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Commerce Cloud was your first great idea

Selling things you don’t own should be your next. Salesforce Commerce Cloud customers can now harness the flexible, feature-rich Marketplacer platform to connect to 3rd party sellers as you expand your catalog, sell more products, and deliver a highly connected and profitable customer experience.

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How our Commerce Cloud cartridge works

The Marketplacer Connected Technology is a simple yet powerful technology for building marketplaces. By eliminating the need to re-platform, our SFCC connector ensures you keep all the capabilities of SFCC while leveraging Marketplacer to expand your product and category range, achieving an endless aisle.

The marketplace advantage

Scale at speed

Plug into third-party sellers’ systems and provide your customers with a wider choice of offerings from a variety of curated sellers.

Reduce labor cost

Generate more sales with your team with a limitless and flexible platform. Growth can be fluid, fast and fearless.

Diversify your range

Add tens, thousands of other sellers to your site. All of this can be alongside your own products, creating your virtual marketplace, and giving you a share of all the extra revenue.

Innovate without risk

Remain nimble with an evolving eCommerce ecosystem as you experiment and innovate in terms of your product lines and suppliers, without risking your core business.

The fast track to fast growth

The marketplace model allows you to expand without boundaries – turning suppliers into sellers, and adding hundreds or thousands of new products to your website without all the hassle of managing inventory and warehousing requirements. And it can all be achieved without disrupting your current customer shopping or delivery experience.

The marketplace advantage

Step 1.

Book your discovery session to explore the marketplace opportunity for your business.

Step 2.

Our SME’s will assist with building out your very own Marketplace strategy with financial model.

Step 3.

We’ll then collaborate on solution design and technical scope for phase 1 and beyond.

There’s so much more to Marketplacer platform

The marketplace model allows you to expand without boundaries – turning suppliers into sellers, and adding hundreds or thousands of new products to your website without all the hassle of managing inventory and warehousing requirements. And it can all be achieved without disrupting your current customer shopping or delivery experience.

Dropship from 3rd parties

A marketplace platform allows you to integrate with any POS system, dropship globally, return and fulfil items from different storefronts, and allow click & collect – all on one platform.

Create a community

Create a sense of community and belonging for your customers, who feel part of a tribe thanks to premium content, membership benefits, curated selections and exclusive offers.

Consolidate a market

Unite a fragmented buyer/seller landscape and become the destination for your customers to discover tailored content and a perfectly targeted range of offerings.

Book a strategy session to see what Marketplacer can do for you

At Marketplacer, we’re committed to helping you bridge the gap between marketplace strategy and execution. Start your marketplace journey the right way, as we discuss how a marketplace will help you scale and differentiate. Plus, we’ll share the Marketplacer solutions to evolve your existing Salesforce Commerce Cloud platform into a curated marketplace.

  • Gain the clarity and confidence to develop a defined marketplace strategy to maximise opportunities
  • Get your team on the same page as you align ideas, outcomes and stakeholders
  • Focus on strategic positioning for sustainable, ongoing competitive advantage, including identifying tactical opportunities
  • Understand the Marketplacer technology, including the SFCC Connector, that will underpin your marketplace strategy.
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Frequently asked questions

At a very basic level, a marketplace platform allows a seller and buyer to connect under a marketplace brand or business. Online, it’s a virtual space where sellers can display their product and/or service and where buyers can directly connect with sellers, finding what they need when they need it. A marketplace platform is the conduit for the business transaction, from start to finish, enabling a seamless user experience for both the seller and the buyer, ensuring minimal friction and maximum opportunities for success.

At a very basic level, a marketplace platform allows a seller and buyer to connect under a marketplace brand or business. Online, it’s a virtual space where sellers can display their product and/or service and where buyers can directly connect with sellers, finding what they need when they need it. A marketplace platform is the conduit for the business transaction, from start to finish, enabling a seamless user experience for both the seller and the buyer, ensuring minimal friction and maximum opportunities for success.

How to build a marketplace platform?

With Marketplacer, you get ease, relevance and convenience at all stages of your experience building your marketplace platform. We call this our Platform for Success, encompassing Discovery, Technology and Success.

Discover
First, we guide you through discovery to understand your business; your customer needs and define what success looks like for you within the digital marketplace.

Technology
Our modular-built design and extensively customisable features and integrations provide you with full control of curating your marketplace platform exactly how you desire it. This allows you to spend your time and efforts where your business needs it the most while the marketplace continues to take care of itself as it grows and evolves.

Success
We support you through implementation and managing your services, optimising your marketplace for success.

We’ve partnered with a range of partner systems so you won’t have to worry about add ons, compatible features and applications – we’ve done the hard work for you. Your job is to curate your marketplace platform in a way that best suits your and the sellers and buyers’ needs.

Headless and Connected Solutions
If you already have a digital marketplace, we’ve got you covered with our Headless and Connected Solutions, where we can integrate your existing ecommerce platform with a Marketplacer marketplace platform.

The future of marketplaces is digital and global. We can connect you to your sellers and your customers around the globe with our world-class marketplace platform with minimal fuss and maximum effectiveness.

Connect with us to see how Marketplacer can help you successfully level up your marketplace.