Get it running
Download a release, unpack it in your web root, and follow the four-step installer. Ordinary shared hosting is enough: there is no build step on the server.
ShopClass documentation
Everything you need to run a classifieds site on your own hosting, and to build on top of it.
Coming from Osclass
ShopClass is Osclass, continued under its own name. Existing sites update in place: no export, no re-import, no rebuild.
Run your site
Categories, forms and custom fields, moderation, spam defences, media and storage: the admin panel, screen by screen.
Build on it
The plugin and theme API carried over from Osclass, plus the package spec and the registry that publishes your work to every install.
Popular pages
Section titled “Popular pages”Set up cronThe scheduled tasks that send alerts and expire listings. Skip it and neither happens.
Forms & custom fieldsModel vehicles, property or jobs with typed fields and conditional logic, no code.
Spam & abuseTurnstile, the keyword blocklist, login throttling and rate limits.
Mail serverSMTP settings, and what to check when mail stops arriving.
Command-line interfaceCron, migrations, admin recovery, plugin and theme management from a shell.
Backups & maintenanceBackups, maintenance mode, cleanup and the activity log.
Deploying
Section titled “Deploying”Docker & the production imageThe self-provisioning container image, its volumes, and how core and packages update differently.
Security & hardeningPermissions, HTTPS, admin access, the real client IP behind a proxy.
Which version this documents
Section titled “Which version this documents”These pages document ShopClass 6.4.1. Where a page covers a feature that arrived in a recent release, it names that release.
If you are on an older release, most of this still applies. The admin panel, the extension API and the CLI have been stable across the whole 6.x line. Check updating before assuming a feature is missing. It may just be switched off.
Where else to look
Section titled “Where else to look”The source repository carries the changelog, the security policy, and the Docker setup for local development and for the production image. Questions and help happen in GitHub Discussions. Reproducible bugs belong in issues.