We've shipped a marketplace. We also run it.
Multi-vendor platforms fail in the unglamorous places: seller onboarding, catalogue quality, delivery slots, settlement. We know, because we operate LocalFarmers every day.
- Seller onboarding and verification flows
- Catalogue, pricing and availability control
- Delivery zones, slots and settlement logic
What's included
Everything a marketplace needs beyond a product grid and a checkout button.
- Multi-vendor architecture
- Seller accounts, permissions, commissions and payouts modelled properly at the start, where they're cheap to change.
- Seller onboarding & verification
- Application, document checks, approval workflow and the self-service tooling that keeps sellers off your support line.
- Catalogue & pricing operations
- Category structure, bulk product management, availability windows and the admin console that keeps it accurate.
- Orders, delivery zones & slots
- Pincode-aware serviceability, scheduled and in-stock fulfilment models, and routing that reflects how delivery actually happens.
- Payments, wallet & settlement
- Gateway integration, wallets, refunds, and the reconciliation reporting finance needs at month end.
- Buyer applications
- The consumer web storefront and native app that make the whole thing worth using — designed for everyday, repeat purchase.
How the engagement runs
Marketplaces are two-sided, so we build and prove both sides in sequence rather than launching half.
01Model
Define the transaction: who lists, who buys, who fulfils, who gets paid what, and when money moves.
02Operate first
Build the admin and seller tooling early — a marketplace with no operations console cannot be run, only demoed.
03Open the buyer side
Storefront and app on top of a catalogue that is already real, with delivery logic that reflects actual coverage.
04Launch by area
Go live in one region, fix what breaks under real orders, then extend coverage deliberately.
What this engagement includes
We shape the solution around your team structure, budget and delivery timeline, so every phase ships something measurable rather than a status update.
What changes afterwards
A platform your operations team can actually run without an engineer on call for routine changes.
- Sellers onboarded without manual back-office work
- Catalogue changes made by operations, not developers
- Serviceability and slots configurable per area
- Settlement and commission reporting that reconciles
- A buyer experience built for repeat purchase
- Architecture that survives adding a second category or city
What this looks like shipped
The LocalFarmers operations console and storefront, built and run by this team. Catalogue, bazar scheduling and centre configuration on one side; buyer ordering on the other.
Typical business impact
- Operational speed
- Shorter cycle times and faster approvals across the workflows people touch every day.
- Team visibility
- Dashboards and clear ownership, so work moves without waiting on one person to answer.
- Scalable operations
- Systems that absorb more volume without adding proportionally more manual effort.
Other ways we help
- Business Systems ConsultingFind the bottleneck before buying software.
- Zoho Implementation & CustomizationCRM, Books, People and Creator, configured to your process.
- Custom Web & Mobile ApplicationsPortals, SaaS and native apps where off-the-shelf stops.
- Business Process AutomationApprovals, handoffs and reminders that run themselves.
Not sure this is the right starting point?
Describe what's slowing you down and we'll tell you which of the five actually applies — including when the answer is none of them yet.