Marketplace Platforms
Many sellers on one platform: onboarding, catalogue control, commission, split payouts and settlement. The parts that make a marketplace hard, built properly rather than approximated.
A marketplace is not a store with more sellers.
The catalogue arrives from people who do not work for you, the money has to be split before it is paid out, and every dispute involves three parties. Those are the problems that decide whether a marketplace works, and none of them are solved by a store platform with a vendor plugin.
What a marketplace build has to get right
Seller onboarding
Registration, KYC document collection, GST verification and bank details, with an approval flow your team can actually operate.
Catalogue control
Sellers list, you set the rules: required fields, approval before going live, and duplicate detection so the same product does not appear eleven times.
Split payments and payouts
One payment from the buyer, split by commission, held through the return window, and paid out on a schedule with a statement each seller can reconcile.
Commission that can vary
By category, by seller, by campaign. Real marketplaces never have one rate, and hardcoding one is the mistake that forces a rebuild.
Settlement you can audit
Every rupee traceable from order to payout, with GST handled on both the sale and your commission invoice.
Seller and admin dashboards
Sellers see their orders, stock and payouts without calling you. Your team sees the whole platform without opening the database.
How we build marketplaces
Discover, Design, Build, Deploy, Optimize.
Forward Deployed Engineering: senior engineers inside your team, on the same five stages every time.
Discover
We map how your business actually sells, what your data looks like, and what it would take to get this working. You get a costed plan, not a proposal full of maybes.
Design
Architecture, integrations and the checks we will be judged by. Agreed before anybody writes code, so nobody argues about done later.
Build
Senior engineers writing code inside your environment, in two-week sprints. You watch it get built rather than waiting for a handover.
Deploy
Live and monitored, on your own servers or private cloud where your data governance needs it. This is the stage most projects never reach.
Optimize
Measured against the checks from stage two, tuned for cost, and watched. We stay until it runs without us.
Questions buyers ask us first
Yes, and you should. Onboarding, listing, ordering and payouts is a working marketplace. Ratings, ads, subscriptions and loyalty come after you have sellers who care about them.
Razorpay Route, Cashfree Easy Split and similar products hold and split funds on your behalf, which keeps you out of the business of holding other people's money. We integrate whichever suits your model and volume.
Generally each seller invoices the buyer and you invoice the seller for commission, both of which the platform has to generate correctly. We build that in rather than leaving it to a monthly spreadsheet.
Usually it is settlement, catalogue quality or seller experience rather than the storefront. We will audit it and tell you whether it needs fixing or replacing, including when the answer is fixing.
Describe how the money should move.
Who pays, who gets paid, what you keep, and what happens on a return. That conversation tells us most of what your marketplace needs, and it is where a senior consultant will start.