Multi-vendor marketplace development.

A marketplace looks like a store from the front and is a payments platform underneath. You are not just taking money — you are taking it on behalf of someone else, holding it, taking a cut, paying out on a schedule, and handling what happens when a buyer disputes a transaction after the seller has already been paid. Getting that wrong is expensive in a way that a normal store bug is not.

What’s included

• Seller onboarding, verification and approval workflow
• Vendor dashboards for products, orders and earnings
• Commission models: percentage, flat, tiered or per-category
• Split payments and scheduled payouts
• Order routing and multi-vendor cart handling
• Ratings, reviews and moderation tooling
• Dispute, refund and chargeback handling across parties

The money flow decides your architecture

Do you collect payment and pay sellers later, or split at the point of sale? The first makes you responsible for holding other people's money, which has real regulatory implications in most jurisdictions. The second is usually cleaner — Stripe Connect and similar exist precisely for this. That decision shapes everything else, so it comes first.

Multi-vendor carts

A buyer with items from three sellers creates one order that must become three fulfilments, three payouts, and potentially three shipping charges and three refund paths. Modelling that properly at the start avoids a great deal of pain later, particularly around partial refunds.

Cold start

The hardest problem is not technical. A marketplace with no sellers has nothing for buyers, and with no buyers it cannot attract sellers. Worth having a plan for that before commissioning the build — and it may mean the first version should be narrower than you imagine.