using-marketplace-templates
Using Marketplace Templates
The Celigo Marketplace is a catalog of pre-built integration blueprints -- packaged flows, exports, imports, connections, and scripts you can browse, install, or reuse instead of building from scratch. Each listing is one of three kinds: a Template, an Integration App (IA), or an AI Agent. Most decisions come down to Templates vs Integration Apps.
Templates vs Integration Apps
Templates are open, customizable blueprints. Every flow, export, import, and script ships into your account as your own editable resource -- rename, restructure, or rewrite anything. The trade-off: templates receive no ongoing updates. A template is a starting point, not a maintained product; if the source application's API changes, you carry the fix.
Integration Apps (IAs) are vendor-maintained, structure-locked products. Their core flows, mappings, and logic are upgrade-protected so Celigo (or a partner) can ship updates without breaking your customizations. The trade-off: you configure only what the IA exposes (settings, mappings, endpoints) and can't rewrite the core -- in exchange you inherit bug fixes and new features over time.
Choosing wrong has opposite failure modes: pick a template when you needed an IA and you own the integration forever with no upstream fixes; pick an IA when you needed a template and you hit the locked-component ceiling the moment you must customize beyond what it exposes. When unsure, list both and compare.
AI Agents are a third listing type -- browse them in the marketplace to see what's available.
Whole Install vs Single-Element Copy
Two distinct operations, separated by intent: