Marketplace Software Built by People Who Understand Two-Sided Platforms — Not Just Code.
Most development agencies build apps. We build marketplaces — with vendor onboarding, split payments and escrow, ratings and moderation, and search that actually finds things, engineered in from day one. From multi-vendor retail and services to classifieds, auctions and food ordering, we've shipped the real thing for marketplace businesses across the UK, USA, Europe and the Gulf.
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Who This Is For
Built for the people building and running two-sided marketplaces.
Marketplace Founders & Startups
Founders building the next multi-vendor marketplace, services platform or classifieds app — who need a partner that has shipped two-sided products before, not learned on their budget.
Multi-Vendor Retail & Commerce Brands
Retail and commerce operators who need vendor storefronts, catalogues, inventory, orders and payouts working together — with one admin to run the whole marketplace.
Services, Gig & Rental Marketplaces
Operators matching two sides — job posters and providers, owners and renters — who need bidding, scheduling, escrow and reviews that hold up when real money changes hands.
Classifieds, Auctions & Directories
Post-and-browse platforms, bidding apps and location-based directories that need listings, promotions, buyer-seller chat and subscription or credit plans handled properly — not bolted on.
The Problem
Marketplace software is different.
Most development agencies find that out
when the payouts don't reconcile.
You started with a clear idea — a multi-vendor marketplace, a services platform, a classifieds app, an auction site.
Then you hired a general development agency. And things started to go wrong in ways you didn't expect.
They built the listing form. But nobody thought about how search holds up across 50,000 listings. They built the checkout. But no one designed split payments and vendor payouts — or the refund path when an order is disputed. They shipped the app. But there's no ratings, moderation or dispute flow, so trust breaks in the first week.
Now you've spent months and a serious budget. You have something that demos well. But you can't launch it — because vendors won't onboard, buyers can't find anything, and every payout has to be reconciled by hand.
A marketplace isn't a pretty listing page. It's what happens when two sides, real money and reputation all move through the same product.
That's a different skill. And it requires a different kind of development partner.
The Solution
A development team that speaks both languages — marketplace and technical.
We've built multi-vendor marketplaces, services and gig platforms, classifieds and auction apps. We know what vendors need to onboard, what breaks two-sided liquidity at scale, and what it takes to move a payment and a payout through a platform safely.
Two-Sided Logic, Not Just Screens
Supply and demand, onboarding, matching, commission, escrow — the moving parts of a real marketplace are modelled properly, so the product still makes sense when the vendors, the volume and the edge cases arrive. We design the data before we design the buttons.
Payments, Payouts & Trust Designed In
Split payments, escrow, vendor payouts, ratings, reviews and moderation are part of the build from Day 1 — not a scramble before launch. We map exactly where money moves and how trust is enforced before a feature is written.
Integration Experience
Marketplace-ready gateways like Stripe Connect, KYC and verification, search engines such as Algolia or Elasticsearch, maps, chat and notifications — we've wired custom marketplace software into the third-party services it has to live alongside. Your platform won't sit in isolation.
Ready to discuss your marketplace?
Free discovery call. 30–45 minutes. No commitment.
What We Build
Whatever kind of marketplace you're building —
we've built something like it
before.
You don't need to know the technical name. Just describe the marketplace you want to build.
Vendor onboarding and storefronts, product catalogues, inventory, orders, delivery and payouts — with one admin running the whole platform. Web and mobile, sharing one backend.
Customers post jobs by category, providers bid, and the winner is settled by card with escrow — proposals, awards, milestones and reviews across the whole lifecycle.
Post-an-ad flows with categories and audience targeting, ad states, buyer-seller chat, promotions and paid boosts — plus a dashboard for present and past ads.
Category-specific listings with pending and approved bids, active deals, favourites and an in-app balance — bidding that stays fair and traceable at volume.
Location-based directories with categories, retailer cards and detail pages, search and filters, shortlists, and a self-service portal for the businesses being listed.
Region selection, dish search and configurable items, combo and percentage offers, basket and checkout, order tracking — paired with a merchant dashboard for tables and orders.
Owners post listings, buyers or renters apply, inspect and transact — applications, expressions of interest, saved searches, price filters and in-app messaging, across web and mobile apps.
Marketplaces come in every shape. If you don't see your model above, tell us on the discovery call — we've probably built something adjacent.
Marketplaces We've Built
Marketplaces we've designed,
built, and shipped.
Real two-sided products for real marketplace businesses. Every one below is a live case study — hover to pause, then click through to see it.
Our Process
How we approach marketplace development.
A marketplace carries two sides, real money and reputation at once. Our process is built around that.
Before we discuss technology, we map how your marketplace actually works. Who are the two sides — vendors and buyers, posters and providers? What does a listing and a completed transaction look like? And where, exactly, does money move between the platform and the vendor?
We map the sensitive parts first: split payments and vendor payouts, escrow and refunds, commission logic, KYC and verification, and the ratings, moderation and dispute flows that keep the marketplace safe. We define that architecture up front and build to it — not the other way around.
We design for both sides: a vendor onboarding and listing in minutes, a buyer searching, filtering and checking out on a phone, an admin clearing reports and payouts. Search and forms people actually finish — not ones that look good in a demo.
Milestone-based development with a review checkpoint at each stage. Daily written updates. Demo calls every two weeks. You approve each milestone before we invoice for it — and before we move to the next one.
We test the parts that carry risk — payment, payout and escrow paths, role permissions, and listing and review integrity. OWASP security testing, penetration testing and data-handling audits before anyone's money goes live.
We handle data migration from any existing system, support cutover with a parallel-run period so nobody is locked out, and stay available during go-live. We don't disappear on launch day — a marketplace can't afford that.
You never pay for the next milestone until you've approved the current one — and confirmed it does what your business needs.
Like our approach?
30–45 minute discovery call. We scope your project for free.
What We Map Before We Build
Vendors, payments and trust
at scale.
A marketplace isn't just screens — it's two sides, real money and reputation moving through one product at once. These are the things we map before we write feature code, because they are painful and expensive to retrofit later.
Vendor Onboarding & Management
New vendors need to sign up, verify with KYC and documents, get approved, and manage their own catalogue, inventory, storefront and orders. We model that self-service side — and the admin approval behind it — before anything goes live.
Split Payments, Escrow & Payouts
Every order splits between platform commission and the vendor's share. We design split payments, escrow, refunds, reconciliation and scheduled payouts up front — with marketplace-ready gateways like Stripe Connect — so the money reconciles to the cent.
Trust & Safety
Ratings and reviews on both sides, listing and content moderation, report-and-flag flows, and a dispute path where an admin can hold funds or refund. Trust is what makes buyers and vendors come back — so it's built in, not bolted on.
Search, Discovery & Two-Sided Liquidity
Search, filters, categories, location and recommendations decide whether buyers find enough to transact. We build fast search and plan the cold-start problem with you — seeding one side, geographic focus, featured listings — so liquidity actually builds.
Marketplace Operations & Admin
Order management, delivery, coupons and promotions, commission reports and analytics — the day-to-day flows that keep the platform running, modelled so they hold up under real volume. Underpinned by ISO-certified, CMMI Level 5 processes.
Social Proof
Why marketplace businesses build with us.
Ready to build yours?
700+ projects delivered across 7+ countries. Your marketplace next.
How We Compare
Why marketplace businesses
choose us over a general agency.
Here's how we stack up — on every dimension that matters for marketplace software.
See exactly what we'd build for you
Book a free discovery call. No commitment.
Zero risk. Zero pressure.
What happens on your free
30–45 minute discovery call
We'll understand your marketplace requirements, answer your payments, payouts and trust questions, and give you a clear picture of what we'd build — before you commit anything.
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You describe the marketplace
No technical knowledge needed. Tell us the marketplace you want to build — in plain English.
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We confirm the payments & trust approach
Split payments and payouts, escrow, ratings and moderation, search and discovery — we map how money and trust move before discussing features.
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We scope the product and timeline
Every feature, every integration, every marketplace flow. Scoped and confirmed with a clear timeline and cost range.
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You decide — no pressure
If it's a fit, we start within 2 weeks of proposal sign-off. If not, you leave with a clear plan and a build roadmap anyway.
30–45 minutes. You'll leave knowing exactly what your marketplace looks like — whether you proceed or not.
Not ready for a call yet?
Describe your marketplace idea in 2 minutes. We'll review it and follow up within 24 hours — no call needed.
FAQ
Questions?
Answered.
The questions we get asked most often by marketplace founders and operators.
A focused marketplace MVP — one supply side, one demand side, listings or a vendor catalogue, payments and a basic admin — typically takes 10–16 weeks from scope sign-off. A larger multi-vendor platform with split payments, escrow, ratings and moderation, and both web and mobile apps usually runs 16–28 weeks. Every timeline is agreed in writing at the scoping stage.
We design the money flow before we write feature code. Split payments route each order between the platform's commission and the vendor's share; escrow holds funds until a deal or delivery completes; and payouts, refunds and reconciliation are built to reconcile to the cent. We work with marketplace-ready gateways such as Stripe Connect and PayPal, plus regional processors, and treat PCI scope as a design decision, not a launch scramble.
Trust is what makes a two-sided marketplace work, so we build it in from the start: ratings and reviews on both sides, verification and KYC for vendors, content and listing moderation with a report and flag flow, and a dispute-resolution path where an admin can hold funds, refund or step in. Full audit trails sit behind all of it.
Discovery is where liquidity lives. We build fast, typo-tolerant search with filters, categories and location, plus saved searches and recommendations — using engines like Elasticsearch or Algolia when the catalogue justifies it. For the cold-start problem we plan the launch mechanics with you: seeding one side first, geographic focus, and promotion or featured-listing tools so early users still find enough to transact.
All the common ones, and combinations of them — per-transaction commission, subscription or membership tiers for vendors, listing and featured-promotion fees, lead or bid fees, and credit-wallet models. We've shipped commission, paid-promotion and credit systems across several of the marketplaces below, so the monetization logic is proven, not theoretical.
Yes — responsive web platforms and native or cross-platform iOS and Android apps. Several of our marketplaces, such as Jiggle and Tu Camaround, ship as a customer app, a vendor or merchant experience and a web admin, all sharing one backend and one set of business rules.
Multi-vendor retail marketplaces, services and gig marketplaces with bidding and escrow, classifieds and buy-and-sell platforms, auction and bidding apps, location-based directories, listing and property marketplaces, and food-ordering platforms. Eight are featured on this page, each with a live case study.
Cost depends on the number of sides, the payment and payout complexity, and how many apps you need — we give a clear range on the discovery call. We work in milestones: you approve and pay for each stage before we start the next, you own 100% of the code, and there's a 7-day trial so you can judge the work before committing.
Your Move
Your marketplace deserves a development team that understands what's at stake.
Whether you're a founder launching your first multi-vendor marketplace, a retail brand opening up to third-party vendors, a services platform matching two sides, or a classifieds business modernising — the decisions you make now will shape how your platform runs for years.
We've built multi-vendor marketplaces, services and gig platforms, classifieds, auctions and food-ordering apps across the UK, USA, Europe and the Gulf — as web platforms and mobile apps around one backend. We understand vendor onboarding, split payments, trust and safety, and two-sided liquidity.
The discovery call is free. It's 30–45 minutes. You'll leave with a clear picture of what we'd build, how we'd handle your payments, payouts and trust, and what it would cost — with no obligation to proceed.