Add an Extension to Oro Extensions Store

The Oro Extensions Store is the place where developers can publish their extensions and customers can obtain them.

There are two types of extensions in the Oro Extensions Store: free and paid. Free extensions are distributed directly from the Oro Extensions Store, whereas paid extensions must be purchased from the publisher’s website.

Package Preparation

Before you add an extension to the Oro Extensions Store you have to prepare the package and upload it to some repository.

Paid extensions can be published anywhere. Their publishers are fully responsible for proper packaging, distribution and payment processing.

All free extensions can be published on any publicly available git repository (GitHub, BitBucket, etc.). We strongly recommend to publish all releases with tags – this will allow our packagist application to pick up release notes, version history and contents of the readme.md file.

Every package must contain a composer.json file in the root catalogue. This file in turn must contain information about the application, its author and distribution license, as shown in the example below:

{
    "name": "oro/crm-application",
    "description": "The OroCRM distribution",
    "homepage": "https://github.com/orocrm/crm-application.git",
    "license": "OSL-3.0"
}

We only accept extensions under OSL-3 or MIT licenses.

Adding an Extension

To be able to add an extension you have to be logged in to the Oro Extensions Store website. The Add Extension page can be reached via the user menu in the top right corner of the page or via link on the My Marketplace page.

First thing you have to do is to choose an extension type: paid or free. Free extensions also require the repository URL. Then click Next to proceed to the second step of adding an extension.

Paid Extensions

For paid extensions the following information must be specified.

Extension Name – a name of the extension as it will appear in the Extensions Store.

Web URL – a user will be navigated to this URL when they click Get Extension button on the application view in the Extensions Store. Usually this is an extension page on publisher’s website.

Price – the price of the extension in US dollars. Note that we do not process any payments in the Extensions Store and the publisher is fully responsible for keeping the price up to date.

Note

If you want to charge your customers in currency other than USD, please write about it in the Pricing Info (see below) and care to update the price along with exchange rate fluctuations to avoid customer confusion.

Pricing Info – any additional information about pricing of the extension you want to provide. This field is optional.

Short Description – a short overview of the extension that will appear on its page in the Extensions Store. This is also an optional field.

Choose default image – you may add up to 8 images to your extension and choose the default one that will appear along to its name in the Extensions Store and on the extension page. The images must be in JPEG, PNG, or GIF formats, up to 1MB in size.

Category selection – each extension must belong to at least one product (e.g., OroCRM, OroCommerce, or OroPlatform) and belong to at least one category. If you do not see a proper category to put your extension in, you can request for creation of a new one in the form on the right.

Description, Release Notes, and Previous Versions – These fields are optional and are supposed to contain more detailed information about the application and its releases.

Free Extensions

If an extension package has been properly created according to our specification, most of extension information attributes will be automatically processed by our Packagist application and taken from GitHub, though you will still be able to edit them if you want to. Here is the list of fields and their sources:

• Extension Key – taken from name in the composer.json file

• Short Description – taken from description

• Description – taken from the contents of readme.md on GitHub

• Release Notes – taken from GitHub Release Notes (if tags are used)

• Previous Versions – taken from version history on GitHub (if tags are used)

This means you will only have to specify the Extension Name, choose a default image, and specify categories.

After you have published the application it will appear on the My Marketplace page in Pending status. The status will be changed shortly after our administrator reviews the extension and allows it to the Oro Extensions Store. Note that admin review is necessary only for the initial publication; all subsequent changes will not require admin approbation and will be published immediately.