diff --git a/plugins/search-backend-module-catalog/README.md b/plugins/search-backend-module-catalog/README.md
index b5960e2789..9deeccb910 100644
--- a/plugins/search-backend-module-catalog/README.md
+++ b/plugins/search-backend-module-catalog/README.md
@@ -2,11 +2,18 @@
 
 > DISCLAIMER: The new backend system is in alpha, and so are the search backend module support for the new backend system. We don't recommend you to migrate your backend installations to the new system yet. But if you want to experiment, you can find getting started guides below.
 
-This package exports catalog backend modules responsible for extending search.
+This package exports a module that extends the search backend to also indexing the entities of your catalog.
 
-## Example
+## Installation
 
-### Use default schedule
+Add the module package as a dependency:
+
+```bash
+# From your Backstage root directory
+yarn add --cwd packages/backend @backstage/plugin-search-backend-module-catalog
+```
+
+Add the collator to your backend instance, along with the search plugin itself:
 
 ```tsx
 // packages/backend-next/src/index.ts
@@ -20,22 +27,50 @@ backend.add(searchModuleCatalogCollator());
 backend.start();
 ```
 
-### Use custom schedule
+You may also want to add configuration parameters to your app-config, for example for controlling the scheduled indexing interval. These parameters should be placed under the `search.collators.catalog` key. See [the config definition file](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/blob/master/plugins/search-backend-module-catalog/config.d.ts) for more details.
+
+## Advanced Customizations
+
+This module also has an extension point, which lets you inject advanced customizations. Here's an example of how to leverage that extension point to tweak the transformer used for building the search indexer documents:
 
 ```tsx
 // packages/backend-next/src/index.ts
 import { createBackend } from '@backstage/backend-defaults';
+import { createBackendModule } from '@backstage/backend-plugin-api';
 import { searchPlugin } from '@backstage/plugin-search-backend/alpha';
-import { searchModuleCatalogCollator } from '@backstage/plugin-search-backend-module-catalog/alpha';
+import { CatalogCollatorEntityTransformer } from '@backstage/plugin-search-backend-module-catalog';
+import {
+  searchModuleCatalogCollator,
+  catalogCollatorExtensionPoint,
+} from '@backstage/plugin-search-backend-module-catalog/alpha';
 
-const schedule = {
-  frequency: { minutes: 10 },
-  timeout: { minutes: 15 },
-  initialDelay: { seconds: 3 },
-};
+const customTransformer: CatalogCollatorEntityTransformer = entity => ({
+  title: entity.metadata.title || entity.metadata.name,
+  text: entity.metadata.description || '',
+  componentType: entity.spec?.type?.toString() || 'other',
+  type: entity.spec?.type?.toString() || 'other',
+  namespace: entity.metadata.namespace || 'default',
+  kind: entity.kind,
+  lifecycle: (entity.spec?.lifecycle as string) || '',
+  owner: (entity.spec?.owner as string) || '',
+});
 
 const backend = createBackend();
 backend.add(searchPlugin());
-backend.add(searchModuleCatalogCollator({ schedule }));
+backend.add(searchModuleCatalogCollator());
+backend.add(
+  createBackendModule({
+    pluginId: 'search',
+    moduleId: 'myCatalogCollatorOptions',
+    register(reg) {
+      reg.registerInit({
+        deps: { collator: catalogCollatorExtensionPoint },
+        init({ collator }) {
+          collator.setEntityTransformer(customTransformer);
+        },
+      });
+    },
+  })(),
+);
 backend.start();
 ```