We’re getting ready to submit our plugin to Cursor for potential inclusion in the Marketplace, but noticed on the submission page that the Owner field is set to the email address of our logged in Cursor account, and underneath the field is the notation ‘Submitting as an individual.’ . The field is greyed out and can’t be changed.
Is this information simply for Cursor’s reference, or will it be shown somewhere in the Marketplace? We’d prefer to submit as a company and provide a suitable contact email that’s different from the one we use for our Cursor subscription.
Hey @rsb good to see you again from the plugin thread.
Right now, the form at cursor.com/marketplace/publish is tied to your account, and there’s no way to switch it to a company. That’s a limitation of the current flow.
One thing I can confirm: in the plugin.json manifest, there’s an author field where you can put your company name:
"author": { "name": "Your Company Name" }
Since every plugin goes through manual review, as a workaround you can add a note in the description when you submit that this is a company submission, and include the preferred contact email.
Thanks, Dean! I just checked our plugin.json, and we do indeed specify our company and a support email address, so we should be good. We are excited to share what we’ve built – stay tuned for a post in the Showcase section!
Hi @deanrie , is there a time by which we should expect to hear back regarding our Marketplace submission? @saif_shines was also curious about this in the other thread. I’ve emailed [email protected] (the address listed on the submission page) a couple of times but have never received a response.
Hey @rsb, unfortunately we don’t have a specific SLA for reviews right now. The marketplace is curated, and every submission goes through a manual review, so timelines can vary.
I know it’s not OK that you haven’t gotten a reply from [email protected]. I’ll flag that too.
Let me know if anything changes on your side, and if you still don’t get a response.
Much appreciated. As an aside, I found it curious that Cursor’s marketplace submission page didn’t ask for test credentials to sign in with as some other app submission platforms do. When the review occurs, will your reviewers create a new account to test with (in our case, we have a free tier as well as paid options), or reach out to the submitter to obtain access?
This is a rather long way of saying that Cursor would benefit from having a FAQ page on this topic much like other AI companies do (e.g. Submit and maintain your app – Apps SDK | OpenAI Developers ). Having this would also save you a lot of time responding to the same questions.
And I totally agree with the feedback about the FAQ page, I’ll pass it to the team. Right now the docs only cover the submission checklist, but nothing about what happens after you submit. The link to the OpenAI submission docs is a good example of how we can do this.
Building, testing and submitting a plugin is a non-trivial exercise, and we’ve put a lot of care and love into what we’ve put together for Cursor. We sincerely want to be part of the marketplace, but not knowing the status of our application is worse than a rejection since we don’t know what to do next.
Hi Dean, I checked my notes, and see that we submitted the application on April 1st. On April 7th, we followed up with an email to marketplace-publishing asking about status. Happy to DM you the actual email exchanges if that’d help. Your intercession here is appreciated!
I never did hear from the Marketplace team. Sorry to be the squeaky wheel here. Any chance you could DM me your email address so that I can include you on a follow up message to your colleagues?
Hey @rsb, I’m really sorry for the continued silence here. This is definitely not the experience we want any user to have when submitting for Marketplace publishing.
I just sent you a DM with my email. Can you please CC me on your ongoing thread with the Marketplace team and forward any earlier email threads with marketplace-publishing@ if you have them handy, so I can include the full context when I escalate this again on my side.
Hi @deanrie , just wanted to say thanks for your help off-forum with the Marketplace team. Once they popped up they were very helpful and informative. I’m also including @saif_shines here, since I know Scalekit was asking similar questions about Marketplace submissions in our other thread on this topic.
It might be useful for Cursor to codify this advice on the Marketplace submission and plugin development pages if you’d prefer most folks to go this route first.
Hey @rsb, glad to hear everything worked out and the Marketplace team got involved. Congrats on the release. I took a look, it looks great.
On your docs suggestion, I totally agree. The idea that cursor.directory is the right first step before a Marketplace submission isn’t clearly written anywhere right now, so users end up learning it through support. I’ll pass it to the team so they can add this pathway to the plugins page and the submission form.