Getting Started with Galexivo

Welcome to Galexivo. This guide walks you through setup from the moment you finish registration to the moment your gallery is live online.

What you’ll need

• A Cloudflare account (free tier is sufficient — sign up at cloudflare.com)
• Your gallery name and domain (optional — you can use a Cloudflare Pages subdomain for free)
• At least a few photos of your artworks at 1500px on the long edge or larger

Step 1: Connect your Cloudflare account

After registering, the onboarding wizard will ask you to connect your Cloudflare account. Click Connect Cloudflare and you will be taken to a Cloudflare authorisation page. Log in and grant the requested permissions — Galexivo needs permission to create Workers, D1 databases, and R2 buckets on your behalf.

Once you grant access, provisioning begins automatically. This takes between 3 and 10 minutes. You will see a progress screen with live status updates.

Step 2: Add your first artworks

Once provisioning is complete, you land in your Galexivo admin. The first thing to do is add a few artworks.

Go to Inventory → Artworks and click Add artwork. Fill in:

• Title and year
• Artist (create a new artist record if needed)
• Medium and dimensions
• Price (or mark as NFS — not for sale)
• Upload one or more photos

Galexivo stores your photos in your R2 bucket at full resolution. Thumbnails are generated automatically.

Repeat for as many works as you want. You can import a batch from a spreadsheet using Import → From CSV if you have a lot of existing inventory.

Step 3: Create your first exhibition

Go to Exhibitions → New exhibition. Give it a name, set opening and closing dates, and add artworks from your inventory. You can drag to reorder them.

When you publish the exhibition, it appears immediately on your public gallery site.

Step 4: Review your public site

Your public gallery site is available at [your-slug].galexivo.com from the moment provisioning completes. You can also point a custom domain to it — see Custom Domains for instructions.

The public site shows your current exhibitions, available artworks, and any artist pages you have published. Visitors can browse, enquire about works, and purchase directly if you have connected Stripe.

Step 5: Set up payments (optional)

If you want to sell directly through your site, go to Settings → Payments and connect your Stripe account. You will need a Stripe account with your bank details — the connection takes about two minutes.

Once connected, artworks marked “For sale” will show a buy button on your public site. Stripe handles all payment processing; funds go directly to your bank account.

Next steps

• Managing your inventory — detailed guide to artworks, transactions, and states
• Exhibitions — setting up shows, catalog generation, and press releases
• CRM & collectors — managing contacts, enquiries, and email campaigns
• Custom domains — pointing your own domain at your gallery site