Two-sided platforms with both sides onboarded, Stripe Connect payouts, deposits held until delivery, quote engines that price in under a second and an admin desk that settles disputes early. We scope to the first real transaction, so launch is a date.
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The mechanics differ by model. The pattern of onboarding both sides, holding the money and refereeing disputes does not.
A UK removals marketplace: sub-second quotes from a model trained on about 12,000 jobs, Bronze to Gold provider tiers earned by verified criteria, and a 14% deposit held by Stripe on every booking.
See it in AptavoTeachers buy and sell lesson plans filtered by state curriculum, a six-step publish wizard, Stripe Connect payouts at a platform-set rate, and a buyer library that works forever.
See it in Rewarding ResourcesSubscribers pay to follow a creator’s live process. Subscriptions, tips at 100% to the creator and platform fees all route through Stripe Connect, with founding pricing locked for life.
See it in Shadow HiveFamilies browse credentialed assessors, book a slot, pay with Stripe and meet in a video room minted per appointment. One admin desk runs verification, disputes and reports.
See it in Assess MindA rental app on iOS and Android with four user roles and an engine that ranks properties by lifestyle fit. Thirty structured decisions produce a match score, then the conversation starts.
See it in ReasyFees, refunds, returns and payouts land in different places. We build reporting that nets them together per product and channel, from the same ledger that pays the sellers.
Every one documented end to end: the problem, the build, the result. Filter the case studies.
A two-sided marketplace for UK removals, instant quote engine, Bronze/Silver/Gold provider tiers, 14% upfront deposit on every booking, and an admin desk that mediates disputes before they…
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A two-sided K–12 marketplace where teachers buy and sell lesson plans, worksheets, and assessments, filtered by state-aware curriculum standards, paid via Stripe Connect, and delivered as…
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A creator subscription platform for people actively doing the thing, real estate flippers, SaaS founders, photographers, sharing their raw, unscripted process. Subscribers pay to shadow…
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Families looking for a dyslexia, ADHD, or autism assessment can now find a verified specialist, book the slot, pay, and meet on video, all in one flow. Assess Mind replaces the months-long…
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A mobile-first rental matchmaking platform with four user roles, multi-language support, and a compatibility engine that ranks properties by lifestyle fit, not keywords.
Read the case studyRemovals is a market built on a phone call and a hope. Aptavo’s first job was to make a homeowner feel safer than that: a sub-second quote, a provider profile that earns the booking through tier and reviews rather than the lowest number, and a deposit held by Stripe until the move is complete. The deposit is not a payment feature; it is the thing that gives the admin desk leverage to settle a dispute in 48 hours instead of watching it land on a review site.
Every marketplace we build starts with the same question: what does each side need to believe before the first transaction, and what mechanism makes that belief true?
We have shipped Stripe Connect split payouts on three separate marketplaces: a percentage deposit held and released automatically on delivery, platform fees netted from creator subscriptions and tips, and seller payouts at a platform-set rate on digital goods. Onboarding, identity verification and payout schedules come with it, and so does the ledger that lets you report real margin instead of gross volume.
The order of work is deliberate. Roles and the money flow are designed in week one; the screens are built around them. A marketplace with a beautiful listing page and an unclear refund path is not launchable.
Rewarding Resources walks a teacher from cover image to summary in six steps, derives the curriculum from the year group, validates the tags and lands the resource in a buyer library that works forever. Assess Mind asks every assessor for four verification documents and runs verification, booking, disputes and reports from one admin desk. Shadow Hive gates creators through application and review.
A publish flow that needs no support ticket, and a verification flow the admin can clear in minutes, are the two things that let a small team run a marketplace with thousands of participants.
Reasy ranks rental properties by lifestyle fit across four roles (seekers, partner seekers, owners and agents) with distinct onboarding and data models. It shipped to the App Store with a multi-language interface architected from day one, one-tap tour scheduling and deep links, from a single cross-platform codebase.
Mobile marketplaces carry extra weight: store review, push notifications, offline states and payment rules per platform. We handle TestFlight, the store submissions and the rejection cycles as part of the sprint, not as an afterthought.
Fixed scope, a demo every Friday, and a first clickable version around day 7. The full process is on the home page.
For founders and operators building a two-sided platform, or trying to see real margin behind the dashboards of the platforms they already sell on.
4 to 5 wksAdd-onsVideo sessions · subscription tiers · native mobile app · multi-channel listing sync
Fixed scope · Fixed price
Demo every Friday
Everything else gets answered on the scoping call.
Yes, that is usually the core of the build. We have shipped Stripe Connect split payouts on three separate marketplaces, including a model that holds a percentage deposit until the job is delivered and releases it automatically. Onboarding, verification and payout schedules all come with it.
A working marketplace with payments, roles and payouts lands in 4 to 5 weeks, and you see a demo every Friday before that. We scope to a first real transaction rather than a feature list, so launch is a date and not a hope.
Most two-sided platforms start as responsive web apps because both sides can be onboarded without a store download. When the product is used on the move or lives on matching and notifications, mobile wins, and Reasy is that case. We recommend on the scoping call and tell you why.
With leverage and a desk. A held deposit or escrow gives the platform something to release or refund, and an admin desk with the full record (chat, timeline, evidence) lets a dispute be settled in days. Aptavo mediates every dispute before it can reach Trustpilot.
The part the platform will not show you. Fees, refunds, returns and ad spend land in different places, so the number in the dashboard is not what you earned. We build the reporting that nets them together per product and per channel, and the tooling around whatever the platform makes painful.
Fixed scope, fixed price, quoted within 48 hours of the scoping call. The drivers are the payment model (simple checkout vs split payouts and held deposits), the number of roles, verification requirements and whether video, matching or a native app is in scope.
Bring the model, rough is fine. In 30 minutes we map the marketplace, the payment flow and the reporting, and you have a fixed-scope quote within 48 hours.
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