We build two-sided marketplaces and platforms — vendor onboarding, search and matching, split payments, and reviews — on one connected system, so operations stay in a single place and both sides keep coming back.
Escrow, payouts, ratings, and the trust mechanics that make strangers transact with confidence.
We map who supplies, who buys, and what has to be true for them to trust each other — then design the onboarding and matching that gets them transacting.
Search, listings, ratings, and reviews are designed so the right buyer finds the right seller and feels safe paying through the platform.
We develop split payments, escrow, payouts, and the transaction lifecycle — with the controls and dashboards operators need to manage it.
We launch with analytics on both sides of the market, then iterate on the levers — incentives, notifications, fees — that bring both sides back.
A marketplace lives or dies on trust and matching. We design the onboarding, discovery, payment, and reputation systems that get buyers and sellers to transact — then give you the dashboards to see exactly where deals are happening, and where they stall.
The two projects closest to what Marketplace & Platform Development usually involves — what the client was dealing with, and what shipped.
A sports-card marketplace MVP for collectors and breakers — built to answer the question collectors can never settle: who actually owns which card.
Two-sided marketplace Offers & escrow Points & leaderboards Read the case study
A ground-up rebuild of a curated luxury-hotel platform — faster, more premium, and built around tiered hotel memberships, social and newsletter promotion, and SEO-led growth.
Hotel marketplace Membership packages Travel platform Read the case studyA system that cannot reach your existing tools just becomes another place to re-key data. These are the integrations that come up most often — if yours is not listed, it almost certainly still has an API we can work with.
Nobody signs a build off a price list. You start with a free session, then a fixed-price audit that tells you what the work actually costs — and that plan is yours either way.
A working session, not a sales call. We map one of your most painful workflows live and show you the hours it is quietly costing.
Learn moreWe map how your business actually runs, find where the systems disconnect, and hand you a blueprint and a costed plan — yours to keep, build with us or not.
Learn moreWe build the system the Audit specified — connected to the tools you already run, shipped in working increments you can see every week.
Once it is live, a named lead keeps it healthy and keeps shipping — a fixed block of hours each month, no long lock-in.
Not with software alone — no platform has ever coded its way out of an empty marketplace. What software can do is make one side cheap to seed and the other side worth showing up for: bulk import and concierge onboarding so early supply does not depend on sellers doing data entry, plus discovery that still feels useful with a hundred listings instead of a hundred thousand. We usually build for a deliberately narrow first category rather than launching broad and thin.
Through Stripe Connect or a comparable rail, so funds move between parties without your company having to hold or license money movement itself. That covers split payments, automated commission capture, delayed release for escrow-style flows, and seller payout scheduling. The hard part is rarely taking the payment — it is deciding when money is genuinely earned, and what happens on a refund after a payout has already gone out. We design those rules with you before writing the code.
Layers, because no single check holds. Identity verification at onboarding, automated fraud screening at checkout, held funds until delivery is confirmed, ratings that carry real weight, and moderation tooling that lets your team act quickly on a report. Just as important is the operations side: your staff need one screen where they can see a suspect account's full history and act, rather than piecing it together from four systems while a dispute escalates.
That is usually the right sequence, and we build for it. Category-specific attributes, search facets, and commission rules get modelled as configuration rather than hard-coded assumptions, so adding a second vertical is a data exercise instead of a rebuild. What we deliberately do not do is build the abstract everything-marketplace up front — that path produces a system flexible in theory and mediocre at the one category you actually needed to win.
With a dedicated search engine — Elasticsearch, Algolia, or Meilisearch — rather than database queries, once the catalogue outgrows what SQL does well. That buys you faceted filtering, typo tolerance, geo and radius search, and relevance you can tune against real behaviour. We have run this at genuine scale: the PriceListo platform serves search across more than 70 million menu items and 709,000 locations, and stays fast under heavy public traffic.
Yes, though we will usually push back on doing both at once. A marketplace that has not yet proven liquidity rarely needs two clients to maintain, and a well-built responsive web platform serves both sides perfectly well early on. Once transaction volume justifies it — typically when repeat buyers or on-the-go sellers become a real segment — we build the app against the same API the web platform already uses.
Percentage commission, flat per-transaction fees, subscription tiers for sellers, listing fees, featured placement, or any combination — including different rules per category or per seller tier. We model this as configuration you can change without a deployment, because marketplace take rates almost always get revised once real transaction data arrives. Hard-coding the number you launched with is a decision you will regret within a year.
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