Introduction to Flex

Sharetribe Flex is a complete solution for building powerful online marketplaces. Flex offers all the necessary marketplace infrastructure out of the box while allowing you full control to customize your user experience. As your business grows, Flex takes care of running and scaling your backend. Powered by modern technology (React, Redux, and Node.js) and designed around a headless architecture, Flex is fast, scalable and customizable. These articles cover the basics of Sharetribe Flex and introduce some core concepts that will help you to start building your custom marketplace solution.

• Introducing Flex

  Overview of how Sharetribe Flex works, and how you can build your online marketplace platform using it.

• Getting started with Flex Template for Web

  Learn how to install one of the Flex Templates for Web (FTW) to your local development environment.

• How to build and launch your marketplace with Flex

  This article describes what it takes to build and launch your marketplace with Sharetribe Flex. There are four main stages in this process, and we'll go through each one in detail.

• Is Flex the right fit for you?

  The purpose of this article is to give you a general overview of whether Flex is a good solution for building your specific marketplace idea.

• What development skills are needed?

  Building a custom marketplace with Flex requires some software development skills. This article explains what you need to know when customizing the platform.

• Getting started with Flex CLI

  This tutorial shows you how to get started with the Flex CLI. You will learn how to log in with your API key, how to use the help command and other basic commands.

• Getting started with the Integration API

  This tutorial is the place to start your journey building custom integrations using the Flex Integration API.

• Introducing Saunatime

  Saunatime is a Flex Template for Web application that features a rental marketplace complete with daily and nightly availability management, powerful searchable listings and a delayed review process.

• Introducing Sneakertime

  From inventory management to transaction processes and more, Flex’s product marketplace template Sneakertime offers the functionality you need to build your unique product marketplace.

• Introducing Yogatime

  If you’re building a service marketplace or are looking for flexibility in customizing pricing units, Yogatime is the Flex template for you.