Creating Your Marketplace
Get your marketplace up and running in minutes with our pre-built templates or AI-powered custom generation. New to Prometora? Our no-code marketplace builder overview covers what's possible before you dive into the setup steps below. You can also see plans and pricing to find the tier that fits your launch.
Quick answer
Launch in 3 steps
Overview
The Create Marketplace wizard offers two paths to get started:
Templates (Recommended)
Choose from 4 pre-built marketplace templates optimized for different business models. Each template includes a professionally designed homepage, about page, and contact page.
- 2 simple steps to launch
- Instant setup - no waiting
- Fully customizable after creation
Custom with AI
Describe your marketplace in plain language and let AI pick the template that fits, then tailor the colors, card look, and content to your brand.
- 3 steps with design choices
- About 20 seconds to tailor
- Content written for your description
Template Path
The fastest way to launch your marketplace. Pick a template, enter your business name, and you're live.
Step 1: Choose Your Template
Select the type of marketplace that best fits your business:
Flexible marketplace for any type of listing - perfect for classifieds, mixed goods, or custom use cases.
Examples: Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace
Bookings and rentals with availability calendars, deposits, and approval workflows.
Examples: Airbnb, Turo, Fat Llama
Traditional e-commerce for physical or digital goods with inventory, shipping, and variants.
Examples: Etsy, Amazon Handmade
Connect service providers with clients - appointments, consultations, and project-based work.
Examples: Upwork, TaskRabbit, Thumbtack
Step 2: Enter Business Info
Give your marketplace a name, and - optionally but strongly recommended - a sentence or two about what will be sold on it. That description drives everything that gets generated for you in the next step:
This will be your marketplace's brand name
Name your categories here and they become your listing types. Write it in the language you want your marketplace in: written in Danish, everything is generated in Danish, your marketplace's language (Store Settings → General) is set to Danish and prices default to DKK (Store Settings → Product Listings).
What gets generated for you
Based on your name and description, the template is personalized before you see it. You can change every bit of it afterwards - this is a starting point, not a lock-in.
- Copy and photos: headlines, category labels, popular searches, About and Contact text rewritten for your business, with matching photos from Unsplash (credited under each photo until you replace it).
- Navigation and footer: Browse / Sellers / How it works / About / Contact / Become a seller links, labelled for your marketplace ("Makers", "Sådan virker det") ("Find a Stay", "List Your Property") - URLs are fixed, only the labels are tailored. The header has no "Home" link; your logo and name are the home link. The buyer/seller wording on sign-up and in the dashboard follows too (Guest/Host for stays, Client/Provider for services; edit it under Store Settings → Signup Form).
- Privacy policy and terms of service: two pages linked in the footer, written in your store's language with your marketplace name and contact email filled in. They are generic starting-point templates, not legal advice: read them, adapt them to how your marketplace works (seller payouts, returns, your country's rules) and have them reviewed before you launch. Edit them like any page.
- Listing types: one per category from your description (for example Apparel, Health & Nutrition, Stable & Yard). The category tiles and hero pills on the frontpage open those types on your listings page. Edit them under Store Settings → Product Listings.
- Brand colour and starter logo: a primary colour that fits the business (dark enough for readable white button text) and a simple logo mark in that colour. Replace the logo under Store Settings → Branding whenever you have your own.
- A sample seller with sample listings: one example listing per listing type, with photos and plausible prices, from a seller called "Your Store Sample Seller", so the frontpage, listings page, search and seller profile all have content from day one. Visitors can view but not buy them.
- A sample order or booking: one paid, shipped order (or, on rental and service marketplaces, one confirmed booking) from a sample customer whose name and address match your marketplace's language, so the Orders / Bookings tab and the seller's order view aren't empty either. It has no payment behind it and can't be refunded, shipped or changed. Everything generated is removed before launch with one click under Store Settings → General (the Launch Checklist reminds you).
Start from a ready-made marketplace
Some industries come as a finished marketplace, not just a layout. On the first step of Create New Marketplace, open the Ready-made marketplaces tab, pick one, and give it a name. You get the whole setup: listing types with custom fields and price options, seller signup questions, booking or checkout settings, seller badges, page copy, and a sample seller with sample listings, all ready to edit. The tab only appears when a ready-made marketplace exists.
- Home Cleaning: regular, deep, move-out and specialised cleaning by time slot, prices by home size with add-ons, ten cleaner vetting questions with owner approval, approval before payment, Background checked and Insured badges from signup answers. Built in this walkthrough.
What is not copied: the time zone (set your own under Store Settings → Booking; customer reschedule requests turn on once it is set), payment keys, a domain, and real sellers. The sample seller and listings are removed with one click under Store Settings → General when your own sellers arrive. A direct link opens the create flow on a template, for example prometora.com/start/cleaning; new visitors go to pricing first and the choice is remembered through signup.
Custom with AI
Skip the template choice and let AI pick the one that fits your description. You get the same starting point as a template: homepage, about and contact pages, listing types, and sample listings and sellers.
Step 1: Select the AI Option
Instead of selecting a template, click the "Custom with AI" card at the bottom:
Describe your marketplace and AI picks the template, look and content for you.
Step 2: Describe Your Marketplace
Give your marketplace a name and detailed description. The more detail you provide, the better AI can customize your marketplace:
Tell us about your business and AI will generate a custom marketplace
The more detail you provide, the better AI can customize
Step 3: Choose Your Design Style
Pick an aesthetic and AI will generate matching colors and visual elements:
AI will select colors and visual elements that match your chosen style
Tailoring takes about 20 seconds
After Creation
Creating the marketplace is just the start. There are two equally important sides to set up: your storefront (how it looks) and your store settings (how it actually runs - payments, shipping, sellers). A beautiful storefront can't take a single order until payments are connected, so don't skip the settings.
Build your storefront
Make it yours in the Page Builder.
Set up your store
The engine that makes orders actually work.