MarketAge
B2B multi-vendor marketplace solution
Start a B2B multi-vendor marketplace and get the power of big commerce
In-depth domain knowledge to strengthen your business
For almost 10 years, MarketAge Enterprise has been helping businesses around the globe create, launch, and scale robust B2B marketplace solutions in various industries. Build, deploy, launch, and scale your B2B multi-vendor marketplace using the benefits of a world-class solution.
Sell anywhere
No limits in terms of industries, markets, or niches. Create a local or a global marketplace for companies around the world
Grow fast
Save time and money. Reduce risks by getting a completely custom and tested solution without stress or significant costs
Manage easily
Run your B2B marketplace without technical knowledge or additional staff. MarketAge lets you focus on your business, not on technical issues
Beat competitors
A unique UI solution that has no analogs on the market. Get a personalized system closely focused on expanding your target market
Key benefits of a B2B multi-vendor marketplace in one place
An ecommerce solution with a sharp UX and tailored UI that’s grounded on a solid technology stack to help you distinguish your brand and sell more
Focused on B2B & enterprise
Start your B2B transformation with digitizing all buyer–seller interactions. Enable your vendors to be independent with self-service ordering, flexible logistics, e-payments, sales conversion tools, and a boosted customer experience.
Suitable for any industry & market
With MarketAge, you can create any type of B2B multi-vendor marketplace. The solution is fully customizable to meet the needs of any industry and markets of any size.
Growth-oriented
The MarketAge UX is built with a straightforward focus on customer retention and sales growth. Based on ecommerce best practices, MarketAge aggregates all hooks that work for growing marketplace sales and revenue.
Maximum automation
MarketAge embodies all the best features of leading marketplaces to let you manage users, vendors, catalogs, delivery, logistics, and more. MarketAge takes over everything that can be automated.
Fast time to market
With MarketAge, you can start your marketplace with a minimum viable product and validate your business hypotheses at a reasonable cost. This shifts the focus from product to process so you can concentrate on your killer ecommerce strategy.
Powerful & secure
MarketAge is built with cutting-edge Ruby on Rails technology. The system’s architecture is easy to scale and adapt. By choosing MarketAge, you get HTTPS and SSL support, payment security and regular database backups.
Your B2B multi-vendor marketplace is just a few clicks away
Smoothly build your own big commerce multi-vendor platform from idea to launch, first traction, revenue, growth, and scaling
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Come up with your marketplace idea and define your business goals
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Get your fully tailored solution with MarketAge
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Scale your business and attract more customers
Your marketplace business grows intelligently
Minimize risks and save your time and money with a lean-oriented approach that protects you from making the wrong investment. MarketAge is grounded on the best ecommerce and entrepreneurship practices that help businesses become sustainable, grow in accordance with real needs, and scale only on the basis of proven hypotheses.
Features for ecommerce success
An all-in-one ecommerce solution with all the features necessary for swift business growth in the B2B marketplace industry
Platform management
With marketplace management features, it’s straightforward to operate your marketplace.
Teams & companies
Be more productive by working with your team! Create as many admin roles as you need to run your business conveniently.
Monetization
Monetizing a B2B marketplace has never been easier. Choose the most suitable monetization approach or combine two different approaches to get more profit.
Product catalog and inventory
Let your vendors create sharp product catalogs with configurable structures and advanced properties.
Advanced product importing & exporting
Have your vendors previously sold on other platforms or do they want to expand their distribution channels? With smart importing, they can easily migrate products from any platform to Market Age.
Orders management
Your vendors will be able to grow their businesses by selling more on your MarketAge marketplace.
Shipping and delivery
Allow your vendors to sell anywhere in the world with multiple delivery options.
Product returns and refunds
Your customers don’t need to worry if they’ve bought the wrong product. Allow them to request returns and refunds and you’ll win their loyalty as well as increase the retention rate.
Payments & checkout
The buying process is one of the most sensitive parts of a marketplace, so we’ve made every effort to encourage buyers to buy and to protect sellers.
Conversion tools
Retain and engage marketplace users with conversion features.
Mobile orientation
Bring digital transformation to B2B marketplace processes. Use mobile devices to work with your marketplace without losing functionality.
Global search
When operating in a large marketplace, your users need quick access to information. We’ve optimized the search process so vendors can find anything from the vendor's admin panel in seconds.
SEO-friendly
We took care of your SEO optimization: canonical URLs, catalog optimization, and redirects happen automatically.
Analytics & reports
Experience the power of data. Analyze all metrics, track the dynamics of marketplace sales, and build and confirm hypotheses.
Messages & resolution center
When controversies arise within your marketplace, be there to support your customers. Live chats and messaging will help your vendors and buyers solve any issues at any time.
Security and data protection
Track your team’s actions and experiment with your marketplace without restrictions. If something goes wrong, you can always restore the latest saved version of your marketplace from our database backup.
Ongoing support
Don’t be afraid of difficulties. If you have questions or concerns, our team is always there to assist you.
Platform management
With marketplace management features, it’s straightforward to operate your marketplace. Marketplace owners, admins, vendors, and companies each have their personal control centers with functionality that meets their business and technical needs.
Powerful admin panel
Manage your multi-vendor marketplace with a user-friendly and understandable admin panel that allows you to easily kickstart work with marketplace configurations.
Advanced vendor dashboard
Provide a powerful platform for your vendors. The vendor dashboard has all the functionality vendors need to easily manage sales and earn as much as possible.
Transfer ownership rights
Vendors can transfer ownership of a MarketAge marketplace in a couple of clicks. Once rights are transferred, the new owner gets maximum opportunities to efficiently run the marketplace.
Professional buyer dashboard
On the buyer dashboard, customers can find everything they need to conveniently make purchases, from global search to return management functionality. Your customers simply won’t want to leave your platform.
Company management
On MarketAge, vendors are free to run their companies the most efficient way possible. They can provide a company description, manage team members, and do a whole lot more.
Company activation
Are companies breaking the rules or not paying platform fees? On MarketAge, you can manage company activation and activities. Set up automatic account blocking or manage this process manually.
User verification
Verify both buyers and sellers. Build a transparent and secure environment for everyone on your marketplace.
Automated onboarding
With MarketAge, onboarding and starting your marketplace is a straightforward process. Built-in tips will help you quickly and conveniently learn the platform’s main functions and capabilities.
Teams & companies
Be more productive by working with your team! Create as many admin roles as you need to run your business conveniently. Allow your vendors to do the same by providing them with the ability to set different roles and access levels for their team members.
Roles and permissions
MarketAge allows admins to delegate responsibilities. Add admins with different access levels to help you manage your marketplace. The same functionality is available for vendors.
Team management
Work seamlessly in teams. Both sellers and buyers can invite members to their teams and distribute responsibilities between them.
Ownership transfer
Think changing marketplace ownership is difficult? Not with MarketAge. Several clicks and a vendor can transfer ownership to another user.
Monetization
Monetizing a B2B marketplace has never been easier. Choose the most suitable monetization approach or combine two different approaches to get more profit.
Vendor fees
You can receive revenue from each transaction by setting profitable fees. By optimizing your marketplace fees in line with your business model, you can make more profit.
Subscriptions
Provide marketplace access to new sellers on a subscription basis to bring in revenue regardless of your sales volume. In addition, you can set up cross-monetization by charging a percentage from sales on top of a subscription fee.
Product catalog and inventory
Let your vendors create sharp product catalogs with configurable structures and advanced properties. Allow them to customize product descriptions, photos, and videos, manage inventory, and work with prototypes, product variants, options, and more.
Switching between catalogs
With MarketAge, vendors can work with catalogs in different modes. Cataloged listing mode allows them to create predefined catalogs with goods sold on the platform. Vendors can also create new products independently of catalog listings.
Product catalog configuration
With a catalog configuration system, vendors can create sophisticated product listings. Using general attributes and categorization, they can organize products on your platform in a unique way.
Bulk product management
When managing several products, vendors don’t need to deal with each one separately. Bulk product management saves vendors’ time and adds to productivity.
Product options, variants, and types
MarketAge functionality allows vendors to sell goods of various types and with various options from a single page. It’s also possible to set different prices for different product options.
Products prototypes
With product prototypes, you can ensure a consistent catalog on your platform. Prototypes also help vendors easily add new products that are fully described and contain only necessary information.
Product drafts
Vendors can take advantage of product drafts to save product descriptions and continue filling them in at any convenient time.
Product images and videos
The ability to add photos and videos to product descriptions allows vendors to present their products in the best light. At the same time, detailed visual information about products helps buyers make informed decisions.
Product sorting
Buyers can sort products by price, rating, brand, or other attributes. The advanced search functionality and intuitive product filtering in MarketAge make for a great shopping experience.
Custom product filtering
With MarketAge, looking for products is the easiest thing ever. Create a unique filtering system with dozens of parameters and let buyers search for what they need with maximum precision.
In-stock product configurations
To know precisely when it’s time to restock, vendors can use stock product configurations. With simplified stock management, tracking product availability is hassle-free.
Auto-tracking of product inventory
Vendors and buyers don’t want to waste time tracking product inventory, and there’s no need to do it with MarketAge. Auto-tracking does the whole job so buyers and vendors always know how many items are left.
Advanced catalog management
MarketAge enables vendors to manage catalogs as a team. All vendors need to do is assign responsibilities within their teams. Then multiple people can create new products, update catalogs, and track the latest product information.
Unlimited products
No matter how many products vendors need to present on your marketplace, they can do it. And with unlimited products, vendors have immense business opportunities.
Listing moderation
With this feature, there'll be no messy product listings. Administrators can moderate new listings and customize ways to approve placed products. With a range of automations, listings just got easier.
Restricted categories
Are there categories that need extra attention on your platform? Perhaps there are special groups of goods that vendors must be licensed to sell. If this is the case, just configure restricted categories and conduct additional verification.
Advanced product importing & exporting
Have your vendors previously sold on other platforms or do they want to expand their distribution channels? With smart importing, they can easily migrate products from any platform to Market Age or take a multi-channel ecommerce approach and sell on different marketplaces at the same time. If you need to analyze your marketplace data, transfer it to a CRM or work with it in Excel. Vendors can export data from MarketAge in the CSV format in one click.
Templates
If vendors need to transfer products to MarketAge from another ecommerce platform, be it Sharetribe or Arcadier, they can do it easily with the smart import option. Templates are aimed at organizing product information so not a single detail is lost during importing.
Step-by-step importing
With smart importing in MarketAge, there’s no chance of data loss even if vendors need to transfer large product catalogs. Vendors always get hints that help them seamlessly import their products from an external platform to MarketAge.
Product mapping
During import mapping, vendors can specify the key details that should be taken into account according to the CSV file structure. This helps vendors consistently organize data and get predictable results.
Delayed importing
With this feature, vendors can postpone importing products and return to the process when it’s convenient for them.
One-click exporting
If you need all information about your marketplace on your computer, you can download it in one click. Information on companies, carriers, products, orders, returns, sales, and more is available in CSV format.
Orders management
Your vendors will be able to grow their businesses by selling more on your MarketAge marketplace. We’ve taken care of the operational side of the sales process by making work with orders concise, understandable, and automated.
Order management system
Order status checks, a progress timeline view, and detailed order information help vendors keep orders under control. Vendors can promptly print packing slips, explore delivery details, message buyers, and even cancel part of an order.
Bulk order actions
Using bulk actions, vendors can manage multiple orders in minutes. Whether they need to edit an order or print a packing slip, a few clicks will do it.
Order cancellations
Whether buyers want to cancel a whole order or certain items in an order, they can do it effortlessly. MarketAge makes the order cancelation process quick and intuitive.
Fast packing slip printing
Once the product is ready to be shipped, the final step is printing the packing form. In MarketAge, vendors can do that in one click.
Automated order statuses
With MarketAge, vendors don’t have to worry about changing their order statuses. Since this process is fully automated, they can check on current order statuses by looking at the order list.
Warehouse management
Vendors don’t have to worry about organizing logistics from different warehouses. Managing large goods consignments stored in different places is as automated as possible. Vendors can track inventory, manage delivery, and focus on sales rather than routine operations.
Shipping and delivery
Allow your vendors to sell anywhere in the world with multiple delivery options. An unlimited number of carriers, delivery cost management, shipment tracking, and shipping cost calculations make global trade possible.
Custom shipping methods
Vendors don’t need to exert much effort to handle delivery settings and any other shipping details. Moreover, they can opt for the best carriers and ship worldwide.
Shipping calculations
When buyers place orders, they can see all information including the shipping cost thanks to automatic shipping calculations.
Unlimited carriers
Allow your vendors to select the most convenient options with unlimited shipping carriers.
Shipping labels
With the ability to download and print shipping labels, vendors lower the risk of losing parcels they send.
Set and control handling fees
Need a tool to manage shipping fees for multiple delivery options in one place? With the MarketAge admin dashboard, you can set and change shipping fees with maximum convenience.
Shipping fees in the total cost
To make the shopping experience even better, shipping fees are included in the total cost. This allows buyers to pay for everything at once.
Tracking IDs
Let buyers track their parcels by ID. This will keep parcels from getting lost and save vendors from wasting time answering questions about delivery statuses.
Product returns and refunds
Your customers don’t need to worry if they’ve bought the wrong product. Allow them to request returns and refunds and you’ll win their loyalty as well as increase the retention rate.
Product returns
MarketAge offers a straightforward way to manage product returns. If a buyer purchases the wrong product, they can simply request an exchange. The vendor can then consider the request and exchange the product if possible.
Refunds
With MarketAge, processing refunds is quick and painless. It’s also transparent, since all information about refunds is monitored by administrators to protect users’ rights.
Payments & checkout
The buying process is one of the most sensitive parts of a marketplace, so we’ve made every effort to encourage buyers to buy and to protect sellers. By integrating with Stripe, the most reliable payment gateway, we guarantee the security and functionality you expect for payments on your platform.
Stripe payment gateway
Stripe is one of the most secure payment systems and is PCI compliant. Moreover, it handles more than 135 currencies, provides buyers with multiple payment options (including credit card), and lets vendors get instant payouts.
E-wallets
Stripe allows businesses to expand to multiple countries including in Asia thanks for support for e-wallets. Stripe’s e-wallet option is extremely popular in China. Moreover, e-wallets reduce the chance of fraud and are popular among smartphone users.
Credit card payments
Paying by credit card is one of the most popular payment options nowadays. MarketAge takes this into account and allows buyers to pay for their products in a familiar and straightforward way.
Single-page checkout
A clunky and inconvenient checkout process might prevent buyers from making purchases on your marketplace. MarketAge avoids this by offering one-page checkout with a smart UX.
Guest checkout option
Guest checkout helps buyers quickly make purchases on your marketplace. However, admins and vendors can still track information on purchases made using guest checkout as they are registered in the system.
Excellent mobile checkout experience
Are your buyers short on time and looking for opportunities to make purchases fast? MarketAge offers a straightforward checkout process even for mobile devices.
Secure payments guaranteed
MarketAge is developed with the security of you and your customers in mind. That’s why we use Stripe to provide safe payments and protect from fraud.
Autocomplete payment form
To make the payment process not only secure but fast, Stripe allows buyers to reuse previously entered payment details.
Multi-merchant checkout
Buying from different sellers in one go simplifies the shopping experience. In turn, as the platform owner, you can track aggregate sales and sales for each vendor.
Invoices
On B2B platforms, it’s often more convenient for buyers to pay for purchases through an invoice. We took this into account. Vendors can send or print invoices for orders in one click.
Conversion tools
Retain and engage marketplace users with conversion features. Provide users with the ability to browse sellers’ pages, rate products, and express their opinions with reviews.
Reviews and comments
By letting buyers share their opinions on products and allowing vendors to have open dialogs, you can build loyalty around your marketplace. Such communication also allows vendors to improve product quality.
Product ratings
Looking for a fast way to assess the quality of vendors’ products? A 5-star rating system shows what buyers think. This approach is convenient for buyers, vendors, and platform owners.
Likes
Let buyers like products on your marketplace and they’ll never forget a potential purchase. Then let vendors see those likes so they can provide customer-oriented offers.
Products on sale
Allow vendors to give discounts and attract more buyers with better deals. MarketAge has all the necessary functionality for this, including sales labels.
Personal vendor shops
Want to help vendors on your marketplace stand out and grow their businesses? Personal shops allow vendors to showcase company descriptions and all available products.
Shopping carts
With unlimited shopping cart capacity, buyers won’t want to leave your marketplace. Allow buyers to fill their carts for as long as they want, review the cart contents, and edit quantities or delete items.
Mobile orientation
Bring digital transformation to B2B marketplace processes. Use mobile devices to work with your marketplace without losing functionality.
Mobile commerce ready
Give buyers the opportunity to buy on your marketplace from anywhere and on any device. Thanks to a fully responsive design, each page is optimized for mobile shopping.
iPhone & Android optimized mobile experience
The MarketAge design is adapted for Android and iOS devices so the platform is intuitive and simple to use for any vendor or buyer.
Global search
When operating in a large marketplace, your users need quick access to information. We’ve optimized the search process so vendors can find anything from the vendor's admin panel in seconds, while storefront search and filter options let buyers concentrate on purchases.
Smart vendor search
By typing a query in the vendor panel search bar, vendors can find products, orders, and settings in seconds. There’s no need to switch between tabs to find exactly what they’re looking for.
Extended storefront search
With extended search in MarketAge, buyers will never lose a product they want to purchase. To see results, it's enough to start entering the first letters of an item’s name.
SEO-friendly
We took care of your SEO optimization: canonical URLs, catalog optimization, and redirects happen automatically. However, if you have deep knowledge of SEO and want to manage it on your own, you can optimize your marketplace in-house.
Canonical URLs
Canonical URLs will help your marketplace become a Google favorite. A separate URL is automatically created for every entity on your marketplace.
Search engine optimized catalog
We made sure product catalogs are optimized. You don’t need to spend money and time on SEO optimization since we’ve taken care of it.
Sitemap, Robots.txt
We’ve taken care of the entire SEO optimization process so you don’t have to handle it on your own. Yet if you need to conduct some kind of SEO manipulations, you’ll always have access to your sitemap and Robots.txt.
301 redirects
Once you’ve moved a piece of content away from a published URL, anyone who tries to visit it will receive a 404 error. To improve your users’ journey, we use 301 redirects to forward visits from old URLs to new locations of your content.
Analytics & reports
Experience the power of data. Analyze all metrics, track the dynamics of marketplace sales, and build and confirm hypotheses. The analytics and smart reporting modules in MarketAge make these processes easy and bring maximum value for your business. Search and find patterns, know everything about your vendors and customers, and always be one step ahead.
Analytics dashboard
With a powerful analytics dashboard, you can explore trends, view charts, and see figures. Access information on orders, sales, returns, and all steps users take on your marketplace at any time.
Reports
Need to keep up to date with the latest statistics? No problem. View and download reports that will help you instantly respond to the slightest changes and make the right management decisions.
Messages & resolution center
When controversies arise within your marketplace, be there to support your customers. Live chats and messaging will help your vendors and buyers solve any issues at any time.
Live chats
Even in the digital era, what could be better than live communication? Especially when it comes to resolving controversies or contributes to a sale by clarifying details. Administrators, sellers, and buyers can easily communicate using live chats.
Buyer support
Through messaging, you can customize your customer support system to build exceptional loyalty. You can delegate resolving buyers’ issues to vendors while remaining in control of the quality of service on your platform.
Security and data protection
Track your team’s actions and experiment with your marketplace without restrictions. If something goes wrong, you can always restore the latest saved version of your marketplace from our database backup.
Data logs
Logs help you track any adjustments made on your marketplace. With this feature, you’ll always be aware of who makes changes on your platform and when.
Database backups
MarketAge takes care of your data safety. With regular database backups, you don’t need to worry about data losses. Whatever happens, the latest version of your database can be restored.
Ongoing support
Don’t be afraid of difficulties. If you have questions or concerns, our team is always there to assist you.
Migrating to MarketAge from any other solution
MarketAge protects vendors from losing important data when transferring information from another solution. You can rely on our developers to help your vendors transfer all their data in a short time.
Technical Support
Rely on our technical team when it comes to support, advice, and help. No matter what goes wrong on your marketplace, you won’t have to worry about technical issues.
Educational webinars
Explore MarketAge to the fullest with webinars. Our support team will conduct a series of training webinars for your employees, after which you’ll know how to use the platform to the max.
Minimum viable product (MVP) for your B2B multi-vendor marketplace
Start small. Deploy an MVP version of your marketplace with MarketAge Enterprise, test your business hypotheses, and then expand full force.
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Deploy your solution
Deploy your product with a business idea and market hypotheses. Collect data, market observations, customer feedback, and analytics effortlessly
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Verify hypotheses
MarketAge makes it possible to verify all your assumptions with customer feedback, A/B testing, user interviews, and focus groups
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Adapt to market needs
Expand functionality, improve UI elements, and implement more marketing components to adapt to real needs of your audience
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Beat competitors
MarketAge with functionality based on clear knowledge of your target audience’s demands helps you throw your competitors overboard
Our white paper on how to create a B2B multi-vendor marketplace
Don’t know where to start or want to make sure you’ve chosen the right strategy?
Download my free white paperQuick facts about MarketAge creators
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13+
Years in development
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160+
Marketplaces released
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150+
Technical experts for your marketplace support
Let’s create a marketplace together!
Big thanks to my software engineering crew in Ukraine – developers, engineers, database specialists, designers, QAs – all of whom have been working hard with me over the last nine months on the new and re-powered MILANSTYLE.com. Something like 800,000 products from the world’s best luxury stores in one place... Wow. A few further things we plan to do, tweak and enhance, but ecommerce and large database-driven websites are always a work in progress. Team work makes the dream work.
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