Poshmark, Vinted, Mercari, and Rebelle are some of the successful fashion social platforms. They combined social with commerce in a more fresh and trendy approach. Building a marketplace platform (technically) might be straightforward as we can see what has worked for them (80% of the work). And the rest of the things we might be able to figure out after we launch the platform through the feedback loop and the market fit.

Why Tradly?

  • Saves your time on developing the app from the scratch
  • Saves your time on thinking and shaping each development module with different departments ( Business analyst, Designers, Engineers, Marketers requirements, Operation, etc)
  • Saves the time you need to spend on every quality check and bug fixing
  • Imagine the time you need to share the app with your network and early adopters to test the feature , design and functionality
  • You need to setup a analytics for your app
  • You need to install vitality growth tools inside the app
  • You need to setup an email system
  • You need to choose the right infrastructure
  • It’s not straightforward like building a website, App ecosystem is much more complicated than we can imagine. But if you have a minimum of 5 team members , you can build IT from the scratch using the significant budget you have.
  • But with Tradly platform, all this can be saved with the super quality app and affordable solutions.

Few of the common Features

You might want to check our documentation on detailed information for all the features Tradly Platform provides you out of the box to launch your fashion marketplace like these famous social commerce marketplaces.

Social Login & Registration

A user who wants to register inside your apps to start using your services.

Depends on the business nature, you may want to have a different registration system for your users to register. We have the below list of registrations available in the app

  • Facebook Registration: An user can use their Facebook login to sign-in/ sign-up
  • Google Registration: An user can use their Google login to sign-in/ sign-up
  • Native email registration: An user can just any email which is not connected to 3rd party logins to sign-in/ sign-up
  • Phone number-based registration: An user can sign-in/ sign-up using their phone number with OTP verification in their first registration. In the subsequent sign-in, the verified phone number and password can be used to sign-in.

Customisable collections widgets

A user when he visits the home page of the app should be able to find a fresh collection of ideas.

Currently available

  • A recent list of accounts, stores, profiles
  • A recent list of Listings, Ideas, Postings, Ads

Custom collections based on tags

  • Accounts based on category or manual pick
  • Listings based on category or manual pick

On Roadmap

  • Price (less than, greater than, etc)
  • Offer percent (less than, greater than)
  • Location - kilometer/miles radius)

Social Marketplace Feed

A user when he visits the home page of the app should be able to find a fresh collection of ideas.

Currently available

  • A recent list of accounts/stores/profiles
  • A recent list of Listings/Ideas/Postings/Ads

Custom collections based on tags

  • Using Attributes filter
  • Category (multiple)
  • Listing title
  • Price (less than, greater than, etc)
  • Offer percent (less than, greater than)
  • Location (kilometer/miles radius)

A platform owner is able to use the media section to show any sort of communication on this prime placement. and link these banners to be STATIC or to the product or a page, etc.

You can use this to

  • Important promotions
  • How-to Guides
  • Explanation of some features
  • Specific product promotion that leads to a listing page
  • Advertisement placement to a particular store

On Roadmap,

  • Towards a particular tag (A tag has a collection of listings)

In-Built Chat

A user able to chat with prospective seller, account, tutor profile, etc to discuss the listings

The chat feature is more or less like the WhatsApp features which allow the users to do

  • Personal and private communications
  • Share locations
  • Attach additional private photos and documents about the listings

And more dynamic features available for you to use.

Resources to build, launch and grow marketplaces