Yclas vs Sharetribe
Sharetribe gives you a hosted marketplace engine, and a developer for anything beyond its settings: a cart, coupons, several languages or currencies. Yclas has them built in, with AI, for less a year.
- 7 AI tools, built inIncluded in Sharetribe: none. Each one is paid, partial or missing.
- 32 of 44 featuresin the comparison below are paid add-ons, partial or missing in Sharetribe, each with its source.
- Live in about two minutesHosting, SSL, updates, backups and support are in one monthly price.
- No code for the basicsA cart, coupons, auctions, many languages and currencies, without hiring a developer or hosting a template.
Sharetribe is a hosted marketplace builder: you set up listings, bookings, negotiation and payouts in its Console, and anything beyond that is custom code on its open-source template, which you then host yourself. Yclas is a hosted marketplace platform where the cart, coupons, auctions, languages and AI are part of the plan.
Last checked: 22 October 2026. Facts about Sharetribe come from its own website; the sources are listed at the end of this page.
AI that does the work for you.
Yclas puts AI into every part of a marketplace: building it, filling it, searching it and keeping it safe. Monthly AI use is included in every plan. Under each one, what Sharetribe offers.
Describe a change, such as "darker hero, bigger search, rounder cards", and the AI makes it in a draft you preview. 109 ready-made looks and drag-and-drop sections.
Say what your marketplace is for and the AI writes your categories, subcategories, tagline and About page in your language. Live in about two minutes.
Sellers add a photo; the AI writes the title, description and price, and picks the category and fields.
Visitors search the way they talk, such as "red bike under 300 near Valencia", and get the right filters.
Every new listing is checked against your rules for scams, prohibited items, spam and wrong categories. Risky ones wait in your queue with the reason, and buyers are warned when a message asks for gift cards or off-site payment.
On multilingual sites each listing is translated into every site language, with its own page for search engines. 44 languages.
The AI drafts a seller's reply from the listing and the conversation; the seller edits and sends it.
What changes for you.
What you get with Yclas that Sharetribe doesn't include.
The Yclas Marketplace plan includes all of these. For Sharetribe we list what its own website offers without custom code.
| Feature | Yclas | Sharetribe |
|---|---|---|
| Checkout and payouts | ||
| Shopping cart across sellers | Buyers fill one cart from several sellers and pay once; the payment is split between the sellers automatically | Needs a developer A transaction holds one listing; a cart is custom code [9] |
| Commission on every sale | A percentage and a fixed fee on each sale, with rates by category or by seller, and an optional service fee for buyers | Included Commission from buyers, sellers or both, a percentage with a minimum or a flat fee; Stripe Connect only [11] |
| Payment held until delivery | The seller is paid once the buyer confirms the order arrived, or after the number of days you set | Included Payout when the buyer marks the order received, or 14 days after delivery [12] |
| Product options and sale prices | Size, colour and other options with their own price and stock, sale prices, quantity discounts and bundles | Needs a developer Product options are custom code; price variations are for bookings only [10] |
| Seller payouts with or without Stripe Connect | Sellers paid automatically through Stripe Connect, or buyers pay you through PayPal, Stripe or your other gateways and each seller withdraws their balance, less your commission, by PayPal or bank transfer | Needs a developer Stripe Connect only; PayPal or other gateways need custom code [6] |
| Shipping rates per seller | Each seller sets rates by country, with free shipping over an amount, and live carrier rates through your Shippo account | Partly A flat fee per listing and per extra item; rates by country or carrier need code [13] |
| Coupons | Coupons from sellers and from you, used in the cart | Needs a developer Discount codes are custom code, for example with Voucherify [6] |
| Saved cards | Buyers save a card and pay with one click next time | Included Stored card details [3] |
| Ways to sell | ||
| Classified ads in the same site | Listings can be buy-now items or contact-the-seller ads, with featured listings, bump to top and paid categories you charge for | Partly Free-messaging flows without payment; featured listings and listing fees through a Stripe page or Zapier [14] |
| Offers and quotes | Offers and counter-offers in the chat, and request a quote: the seller sends a price, the buyer pays it online | Included Quotes, counter-offers and reverse negotiation, paid online [15] |
| Auctions | Proxy bidding, reserve price, buy-now and anti-sniping | Needs a developer No auction feature, says Sharetribe [16] |
| Bookings and rentals | Availability calendar by day, night or hour, instant booking, deposits and price rules, paid online | Partly Hourly, daily and nightly bookings, slots and seats; booking requests only, deposits need code [17] |
| Digital downloads | Sell files: the buyer gets a download link as soon as they pay, with a limit on downloads | Included Digital download transactions, up to 10 files per listing [34] |
| Memberships you charge sellers | Monthly seller plans, renewed automatically from the seller's saved card | Partly A Stripe payment page and manual changes, or Zapier; nothing renews inside the marketplace [18] |
| Sellers and stores | ||
| Seller storefronts | A store page for each seller with logo, banner, policies and rating, followers, a vacation mode, and a directory of every store | Partly Seller profiles double as storefronts; no branded store page, followers or vacation mode [3] |
| Sales dashboard for sellers | Each seller sees their sales, views and payouts | Needs a developer Seller sales dashboards are a customization [10] |
| Account types you define | Create your own account types, such as buyer, seller, provider or agency, each with its own sign-up fields, rights and approval; business accounts can import listings by CSV or a stock feed | Included User types with their own fields and rights, and user approval [19] |
| Seller verification | ID and business document checks, with Verified badges | Partly Stripe identity checks before payouts; ID checks through Zapier or a partner [20] |
| Questions on listings | Buyers ask in public and the seller answers on the listing page | Not offered Not listed [3] |
| Buyers and trust | ||
| Messages between buyers and sellers | Built in, with photos and PDFs, read receipts and a "needs your action" list | Included Built in, with up to 10 files per message [21] |
| Reviews | Double-blind reviews after a completed order, and badges sellers earn | Included Two-sided, double-blind reviews after paid transactions [22] |
| Disputes | The buyer reports a problem, the payout waits, and you decide: refund the buyer or pay the seller | Included Buyers open a dispute after delivery and you resolve it [12] |
| Returns | The buyer asks within the return window, the seller accepts or refuses, and the refund goes back through Stripe | Partly You can cancel with a full refund; partial refunds need code; no returns flow [23] |
| Saved searches with alerts | Instant or daily alerts for new matches, by email and push | Needs a developer Not built in [3] |
| Easy and safe sign-in | Google, Facebook, Apple, X, Microsoft and LinkedIn, a code by SMS, one-click email links and two-step login | Partly Google and Facebook; other providers need code; Apple and two-step login not listed [24] |
| Growth and reach | ||
| Many languages in one marketplace | 44 languages, right-to-left included; visitors switch language and listings are translated for them | Needs a developer One language at a time; several need code; no right-to-left language listed [25] |
| SEO toolkit | Title patterns, redirects and a 404 log, structured data by listing type, sitemaps for every listing and IndexNow | Included Editable meta tags, clean URLs, a sitemap of the 10,000 newest listings [27] |
| Maps and map search | OpenStreetMap with no API key, or Google Maps; search the area on the map or near a place | Included Map and location search, with your own Google or Mapbox account [28] |
| Referral rewards | Members share an invite link and earn credit or a coupon when a friend buys or lists | Paid add-on Through Toppal, a partner app; built in it only records where users came from [29] |
| Automatic social posting | New listings posted to a Facebook Page, Instagram, X and Telegram | Paid add-on Through ShopSync, a partner app [30] |
| Your own iPhone app | Your marketplace as a branded app on the App Store, with push notifications, published for you | Paid add-on Through partners such as Twinr; price not stated [37] |
| API, webhooks and MCP | Signed webhooks, scoped API keys, an OpenAPI description, and an MCP server so AI assistants can work with your site | Included Full APIs, SDKs and Zapier; events to poll, no outgoing webhooks [31] |
| Running the marketplace | ||
| Hosting, SSL, updates and backups | Included, with support | Partly Included without custom code; with custom code you host the front end [4] |
| PDF invoices | Buyers download a PDF invoice for each order; right-to-left and Asian scripts use the printable invoice page | Partly Only through a Zapier and Cloudlayer tutorial, without commission or shipping on the invoice [35] |
| Seller tax reporting (DAC7) | Sellers enter their tax details, and you get the yearly report EU rules ask marketplaces for | Partly A guide to collecting the data, mostly from Stripe; no report [32] |
| Tools for your team | A "needs your attention" list, an audit log of staff changes, a conversation viewer and log in as a user | Partly Log in as a user; admin actions shown on each transaction, no general audit log [33] |
| Moving your listings in | CSV import of listings and users, with a dry run and undo | Needs a developer No CSV import; listings come in through the API or with Sharetribe's team [36] |
A working site in year one.
What it takes to run a live marketplace with real payments for a year, before any custom development.
Sharetribe
| Live plan, billed yearly ($259 a month billed monthly) [1] | $2,388 |
|---|---|
| Usage beyond 1M credits a month, by Sharetribe's own examples for a small marketplace [1] | $0 to $131 a month |
| Build plan while you set up, after the 14-day trial [1] | $39 a month |
| Maps (Google or Mapbox), your own domain [1] | Paid separately |
| Custom code: front-end hosting and a developer [5] | from $19 a month + development |
| Year one | From $2,388 + usage |
$3,108 billed monthly. Sharetribe takes no fee on transactions; Stripe charges its own. Real users and payments need the Live plan.
Yclas
| Marketplace up to 300,000 listings · $149 a month | $1,788 |
|---|---|
| Included in the price | Hosting, SSL, updates, backups, support |
Year-one total for the Marketplace plan, the one with the cart and a commission on every sale, from the pricing page. Yclas takes no fee on your sales; Stripe charges its own card fees. 15 days free first, with no credit card, and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Prices in US dollars; EU customers pay VAT unless they add a VAT number.
Sharetribe and Yclas, point by point.
| Topic | Sharetribe | Yclas |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A hosted marketplace engine with a no-code Console, APIs and an open-source front-end template | A hosted marketplace platform: nothing to install or host |
| Software price | Live: $199 a month billed yearly, $259 monthly, plus usage credits | $149 a month on the Marketplace plan, with no fee on your sales. Hosting included. |
| Fee on your sales | None | None |
| Changing the code | Possible, then you host the front end yourself and merge template updates by hand | Hosted: custom code sections and CSS, webhooks and an API; our team does custom work |
| Shopping cart | One listing per transaction; a cart is custom code | A cart across sellers, paid once and split automatically |
| Languages | One of 14 interface languages; several at once need code | 44 languages at once, right-to-left included, with listings translated |
| Currencies | One currency per marketplace | Any currency, and each listing can have its own |
| Payouts to sellers | Stripe Connect only, in the countries it supports; other gateways need custom code | Automatic through Stripe Connect, held until delivery if you want; or buyers pay you and sellers withdraw their balance by PayPal or bank transfer |
| Selling to sellers | Seller subscriptions through a Stripe page and manual changes, or Zapier | Seller plans renewed automatically, featured listings, bump to top and paid categories |
| Phones | Native apps through partners (Twinr, Journeyhorizon); push only through those | Your own branded iPhone app on the App Store, published for you, with push notifications; mobile-first theme for every phone |
| Support | Help centre and support; Expert agencies for hire for custom work | Priority support from our developers and an onboarding call on Marketplace |
Also on the Marketplace plan
- 44 languages, right-to-left included, multilingual sites and any currency
- Your own domain with one DNS record, and SSL set up automatically
- 17 payment gateways, including Stripe, PayPal, Mollie, Mercado Pago and Razorpay
- A money wizard that sets up paid posting, featured listings and plans in a few clicks
- Cookie consent that holds back analytics and ad code until visitors accept
- Reporting of illegal listings with a review queue, as the EU Digital Services Act asks
- Captcha with no setup, listing drafts that save themselves, and favourites
- Custom CSS and code, conditional custom fields and a catalogue of add-ons
- Ready-made connections for Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Mailchimp, Slack and HubSpot
- A share kit with WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram and X buttons and a social image for every listing
The AI features and the page builder work with the Nova theme, the default for new sites. Compare plans →
Make it yours without hiring a developer.
With Sharetribe, a design beyond the theme's options usually means paying a developer or designer. Yclas includes a page builder you use yourself: describe what you want, or change it by hand.
The Yclas page builder
- Describe the change in plain words, such as "darker hero, bigger search, rounder cards", and the AI makes it in a draft you preview before you publish.
- Start from 109 ready-made looks for cars, property, jobs, services, equipment and more, then change colours, fonts, buttons and spacing.
- Build pages from a library of sections: hero with search, categories, latest listings, how it works, locations, map, text, image and text, features, testimonials, FAQ, stats, call to action and logos, plus custom code sections for anything else.
- Drag sections into place, edit text right on the page, and check it on desktop, tablet and phone, next to your live site.
- Write and rewrite text with AI, and use free photos from Pexels and Unsplash or your own.
- Add pages, save blocks to reuse, undo any step, restore an earlier version, schedule publishing up to 90 days ahead, and share a preview link for 7 days.
Included in every plan. Want us to do it for you? Our team also does custom design and development.
The usual route with Sharetribe
| Custom code: front-end hosting, for example on Render [5] | from $19 a month |
|---|---|
| Custom development, in Sharetribe's own estimate [5] | a few hundred to tens of thousands of dollars |
Hourly work adds up with every change: a new section, a seasonal banner or a fix after an update is another job to brief, wait for and pay for.
Moving from Sharetribe
Sharetribe's Console exports users, listings and transactions as CSV files, and Yclas imports CSV.
- Export your users and listings from the Sharetribe Console as CSV files.
- Start a free trial and open Move your site to Yclas, then choose CSV.
- Match the columns, check the dry run (a preview with any errors, nothing is saved yet), then import.
Listings come across with their categories, prices and photos from their web addresses, and users as accounts. Passwords are not copied: imported users set a new one, and sellers connect their own Stripe account again. You can undo the latest import within 7 days.
When Sharetribe may be the better choice
- You want to design your own transaction flows, step by step, for a marketplace that works unlike any other.
- You have developers and want a headless engine with APIs and SDKs to build your own front end on.
- You run a private marketplace where only approved members can see listings.
- Your marketplace is small and you would rather pay by usage than a fixed plan.
If none of these fit, and you would rather spend your time on your marketplace than on a server, try Yclas.
Is Sharetribe cheaper than Yclas?
No. Sharetribe Live costs $2,388 a year billed yearly ($259 a month billed monthly), plus usage beyond the included credits. Yclas Marketplace costs $149 a month, with hosting, support and AI included.
Does Sharetribe have a shopping cart?
Not built in: a Sharetribe transaction holds one listing, and Sharetribe describes a cart as a custom build. Yclas has a cart across sellers, paid once and split between them automatically.
Can a Yclas marketplace run in several languages?
Yes. Visitors switch between any of 44 languages, right-to-left included, and listings are translated for them. On Sharetribe several languages need custom code.
Can I move my Sharetribe marketplace to Yclas?
Yes. Export users and listings from the Sharetribe Console as CSV files and bring them in with the Yclas CSV import, after a dry run you can check. You can undo the latest import within 7 days.
Do I need a developer for Yclas?
No. Cart, coupons, auctions, bookings, languages and the page builder are settings. Custom code sections, webhooks and an API are there if you want them, and our team does custom work.
Sources
Checked on 22 October 2026. Prices change: the vendor's own page is always the latest word. If something here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.
- Sharetribe pricing: plans, usage credits and examples, other costs
- Sharetribe pricing changelog: October 2026 plans
- Sharetribe features
- Sharetribe hosting mode: no-code or custom code
- Sharetribe: how much it costs to customize your marketplace with code
- Sharetribe: features that can be built with custom code
- Sharetribe: a marketplace engine for the AI age (18 September 2026)
- Sharetribe: the ecommerce marketplace template by Journeyhorizon
- Sharetribe developer blog: shopping cart
- Sharetribe for product marketplaces: customizations
- Sharetribe: commission rates
- Sharetribe: how purchase transactions work (payouts, disputes)
- Sharetribe: how shipping works
- Sharetribe help: monetization
- Sharetribe: price negotiation
- Sharetribe: how to build a website like eBay
- Sharetribe: how calendar booking transactions work
- Sharetribe: charging providers a subscription
- Sharetribe: user types
- Sharetribe: identity verification
- Sharetribe: files in messages
- Sharetribe: how reviews work
- Sharetribe: cancelling and refunding
- Sharetribe: social logins
- Sharetribe: supported languages
- Sharetribe: one currency per marketplace
- Sharetribe: sitemap files
- Sharetribe: maps and location
- Sharetribe: affiliate program with Toppal
- Sharetribe: sharing listings with ShopSync
- Sharetribe docs: reacting to events
- Sharetribe: collecting data for DAC7
- Sharetribe changelog
- Sharetribe: how digital download transactions work
- Sharetribe: PDF invoices with Zapier
- Sharetribe docs: migrating from outside Sharetribe
- Sharetribe: mobile apps through partners
- Yclas pricing
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