Marketplace Development

Marketplace Development in Australia

Build a two-sided marketplace that actually scales — Stripe Connect payouts, vendor onboarding, search, reviews, the lot. Same modern stack as our SaaS builds, fully yours from day one.

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Custom Two-Sided Marketplace Development

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Marketplace development is one of the hardest things to get right. You're effectively shipping two products at once (one for buyers, one for sellers), running money between strangers, and racing for liquidity before competitors get there first. White-label marketplace platforms (Sharetribe, Yo!Kart, CS-Cart Multi-Vendor) get you live in weeks but cap you on customisation and charge perpetual fees as you scale.

Custom-coded marketplaces flip both problems: built around your exact category and trust model, no per-transaction or per-vendor platform tax, and engineered to scale from 10 vendors to 10,000 without a rewrite. We've built marketplace MVPs in 8–14 weeks on the same React + TypeScript + Supabase + Stripe Connect stack as our SaaS work.

Pairs naturally with our web app capability — most marketplaces evolve into full operations platforms over time.

Why Custom Beats White-Label Marketplace Platforms

White-label gets you live fast, then taxes every dollar you earn. Custom flips it.

No per-transaction platform fees — you set your take rate, you keep it

Stripe Connect direct — proper payouts, tax handling, KYC built in

Designed around your category (rentals, services, products, talent...)

Scales from 10 vendors to 10,000 on flat infrastructure cost

Built-in trust model: reviews, verification, dispute handling, escrow

Yours forever — no rewriting when the platform changes pricing

What a Marketplace MVP Typically Includes

The core modules every two-sided marketplace needs to launch.

Buyer & Vendor Roles

Separate onboarding flows for each side, role-based dashboards, vendor profiles, KYC verification, reviews in both directions. Postgres row-level security so each side only sees their own data.

Stripe Connect Payouts

Custom or Express Connect accounts, escrow-style holds, automatic platform-fee splits, daily/weekly payouts to vendors, Australian and international tax handling out of the box.

Search & Discovery

Fast Postgres full-text search, faceted filtering (category, location, price, rating), pagination, sorting, optional pgvector semantic search. Maps, recently viewed, saved searches as you scale.

Trust & Safety

Vendor verification, review moderation, reporting flows, dispute messaging, optional escrow release windows. The unsexy work that decides whether a marketplace lives or dies.

Our Services

Web Design & Marketing Services for Marketplace Development

Everything marketplace development need to launch, grow and rank online — designed, built and managed in-house.

Custom Web Design

Hand-coded, conversion-focused marketplace development websites built to win local searches and turn visitors into enquiries.

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E-Commerce Stores

100% custom online stores for marketplace development who want full control over design, performance and data — no Shopify, no Woo.

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Web Apps & Booking Systems

Custom client portals, booking systems and dashboards built around the way marketplace development actually work.

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SEO Services

Rank locally on Google with on-page, technical and local SEO tuned for marketplace development.

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Google Ads Management

Get on Google's first page today with high-converting Search, Performance Max and Call/Lead-Form ads for marketplace development.

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Marketplace Categories We Build For

The patterns we've seen work — and where custom code wins fastest.

Service MarketplacesProduct MarketplacesRental PlatformsBooking & AppointmentsTalent / Freelance PlatformsB2B WholesaleEducation / TutoringLocal Trades DirectoriesCoaches & ExpertsAuction PlatformsSubscription BoxesNiche Community Stores

Why Aussie Founders Trust Us With Their Marketplace

Marketplaces are the hardest type of web platform to ship — two-sided liquidity, real money between strangers, trust and safety, vendor support workflows, fraud, taxes, mobile UX. We've been shipping production web applications for over 10 years and have the foundational pieces (auth, billing, RLS, search, messaging) battle-tested across multiple projects.

More importantly, the same engineer who scopes your marketplace writes the code and stays involved post-launch. Marketplaces evolve fast in their first 12 months based on what vendors and buyers actually do — and that's only possible if your dev team is small, senior and accountable.

Book a free scoping call to walk through your category and pricing model.

What's Included

Every Site Ships With

100% custom React build
No WordPress, no page builders, no bloat.
Local SEO foundations
Schema, suburb pages and Google Business alignment.
Mobile-first & blazing fast
Core Web Vitals tuned for conversion.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does marketplace development cost in Australia?

MVPs typically run $18k–$45k for a focused first version (buyer/vendor onboarding, listings, search, Stripe Connect payouts, reviews, basic admin). Larger platforms with messaging, escrow, mobile apps and complex matching logic are quoted in phases after a discovery call.

How long does it take to build an MVP marketplace?

Most MVPs ship in 8–14 weeks of build time after scoping. We work in 2-week sprints with weekly demos so you're testing flows (and finding what to cut) well before launch — instead of waiting 6 months for a single big reveal.

Why not just use Sharetribe or a white-label marketplace?

Great for validating an idea quickly. Painful past the MVP stage: per-transaction fees, capped customisation, locked-in design, and you can't pivot the business model without leaving the platform. Most clients who start on Sharetribe end up migrating to custom within 12–18 months — easier to start custom if you're already confident in the model.

How do payments and payouts work?

Stripe Connect — the same infrastructure Uber, DoorDash and Substack use. Buyers pay the platform; the platform automatically splits each transaction into vendor payout (less your fee) and your revenue; payouts hit vendor bank accounts daily or weekly. Tax forms (1099/AU equivalents) handled by Stripe.

Can the marketplace start small and scale?

Yes — that's the whole point of custom code. Postgres, Supabase Edge Functions and a global CDN scale from 100 to 100,000 users without architectural rewrites. Most clients add features (mobile apps, escrow, custom matching) as revenue grows instead of paying for them upfront.

Will I own the code and data?

Yes, completely. Code lives in your GitHub, Supabase project on your account, Stripe Connect on your account, every vendor and buyer record in your database. You can take the entire stack to any other dev team at any point.

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