Break the limits of White-Label exchanges’ customization with the HollaEx Kit!

If you ever thought about trying your luck by starting a crypto exchange, it’s probable that you considered a white-label solution; They give you a good base to start from and are easy to use, making the job of an exchange operator simpler.

But nothing is perfect, and most of these tools are very limited for personalization, forcing your exchange to be similar to others’. This impedes differentiation with competitors, and if you can’t offer something different, there is no reason for people to use your service.

This is where the HollaEx’s Kit comes in; A white-label crypto solution, with full customization from the code up. This means that you will be able to do anything you imagine for your exchange, which makes it the most versatile open-source crypto kit software of its kind in the world.

Not only this, but it also comes with an integrated coin creation system and an easy-to-use graphical interface, making exchange creation and customization much easier and accessible for everyone, even for non-coders!

In this article, we will be focusing on the customization aspect of the kit, so it’s assumed that you already have an exchange of your own.

If this is not the case, you can find info about how to set up your exchange here (using a Cloud Hosting plan) or here (Locally hosting a DIY exchange).

Operator Control Panel (AKA blue admin)

To start customizing your exchange, you will first have to know about the “Operator Control Panel” section; The one from which you will be able to control and change everything about your exchange, from icons and colors to fees and user tiers.

Operator Control Panel, or Blue Admin menu as we call it, can be accessed once you already set up your exchange by logging in as the owner.

We have an entire article dedicated to it, so we recommend you to give it a look!

Exchange Customization

Now that you are ready, we can start customizing your exchange.

First of all, you gotta know your most important tools; “Edit mode” and “Themes”.

Edit mode is where you will access all options the kit has for your exchange’s customization. Clicking on it will make a menu pop up, in which you will be able to change Strings (Exchange’s text) and Exchange’s Graphics. You will also find the Themes section.

Themes are sets of graphics and strings that you can save, so that you can change easily between looks. For default, the HollaEx Kit comes with a dark and a light theme, but you can have as many as you want!

In addition to all of this, you will see editing options at the side of every graphic/string; this is an easy way for beginners to change stuff around without much knowledge!

Exchange customization tutorial

For this article, 2 projects under development allowed us to use their exchange’s assets as examples.

One is “Candy Shop”, an exchange that works as a complement to a new game coming up similar to Candy Crush, allowing players to exchange money between in-game candy currencies and crypto.

The other is “CryptoLuxo”, a consulting company for high-volume crypto investments.

Now we are ready to begin styling your exchange. As we said before, the exchange’s customization is divided in 2 sections: Graphics and Strings.

Graphics are all the visual aspects of the exchange, like your background, logos, colors, etc.

Strings are all the texts in your exchange, like your added assets numbers, menus’ texts or titles of sections.

Graphics editing

Say you want to change your exchange’s logo, to do this you can go through 2 paths; one is clicking on the edit button next to the logo directly on the website. The other is going to the “All graphics” section and then looking for the logo manually, or using the keyword search, whichever you prefer.

Once you are in the menu, click on “Upload” to select your image. You can use a variety of formats (.jpg, .png, .svg, .gif) as long as the file is under 1MB.

After you upload it to your theme of preference, just click on “confirm” and then, “publish” in the bottom-right of the screen to apply the changes.

This is what your exchange should look like after applying the changes! The process is the same for any other graphical asset, like the sidebars icons or your tier’s ones. Be creative!

Text editing

String editing is very important when defining an exchange’s style, one different word or sentence can completely change the vibe of a menu or section in your project, so make sure to have the right words in your web!

To change a text inside your exchange, you will have to go to the Strings menu, or just like with graphics, search for the text you want to edit and click on the edit button.

A menu like this should open up:

Let’s say you wanna change the “Open crypto exchange” string for another that mentions your exchange’s name. Say, “Open Candy Shop”.

To do that, first click over the text or the pencil icon and it will bring up the ‘Edit String’ pop up, then select the language you wanna change the string for and write the new text. Finally, click on “save” and you are done!

Font editing

To finish with the exchange customization, the only thing left to change is the font style of your project. This will allow you to give your project’s style the final touch!

Fonts can be changed by editing the “variables.scss” file, which you can find in the HollaEx kit folder (hollaex-kit/web/src).

To start, open the file with any text editor, then go to the fonts section (Close to the end, text line 337). When you get there, change “Open Sans” and “Raleway” for whatever font name you wish from Google fonts. Then, restart your exchange’s web (hollaex web — restart) to upload the changes and finish the process.

And that’s it! Your exchange will have a brand new font style!

Conclusions

As you have seen, with the HollaEx kit customizing your exchange has never been easier! Colors, designs, texts, styles, all of that at the reach of some fool-proof clicks.

The only limit is your imagination, give life to your crypto projects with the best crypto tool out there!

And that was all for this article, if you want extra info on exchanges’ customization, you can check out the pro tips PDF. Also, if you prefer to learn by watching videos, why don’t you take a look at our video version of this guide?

You can go to our Forums too to answer any question you have. Finally, don’t forget to join the Discord server!