How to build a marketplace
using AI and agents
When a coding agent builds a marketplace, booking app, or delivery platform from scratch, it spends most of its time reinventing infrastructure — auth, payments, listings, escrow, email. Tradly solves that.
Tradly is a headless commerce API that gives AI agents a stable, production-ready backend for any commerce application. Use Tradly Skills to build faster, and Tradly MCP to operate your live marketplace.
Two tools. Two jobs.
Tradly gives coding agents two distinct resources depending on what they're doing.
Tradly Skills
A set of field notes and Claude Code skill files that encode real knowledge from building on the Tradly API — auth flows, API gotchas, tenant configuration, Cloudflare setup, and more.
When your agent starts a new marketplace or booking app, Skills tells it exactly how Tradly's API behaves — which endpoints to use, what the gotchas are, how to handle auth — so it doesn't have to discover them through trial and error.
- ✓Auth flow — registration, OTP, token handling
- ✓API gotchas — real bugs with fixes
- ✓Tenant config — env vars, currency IDs, categories
- ✓Cloudflare Pages + Workers setup
- ✓Sitemap patterns
Tradly MCP
An MCP server that connects Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, and any MCP-compatible host to a live Tradly marketplace — so agents can query products, manage listings, send emails, and run operations in natural language.
Once your marketplace is built and live, MCP lets agents continue to operate it — answering questions, creating content, managing orders — without writing custom API calls.
- ✓Query products, categories, accounts
- ✓Create listings and blog posts
- ✓Search users and send emails
- ✓Manage collections and coupons
- ✓Raw endpoint access via tradly_request
How to build with Tradly Skills
Your coding agent reads Tradly Skills to understand the API — then builds auth, listings, payments, and more without trial and error.
You
"Build me a marketplace app"
Coding Agent
Claude · Cursor Codex · Windsurf
Tradly Skills
API patterns real-world knowledge
Tradly API
auth · listings payments · escrow
Live App
shipped in hours not weeks
How to run your business with Tradly MCP
Once live, ask your AI agent to manage your marketplace in natural language. MCP handles auth, routing, and parsing — you just ask.
You
"Show orders this week"
AI Agent
Claude · ChatGPT Codex · any MCP host
Tradly MCP
16 tools one API key
Your Marketplace
products · orders listings · users
What your AI agent gets out of the box
Every Tradly project includes these production-ready building blocks — accessible via REST API from day one.
Authentication & Users
Registration, login, social auth, role management, and multi-tenant access — production-ready from day one.
Marketplace & Listings
Product listings, categories, search, filters, inventory, attributes, and variants built into the API.
Payments & Escrow
Stripe-powered checkout, escrow payments, commission splits, refunds, and multi-currency support.
Email & Notifications
Transactional emails, bulk email campaigns, and workflow-triggered notifications out of the box.
Orders & Fulfillment
Order management, status tracking, delivery workflows, and dispute handling included.
Accounts & Stores
Seller accounts, store profiles, ratings, reviews, and account verification flows.
CMS & Pages
Built-in CMS for blogs, landing pages, and docs — all manageable via API or the visual editor.
Web Editor
No-code storefront builder so your agent can design and deploy pages without writing frontend code.
What you can build
Agents using Tradly can ship any of these in a fraction of the time it takes building from scratch.
Why Tradly is the right backend for AI-built commerce apps
Stable API surface
Agents need predictable APIs. Tradly's REST API is versioned, consistent, and well-documented — no surprises across sessions.
No infrastructure decisions
Agents skip database design, auth architecture, and payment plumbing. It's all handled. They build the product layer, not the platform.
Skills-first knowledge
Tradly Skills encodes real-world API knowledge — auth patterns, known gotchas, tenant config — so agents start with experience, not a blank slate.
MCP-native for operations
Once live, agents operate your marketplace in natural language through Tradly MCP — no custom tool wiring needed.
Multi-tenant
One Tradly project supports multiple stores, regions, and tenants — ideal for platforms where agents manage many merchants.
Production from day one
Escrow, dispute handling, email workflows, and compliance-ready payment flows are included — not afterthoughts.
Start building your marketplace with AI today
Grab Tradly Skills for your agent, get your API key, and connect via MCP — auth, listings, payments, and escrow already handled.