Technology Stack for Marketplaces
Mobile Development
Front-end
Back-end
Payments
Recommendations
Analytics
Marketing Automation
Infrastructure
Databases
Marketplace development is a complex multi-sided technical requirement. The success of Amazon, Airbnb, Etsy, and many other marketplaces points to the importance of aligning marketplace formats to transform your business. We not only take care of your technology needs but also help you develop your idea into a sustainable business, offering lots of practical advice and actionable ideas along the way.
Our Marketplace services deliver a complete solution like TaskRabbit App development for you, right from conceptualizing an idea to developing it and launching it. By following the zero-hiccup development methodology, we ensure that your journey is reliable, predictable, and transparent.
We offer an effective online marketplace app development service to companies ensuring that you get from an idea to revenue within 6 months. We have an expert crew dedicated to supporting and user experience that can help you with growth hacking, web scraping, product image editing, product catalog management, product data entry, product listing, product upload, SEO, and more.
Organizations are embracing marketplaces to deliver better and more suitable services to consumers. It is a tried and trusted method to create a brand’s importance and make the company scalable.
A typical marketplace model consists of buyers and sellers, with the platform as a means to connect both. Marketplaces do not generally own any supply, do not provide products or services directly, and (eventually) handle the money being exchanged. Simply put, a marketplace provides a platform where supply and demand efficiently find each other and transact successfully.
A marketplace has many moving parts, such as the user’s identity, the players’ reputation, payments, trust and safety, frictionless ness, and transparency.
A founder has to drive supply and demand and create opportunities that solve problems for both parties with efficiency, scalability, flexibility, and network effects.
Some of the major marketplaces in the world are:
Fig: Major marketplaces in the world
Marketplaces are hard to build. During the initial phase of a marketplace, there is neither supply nor demand available. At Mindbowser, we work with entrepreneurs to not only guide the technology but also build the right business strategy with the support of our marketplace development services. Launching a marketplace requires building the two sides of the platform. On one side, you have to onboard the customers, and on the other, the vendors.
Creating a marketplace needs a team of designers, front-end and back-end developers, DevOps experts, technical leads, a tester, and an Agile Scrum Manager. A full team of 5-7 people with a burn rate of approximately 20K USD monthly can launch an MVP in around 6 months. The exact cost and timeline may, of course, vary depending on the needs.
You can take help from a mobile app development company and create a marketplace platform. Hiring freelance developers and utilizing open-source software or generic site builders is also a possibility but comes with its own set of risks related to scalability, availability, and reliability.
A Design Sprint-like exercise can be done at the start to finalize the user experience and user flow and define priorities for the platform development phase. Also having a strong foundation built would mitigate the risk around scope creep, expectations, and delivery quality.
A marketplace allows vendors to bring out their products and services in front of their targeted customers. The multi-vendor platform can offer ample choices to the customer and high volume growth to vendors. The best part about marketplaces is the network effect. This means more buyers lead to more sellers, leading to more buyers, and so on, the cycle continues. Once such a system sets in, it becomes hard to compete and it creates a great advantage for a company.
Fig: How does a marketplace work?
We developed an on-demand mobile application that suggests premier deals and offers on apparel, restaurant, travel, automotive, and many more. The basic concept was to build a platform where users can enjoy unlimited deals in a single tab.
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The Patient-Centric HIPAA Compliant telemedicine solution offers a web-based platform that requires no download or additional setup to get a Telehealth practice set up for a practitioner. The platform includes multiple-way group call features that allow the physicians to add interpreters and specialists to the virtual visit.
Shortlist is a web portal that combines technology and human screening to find outstanding talent for businesses. It provides organizations with top-qualified candidates based on the skills and attributes they demonstrate via in-depth performance analysis.
The company is a recognized global leader in the Learning & Development of talent and solutions. Organizations of all sizes, including Fortune 500 companies, partner with the company to support their learning initiatives of any size or scope in all locations, virtual or in person. The company has been in business for the last 25 years and has a team of in-house experts as well as a global talent pool.
A digital wellness company tackled the challenge of excessive social media usage, decreased productivity, mental health issues, and strained relationships. We developed an application that helps in real-time tracking, customizable benchmarks, and a in-app market place. The incentivizing approach for monitoring tracking behavior has helped reduce the users’ social media activity by 25% within the first two weeks.
Radhika Kotwal always had a vision about building a marketplace for artists.
Being a trained dancer herself, Radhika felt the gap in the market for a holistic one place for artists for events, jobs, gigs, training, networking and so on.
Radhika teamed up with Mindbowser and has launched the first version of the platform. The platform is matching opportunities to various artists throughout the globe.
According to the business need, we can design and develop intuitive, appealing and secure features for retailers, vendors, and buyers. Our online marketplace development services come with a holistic feature set not only covering the obvious features such as transactions and payments but also the fringe yet important features such as tracking, automation, reviews etc. Irrespective of the marketplace application type, marketplaces require multi-user roles and related features.
Fig: Anatomy of a marketplace platform
As a leading software development company, our consulting marketplace services offer features that help to streamline your business regardless of the process.
The administration panel is the interface managed by the platform owner to manage data and improve their business metrics (KPIs).
Super Admin can manage the user sign-up process, user profiles and respond to their activities
Admin manages the different filter categories on the marketplace platform to deliver a better shipping experience
Through this powerful browser-based panel admin can manage everything with one single click
Check all the delivery person's activities like phone calls, messages, pickup and drop locations, and payment details
Admin is responsible for resolving and responding to the feedback and support requests from the both the sellers and the buyers
The marketplace admin can create and update or remove offers and discounts on its platform
This feature allows the marketplace admin to check all the payment moods in one platform
The admin can allow or deny requests from sellers' listings. Also can do edits in the product description
Sellers can see their product listings, the number of product views, number of orders, review & ratings, and complaints.
Easily get started with a valid phone number, email ID or social login to deliver the services
Sellers add detailed information about the product that helps the buyer to understand the product usage
This module benefits the seller to see the payment details, check the operator’s commission, and refund details
A seller can append his feedback for the marketplace operator and also request for tech support
Seller can manage all the product shipment, cancellation and return requests instantly
Sellers update offers and discounts on their products to increase revenue
The app notifies the seller of every activity that relevant to his inventory
A service provider can check the reviews and ratings of listing
A buyer’s profile includes necessary information like favorite items, current, past orders, cart items, a payment method (cash or card), and settings.
Easily get started with a valid phone number, email ID or social login to start shopping
Users can search products in the search bar and use filters to get better results
Buyer can mark their product as a favorite also they can create their product wishlist
After selecting the product, a buyer can add a favorite product to the cart directly
Customers can raise their product queries anytime, anywhere
Anytime buyer can cancel or raise a return request through the application
After confirming the order, a buyer can track the product status of his shipment
Easily check the ratings and reviews for a product on the product page
We totally understand the dilemma of choosing a great team! That’s why we have a simple yet predictable model that helps you at every stage of the process.
Fig: Stages of e-commerce development
Advanced technologies open up further opportunities in the marketplace ecosystem. Solutions in Machine Learning, AI, Predictive analysis, etc help create better experiences and data-backed decision-making. As a marketplace platform development company, we use these evolving technologies to help our customers succeed.
Mobile apps enable companies to create more opportunities for engagement with push updates, reminders, data-driven solutions, and even data collection. We help you build mobile applications that can accelerate process implementation.
Data Science helps you to analyze real-time data and process information to create a better and faster ecosystem. Using Data science we offer to build you data dashboards, scraping algorithms, and automation scripts to improve the data monitoring process.
Our product development offerings can transform your idea into reality and provide the required knowledge, expertise, and commitment. Our specialized domain hardware, software, and production engineers help at every stage of product development.
Cloud Computing can help you to create better availability and accessibility for your platform. Our Cloud offering helps you set the development pipeline, availability, and backup of the system.
Machine Learning can help you make use of the data to streamline the process, reduce errors and improve results. From recommendation systems to web scraping as well as predictions.
Robotic process automation acts as a toolset to accelerate the way businesses function, leaving tedious, repetitive, iterative tasks for bots and building opportunities for efficiently leveraging the workforce.
At Mindbowser, we have been building marketplaces for 10+ years taking care of every aspect of the marketplace from idea to execution. Our Marketplace Development Services has helped numerous startups launch their ideas. Backed by a great design team and having competence in advanced technologies, we offer a 360-degree service to our customers.
Experience in building highly scalable solutions in marketplace platforms
Complete in-house team with designers, developers, and testers
Understanding of GDPR, PCI etc compliances
UX led development approach resulting in user friendly products
Expertise available in Machine Learning, Data Science and Automation
Help you build a launch strategy for your marketplace app
Complementary dashboard to monitor logs, performance and security
One-click deployment process with automated code review
Read our blogs to get in-depth knowledge of marketplace development services.
It depends on your situation. If you have the finances, writing programs from scratch is presumably the best method. Alternatively, employing the open-source solution, choosing a site builder, utilizing a no-code marketplace platform, creating a custom marketplace development with a group of no-code solutions, or building a marketplace on the lid of an API-enabled marketplace SaaS platform can be favorable. Foundationally, the steps remain the same- Start with an idea, design a prototype, test it, develop it and launch it.
It relies on your requirements and goals. According to the intermediate market costs, creating a marketplace app could follow a different track. Around 6 months’ time can be considered for MVP launch.
A B2B marketplace is a marketplace where both the buyers and sellers are businesses. Even Alibaba and Amazon have B2B aspects. B2B marketplace is not technically different from a conventional marketplace/ B2C marketplace. Hence the steps to building a B2B marketplace remain the same- Start with an idea, design a prototype, test it, develop it and launch it.
An MVP allows validating with the aimed audience. Unlike a completely-featured development that is made to serve all, MVP is a limited feature launch meant to test with real users with a mindset that post-launch changes would be required to improve the offering. A useful MVP should still be substantial enough to create value and not have any glitches. It should include only the significant features. The elements should be competent in solving the customers’ most critical issues.
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