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The public catalog and a private offer link converge into one guided install, pass through an optional checkout, and land as a live product in the customer workspace
The marketplace is the storefront where customers discover, configure, and purchase your products. Products with catalog visibility and commercial setup can appear in the public catalog. You can also sell outside the catalog by sharing Offers directly with individual customers. Each customer purchase walks through a guided install wizard, workspace selection, optional payment, and automatic installation. Akua tracks that walk as an order draft so you can see where every customer is. The wizard form is generated from the selected Package version’s input schema, so customers configure their install without any hand-coded UI on your part.

Offers

Share a short URL that takes customers straight into the guided install wizard.

Order drafts

The states a customer moves through from offer to live installation.

Limits and fees

Marketplace quotas, Stripe processing fees, and compute constraints.

Products

Create and configure the products that appear in your marketplace.

Payments

Connect Stripe and understand the customer payment flow.

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How products appear

A product appears in the marketplace when it has catalog visibility enabled, a Package version selected, and the required commercial setup for its sale path. Public listings and private offers use the same generated install wizard. You can also sell products without the public catalog by sending customers an Offer (akua.dev/i/<hash>). Offers let you pre-fill inputs, lock specific fields, restrict access to named email addresses, and set expiry. These are useful for per-customer pricing, partner onboarding, and private betas. For partner, reseller, or beta distribution under reviewed commercial terms, Offer channels group offers behind a governed policy. Channels are a restricted, request-only entitlement that Akua enables per workspace.

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Authentication and workspace selection

The marketplace is publicly browsable without an account. Customers must authenticate before purchasing. During checkout, customers select an existing workspace or Akua creates a default one. New users can sign up during the purchase flow using email verification.

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API

Manage products and offers programmatically.

Products API

Create, update, archive, and list products.

Offers API

Create, resolve, archive, and manage offers.

Order Drafts API

Track and manage customer order drafts and checkout sessions.

Authentication

Set up API tokens for programmatic access.

Offers

Share short URLs that drive the generated install wizard.

Payments

Connect your Stripe account and understand the billing flow.

Products

Package your software for sale on the marketplace.

Limits and fees

Understand what is metered and what is unlimited.