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A marketplace built around your business model

Connect buyers and suppliers through a branded marketplace, with onboarding, transactions and operational controls tailored to the relationships you manage.

Typically costs
£56k–£173k
Live in
18–40 weeks

Indicative build investment, excluding VAT. Your ongoing Managed SLA is quoted separately.

Request a project quoteExplore your budgetYour initial scope, shaped with our team.

Marketplaces

5 parts
From request to completion — illustrative interfaceFrom request to completionILLUSTRATIVEEvery job has a next stepRequestedCustomer requestReady to assignIn progressAssigned to MorganNext: final reviewCompleteWork signed offRecord retained

01Where this usually starts

Your marketplace needs a clear proposition for every participant and an operational model that supports growth. We design onboarding, discovery, transactions and administration around your business strategy.

02What changes

What you end up holding.

  • 01Onboarding and verification suited to your participants
  • 02Transaction workflows through an agreed payment provider
  • 03Commission calculations and reconciliation
  • 04Review and activity records that support participant confidence
  • 05Reporting on transactions, participation and operational priorities

Discuss your marketplace model and the route to your first release.

03The pieces

What a system like this is usually made of.

Prioritise the capabilities that create the most value for your first release. The estimator lets you explore each addition and plan your investment as the system develops.

Taking payment

Card, bank transfer and direct debit, reconciled against the invoice without anyone matching them up.

Holding and splitting money

Funds held, split between parties and released on your terms, with your commission taken cleanly.

Members looking after themselves

Their details, their colleagues, their payments and their own record of what they have paid.

The supplier side

The other half of the market: joining, being checked, listing, and being paid.

Reviews and verification

Checks, ratings and a record of what actually happened, so both sides can take a risk on each other.

The sort of detail that matters

  • Paid from a link in the invoice
  • Direct debit collected on the day it is due

04How it would run

18 to 40 weeks, in five phases you approve one at a time.

  1. 01

    Getting to the truth

    A written account of how your work really runs today, what the current way is costing you, and what your new system has to do about it.

  2. 02

    Shaping it

    Every screen and every decision your system will make, in front of you and signed off, with your live date fixed at the end of it.

  3. 03

    Building it

    Your system takes shape week by week in your own account, with something you can click on and try at the end of every fortnight.

  4. 04

    Proving it

    Your own people put it through real work with real records, and everything they find is fixed before anybody depends on it.

  5. 05

    Going live

    Your team moves across trained, with their history intact, on the date fixed months earlier.

05Asked most often

The questions that come up.

How is the money handled?

We design payment flows with an appropriate marketplace payment provider. Provider eligibility, fees, settlement arrangements and your business responsibilities are established during discovery.

How do we solve the empty-marketplace problem?

Your marketplace strategy and software need to work together. Discovery identifies how to deliver value for your first participants, then builds the transaction and operational capabilities needed as both sides grow.

Do you take equity instead of fees?

Projects are commissioned for agreed fees. You retain ownership of your commissioned system, with the commercial terms set out in your proposal.

06The rest of it

Most projects are two or three of these at once.

Let’s build your next business advantage.

Discuss your goals with the specialists who will deliver your system. We will help you define the scope, investment and delivery plan, then prepare a proposal for your business.

An outline is enough. Reply within one working day.

Call us on 01603 339222.

Designed around your work

Your workflows, commercial rules and customer experience shape your system.

Owned by your business

Your commissioned source code and documentation give you control over your investment.

Supported as you grow

A Managed SLA combines system protection, support and agreed improvement time.