Marketplace Development
We build two-sided marketplaces — Sharetribe-based or fully custom — for founders who need a platform that handles trust, payments, and matching correctly from day one, not bolted on after launch.
Marketplace development is different from building a normal web app: you're building for two audiences at once — supply and demand — and the whole thing has to work before either side will show up. We've built marketplaces on Sharetribe for teams that need to move fast and validate demand, and fully custom platforms for teams whose business model doesn't fit a template. Both approaches are legitimate; the right one depends on how much your marketplace actually needs to deviate from the standard two-sided model.
What We Do
Key capabilities.
Sharetribe Marketplace Development
Sharetribe gets a marketplace live faster than building from scratch, and it's a solid foundation for booking, rental, and service marketplaces that fit its data model. We handle setup, custom styling, and the extensions Sharetribe's own tooling doesn't cover out of the box — search relevance, custom pricing logic, and integrations.
Custom Marketplace Development
When your business model doesn't fit a template — complex pricing, multi-step fulfillment, industry-specific compliance — we build the platform from the ground up. This costs more time upfront but removes the ceiling that template platforms eventually hit.
Multi-Vendor & Service Marketplaces
Platforms where many sellers or providers list against a shared catalog or booking calendar, with vendor-level dashboards, commission handling, and moderation built in.
Rental & Booking Marketplaces
Availability calendars, time-based or date-based pricing, deposit handling, and cancellation logic — the parts of a booking platform that are easy to get wrong and expensive to fix after launch.
B2B Marketplaces
Procurement-style marketplaces with quoting, negotiated pricing, approval workflows, and invoicing — built for buyers who don't behave like consumers.
Marketplace Payments & Payouts
Stripe Connect or equivalent split-payment infrastructure, so money moves from buyer to platform to seller correctly, with your take rate accounted for automatically and payouts that don’t require manual reconciliation.
Marketplace Search & Discovery
Buyers rarely browse everything you have — they search, filter, and expect the right result near the top. We build search and discovery that understands intent, not just keywords, including AI-assisted recommendations where they genuinely improve conversion rather than just being a feature to list.
Marketplace Integrations
Maps and location search, identity verification, messaging, and the other third-party services a marketplace typically needs to feel trustworthy and complete.
When You Need This
Signs it's time.
You're validating a two-sided marketplace idea and need a working platform, not a slide deck
You want to launch fast on Sharetribe but know you'll eventually need custom logic it doesn't support natively
Your business model — pricing, fulfillment, compliance — doesn't fit a standard marketplace template
You’re adding a new vertical (rentals, bookings, services, B2B) to an existing platform
ACE's Approach
The first real decision is whether your marketplace actually needs to be custom, or whether Sharetribe gets you to launch faster with no real tradeoff — that's a business decision, not just a technical one, and we'd rather tell you the cheaper path is fine than sell you a bigger build. From there we design around the mechanics that make or break a marketplace: trust and verification, how money moves, and how supply gets discovered, because those are the parts users actually feel.
Why ACE
Why ACE for Marketplace Development
We've built marketplaces across pet care, storage rental, and talent casting — different industries, same underlying mechanics of trust, payments, and matching. We know both sides of the Sharetribe-versus-custom decision because we've shipped both, so the recommendation you get is based on your business model, not on which one we'd rather build.
What We Deliver
Marketplace architecture & platform decision (Sharetribe vs. custom)
Full-stack development & deployment
Payment splitting, payouts & verification integration
Vendor/provider dashboards & admin tooling
90-day post-launch support
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