Online marketplace agency
Are you currently planning to implement your own online marketplace or a connection to a marketplace? Or are you not really satisfied with your existing marketplace? As an online marketplace agency, we offer you solutions.
What is an online marketplace?
An online marketplace is an eCommerce platform on which several suppliers offer their products and services for sale. In principle, a marketplace is an online shop in which more than one retailer is represented.
In detail, there are many different types and variants of marketplaces, which differ mainly in terms of access, the range of products on offer and the retailers and customers.
You can find a selection of different models below:
- Open marketplace
- B2B marketplace
- B2C marketplace
- C2C marketplace
- Vertical marketplace
- Horizontal marketplace
- Global marketplace
- Online auction platforms
- Peer-to-peer marketplace
- Subscription marketplace
- Combined marketplace
- Service marketplace
- Crowd sourcing marketplace
- Social Commerce Marketplace
- Digital Products Marketplace
- Investment Marketplace
- Sustainability Marketplace
- Regional Marketplace
- Cross-Border Marketplace
Advantages of marketplaces
Possible advantages for operators
- Revenue through admission and transaction fees
- High scalability and rapid growth opportunities
- Lower operating costs
- Platform data: Behavioural analysis of retailers and buyers
- Product management
- Network expansion
- Increase in brand awareness
Possible advantages for retailers
- Utilisation of technical infrastructure and marketing
- Utilisation of reach
- Cost savings through the use of external sales channels
- Increasing customer loyalty through a wide range of products
- Development of new market potential
The online marketplace solutions from elio.
Relevant topics when implementing an online marketplace:
- Which interfaces are required?
- Should your data be stored on your premises or decentralised?
- Do you need a dashboard for retailers?
- How does payment processing take place?
- How will orders be processed for multiple participants, i.e. order splitting?
- Should there be a common shopping basket across all participants or per participant?
- Which quality requirements (e.g. availability, delivery times) should be integrated?
- Should returns management be handled automatically or not?
- How should the import/export of product data be handled?
- Is the marketplace operator also the logistics provider or is fulfilment to be handled exclusively by the specialist retailer's logistics department?
- Is there an individualisation of order processes?
- And many other topics
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