Config Builder

The Config Builder is where you design and customize your entire consent experience. Every change you make is reflected instantly in a live preview, so you always see exactly what your visitors will see. Changes save automatically as drafts — nothing goes live on your site until you explicitly publish.

You'll find three main tabs in the Config Builder sidebar: Appearance, Content, and Compliance. Integrations and Languages live within the Compliance tab.

Appearance

The Appearance tab controls the visual design of your consent banner and preferences panel. You can customize colors, fonts, banner layout, button styles, corner radius, shadows, and the position of the re-entry button that lets visitors change their preferences later.

A set of banner layouts are available out of the box. You can also choose how the preferences panel looks when a visitor wants to review individual consent categories. On the Pro plan and above, you can write custom CSS for pixel-perfect control over every element.

Content

The Content tab is where you edit the text your visitors read — the banner headline, body copy, button labels, and the preferences panel copy. ConsentStack adapts text based on the consent model shown to each visitor, so you can write different copy for opt-in visitors (who need to actively accept) versus notice-only visitors (who just need to be informed).

Edit any text field in the inspector panel on the right, and watch the live preview update instantly on the left. You can also link to your privacy policy and cookie policy documents directly from the banner.

Compliance

The Compliance tab is the control center for your consent rules. Here you manage your consent categories (like Analytics, Marketing, and Functional), add the regulations that apply to your site (GDPR, CCPA, and 30+ others), and configure the consent rules that determine what each regulation requires for each category.

For example, you might set Analytics cookies to require opt-in consent for GDPR visitors, but only require notice for CCPA visitors. The rules you set here drive everything — which banner your visitors see, what scripts are blocked, and what signals are sent to your ad platforms.

Learn more about how categories and regions work.

Integrations

Platform integrations let you automatically send consent signals to Google Consent Mode, Meta, TikTok, and other advertising and analytics platforms. When a visitor grants or denies consent, ConsentStack forwards that decision to each enabled platform so your tags and pixels respect the visitor's choices without any extra code.

Enable the integrations you need, and ConsentStack handles the signal format for each platform. Integrations are available on the Pro plan and above.

Languages

ConsentStack supports multi-language consent banners in 7 languages. Enable the languages your visitors speak, and ConsentStack automatically translates your banner text when you publish — no manual translation work required. If you've customized any text in the Content tab, those customizations are translated too.

Multi-language support is available on the Pro plan and above. Language settings live within the Compliance tab.

Draft & Publish Workflow

Every change you make in the Config Builder saves automatically as a draft. Drafts are private to your team — your visitors never see them. When a tab has unpublished changes, a "Draft" indicator appears next to it in the sidebar so you always know what's pending.

When you're happy with your changes, hit Publish to push the new config live. The published version is what your visitors see. You can also discard a draft at any time to revert back to the currently published version. This workflow lets you experiment freely without worrying about breaking your live consent experience.

What's Next

• Add your site to ConsentStack to start building your config
• Learn about consent categories and regions to understand the compliance model