Quick start
Get your marketplace up and running in just a few minutes. This guide walks you through creating your first site, setting up categories, and understanding what your users will see.
Prerequisites
Before you start, you'll need:
- A Yclas Neo account with a team
- Access to the admin panel
If you don't have an account yet, register at your Yclas Neo admin domain (for example, app.yclas-neo.com in production or localhost in local development). No credit card required — your account starts on the free tier automatically.
Create your first site
Step 1: Open the sites page
Log in to the admin panel. You'll land on the Sites page, which lists every site belonging to your team.
Step 2: Create a new site
Click the New site button and enter a name for your marketplace. This could be anything — "Acme Classifieds", "City Marketplace", or your brand name.
When you create a site, Yclas Neo automatically:
- Generates a unique subdomain based on your site name (for example,
acme.on-yclas.com) - Creates a dedicated database for your marketplace
- Seeds 9 default categories so your marketplace is ready to use immediately
Step 3: Open your site
After creating your site, you'll land on its Home page — a getting-started checklist that walks you through everything that turns a blank marketplace into a finished one. Each step links straight to the right place:
- Organize your categories — including two-level subcategories
- Add custom listing fields and filters — collect extra details and turn them into search filters
- Change the logo and branding
- Edit the welcome/landing page
- Edit content pages — like About, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy
- Edit the footer
Click View marketplace to open your storefront: a fully functional classifieds site with a landing page, a search bar in the header, and category navigation.
Your subdomain
In local development, your storefront will be at something like acme.localhost:8000. In production, it will be at acme.on-yclas.com (or whatever storefront domain is configured).
Customize your categories
Your site comes with 9 default categories. To customize them:
- Go to Sites in the admin panel
- Click on your site to open its Home page
- In the sidebar, under Build, click Categories
- From here you can rename, add, delete, and reorder categories — and organize them into two levels with subcategories
See the Categories guide for full instructions.
Understand your storefront
Your marketplace storefront has everything users need:
- Homepage — Shows the 6 most recent active listings
- Browse listings — A grid of all active listings with search and category filtering
- Listing detail pages — Full listing info with photo carousel, seller info, and a messaging form
- My Listings — Where users manage their own listings (requires login)
- Messages — An inbox for buyer-seller conversations (requires login)
Users can register, log in, create listings with photos, set prices, choose categories, and message other users — all without leaving your marketplace.
What's next?
- Plans & limits — Understand the Free, Go, and Zen plans
- Manage your site settings — Learn what you can configure
- Organize categories — Customize your category structure
- Understand listings — Learn how listings work for your users
- Set up messaging — See how users communicate