negotiation, commission payments, delayed payouts, and more out of the box.

You can now add automated listing sections to any content page on your marketplace. Feature your newest listings or highlight listings in a specific category or location. Showcase your most highly rated content or hand-pick listings to feature.

You can now add help texts to any custom field (user, listing, and transaction fields). Give users more context about a field and help them add the right information.

It is now possible to select which sorting options are available when browsing listings on a search page. The list of options is not displayed if only one is selected. This allows you to keep only the relevant options visible, and keep the search page even lean if you keep only one option active.

Sharetribe now lets you build an even more complex price negotiation flow without coding. Choose how providers and customers can negotiate on price: through counter offers, offer updates, both, or neither.

When your customers and providers need to communicate complex requirements, asking them for the right information at the beginning of a transaction can make a huge difference. Now, you can use transaction fields to ask for the most relevant info in a structured way.

It is now possible to add reviews on behalf of users for any existing transaction in Console.

The listing description is a default field available for every listing type, but it doesn't fit all marketplaces. You can now disable the listing description in your listing type settings in Console.

Launch your Sharetribe marketplace as iOS and Android apps with the no-code mobile app wrapper Twinr without coding. Wrap your website code in a mobile app container and use Twinr’s no-code tools to customize your app. No separate codebases, no months of development.

We’ve made a ton of small improvements to Sharetribe over the past months. This newsletter compiles these improvements into one resource. From end-user account deletion to previewing listing images in Console, these improvements make both the admin and end-user experience better.

The price negotiation transaction process gets its first update: regular price negotiation is here! Build a marketplace where providers create listings and customer request quotes from them.

User fields let you collect additional custom information about users in your marketplace. There are plenty of things you might want to ask from your users that shouldn’t be public. You can now create private user fields and collect information that only the user and you, the marketplace admin, can see.

You no longer need to manually delete users through Console. Instead, your users can do it themselves. When someone decides it’s time to delete their account, they can do so through a new Manage account tab under account settings on your marketplace.

Sharetribe just unlocked support for reverse marketplaces. Our latest feature is an entirely new transaction process that enables price negotiation with online payments. This first release lets you build a marketplace where customers create listings and describe what they need. Providers reach out to them and start transactions instead of the other way round. 

Sharetribe’s Zapier integration helps you automate tasks without coding. Our newest Zap templates help you automate user approval and permissions based on user type, limit access based on email domain, and add reminder emails about important supply onboarding steps.

This year, we’ve added a ton of no-code functionality to Sharetribe specifically for service marketplaces. You can launch a service platform without coding, validate your idea, and scale when you're ready to grow. Our latest newsletter on summarizes all the key Sharetribe functionality that a service marketplace with bookings needs—and that you get out of the box, no-coding required.

Users of a Sharetribe-powered marketplace can now sort items in their inbox (by Newest, Latest message, and Latest status change). This makes navigating and finding transactions and conversations easier, especially to manage those with recent activity.

You can now set a minimum commission to make sure your commission always covers your fees, even when transaction value is low. Or set a flat commission rate that’s the same across the board.

Earlier this year, we released the new Console filtering experience. Now, you can also add your own extended data filters to Console, on top of the default ones. You can do this entirely without coding (with custom fields) but also with Sharetribe's APIs. Either add custom listing fields in Console and enable them as filters to the search page or use Sharetribe CLI to add search schemas for any type of schema other than text. These extended data will be added to the filter selection on your user, listing, and transaction management pages.

It is now possible for providers to post listings without photos. Instead, they can select a style (color) which will be used as the background on top of which their listing title will be displayed. This is particularly useful for reverse marketplaces, when photos for listings are not really useful.

Build different user experiences for supply and demand with our latest user type improvements. With user roles and user account links, you have more control over what each user can do and see, and you can create more streamlined, role-specific experiences. For example, you can determine if only one user type can see the link to post listings or which user type can add payout or payment details.

Help customers find what they need with a beautiful multi-option search bar. You can now add a search bar with multiple options to your home page (or any content page). Without coding.

Having multiple listing types lets marketplaces offer their audiences different ways to transact or even serve many different audiences. You can now also build separate search experiences for different listing types. Let users filter listings by listing type on the search page or create direct links to the search results that only include listings in a specific listing type.

twosided.io is an analytics solution built specifically for marketplaces. It syncs with your Sharetribe and Stripe Connect accounts and feeds the data into easy-to-use dashboards, no coding required. Track key marketplace metrics like gross merchandise value (GMV), take rate, and retention at a glance, both in real time and with historical trends.

On many service and rental marketplaces, providers offer different pricing packages or tiers for bookings. Now, this is now possible to do in Sharetribe without coding. With price variations, providers can add several different price points to their listing—and manage all bookings in the same calendar to keep track of availability.

Fantastic news for service marketplaces: You can now let providers determine a fixed booking length for their listings. When a customer makes a booking, they choose the date and start time. The booking will always last for as long as the provider determined: 15 minutes, 30 minutes, two hours... All the way up to 11 hours and 45 minutes.

Thanks to more flexible transaction queries in both Marketplace API and Integration API, it's now easier to customize the inbox experience for marketplace users and building custom dashboards in Sharetribe.

Filtering data in Console got a big upgrade. In addition to basic operations like editing user and listing data and taking operator actions, you can now filter user, listing, and transaction data based on multiple different conditions. This helps you streamline tasks as well as monitor and analyze marketplace performance.

Charge a recurring fee from providers for publishing a listing and keeping it open to customers. If a provider unsubscribes, their listing is closed for new bookings or purchases. The provider regains access when they restart the subscription. Automate each step with Zapier, no coding required.

Sharetribe now supports calendar bookings with seats, no coding required. Listings on your marketplace can have one seat by default or you can let providers add multiple seats to each time slot.

Sharetribe three new built-in email notifications, sent when a user is approved or their permissions have changed, and when a listing is approved.

You can now disable and enable most of the built-in email sent from your Sharetribe marketplace. Decide which automatic emails get sent to users take more control ove your marketplace messaging. 

Choose any currency from around the globe for your marketplace if you’re not using online payments. Enable your local currency and connect buyers and sellers using the free messaging transaction process type and let users handle payment off platform.

You can now create a pre-launch onboarding mode. Restrict access rights in your marketplace: let users sign up and add listings, but not see content created by others. When you have enough listings, give users full access, launch your platform, and start facilitating transactions.

You can now add subscriptions for viewing, posting, and transaction rights without coding. Grant user permissions automatically through Zapier when someone subscribes—and revoke them when they unsubscribe. You can also build a simple lead fee flow, where providers pay to contact a customer about their request.

You can now monetize your Sharetribe marketplace with membership subscriptions or listing fees. These new supported monetization models are possible following recent releases of new access control functionality and Zapier-supported actions. Automate user and listing approval through Zapier when someone makes a payment in your chosen payment service.

Turn on user approval and decide who gets full access to your marketplace. Implement subscription payments, verification, personal onboarding, or other requirements before approving users to join your marketplace.

Combine Sharetribe's no-code builder with a mobile app template by Sharetribe Expert Journeyhorizon and launch a marketplace as a mobile app for iOS and Android without coding.

Sharetribe's Zapier integration lets you automate tasks without coding with the help of thousands of third-party apps. We've added four new Zapier templates to our collection of pre-made Zaps. Using Zapier, you can now automate digital download link collection and delivery, send booking confirmation emails with digital calendar invites, and generate automatic PDF invoices with tax information.

Whether you’re building a peer-to-peer, business-to-consumer, or business-to-business marketplace, Sharetribe’s got you covered. With user types, you can create different onboarding flows for providers and customers, limit user fields to specific user types, and enable optional phone number and display name fields.

This highly requested feature helps customers search and discover listings on your marketplace. You can have up to three levels of categories on your Sharetribe marketplace and create category-specific listing fields to build a dynamic search page.

You can now change the primary button color in Console without coding. This button color is used in the most important user actions.

You can now add a custom user or listing field that collects whole numbers only. A number user field can be shown in the user signup form and user profile. A number listing field is shown during listing creation and on the listing page. It can also added as a filter on the search page.

Add Google and Facebook logins to your marketplace and make signing up a breeze! Users who sign up with Google or Facebook don't need to add a separate password for your site and can log back in at any time using the same social media account.

Collect custom data about your users during onboarding. Add text, number, dropdown, and multiple-choice fields to the user signup form. The user fields are displayed in the user's public profile.

Modify your top bar, one of the most important elements of your marketplace, with custom links. Add links to important pages on your marketplace or on third-party sites. Feature links in the top bar or create a dropdown link menu.

Infinite stock adds more support for marketplaces selling listings without physical inventory, like digital goods and services. When this stock type is enabled, providers never need to add or manage listing stock.

Depending on your listing type’s transaction process, you can disable the following default listing fields: location, pickup, shipping, and payout details required before publishing a listing. You now have even more flexibility to determine what kind of listings your marketplace has.

Charge a commission from your customers, providers, or both – without touching a single line of code. You can set a customer commission percentage in Console. The customer’s fee is calculated on the listing page before they initiate a booking or purchase.

Extend your marketplace with no-code third-party integrations. Create dashboards with Lemonado or automate social media sharing with ShopSync.

With Sharetribe's Zapier integration, you can send data from your marketplace to thousands of third-party apps without coding. Zapier helps you automate repetitive tasks in your marketplace. Zapier is available in live marketplaces in the Pro and Extend plans.

If your marketplace has many different types of listings, odds are that you want to collect different kinds of data about them too. This feature lets you limit custom listing fields to specific listing types. 

The sitemap plays a vital role in optimizing your marketplace for search engines. Your marketplace now automatically generates a sitemap that includes your content pages and the 10,000 most recent listings.

• New "Hero" section template. With the new section template, it's easy to create visually appealing initial sections for your pages.
• Adjust background image darkness. With the new "overlay" feature, you can make your background images darker to make the text easier to read.
• Anchor links. Link easily to a specific section on your page by specifying an anchor link.

ShopSync is a third-party integration that automatically uploads your sellers' listings to social media and keeps the listing information up to date. ShopSync integrates with Meta (Facebook and Instagram), Pinterest, and Google Merchant Center, where you can manage Google and YouTube advertising.

You can now edit the text content of built-in and transaction-related emails without touching the code of the templates. Editing happens with an editor similar to the one you use for changing marketplace texts. You can use it to make text adjustments or translate the emails to the language of your choice. We have also renamed this editor: previously it was called “Microcopy editor” but now we simply call it Marketplace texts.

Earlier, Google Analytics was the only built-in analytics integration in The New Sharetribe. However, since Google Analytics does not adhere to GDPR regulation, it was not really an option for EU-based platforms. Plausible is an alternative analytics tool that’s fully GDPR compliant.

It's now possible to change the size of your logo. There are three variants: small, medium, and big.

An app icon will show on mobile browsers when you switch between tabs and be the icon if you bookmark your marketplace on your mobile's home screen. In other words, an app icon is for mobiles what favicons are for web browsers.

It’s now possible to easily create classified ads and other listings that don’t use online payments. Instead, a transaction between a customer and a supplier starts with an initial inquiry, followed by a conversation thread where the parties can agree on the details. In the UI, the process is called “Free messaging”. When choosing “Free messaging”, you can toggle the price on and off.

You can now easily have multiple different transaction flows in your marketplace by creating multiple listing types. You can add up to 20 listing types.