# Getting Started

Workshop allows you to **publish, advertise, and earn** from your items. It provides a broad set of features for both publishers and end users, making the storefront easy to use and reliable to manage.

## Core Concepts

Before publishing, it's important to understand the key concepts used in Workshop:

* **Storefront** - the main Workshop UI where users search, view, subscribe to, or purchase items;
* **Publishing Tool** - the area where item authors create, update, and manage their entries in the storefront;
* **Item** - a single Workshop entry. This can be a script, a library, or a config;
* **Build** - a specific version of an item that gets delivered to the end user;
* **Branch** - a channel that holds a single build (e.g. *stable*, *beta*);
* **Dependency** - a required library that an item relies on to function;
* **Capability** - a permission that unlocks restricted API functions (e.g. filesystem access, clipboard).

## Next Steps

1. Read the [Guidelines](/guidelines.md).
2. Complete a [Step By Step Guide](/publishing-tool/step-by-step-guide.md) tutorial.


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