Peer to Peer Marketplace

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Hi - I’m new to all of this and wondering if Wix (and all of it’s plug ins and add-ons) is capable of building a quality peer to peer marketplace?
Thank you.

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No reason why not. Wix sites, together with Corvid by Wix, provides a comprehensive and robust development environment. Take a look at the docs , the APIs , and the collection of examples , more examples , and even more examples . Then have fun.

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Thanks mate. I will. Then, I will. :muscle:t2:

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@yisrael-wix Do you know where I can find articles on integrating Stripe for a marketplace using my Wix website? My website is peer-to-peer like Airbnb’s model, and my visitors will transact with each other, NOT ME. I’ll just take a cut (like Airbnb does). Does Wix have a way to do this? I couldn’t find this. Thanks so much!

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@tglasgow Hi Tim, have you had any luck building your marketplace with Wix? Im doing a marketplace too but having trouble with payments…curious what you ended up using

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@joelsf15 See the Stripe example. Maybe you can handle the details by yourself.

Stripe Payment Processing

Integrate the Stripe Payment processing system into a site. Three levels of user access are demonstrated: visitor, freemium (registered), and premium (paid).

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@Joel Scout Franklin Have you had any luck at this yet? And @Timmy ?

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@experimentnoxx hi there. i ended up going a different route cuz I’m not sure i can integrate the Wix Forum with Stripe. Wix Forum Member’s structure is pretty limited so i might just use a PayPal workaround

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@ Joel Scout Franklin thank you. Would you mind telling me what is the route you decided on? I’m really struggling to find a reasonable, reliable and smooth way to test a new peer-to-peer market (and I mean to make it a reverse marketplace like upwork to boot). Any tips would be appreciated. And how does Paypal help working around the Forum limitations?

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@experimentnoxx So are you doing a Fiverr / Upwork type marketplace? What i’m trying to do is prove a minimum viable product, so it doesn’t have to be pretty. My Forum is set up as categories, and this works as a marketplace. So when a user “Posts” in my forum, this post will include the item for sale, plus a PayPal link if they want to get paid like that. So they can do cash or PayPal. That’s the workaround right now

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@ Joel Scout Franklin I’m trying to do an upwork/freelancer type. That differs from Fiverr in that vendors can make an offer to the person posting their need. That’s called a reverse marketplace. I also mean it as an MVP.
In my case, a user will post a project, and I want a vendor to be able to reply with a proposal. The poster should be able to accept the proposal and pay for it.

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@experimentnoxx were you able to succeed with your project on Wix?
I have the same idea to validate my MVP - a company/user posts a project and a vendor/another company replies with their proposals privately.

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@experimentnoxx were you able to launch the marketplace with WIX? I am trying to host the list of users and the sellers for the services. Customers / Users can search for the service and the seller and book? Appreciate your suggestions

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@nowakjakub89 I apologize I missed your message. Have you made progress? If all you need is just the posting and replying, I think I already managed to implement that part (although in experimental form)
@hema @nowakjakub89 I’m still slowly working on it…
I’ve done the following already:

  1. I added Wix Users, but I have a custom signup (and user profile) process, where I save crucial user information in a custom database. I did this in order to be able to retrieve user profile information to display to other users. The (default and unchangeable) Wix Users Collection’s permissions don’t allow this.
  2. I have dynamic pages for viewing the list of users. (limited to Admin for now, not user-tested)
  3. I have 2 types of users (although it is possible to belong to both types), and I save the type of user as a boolean in my (custom) user profile Collection.
  4. I have implemented posting of projects. Corvid form and collection, pretty simple
  5. Posting bids/proposals. On an experimental site copy, just recently did this. The Bid collection is referenced to the relevant Project when created. There’s a dynamic page for a user to view his projects. Each project in the repeater links to the Project details dynamic page. In the Project details page I’ve got a repeater for the bids which are filtered based on the reference to the current project.
    Hope this helps.

I have not yet implemented payment, chat/work room (for discussion and delivery of work), review process, search projects/users.
Search should be easy to implement (although I haven’t found a nice search bar/button). Most of the other stuff has examples on Wix which should show how to do them.
For payment, I think it makes sense to use something like Stripe as mentioned above by @yisrael-wix . As Stripe is not available in my country, I’ve been trying to find a payment process which will work for me. But it looks like I’ll be forced to use Stripe Atlas to open a US company in order to use Stripe or the new Paypal marketplace solution. If you have other suggestions, I’d love to hear them.

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@experimentnoxx Hi, Can you please let me know if the peer to peer market place implemented fully? Do you have template which I can use?