Platform analysis
We work out the business model, sides and money flows: who offers, who buys, who earns what. Only once the model stands do we talk about technology.
Two-sided and three-sided platforms that bring supply and demand together: vendor portals, booking and checkout flows, commissions and automatic payouts. Platforms exactly like this run in production for our clients.
At a glance
3 sides
Vendors, customers and your team work on one platform, each with their own area.
100% automatic
Commissions, credit notes and payouts run without manual work.
24/7 revenue
Bookings and purchases run around the clock, with nobody sitting at a counter.
1 history
Every booking, change and payout is traceable without gaps.
Vendors manage their offering, customers book or buy, your team runs everything from the back office. And the platform settles the money automatically.
Where marketplace projects fail
You can buy a shop off the shelf. A platform with many vendors, money flows and roles is a different animal.
Shop systems know one seller. As soon as many vendors need their own prices, calendars and payouts, the road ends.
Commissions, deposits, cancellations and payouts to many recipients: without clean architecture, this ends up in Excel.
Vendors want to know what they are owed, customers where they stand. Without transparent settlement, one side walks away.
Booking confirmed, payment failed, vendor never notified? Flows like these need a safety net so nothing stalls halfway.
Each of these building blocks processes bookings, payments or payouts in our live platforms every day. Your business model determines the selection.
Vendors manage listings, prices and availability and see their revenue, without keeping your team busy.
Search, filters, detail pages and checkout tailored to your offering instead of a standard shop schema.
Fixed fees, percentage commissions or tiers: your business model is mapped directly into the platform.
Vendors receive their money automatically, via Stripe Connect or bank transfer runs, with a PDF statement.
Your team approves vendors, resolves disputes, curates content and keeps an eye on the numbers.
Processes like booking, payment and confirmation are protected: if a step fails, previous ones roll back cleanly.
Every change is stored traceably. When a booking or payout raises questions, you see what happened and when.
Vendors and customers from different countries: content, emails and documents in the user's language.
An event-driven foundation based on our open-source framework goes, built for operations rather than prototypes.
Four steps from business model to a platform that settles on its own.
We work out the business model, sides and money flows: who offers, who buys, who earns what. Only once the model stands do we talk about technology.
The result is a blueprint: roles, modules, payment streams, timeline and a fixed-price quote that holds.
First the core that connects your first vendors and customers, then the expansion. You can try every stage with real users before the next one arrives.
Go-live with your first vendors and ongoing support. The platform grows with your offering, not against it.
In a free consultation we work out the business model, the money flows and the smallest stage your marketplace can sensibly launch with.
Frequently asked questions about marketplace development
The first stage of a marketplace usually starts at around €35,000, and complete platforms with self-service, payouts and back office land between €50,000 and €120,000. The number of roles, money flows and integrations sets the range. Marketplaces are the largest projects in this category, which is why we deliberately start with the smallest stage your model can carry. After the free consultation you receive a fixed-price quote for exactly that stage.
A two-sided marketplace connects vendors and customers, for example landlords and tenants. It becomes three-sided when your team actively operates in between: approving listings, assuring quality, resolving disputes and earning on every transaction. Our platforms map all three perspectives with dedicated areas.
Your business model is configured into the platform: fixed fees, percentage commissions or tiers per vendor. On every booking, the platform calculates automatically what belongs to you and what belongs to the vendor. Payouts run via Stripe Connect or bank transfer runs, with a traceable PDF statement for every recipient.
For a simple product catalog with several merchants it can be, and if that is your case, we will tell you honestly. It gets tight as soon as your model needs its own flows: availability and calendars, deposits and cancellation rules, custom approvals or payout logic. Then you fight the plugin instead of working with it.
With the smallest stage that creates value: at the beginning, your team often curates the offering of selected vendors itself, while the customer side already runs at full speed. Vendor self-service is added once demand exists. That way you sidestep the chicken-and-egg problem instead of marketing to both sides at once.
That is exactly what the architecture is built for. Multi-step flows like booking, payment, confirmation and payout are implemented as protected processes: if a step fails, the previous ones roll back cleanly. A payment without a booking is refunded, and a booking without a payment does not quietly continue.
Fully. Our platforms store every change as an event: who booked, changed or got paid, and when. In a dispute or query you reconstruct the complete history instead of digging through log files. That builds trust with vendors and protects you as the operator.
Yes. Our platforms connect vendors and customers across borders: multilingual content and documents, international payments and payouts via Stripe Connect, VAT logic like reverse charge included. One of our platforms runs in 18 languages.
You do. Code, data and infrastructure are under your control, and there are no license fees per vendor or transaction owed to us. We are happy to keep running hosting and development, but you are not tied to us.
Planning a marketplace or growing an existing platform? Let's talk through your business model and work out how vendors, customers and payouts fit together cleanly.