New in Sharetribe 🎉 Powerful data filtering tools in Console

Console’s management tools are the part of Sharetribe you’ll use most after launching your marketplace. Console is where you handle day-to-day operations and manage user-generated content. 

In this newsletter, we’ll go through the powerful upgrades the management tools have received in the past few months.

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.

With the help of videos and step-by-step instructions, in this newsletter, you’ll learn how to:

• Work with filters in Console
• Filter data to identify pending tasks
• Combine filtering conditions to monitor overall performance and recognize potential growth issues. 

Read on to learn how to leverage Console filtering in running your marketplace.

How to filter data in Console

You can find the filters for users, listings, and transactions in the Manage tabs in Console. At the top of each management page, there’s a search bar and a filter selection. 

You can still use the search bar to discover insights, but for more detailed analysis, the new filters are your best friend. In a nutshell, you filter for data where certain conditions are true and Console returns the users, listings, or transactions that match those conditions. 

1. Click open the filter selection on your user, listing, or transaction management page. 
2. Add the first condition, such as “where Created at is within 1.1.2024 and 31.5.2025”. 
3. Choose as many further conditions as you’d like.
4. Click apply. Console will show only the data that matches the filters.

Tip! Some conditions like Created at and Price have two fields to fill. If you enter a date or number to only one field and leave the other one blank, you can filter by a maximum or minimum value. 

In addition to default filters, you can filter by your own custom data. These include:

• User type
• Listing type
• Categories (three levels)
• Custom listing fields which have been added as search filters.

Your custom data is marked (pub.), short for public extended data, as opposed to private and metadata. Public extended data is information that can be viewed by all users.

Learn more about the different filters in the Help Center:

• Search and filter users
• Search and filter listings
• Search and filter transactions

Combining different filters and applying them to the search lets you streamline pending actions and discover insights into your marketplace performance. That’s the next bit! 👇

Identify pending actions

Filtering helps you identify data that has pending actions.

This will be especially relevant if you have any access control settings enabled: for example, if you approve each user or listing manually or screen providers before giving them posting rights.

Let’s take user approval as an example:

1. Filter users by State. 
2. Choose the data Pending approval.
3. Click apply. Console returns all users (and only the users) who haven’t been approved yet. 

You can go through your review process and approve the users who pass it without needing to scroll through all user data.

Check out the video below for more use cases!

Recognize trends and discover growth issues

Filtering data helps you discover trends or potential problems in your funnel. You can use just one filter for a general overview or go for more specific insight with multiple conditions. 

For example, if you’d like to check and compare new user account numbers over time:

1. Filter users by Created at.
2. Choose the timeframe you’re interested in, such as the past three months.
3. Click Apply and you’ll see all users who signed up during that time.

Then, add conditions to learn more. For example, you could check your buyer-to-seller ratio, ie. how many providers and how many customers joined during that time (if you have user types enabled):

1. Click to add a condition.
2. Choose the filter userType and choose a user type from the dropdown.

Click Apply and you’ll see the buyers/sellers who joined during the chosen timeframe.

In the video below, I give additional filtering tips to help you identify which conditions yield the most valuable insights about your marketplace data.

These upgrades to Console’s management tools have made it even easier to complete operator tasks and monitor your marketplace’s performance in Sharetribe. So head over to Console and start filtering your data for insights right away!