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The best Sharetribe developer
Journeyhorizon is probably the best Sharetribe developer in the world!
Yep it is a big claim but we have the experience and team to prove it. There is not much we have not done over the past 6 years when it comes to implementing online marketplaces on Sharetribe.
Matthew, Tri and the Journeyhorizon team have been working with us for over 6 years. One of our first Sharetribe development partners, they have helped our clients launch 60+ marketplaces and consistently delight our customers.
Rental Marketplace
Build a platform to rent vehicles, houses, saunas, space, trailers...anything really
From our experience in building rental marketplaces on Sharetribe, here are some of the custom features that are likely needed:
- Verification of Identity
- One time passwords
- Upload photos on pickup of the item
- Upload photos on drop back of the item
- Recurring payments for daily, fortnightly, monthly or annual rental periods
- Security deposits
- Dispute resolution
- Insurance provider integration
- Remote lock and unlock
- GPS integration
Service Marketplace
Let service providers offer physical or virtual help
From our experience in building service marketplaces on Sharetribe, here are some of the custom features that are likely needed:
- Zoom Integration
- Jitsi Integration
- Custom pricing - fixed fees per package
- Custom pricing - milestone payments
- Request for Quote (reverse marketplace)
- Upload documents
- Download documents
Product Marketplace
Help people or businesses sell new or used products.
From our experience in building product marketplaces on Sharetribe, here are some of the custom features that are likely needed:
- Master Product Catalogue
- Wishlist / My Favourites
- Shopping Cart - Single Vendor Checkout
- Shopping Cart - Multi Vendor Checkout
- Shipping Quote Integration
- Tax Handling Integration
- Bulk Upload Listing data
- Offer - Counter Offer Transaction Process
- Auction Pricing
- Wanted or Needed Listing Type
- Automated Image Processing
- AI Integration for product descriptions
- Make and Offer and counter offer flows
Sharetribe Customisation
Sharetribe for marketplaces is super powerful and fully featured right out of the box, you can get started without writing a single line of code. NO CODE MARKETPLACE. But supports you as your marketplace grows. When you are ready to take your business to the next level on web or mobile we are here to help you add unique features and designs on-top of the powerful Sharetribe API.
Sharetribe Plugins
Wishlist Plugin
Our advanced Wishlist feature is designed to enhance the shopping experience and drive engagement on your marketplace. By integrating this feature, you can offer a more personalized and user-friendly environment for your buyers, while also providing valuable insights and opportunities for your sellers.
Single Vendor Shopping Cart Plugin
Our Single Vendor Shopping Cart feature is engineered to optimize the shopping experience and simplify transaction processes on your marketplace. By implementing this feature, users can choose multiple products from a single vendor and process them in a single transaction. This streamlined approach addresses the limitations of the current system, where users can only select one product per payment.
Bulk Upload
Our Bulk Upload feature is designed to streamline the process of adding multiple products to your marketplace, saving time and enhancing efficiency for your sellers. By enabling bulk uploads with multi-field product listings, you empower vendors to manage their inventories more effectively, leading to a more dynamic and responsive marketplace.
Multi-user Accounts
Our Multi-User Accounts feature is designed to enhance collaboration and streamline operations on your marketplace by allowing both buyers and providers to delegate permissions and manage their accounts with team members. This plugin enables teams to work more efficiently and effectively, improve overall productivity and marketplace success.
Delete User Account
Our Delete User Account feature provides a secure and efficient way to manage user data, ensuring your marketplace remains compliant with data protection regulations. This plugin allows you to handle account deletions seamlessly, safeguarding user privacy and enhancing trust in your platform.
Auto Menu based on category, sub-category, sub-sub-category
Our Auto Menu feature dynamically generates menus based on categories, sub-categories, and sub-sub-categories, enhancing the user experience with intuitive and organized browsing. This powerful tool automates the menu creation process, ensuring your website remains up-to-date and easy to navigate.
Social Login
Our Social Login feature enhances your marketplace's user experience with quick and easy login using social accounts: Google, X, LinkedIn and Apple ID. Say goodbye to forgotten passwords and tedious account setups – Our plugin allows seamless, secure logins.
Wishlist Plugin
Our Event Services is designed to help you automate integrations and tasks on your marketplace. Our plugin maximizes efficiency and streamline your marketplace operations, making it easier to manage and grow your business.
Biometric Login Plugin
Our Biometric Login plugin is designed to revolutionize the way users access your marketplace, providing a secure and seamless authentication process without the need for passwords. Supporting Fingerprint, Touch ID, and Face ID, this plugin ensures that users can quickly and securely log in using their preferred biometric method.
Shipping Plugin
Eliminate the hassle of complex shipping! Our new Shipping Plugin for the Sharetribe marketplace brings effortless, real-time shipping management right to your marketplace.
Rich Text Editor Plugin
Craft professional, eye-catching listings that captivate buyers. With easy-to-use formatting tools like headers, bold text, bullet points, and video embedding, you can highlight the key details that make your listings shine.
Custom Features
Here are a few of the custom features we have implemented for our clients
Reverse Marketplace
Let your buyers post their job and have marketplace sellers quote on the job. Once accepted by the buyer, manage the delivery transaction between the buyer and the seller.
Subscription Listings
Let your sellers create listings that are recurring subscriptions rather than one time rentals or purchases.
Membership Subscriptions
Create a SaaS marketplace by adding recurring membership subscriptions for your sellers and or buyers. This includes subscribe, upgrade, downgrade and cancellations.
Transaction Refunds
Define and manage global refund policies for your marketplace. Full or partial refunds. Even let your sellers define their own refund policy.
Multi-Category Transaction Ratings
Sharetribe supports a 5-star rating for the transaction out of the box. Extend this to include multiple categories such as quality, timeliness, communication.
Average Transaction and User Ratings
Calculate the average rating for the listing and/or the User.
Negotiated price transactions
Let the buyer and seller in your marketplace negotiate over the price and other terms of the transaction. Buyers can make offers and sellers can make counter offers. Offers can include more attributes than price such as date or terms.
Multiple bookings in a single checkout experience
Allow your buyers to complete multiple bookings in a single check-out transaction. Useful when your buyer needs to book 5 training sessions with their coach.
Shopping cart
Allow your buyers to add listings to their shopping cart. On checkout, split baskets by seller, or checkout with a single basket if you have a custom payout provider.
Complex Transaction pricing
Allow your sellers to include additional items and add-ons during the checkout process. Integrate with delivery and drop-shipping partner APIs to automatically calculate shipping fees.
Integration with Intercom
Superpower your marketplace with Intercom.io. Powerful customer engagement, onboarding and support options. Intercom.io helps you manage ongoing engagement and support for both sides of your marketplace.
Integration with Twilio
Make use of Twilios set of APIs to enable real-time messaging between buyers and sellers. Send messages via SMS, OR enable real-time messaging in the Flex transaction pages.
Integration with Zoom
Let your sellers deliver their services over Zoom. Integrate Zoom session into the transaction processes.
Integration with Vonage
Vonage, like Twilio provides communication APIs. If you want to build your own version of Zoom and have it tightly integrated into your marketplace this would be the option.
Integration with Sendbird
Similar to Twilio and Vonage, Sendbird is another real-time chat and messaging platform that you can integrate into your marketplace.
Integration with Jitsi
A commercial open-source video conferencing platform. This could be a good choice for your marketplaces video conferencing needs.
Custom CMS integration - Strapi, Prismic
Sharetribe has its own headless CMS and it is improving. Strapi.io and Prismic.io are very mature content management systems that can be integrated into Sharetribe. If you have very heavy content management requirements in addition to your marketplace, integrating a specialized headless CMS is the way to go.
Custom Payment and Payout Providers
We can integrate any number of Payment providers for your marketplace, Braintree, Paypal, Stripe..the list seems to be endless. Then we can use any number of payout providers such as Payoneer, Transferwise, Stripe or Paypal for you to pay your sellers. It is more work, but endlessly flexible.
Crypto Payment and Payouts
Love web3 and crypto-currency? We can pretty much use any of the mature crypto platforms out there to enable buyers to use crypto for payments and sellers to take crypto as payouts.
Sharetribe Mobile App
We were one of the first to build a mobile app ontop of Flex API. We make use of ReactNative for Hybrid app development OR we wrap and publish your marketplace to mobile. There are pros and cons to both depending on what you need to do.
Integration with Car telemetry, GPS
Yes we have even integrated a marketplace transaction process with Car Telementry systems to track where the rented cars go when on hire.
Integration with third-party insurance provider
Depending on the capability of your insurance provider we will be able to integrate key parts of the transaction process with your insurance providers API.
Digital Products and Documents
Allow your buyers and sellers to upload documents as part of their listing or transaction process. This allows marketplaces that are selling digital products to have them delivered and available with the security of marketplace escrow.
Rich Text Editor for Listing Fields
Allow your sellers to use a rich text editor to add formatting to their listing data.
One time password via SMS
Increase the security and identity verification of your users by adding one time password capability to your Sharetribe Marketplace sign-up and sign-in. We will help you pick an SMS or external authenticator app and integrate with the sign-in process.
Image classification using machine learning
The price of machine learning and AI technology is coming down and can be used in numerous ways in your marketplace. If you have an idea we are very confident we can find a way to train a machine learning model and have it assist you in your marketplace.
We have already implemented machine learning technology to assist with evaluation of the images added to listings in a marketplace. This can significantly reduce the burden on your administrators.
Wallet Functionality
Allow your users to hold funds from their sales in their marketplace wallet so they can use to make new purchases on your marketplace. Provide incentives for your users to keep their funds in the marketplace.
Sharetribe Integration
The web is now a jungle of APIs that when connected together deliver real business value to your users. Here is a selection of all the stuff we can integrate with your solution.
