On the other side of this equation you can establish your own marketplace. Online marketplaces create efficiency for your customers by allowing you to sell products from other sellers as well as your own products. An online marketplace solution streamlines the shopping experience and lets you manage both sellers and buyers.
Williams Commerce is an award-winning ecommerce agency, offering both dedicated marketplace ecommerce solutions and add-on marketplace extensions for common ecommerce platforms. We regularly partner with leading global ecommerce marketplace platforms for large businesses, helping to deliver all the tools needed to run an online marketplace efficiently and effectively.
The Williams Commerce team can support your marketplace ambitions in a number of ways:
For smaller companies, we can build an ecommerce website on platforms such as Shopify, BigCommerce, and Adobe Commerce (previously Magento) and add marketplace extensions.
For larger enterprise companies, we offer all of the above, as well as solutions that can take your channel management to new levels of excellence. These include Product Information Management (PIM) solutions and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions to provide the tools your business needs to enable more effective and efficient ways of working.
We can establish a clear marketplace strategy by reviewing your business model and needs. This will help define business requirements and operating models, establish goals and objectives for the project, outline training guides for merchants and deliver support in working with marketplace teams.
We can work out how your delivery process will work, how you will split delivery charges across multiple sellers, and how payment and financial reconciliation will happen.
We can run a discovery process where we identify how you want to work with sellers, how many sellers you have, and where these sellers are located.
We can run a discovery process where we identify how you want to work with sellers, how many sellers you have, and where these sellers are located.
Our UX expertise allows us to support you in building customer personas, identifying who is likely to want to buy your products and through which channels. We can also implement user research and testing to understand what works best with customers, and offer designs to support marketplace development across channels.
We can deliver integration to marketplace solutions, with bespoke development for any custom implementations an option. We also offer ERP integration and can link to fulfilment and settlement, as well as being able to offer any bespoke front-end work required to support omnichannel solutions.
We can run a discovery process where we identify how you want to work with sellers, how many sellers yIf you are aiming to get your products into marketplaces, platforms such as Adobe Commerce come with built-in Amazon channel support and channel manager, while BigCommerce comes with Feedonomics product feed management. ou have, and where these sellers are located.
If you are looking to build your own marketplace, we are able to support with more complex delivery and payment solutions to handle multiple suppliers.
Additionally, we can support with integrations to solutions like Linnworks and Channel Advisor.
Contact us today for a free consultation appointment.
After the discovery process, our team at Williams Commerce will stay in constant communication through frequent check-ins to keep you informed about the development of your marketplace. You will have your own project manager who you will have frequent calls with to keep you in the loop and who will be the translator between your team and the development team. We also provide demonstrations and training for the new functionality that we deliver, and where possible, give you early access to the site so that you can see it changing and evolving.
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