Building a marketplace - Video Tutorial series
How to build a Marketplace?
The list of steps we going to cover in the videos will be in the checklist .
https://portal.tradly.app/docs/platform
You can use the checklist side by step to see what need to be done and also for URLS.
** 4 Steps for non-coders **
1. Signup for a free sandbox account (https://tradly.app)
2. Prototype your app using our SuperAdmin builder
3. Visualise your app through test apps.
4. When you are ready to launch, Subscribe to our plans and get a white label app build
6. Appstore/playstore works.
There will be 5 type of works you will be doing to configure the app to work fully functional for a MVP launch to the market.
1. ONBOARDING IN SANDBOX (Selecting mandatory informations)
You will be asked to enter this informations when you signup, read the below reference link for each part when you are stuck.
Default things (Example: Appname, currency, Language, registration method, country you want to launch, )
Choose your business Model (Product Marketplace, Service Marketplace, etc)
Choose Revenue Model : See here for the available revenue model for your business and how it works
Choose Delivery Method: Available delivery methods and how it works
Choose Payment Gateways
Choose Location & Map if you are planning to have location specific features
When you reach the SuperAdmin home page, you will be able to find your APP NAME. That’s the APP NAME you should be using to experience your test app via Tradly Test apps.
Whatever the type of marketplaces, mostly these are the fundamental blocks you should need to configure. The rest of the steps are mostly according to your business
2. PLATFORM FUNDAMENTALS
You must configure this below things for the system to be able to open accounts, submit listings and make purchases.
Configure accounts: Settings: accounts(categories, attributes)
Configure listings: Settings: listings (Setting up listings information to be collected. Categories, attributes)
Stripe/other payment gateways configuration (under native integrations)
Configure revenue model, commissions: Settings - commissions OR Settings - Subscriptions OR Settings - Special Fees
3. Configure 3rd Party integrations
When you don’t setup this, below features may not work.
Configure email if you want the emails to be whitelisted
Configure domain if you want good deliverability of emails
Chat setup via Firebase ,
Optionally referral / sharing features via Branch
Optionally later legal informations (privacy, terms, etc)
4. Customising your look and feel of the App
When you request a build from us, whatever the branding and customisation you have configured in mobile config (under SuperAdmin) will be available for you.
Settings - mobile app config - add app related informations
App Name
Choose your app colour
App Icon
Splash launch images
Onboarding images , Onboarding Text
Registration Text
Sell Icon (optional)
App title in Home Screen (Default will be app name)
And others