Buyers
Find suitable listings, understand the offer, submit an enquiry or order and see what happens next. Include cancellation and support paths in the workflow.
Plan a marketplace around the work buyers and sellers need to complete. We take on selected B2B and B2C development engagements, with scope and availability agreed for each project.
A directory that introduces buyers to providers needs a different scope from a marketplace that takes payments and manages orders. Define what happens between finding an offer and completing the work, including the decisions an operator must handle.
An initial scope should describe what each participant can complete and how the result will be checked. These are areas to consider together before estimating the build.
Find suitable listings, understand the offer, submit an enquiry or order and see what happens next. Include cancellation and support paths in the workflow.
Apply or be invited, publish accurate offers, respond to requests and manage delivery. For paid transactions, define onboarding and payout requirements with the chosen provider.
Review sellers and listings, resolve exceptions, handle support and inspect the records needed to run the service. Some pilot tasks can stay manual if someone owns them.
Our guide covers demand validation, hosted versus custom development, the first complete workflow, payment decisions and a measured pilot launch.
Read how to build an online marketplaceUse the editable checklist to record scope, acceptance checks, owners, estimate assumptions and launch measures. It includes a hypothetical design-services example.
Download the MVP planning checklist (Markdown)Separate implementation, uncertainty, recurring tools and transaction costs. Use a worked calculation to compare proposals against the same workflow.
Plan marketplace development costsFor B2B projects, agree company roles, quote revisions, approvals and supplier boundaries before estimating an order workflow.
Plan a B2B marketplace