Beyond templates and platforms

Custom marketplaces,
built around your rules.

We build custom marketplace platforms from scratch, including rental, product, service, and multi-vendor marketplaces with complex business logic and custom transaction flows.

Not sure where to start? How to know if Sharetribe is the right starting point for your marketplace

Custom development fits if your pricing, commission, or approval rules don't fit a ready-made platform. If Sharetribe is enough for your marketplace, see Sharetribe development.

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30+ marketplaces built

Since 2003 building web platforms

Own marketplace built and launched

When you need a custom marketplace

Your business logic is unique

Complex pricing models, multi-sided transactions, custom commission structures, or approval workflows that no off-the-shelf platform can handle. You need a marketplace built around your own rules.

You've outgrown your current platform

You started on Sharetribe, WordPress, or another tool. It got you to market. But now you need features the platform can't support. Custom search, advanced analytics, multi-vendor management, or integrations with your existing systems.

You don't want to depend on a platform

No platform subscription and no limits of a ready-made platform. You decide what changes and when, without waiting for someone else's roadmap.

How a custom marketplace project works

Discovery & architecture

We map your marketplace model, covering who sells, who buys, how transactions work, what makes your platform different. Then we design the technical architecture.

Build in sprints

We release as soon as something is ready. Small changes go live within days; bigger features are split into small steps so nothing drags on. You can test with real users and change course before we move on.

Launch & grow

Deployment, monitoring, onboarding support. Then we help you iterate based on what your first users do.

Talking to us is free. Ask anything, and you'll leave knowing the next step.

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Building marketplaces since 2007

We were building marketplaces years before we started working with Sharetribe. We've lived every problem founders run into.

We've launched our own marketplace

We took our own car rental marketplace through two accelerators (Startupbootcamp and Ignite 100), traveled across countries to sell it, and lived the chicken-and-egg problem every marketplace founder knows.

Our view on the hard questions

Which side to seed first, how to set your commission, how onboarding should work, when to invest in supply or demand. We share what we learned. The decisions are yours.

Built around your business model

We build the commission and payment flows your model needs. If we see a risk in your commission model, we'll tell you before launch.

30+ marketplaces and counting

We've shipped rental, product, service, booking, multi-vendor, peer-to-peer, and reverse marketplaces. Pattern recognition matters when every marketplace shares the same hard problems under different surfaces.

Business rules you can change

As your model changes, we change the pricing, commission, and approval rules with you, without waiting for a ready-made platform to support them.

Senior team that stays

A dedicated project manager backed by senior developers who know your marketplace. On complex problems, our founder joins the team to help find the best solution. After launch you get documentation, monitoring, and a 3-month code warranty.

Our first-sprint guarantee

If after the first sprint you don't feel like we're the right partner, we stop and don't invoice for that sprint.

If we're the wrong fit, we'll say so on the first call and point you to a better option.

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