Marketplace: Browse, Purchase & Create a Project
How to discover Recipes and Feature Packs in the Alchemist Marketplace, understand pricing and licensing before purchase, and create a new project from a first-party or third-party Recipe.
The Alchemist Marketplace is the canonical discovery surface for Recipes and Feature Packs — first-party templates from Chipp and third-party listings from verified sellers. You can reach it from two places:
- Primary nav: the Recipes & Marketplace item in the Alchemist sidebar is always visible, no project context required.
- Project Marketplace tab: every project has a Marketplace tab where you purchase or redeem a listing into that project.
Browsing and Filtering
The browse view shows the first-party Recipes, a Browse by type row, Featured and Recently updated listings, and All listings. Use the filters above All listings to narrow results:
| Filter | What it does |
|---|---|
| Search by name, use case, or industry | Text match against listing titles, summaries, and descriptions |
| Type | Recipe / Feature Pack / Bundle |
| Seller | Any seller, or one specific seller (verified sellers are marked) |
| Verified publisher only | Listings from sellers Chipp has marked as verified |
| Ongoing maintenance offered | Listings whose latest version offers an annual Maintenance plan |
When nothing matches, the browse view shows “No listings match your filters.” with a Clear filters button. The browse view is never a blank page.
Reading a Listing Detail Page
Before purchasing, every listing detail page shows:
What you get
- Plain-language summary and description
- Full list of included packs and their descriptions, with the packs each one composes
- Seller name (linked to the seller profile) and a verified badge where it applies
Versioning and compatibility
- Current version number, publish date, and changelog
- Compatibility declaration, or “No compatibility constraints declared.”
Licensing terms (read these before you buy)
- Source-visible, customizable: you receive the actual source files and can modify them freely inside your project.
- One project per license: the license is bound to the single project you purchase it into. Using the same code in a second project requires a separate license.
- Perpetual use of the purchased version: your license never expires. Even if you cancel Maintenance or the seller unpublishes the listing, your right to use and modify the installed version in that project is permanent.
Pricing and Maintenance
- One-time license price
- First year of maintenance
- Ongoing maintenance price
- Plain statement of what happens when Maintenance ends
Pricing disclosures on every listing are intentionally explicit: the one-time price, the Maintenance renewal price (if any), and the post-Maintenance state are each shown separately. The listing detail page has no purchase button: to buy, open the listing from a project’s Marketplace tab so the license binds to that project.
Starting a Project from a Recipe
Step 1 — Pick a Recipe
Click a first-party Recipe card on the Recipes & Marketplace page (each card reads “Create project from …”), or open New project and pick a card in the template grid. First-party Recipes are free with any plan.
Step 2 — Inspect the Recipe
When the selected template is a Recipe, the dialog shows:
- The build profile (full-stack or headless)
- Included Feature Packs
- Configuration knobs you’ll set next (for example brand name or checkout currency)
- The license cost: “First-party recipes carry no separate marketplace license fee.”
Step 3 — Describe the project and create it
Name the project and describe what you’re building. The knobs are read-only in the dialog: you set them with the Alchemist during the scoping conversation that follows. The platform records the recipe composition as provenance on the new project.
Project creation from a Recipe uses exactly the same infrastructure path as a blank project — the only difference is that the recipe composition is pre-applied rather than empty. There is no alternate code path.
What Happens After Creation
After the project is created, its Marketplace tab lists the published catalog (with Purchase and Redeem on each listing you can buy) and Licenses on this project, where you install packs and manage Maintenance.
Pricing: Free and Paid Listings
Free listings — first-party Recipes are free with any plan and carry no separate license fee. If Chipp gives you a coupon or grant code, enter it in Coupon / grant code on the project’s Marketplace tab and click Redeem. See Coupons and Alpha Grants for how grants work.
Paid listings — open the project’s Marketplace tab and click Purchase on the listing. Payment runs through Stripe Checkout, and the license is bound to that project on payment success. You pay the seller: the charge is made on the seller’s own Stripe account, the seller is the merchant of record, and your receipt and card statement show the seller. Chipp’s marketplace fee is included in the listed price. A listing whose seller has not finished connecting a Stripe account cannot be purchased yet.
Refunds — the seller is the merchant of record, so refunds are made on the seller’s Stripe account. Ask the seller through their profile, or contact Chipp support and we will route the request. A listing carries no additional guarantee beyond what its detail page states.