Faire and Tundra are some of the most sophisticated and successful wholesale marketplaces out there. On Flaire/Tundra one can buy anything from $0.50 candy to over $1000 jewelry and articles for house decor. Flaire marketplace helps connect over 15k local retailers.

Building a wholesale marketplace or any marketplace for that matter is difficult. There are a lot of features that need to be developed and set in place. While some features are optional others tend to be fundamental. TradlyPlatform makes setting up a marketplace with these features much easier and faster. Some of these fundamental features that TradlyPlatfrom provides you with for creating a wholesale marketplace like Flaire are

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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)

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Customisable collections widgets

You can create a custom collection like this

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)

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Onboard Store owners with dynamic details

As a platform owner, you can design different account(stores-merchants) creation forms based on the type of accounts you have.

• When you are building a hybrid marketplace, you want to have different stakeholders to open accounts. And the accounts perhaps need different information than the primary information.
• By default, we only collect the name and description of the account registration
• You can configure additional attributes based on your business nature
• You can create multiple categories of accounts
• You can create additional attributes specific to an account category rather than overall

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Detailed Catalogue Creation

As a platform owner when you want to build high level marketplace to have deeper categorisation.

Example:

• Men
• • Clothing
• • • Tops,
• • • Coats
• • • Beachwear,
• • • BridalWear
• • • Jeans
• • • • Skinny Leg

Men is a first level category Clothing is a second level category Tops, Coats, Beachwear, Bridal wear and Jeans are 3rd level category Skinny leg is a 4th level category

• Based on your business nature, you can use this in different ways. You can use category to allow users to discover somethings or find different set of needs based on how you plan it.
• You can add attributes based on parent and child categories

TradlyPlatform supports 4 levels of categories creation

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Store Reviews and Ratings

User able to rate and review the listings he recently got serviced, purchased, made bookings, etc to share his experiences

Currently available:

• Rating (5 Stars)
• Type of ratings
• Photos
• Descriptions
• Short title

On Roadmap

• Configure the above informations to be optional or mandatory
• Activate/Deactivate the above attributes from super admin panel
• Add new attributes from super admin panel

Store reviews and Ratings

Read more:

• More about Headless Commerce API
• Open source Repositories - iOS, Android, Web App
• Youtube Video series on how to build a marketplace
• VIDEO: Choosing the right stack and how to approach different solution
• Read: Why it’s better to use pre-built solution like Tradly