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Online marketplace development services
Ready to craft a marketplace app tailored to meet the unique needs of your business domain
Development services that we offer
As a marketplace development company, we can lead your project through all stages of the development cycle.
Mobile app development
We are creating mobile apps for consumers and retailers of your marketplace. We are ready to provide a native or cross-platform solution that complies with the requirements of the App Store and Google Play.
Web development
We can develop a web version of your marketplace and complement it with a robust admin panel. During the development process, we implement best industry practices to make the web apps scalable and optimized for a high volume of user interactions.
AI integration
Our team can enhance your online marketplace with an AI-powered chatbot and train it to help users with the aspects connected to your business domain.
Third-party integrations
During the marketplace development process, we can integrate your app with the services for in-app payments, shipping, invoicing, tax calculator, CRM, and inventory management to build up the necessary functionality.
DevOps
We can launch and maintain IT infrastructure for your software development project. During the project, we set up a development environment for engineers, a production environment where the app becomes available for users, and additional environments as needed.
UI/UX design
Apart from outstanding performance, the online marketplace requires a clear and intuitive interface. Our team can think the interface through to every little detail so your users get an experience of exceptional quality.
Types of online marketplaces we can develop
B2C marketplaces
A marketplace where regular consumers can find necessary goods and buy them from a retailer.
B2B marketplaces
Platforms that enable businesses to buy and sell goods or services in bulk or in large quantities.
P2P marketplaces
Enable individuals to trade goods or services directly with each other.
C2B marketplaces
These online marketplaces flip the initial model and allow individuals to offer their services to businesses. Freelance marketplaces fall under this category.
Hybrid marketplaces
A platform where users can act as sellers and buyers at the same time while businesses can sell their services to other businesses and consumers.
Niche marketplaces
Targeted at providing a richer experience and better-tuned services for a certain niche. A marketplace connecting patients with healthcare providers can serve as an example.
Social media marketplaces
We can create a marketplace integrated with social media features that facilitate buying and selling among users.
Custom marketplace development
If you require any other app to function according to the marketplace model and comply with the unique requirements of your business, our marketplace development company is ready to deal with your project.
How we would work on your marketplace app development project
Breaking down functionality for different types of users
We begin by gathering information about your project. We analyze your requirements, clarify the timeline, define the tech stack, and outline the project breakdown. At this point, we provide an initial approximate cost estimation, which we will refine further after the design stage.
Enable KYC and KYB procedures
We enable consumers and businesses to verify themselves within your app. This will not only ensure trust and security within your marketplace but also make it comply with local legislation.
Enable efficient cash flow
In the process of marketplace development, we will implement a payment and refund system that complies with essential local laws. To split incoming payments through the application among different entities, such as sellers, drivers, and other service providers, we will use Stripe Connect.
Create a mechanism to catch fraud sellers
During the custom marketplace development, we can implement automated and manual measures to help admins catch fraudsters. Additionally, we will develop in-app mechanisms to mitigate fraud. For example, we will think through a transaction completion mechanism to confirm that the transaction is finalized and all parties have received the necessary funds.
Develop a business logic
As a part of marketplace development, we think through and implement the business logic of the app and tailor it to the specific flow of your business. We’ll help you to map the entire journey of your customer and set up the in-app data exchange that enables all types of users to reach the desired results.
Develop an admin panel
We’ll complement your online marketplace with an admin panel. With its help, you’ll be able to manage all entities of your marketplace including buyers, sellers, catalogs, discounts, and others. With a robust admin panel at your hand, you would be able to manage your business without the help of a tech provider.
Our marketplace development company’s workflow
During 17+ years on the market, we have elaborated the workflow that allows us to create digital products that our customers expect to get.
Gathering requirements
We start off by collecting comprehensive information about your business idea. Our analyst identifies the essential software features your app requires and creates a detailed project breakdown. It encompasses the estimation of the price and time necessary for custom marketplace development.
UI/UX design
Our designers focus on creating the UI/UX of the interface and a UI Kit to scale up the design upon your request. At this stage, we develop low-fidelity wireframes, a project mind map, and finally a detailed interface design. We will ask for your feedback throughout the design process to ensure that the process of custom marketplace development goes as you expect.
Development
Once the interface mockup is finalized, we move on to the technical phase of the web or mobile app development. Our experienced IT engineers will write code to develop all the features of the app. The process is divided into 2–3 week sprints. After each sprint, you will receive tangible results, which our manager will present to you, showcasing the advancements made in marketplace app development.
Testing
During the marketplace app development process, we ensure the created code is thoroughly tested. Our team conducts both manual testing and utilizes Sentry, Datadog, and performance monitoring tools to eliminate bugs and ensure outstanding app performance.
Release
We help our customers to send and verify their mobile apps in the App Store and Google Play. As for the web apps, we push them to the production environment where it becomes available to users.
Post-release maintenance
Our collaboration doesn't end with the app release. Once the initial version of your online marketplace is launched, we remain committed to the project's ongoing success. We are prepared to add new features, enhance the product based on user reviews, fix any bugs that may arise, and maintain the IT environments.
Portfolio
Our marketplace development company has already helped several business owners to launch their online marketplaces or create apps that function pretty much like marketplaces.
Noah farmer marketplace
Mobile app development, Web development, Laravel, Angular
The Noah is a Swedish marketplace where users can buy food and other goods from local app producers. In the process of marketplace app development, we create mobile apps for consumers and retailers as well as a web admin panel.
During the development, our team has adapted the workflow of the marketplace to selling specific products — fruit, vegetables, and dairy taking into account the fact that they have expiry dates and require special delivery facilities. We also provided food producers to enhance their profiles with their own branding, enabled a rating system, and loyalty programs, and added many other features.
Lainappi renting app
Mobile app development, UI/UX design, React Native
Lainappi challenged our marketplace development company by creating a mobile app where people can take and give different items for rent. In essence, this app utilizes a mechanism of a consumer-to-consumer marketplace.
While delivering our development services, our team enabled a mechanism to verify item owners, added diverse item search functionality, developed a chat where users could agree on the rent terms and pay for the item, created a calendar reflecting when the items are available for rent, and implemented many other features.
Docky berth renting app
Mobile app development, Web development, React Native
Tech stack we use for custom marketplace development
Our marketplace development company constantly searches for and tests new technologies. During our time on the market, we have elaborated the technology combinations that allow us to complete our software development project faster.
Backend
PHP
PHPUnit
Laravel
Python
Frontend
React
NextJS
Angular
Design
Figma
GSAP
Photoshop
After Effects
Mobile
React Native
Swift
Kotlin
DevOps
GitLab
Argo CD
GitLab CI
Google Cloud
AWS
Kubernetes
Sentry
Grafana
Prometheus
Loki
UI/UX design expertise
Besides our technical capabilities, we also have a lot of design expertise. Our designers have created visuals for more than 200 commercial projects and keep mastering the UI/UX design every day. We constantly challenge ourselves with creating design concepts for apps from different business domains that we can use during our projects. Here are some samples that can be used for marketplace development projects.
We can help you to roll out a custom e-commerce website within 5–15 days.
Our design team would prepare a custom interface design.
Our tech team would build a frontend part and implement a backend part using ready-made APIs provided by Shopify.
It usually takes two months to develop and launch a custom online store. With our rapid development services, you can launch a new product quickly and make it unique.
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FAQ
Who is on the software development team?
When we deliver our online marketplace development services, the project team usually consists of four team members. For mobile apps, it’s project manager, UI/UX designer, mobile app developer, and a backend developer. For web apps, it’s a project manager, UI/UX designer, frontend developer, and backend developer.
It’s worth adding that each project is accompanied by a team lead no matter how complex it is. The tech team lead makes sure the marketplace app development as intended and that our customer gets high-quality product at the end.
Do you sign an NDA?
How do you ensure the security of my private data?
In the process of delivering online marketplace development services, we use tools like GitLab and ArgoCD and create our servers using technologies provided by Google and Amazon. All these technologies comply with PCI DSS security standards. Laravel and Django backend frameworks provide the protection from most common vulnerabilities such as DDoS attacks, SQL injections, and CSRF. To add the extra layer of reliability, we cover the entire app code with automatic and manual tests.
Also, during the process of software development, we limit the access of our developers to your private data by sticking to the least privilege approach and fine-grained access principles. That’s why only team leads will have access to the project infrastructure after the release. The infrastructure setup also runs automatically, without our participation.