Marketplace Solutions
Custom marketplace development
Active Bridge's dedicated development teams have 5 years of experience in developing various types of marketplaces that deliver real value to sellers and buyers through broad listing customization tools, efficient communication, order management features, and statistical dashboards.
B2B marketplace development
Our full-stack developers specialize in building B2B marketplaces that connect wholesale suppliers with bulk buyers across various industries, facilitating seamless and efficient transactions.
Some Features
CRM development & integrations
Detailed vendor description
Advanced filtering
Payment provider integrations
Multi-currency support
Automated refund tools
Analytical dashboards
Maps with advanced filtering
B2C marketplace development
We design and develop B2C marketplaces featuring exceptional user interfaces and extensive functionalities, ensuring users enjoy a seamless purchasing experience.
Some Features
Authentication and authorization
Profile management (for sellers and buyers)
Secure payment gateway
Product listing
Order management
Booking system
Shopping cart
Messaging via chat
Wishlist/favorites list
Feedback and reviews
How we can help with online marketplace app development
Full-cycle assistance
We offer comprehensive support for B2B and B2C marketplace development, encompassing cloud hosting, UX/UI design, app development, quality assurance, technical delivery, security compliance, maintenance, and ongoing support.
Rapid development
Leveraging agile methodologies, we expedite the development of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), enabling quick market entry while ensuring scalability and reliability as the product evolves.
Cross-platform solutions
Our team specializes in developing cross-platform online marketplaces, ensuring compliance with industry standards and delivering seamless experiences on web, iOS, and Android platforms.
Case Study
- Contract type: development team augmentation
- Team size: 6
- Period of collaboration: 2015 - ongoing
- Client’s location: New York, United States
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About the client:
Upstack is a company that bridges the gap between potential customers and suppliers of data center (DC) services across the United States. Their offerings include colocation, dedicated servers, cloud servers, managed hosting, IP transit, and other hosting-related services. Upstack aims to simplify the process of finding and acquiring DC services for businesses nationwide.
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Challenge:
Upstack’s vision was to create a state-of-the-art data center marketplace application. The platform needed to be a one-stop destination for providers and buyers of data center services, focusing on:
Comprehensive Service Coverage: supporting a broad range of data center services, including colocation, IP transit, wholesale space, dedicated servers, remote hands, and internet exchanges.
User-Friendly Experience: simplifying navigation and enabling seamless interactions between providers and buyers.
Efficient Data Processing: ensuring fast and accurate handling of user data and service information.
The challenge was to build a robust, scalable platform capable of supporting the unique needs of the data center marketplace while maintaining special performance and usability. -
Technologies:
Ruby on Rails / React / Sidekiq / Puma / Devise / PostgreSQL / Heroku
Solution
Our dedicated development team conducted a comprehensive analysis and came up with a solution that brings maximum personalization to the data-center management software and online marketplace.
We’ve been building an application that combines key features of classic and contest marketplaces. The platform lets data center service providers and buyers get custom solutions by launching a complex search system.
Scalable architecture and maintainability of the application
We constructed a fully functional platform that grants vendors access to a vast network of sellers, each with its own audience. This Software as a Service (SaaS) platform seamlessly and efficiently accommodates growth. It is designed to be scalable and capable of handling substantial user traffic without causing disruptions for end-users.
- Set up continuous integration and continuous delivery to extend the functionality of the existing data-center marketplace and make the platform more sustainable in the shortest time.
- Reduced the time required for testing.
- Extended existing platform functionality to boost customer growth.
- Redesigned the platform to promote brand awareness and attract more users.
Convenient search and filters
Our dedicated team implemented a sophisticated search feature for the data center marketplace, allowing users to search using a variety of filters. This system significantly enhances the search process, making it more convenient and faster. It employs advanced filtering and search logic, which dynamically adapts to changing rules, enabling users to find objects of various types from the expanding database of data center service providers.
- The search engine clarifies and analyzes a user’s requirements to identify the project goal and provides a result page with selected vendors.
- Integrated Google Maps so users can easily find nearby data-center service providers.
- When a user requests a configuration about companies, he can get a response in the form of comparative charts.
- The user gets to the price review page and sees all the price quotes sent to him by the selected companies. A user can sort them, build charts and modalities, and export data to CSV.
Internal custom CRM system
Our team developed an internal custom CRM system to empower marketplace vendors and clients with a comprehensive order and data center management tool. This system enables management of every step, from order submission to feedback and rating adjustments.
- Easy manageable, well-organized, separated mailing subsystem for sending email notifications.
- A functional vendor portal is where companies get and manage their requests. Companies see only their quotes and notifications.
- Users and vendors have access to a full-fledged digital analytics tool to get a detailed overview of their quotes, requests, data-centers marketplace SERP and data on earnings and expenses.
Chatbots
Chatbots communicate with users via the Upstack marketplace interface. Staying always online, they provide customers with speedy solutions and answers.
- Offer customer support.
- Send users navigation and workflow recommendations.
- Completed searching process.
In case you don’t know where to start your project, you can get in touch with our CTO.
We’ll set up a quick call to discuss how to make your project work.