# Return to the old marketplace **URL:** \ **Category:** Using Concrete / Help\ **Tags:** marketplace\ **Created:** [March 11, 2026, 11:38pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/return-to-the-old-marketplace/9824 "2026-03-11T23:38:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tallacman](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/tallacman/32/3760_2.png) [@tallacman](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/tallacman)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 11:38pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/return-to-the-old-marketplace/9824/1 "2026-03-11T23:38:46Z")
let’s vote let’s get them a return to the old marketplace. It actually worked. You could download your theme. If you wanted to you could change the price occasionally if you felt like it, this is getting ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![JohntheFish](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/johnthefish/32/3767_2.png) [@JohntheFish](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/JohntheFish)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2026, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/return-to-the-old-marketplace/9824/2 "2026-03-12T08:24:17Z")
From my point of view, the old marketplace would be a big step backwards. What I would like to see is: - Some of the ‘forgotten’ capabilities from the old marketplace to be implemented in the new marketplace. - Fixing the niggles (not quite bugs) of the new marketplace. The experience could be considerably better for buyers, sellers and administrators. That reflects poorly on Concrete CMS as a whole. ---
**Author:** ![frz](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/frz/32/6262_2.png) [@frz](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/frz)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2026, 9:50pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/return-to-the-old-marketplace/9824/3 "2026-03-12T21:50:01Z")
I agree with John. The old marketplace was very very old, beyond the codebase being un-updateable, it was designed before smart phones were even popular. Let’s be real here gang. There was a long list of things everyone hated about the old marketplace too, most of which have been resolved in the new current one. Certainly, there’s always room for improvement and I’m sure there’s hundreds of things we could do to improve the current marketplace. To be very direct, as I prioritize our time on this the biggest factors are always going to be around customer shopping experience. The marketplace license assignment, cancellation, purchase flow has received the most love from my team since our initial launch because it directly impacts every customer experience. People buy items every day, I want to make it easier for more people to buy more. I would hope we all agree that those are the biggest bang for the buck issues to to worry about. Things like search behaving strangely or improving the check-out flow are always going to make me take pause and look for the time between our client work to give it another pass. The fact that a developer can not download the package file which they themselves uploaded to the PRB process from our backend feels (again to me) like a nice bug to cleanup, but hardly a systemic “It’s broken - roll it back to some code y’all wrote in 2009” scenario. I appreciate you’re frustrated tallacman, and I understand the work around Myq & Korvin have provided of granting yourself a free license to your own work so you can download your own package is pretty annoying and convoluted. I also understand that I can’t always find my own keys, let alone my old client work or package files on my local storage, so I don’t even think it’s silly you’re asking us to be the source of truth for your own work. I simply am spending a very finite number of hours on the marketplace and while we’ve known about this PRB download issue for a long time, it’s caused very few people a limited amount of pain, and we all know what Spock said about the good of the many.. I know that’s not the answer you’re looking for, but I hope some transparency helps. ---
**Author:** ![JohntheFish](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/johnthefish/32/3767_2.png) [@JohntheFish](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/JohntheFish)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/return-to-the-old-marketplace/9824/4 "2026-03-13T12:22:34Z")
> [@frz](#): > > as I prioritize our time on this the biggest factors are always going to be around customer shopping experience. … > [@frz](#): > > Things like search behaving strangely Searching/finding is a prerequisite to purchasing. ---
**Author:** ![mhawke](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/mhawke/32/6159_2.png) [@mhawke](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/mhawke)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/return-to-the-old-marketplace/9824/5 "2026-03-13T15:38:41Z")
I’ll jump in here with a marketplace-related question. I received no reaction to my confusion posted here. I do not want to subscribe to an addon perpetually. I want to buy it and self-host it. It appears from the dialogs that are presented when I click on ‘Self-hosted’ that this is no longer an option. > [@Confusing wording when buying add-ons](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/confusing-wording-when-buying-add-ons/9318/10): > > So now I’m even more confused. I went to investigate the " Large Language Models Generator" add-on and when I clicked on “Buy now” under Self Hosted, I was met with only one option which was: “Subscribe to Large Language Models Generator $15.00 per year” No, that’s not what I want to do. I want to buy it once for $15. So i went to any of the add-ons that offer to purchase once and was met with the same dead end i.e. Annual subscription. ---
**Author:** ![mlocati](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/mlocati/32/6208_2.png) [@mlocati](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/mlocati)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/return-to-the-old-marketplace/9824/6 "2026-03-13T15:53:16Z")
With the old marketplace, when you purchased an add-on, you were entitled to perpetual updates for that add-on. And I don’t think that was very fair to add-on creators: they’d sell you something for maybe 10 euros, and you had the right to ask for improvements forever. The new marketplace is better in this regard: you buy something today and you’re guaranteed support/new versions for just one year. If you want to stop receiving updates/support, simply cancel your subscription (the version you bought until then will remain yours - no one will delete the files in your servers). ---
**Author:** ![mhawke](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/mhawke/32/6159_2.png) [@mhawke](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/mhawke)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 4:07pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/return-to-the-old-marketplace/9824/7 "2026-03-13T16:07:37Z")
I’m sorry but that is absolutely NOT what that interface tells me. ---
**Author:** ![mlocati](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/mlocati/32/6208_2.png) [@mlocati](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/mlocati)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 5:02pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/return-to-the-old-marketplace/9824/8 "2026-03-13T17:02:17Z")
At the page [Large Language Models Generator :: Concrete CMS Marketplace](https://market.concretecms.com/products/large-language-models-generator/81bcdac5-873f-11f0-b970-0affd5227f07) I see this: ![$15 - includes 1 year of updates](https://forums.concretecms.org/uploads/default/original/2X/4/42b1752541757558cb8589bc260983ac2a490184.png) Which I think summarizes rather well what I meant 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mhawke](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/mhawke/32/6159_2.png) [@mhawke](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/mhawke)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 5:18pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/return-to-the-old-marketplace/9824/9 "2026-03-13T17:18:35Z")
Yes, and I pushed for that. It’s the next screen that halts the process, in my view. No explanation about how it works. Insiders might know how it works but the general public doesn’t. The curse of expertise rears it head. ---
**Author:** ![mlocati](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/mlocati/32/6208_2.png) [@mlocati](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/mlocati)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 5:39pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/return-to-the-old-marketplace/9824/10 "2026-03-13T17:39:16Z")
> [@mhawke](#): > > It’s the next screen that halts the process, in my view Are you referring to the page provided by [stripe.com](http://stripe.com)? ![Stripe screenshot](https://forums.concretecms.org/uploads/default/original/2X/c/cd3252c505832c2954b5b90db820103522db3e79.png) I don’t think the core team has any control over that… ---
**Author:** ![mhawke](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/mhawke/32/6159_2.png) [@mhawke](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/mhawke)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2026, 9:00pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/return-to-the-old-marketplace/9824/11 "2026-03-14T21:00:34Z")
I understand the desire to keep the marketplace screens clean but as a possible purchaser, I still don’t know what those options mean. The button says ‘Buy Now’ not “Subscribe Now”. In my view, buying is not the same as subscribing especially when combined with “Self Hosted”. It doesn’t say what happens after the 1st year. At the bare minimum, it needs to say something like “Pay once via subscription and cancel anytime and keep the addon”. I have no skin in this game so if you guys want to keep adding friction to the sales process then that’s your choice but when I can click one button on Amazon and the product is on my doorstep before I wake up the next morning or I can add an app to my phone in one click and start using it within 5 minutes, all this markeplace friction and uncertainty and vagueness IS causing abandonment. I might not be as technically literate as most of you folks here but I have spent 45 years SELLING things to real customers and I recognize an impediment when I see it. More clarity on the marketplace page will ease this friction. ---
**Author:** ![alaneku](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/alaneku/32/5178_2.png) [@alaneku](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/alaneku)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 10:03am UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/return-to-the-old-marketplace/9824/12 "2026-03-17T10:03:44Z")
I think the [stripe.com](http://stripe.com) page is confusing, the shopping experience from EU retailers (all retailers not just software) is very different. This [strpe.com](http://strpe.com) page really has not much detail and there is no final confirmation summary you normally get with most EU systems. ---
**Author:** ![dsds](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/dsds/32/6042_2.png) [@dsds](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/dsds)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 4:00am UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/return-to-the-old-marketplace/9824/13 "2026-03-27T04:00:27Z")
Thank you as always. I tried canceling my subscription, but the method involved receiving a cancellation URL via email. It’s certainly confusing. I’ve attached an image; I think it should have been canceled, but what do you think? ![サブスクキャンセル](https://forums.concretecms.org/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce72a061ded1b22da78fb326929ece32634ce95b.png)