Chapter 11 · The website (front end)

Pages, blog, FAQ, contact form and newsletter

Besides the auctions, your website has the pages every marketplace needs: how it works, about us, legal pages, a blog for SEO, a FAQ, a contact form and a newsletter.

Text pages

The installation includes How it works, About us, Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy. You edit them, and add as many pages as you like, in Website › Pages with a visual editor and the AI page writer. Each page can appear in the top menu, the footer menu or both, and has its own SEO title and description.

The How it works page
The "How it works" page explains bidding, reserve prices and Buy it now to new members.

The blog

The blog (called News in the admin panel) is the easiest way to bring visitors from Google: buying guides, "how to spot a fake", market reports, upcoming sales. Each post has a cover image, a date, a reading time and its own search engine friendly URL.

A blog article on the auction website
A blog post. The blog page always shows three posts per row on desktop.

FAQ page

The FAQ page groups questions by topic (bidding and buying, selling, payments and fees, shipping and delivery, account and safety). Answers open with a click. Edit the questions in Website › Pages › FAQ: in the editor a Heading 2 starts a new topic, a Heading 3 is a question and the text below it is the answer.

The FAQ page
The FAQ page with questions grouped by topic.

Contact form

The contact page shows your e-mail, phone and address (from General settings) and a form. The messages arrive in Home › Messages in the admin panel and are also e-mailed to your contact address.

The contact page
The contact page with the contact form.

Newsletter

A newsletter sign-up form is shown in the footer. The subscribers are listed in Members › Newsletter, where you can export them as a CSV file for Mailchimp, Brevo or any other mailing tool.

If you turn on the cookie notice in Configuration Options › E-mail & privacy, first-time visitors see a short notice with your own title and text and an "OK" button.