Build a marketplace for digital products with Sharetribe

Let creators sell digital files, from patterns to plugins, and earn a commission on every sale.

Example digital product marketplace for knitting patterns called Yarntribe. The hero section of the marketplace says "Find your next pattern" with an image of a woman knitting in the background.

Launch a digital product marketplace in a day

All essential digital product marketplace features available out of the box

Digital downloads

Custom digital work

Built-in file storage

Users and listings

Search and matching

Secure payments

Messaging and notifications

Reviews

Content management

Pre-built integrations

A seller is creating a listing for a cardigan pattern. The listing image is of a lovely green cardigan.

Automatic digital downloads

Sell digital files with automatic delivery

: Sellers can upload up to 10 files per listing, up to 1 GB each. Files stay hidden until a customer completes a purchase.
: Payment automatically unlocks the files, and the customer can download them right on the transaction page. No manual delivery step, no external link or storage needed.
: Customers are asked to leave a review seven days after purchase. Sellers don't need to send a file or review the customer.
: Customers have seven days after purchase to report an issue with a file. As the marketplace operator, you review the report and resolve it in the customer's or the seller's favor.

A customer is asking for a knitting designer to create a custom cardigan pattern with clouds. The sellers sends three options and the customer chooses one.

Custom digital work

Support selling made-to-order digital work

: Choose how sellers and customers agree on price: negotiate a custom quote for scoped work, or set a fixed price for a customizable product.
: Collect the information a seller needs to get started, like a brief, sizing, brand colors, reference material right when a transaction begins.
: Let sellers deliver drafts, revisions, and final files directly in the transaction thread, no separate storage needed.

Digital files stored in Sharetribe Console. Listing files are stored as protected files, which are revealed after purchase. In addition, users can send message files.

Built-in file storage

No third-party file host required

: All files uploaded to listings or attached to messages are hosted on Sharetribe, so you don't need Dropbox, Google Drive, or S3 links.
: Every file uploaded to your marketplace is automatically scanned for malware, and malicious files are deleted.
: Uploaded files stay locked until a purchase unlocks them, so only customers who paid can download them.

Users and listings

Let users create profiles and add their products

: Each seller gets a personal profile page. Profiles include information about the individual or business, plus reviews to build trust.
: Create unique experiences for sellers and customers with user types. Add custom fields to the signup flow to collect relevant information, and restrict permissions to post listings or start transactions on a user-by-user basis. Add operator-controlled metadata to assign things like verification or power-user status.
: Sellers create listings step by step and can save drafts to finish later.
: Choose the listing page layout that fits the types of digital products on your marketplace best. Showcase preview images, file details, and customer reviews.
: Add custom fields and filters to create unique listing creation and search experiences. Create categories and subcategories for different types of digital products.

The Yarntribe search page with multiple filters like category, craft, difficulty, and yarn weight.

Search and matching

Choose the search functionality and layout that fits your marketplace

: Make it easy for customers to find exactly the file or service they're looking for.
: Help customers browse by type of digital product. Create up to three levels of categories and add category-specific filters.
: Let customers sort by price or keyword and update results instantly.
: Use your custom listing data fields as search filters to build a unique filtering experience through file format, license type, style, or more.

Checkout page in Yarntribe with payment details and billing details. Overlaid are the downloadable file links for the pattern and abbreviations that are revealed after purchase.

Secure payments

Earn a commission on every download

: Sharetribe uses Stripe for secure online payments. Stripe is a payment processor for businesses of all sizes, with dedicated tools for marketplace payments.
: Collect all the necessary information from sellers to send them money.
: Through Stripe, Sharetribe automatically supports payments in 26 countries. Find out if we support payments in your currency.
: Stripe automatically sends payment to the seller once a purchase is complete. You don't need to send money manually or worry about regulation or compliance—Stripe takes care of that for you.
: Stripe holds the customer's payment until the seven-day report window for digital downloads closes, or until custom files are delivered. The seller is paid only after the transaction completes.
: Define a commission percentage and an optional minimum commission fee in Console. Stripe automatically charges it on all transactions.

A seller and customer are having a conversation about a missing instruction. The seller sends the missing instruction to the customer and updates the file for future purchases.

Messaging and notifications

Let sellers and customers communicate in-app

: Let customers and sellers message each other to ask questions, agree on details, and share briefs and files.
: Each user has an inbox where they receive messages about purchases, requests, new messages, and more.
: Choose the email notifications that are sent from your marketplace. Determine the content and style of the emails. No user will miss a purchase or message.

Reviews

Build trust through reviews

: Sharetribe includes a standard marketplace review flow. Five-star ratings give a quick score, and text reviews add detail.
: For straightforward digital downloads, only the customer reviews the product. Sellers don't need to leave a review.
: All reviews a user receives appear on their listings and user profile, building trust with visible testimonials.

Content management

Create content pages without code

: Add text, images, and video. Feature file categories, sellers, or collections, and explain what makes your marketplace different.
: Create content pages like an FAQ, a Team page, or alternative landing pages. Feature your latest or best files in your content. Manage and edit everything in Console.
: Create a blog for content marketing. Feature your sellers and their work. Build expertise in your niche.
: Edit even the smallest texts like button labels, error messages, and help texts. Match every term with your concept, language, and style.

Use Zapier and other no-code integrations to automate tasks

: Use Zapier to automate different monetization methods for your marketplace. Add memberships, subscriptions, listing fees, or lead fees with services like Stripe or Chargebee.
: Connect your Sharetribe marketplace with Twilio and notify users by SMS when something happens on your platform.
: Connect your marketplace with a marketing automation platform like Hubspot or Salesforce.
: Zapier supports over 5,000 apps. Connect your marketplace to the services and platforms you need through zaps.
: Use existing integrations to extend your operator tools. Add analytics, social media automation, marketplace insights, affiliate programs, and more with third-party integrations from Sharetribe's partners.

Customize your design and workflow. Add any unique feature. Integrate any third-party service with Sharetribe's developer platform.

Headless marketplace solution

Customizable data schema

Transaction engine

Integrations

Yarntribe homepage overlaid with a colorpicker and the Apple App Store and Google Play Store logos.

Headless marketplace solution

Take full control over your design and layout, on all devices

: Make your marketplace look and feel exactly the way you want.
: Sharetribe's headless software allows you to build a frontend application for any device. Build a native mobile app and connect it to our powerful backend—handy if customers want to browse and buy digital products on the go. You can also use a no-code wrapper or a third-party template to launch a marketplace mobile app even faster.

Personalize your user experience and add new features quickly

: Ask your customers about their preferences and offer recommendations. Add wish lists, favorites, and options to follow sellers, among others. Build a file library for purchased items.
: Add seller dashboards to manage and monitor performance, track downloads, and highlight specific reviews.
: Enable sellers to create multiple variations of the same product, like colors or sizes, with unique prices and inventory for each variation.
: Let sellers showcase past work and specify usage rights or license terms for each file.
: With Sharetribe's customizable data schema, you can create the exact seller and customer experiences you want.

Build unique transaction flows

: Add steps to your transaction process. Modify Sharetribe's existing price negotiation process to your exact needs: add milestones, extra charges, revision limits, and more.
: Build custom logic to notify past customers when a file they've purchased gets updated, or to manage version history for a listing.
: Create complex pricing schemes. Allow sellers to create discount codes or give a lower commission rate to power sellers.
: Decide how and when a customer can cancel or request a refund for a digital purchase.

Connect your marketplace with any third-party software

: Integrate a license management or e-signature service to formalize usage rights for higher-value custom work.
: Trigger file conversion, watermarking, or compression through a third-party service whenever a new file is uploaded.
: Integrate the payment provider of your choice to support payments in the country and currency of your choice.

Sharetribe's hosted cloud infrastructure and marketplace management tools let your platform grow to any size.

File storage and management

Marketplace management

Hosted cloud infrastructure

Sharetribe Console listing management page overlaid with listing and message file sections.

File storage and management

Manage every file on your marketplace

: See every file uploaded to a listing or attached to a transaction, and manage them individually per listing or per transaction.
: Delete a file from a specific sale at any time without affecting access for customers who already purchased it. Or choose to delete an expired or faulty file across your platform.
: Pause all file uploads and downloads across your marketplace at once, for example if you run into spam or abusive files.

Yarntribe user management page in Console overlaid by a filtered search for users who joined in May 2025, can post listings, and have added payout details.

Marketplace management

Manage your marketplace in Console

: Filter users, listings, and transactions by different conditions to handle day-to-day operations. Monitor your data to see how your marketplace is doing.
: Preview and approve listings before they are published. Fix typos and contact sellers to improve listings.
: Manage orders in your marketplace. Take action on behalf of users, cancel purchases in case of problems, add late reviews and more.
: Make sure users respect your platform's terms and conditions. Monitor discussions on your marketplace.
: Warn and remove users who engage in inappropriate behavior on your marketplace.

No matter how many users, files, and purchases, your marketplace will perform

: However big your marketplace grows, Sharetribe's infrastructure handles your data storage and traffic.
: Sharetribe monitors the servers for you and handles traffic spikes and performance issues. We maintain excellent uptime.
: Sharetribe backs up your marketplace data and keeps it safe and secure.
: Sharetribe secures your data and complies with relevant regulation. You can focus on building your marketplace business.

From first-timers to seasoned veterans, Sharetribe has helped thousands of founders make their idea a success.

Landing page of Gritty In Pink, a marketplace to empower women in music.

Shira Yevin from Gritty In Pink

Gritty In Pink launched a marketplace and saw sixteen months of continuous growth

Screenshot of the landing page of socialbnb, a marketplace for responsible travel alternatives.

Nils Lohmann & Alexander Haufschild from socialbnb

socialbnb connects travelers with social impact projects across 45 countries

Screenshot of the landing page of Gearsource, a marketplace for professional audio and staging equipment.

Marcel Fairbairn from GearSource

GearSource survived three re-platforms and found stability after two decades

Browse marketplaces built with Sharetribe, or check out what people say about us on review sites:

Capterra

G2 Crowd

Trustpilot

Frequently Asked Questions

: A digital product marketplace is a website (or sometimes a mobile app) that brings digital goods from multiple sellers together in one place. Customers find files like templates, patterns, plugins, or stock media on the same platform and buy them directly, or commission custom digital work. Etsy's digital downloads and Creative Market are examples of popular digital product marketplaces.
: Anything that's delivered as a file works well with Sharetribe's Digital download transaction process: design templates, fonts, patterns, software plugins, stock photos, music tracks, ebooks, and more. For made-to-order work like commissioned art, logo design, or copywriting, use transaction fields and message file attachments instead, so sellers can collect a brief and deliver custom files directly in the conversation. Most common file types are supported. Executables and scripts are blocked for security reasons.
: Files uploaded to a listing stay hidden until purchase. Once a customer buys the listing, payment automatically unlocks the files, which they can download right on the transaction page—no manual delivery step, and no third-party file host or link required. For custom work, the seller sends the finished product as a file attachment on the transaction page.
: Yes. Files are inaccessible until a transaction unlocks them, and every file uploaded to your marketplace is automatically scanned. As the marketplace operator, you can also view, download, or delete any file from Console, and pause file uploads and downloads platform-wide if you ever need to.
: You earn a commission on every sale. In Console, you set a percentage commission charged to sellers, buyers, or both, and you can add a minimum commission per transaction. Sharetribe then charges whichever is higher. Stripe processing fees come out of your commission, so if your marketplace sells low-priced files, set a minimum commission or a minimum transaction size so small sales don't cost you money. Sellers are paid automatically once the seven-day report window closes.
: Not out of the box. Payments on Sharetribe run through Stripe, so every Digital download listing needs a price above zero. If free files are central to your idea, a developer can add a free download flow on top of Sharetribe with custom code.
: The customer has seven days after purchase to report a problem. During that window, you as the marketplace operator can complete the transaction or report it yourself. You then have up to 60 days to review a reported transaction and either cancel it and refund the customer or complete it and pay the seller. If nobody reports anything, the transaction completes automatically after seven days and the seller gets paid.
: Yes. A Sharetribe marketplace can have several listing types, and each one uses its own transaction process. Create one listing type with the Digital download process for files and another with the Purchase process for physical products. Sellers pick the right type when they create a listing.
: Yes. Add a custom listing field for the license type, such as personal or commercial use, so sellers state usage rights on every listing. You can turn the same field into a search filter, so buyers find files with the license they need. With custom code, you can also generate a personalized license for each download automatically.
: You create an account and start setting up your marketplace with our no-code builder. You can review your setup and changes on your Test marketplace. In our builder, you determine general settings like your marketplace's name, layout and design, search settings, and transaction and listing settings, including enabling digital files. You also create your marketplace's content pages, from your landing page to any other pages you might need, like a blog or an FAQ. Once your marketplace is ready, you subscribe to set it live.
: Get in touch with us! Our support team is here to help with any questions or problems. We answer all questions within 24 hours, often way faster. We will help you get the most out of Sharetribe. If you're not a developer but want to have custom functionality on your Sharetribe marketplace, we'll be happy to help you find a qualified marketplace developer.
: The Sharetribe Build plan is $39/month with a 14-day free trial. Once you're ready to set your marketplace live and invite actual users, you can subscribe to the Live plan, which costs $199/month billed yearly ($259/month billed monthly). Neither plan charges transaction fees. If you want to build custom functionality, you can build the features yourself, even if you're not a developer, by using AI tools to vibe code the changes to your platform. You can also hire a qualified expert from our network. Hire a developer to build just one feature or create a fully unique custom design. The cost of custom development on top of Sharetribe depends on your requirements.

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Build a marketplace for digital products with Sharetribe

Let creators sell digital files, from patterns to plugins, and earn a commission on every sale.

All essential digital product marketplace features available out of the box

Sell digital files with automatic delivery

Upload files directly to a listing

Automatic unlock and delivery

One-sided, customer-only reviews

A report window before every review

Support selling made-to-order digital work

Price negotiation or fixed pricing

Collect briefs and specs upfront

File attachments in messages

No third-party file host required

Files live on your platform

Automatic security scans

Files stay protected until purchase

Let users create profiles and add their products

User profiles

Customizable user data

Step-by-step listing creation

Listing pages for digital products

Customizable listing data

Choose the search functionality and layout that fits your marketplace

Keyword search

Category filter

Price and keyword filters

Custom search filters

Earn a commission on every download

Secure online payments

KYC process for sellers

Payments in 26 countries

Automatic payouts

Delayed payouts for purchases

Automatic commission payments

Let sellers and customers communicate in-app

Messaging system

Inbox

Email notifications

Build trust through reviews

Five-star ratings and text reviews

Customer-only reviews for simple file sales

Reviews in profiles and listings

Create content pages without code

Landing page

Content pages

Blog

Marketplace texts

Use Zapier and other no-code integrations to automate tasks

Different marketplace monetization methods

SMS notifications

Marketing automation

​Thousands of other app integrations through Zapier

Third-party tools

Customize your design and workflow. Add any unique feature. Integrate any third-party service with Sharetribe's developer platform.

Take full control over your design and layout, on all devices

Design a unique visual style and layout

Build a native mobile app

Personalize your user experience and add new features quickly

Create a unique customer experience

Build seller tools

Allow product variations

Add portfolios and licensing details

Build any feature you need

Build unique transaction flows

Build unique negotiation flows custom work

Add version or update handling

Add customizable pricing

Create custom cancellation and refund rules

Connect your marketplace with any third-party software

Add licensing or e-signature tools

Automate additional file processing

Support payments in any country

Sharetribe's hosted cloud infrastructure and marketplace management tools let your platform grow to any size.

Manage every file on your marketplace

View, download, or delete any file from Console

Remove a file without revoking access to others

Pause uploads and downloads platform-wide

Manage your marketplace in Console

Filter and analyze marketplace data

Curate user generated content

Thousands of other app integrations through Zapier