Marketplace app and platform development.
We build two-sided marketplaces for web and mobile: the listing flow for owners, sellers or providers, search and booking for buyers, payments, verification and the admin tools that keep both sides honest. Marketplaces we have delivered include Need Parking in the UK, Lex Group's property marketplace live in Cameroon and Kenya, and Restart Talent's verified recruitment marketplace.
- NNew listing submittedWaiting for admin verification
- LListing approvedPublished and searchable on the map
- BBooking request sentOwner notified, slot held
- PPayment receivedCommission applied, owner credited
A two-sided marketplace: what it is
A two-sided marketplace is a platform that connects two groups, such as sellers and buyers or owners and renters, and handles listing, search, payment and trust between them.
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What a marketplace build from Moweb covers.
A marketplace is two products sharing one database. The supply side, whether that is owners, agents, sellers or professionals, needs to list quickly and trust that they will be found and paid. The demand side needs to find the right thing in seconds and believe what the listing says. Founders usually come to us with one side already lined up and a clear idea of the transaction, and need the platform that holds the two together without becoming two websites.
We start from the transaction: what is being exchanged, who pays whom, when, and what the platform keeps. That decides the listing model, the search filters, the payment flow and the admin controls. We then build the smallest version that lets real supply and real demand complete that transaction, on the web first where that is enough and as mobile apps where people use it on the move, and extend it once you can see how both sides behave.
We have built marketplaces around very different transactions. Need Parking matches UK drivers with residential and commercial parking spaces; Moweb ran the whole website lifecycle from discovery in November 2022 to launch in March 2023 and stayed on for maintenance. Lex Group's property marketplace runs live in Cameroon and Kenya, with ten property types across buy, rent and short stay, listings from owners and agents, map-based search and subscription plans, priced in each market's own currency. Restart Talent turns the job board around: employers browse admin-verified candidates and spend credits to unlock contact details.
What makes a marketplace hard to build well.
Listing pages and a search box are quick to build. The four problems below decide whether both sides stay, and each one comes from a marketplace we have delivered.
Two audiences, one product
On Need Parking, an owner listing a space and a driver looking for one want different things from the same pages. We design a separate journey and dashboard for each side, keep a single account for people who are on both, and make the proposition clear to a first-time visitor within seconds.
Trust built into the system
Verification has to be a real state in the software, not a line in the marketing. On Restart Talent every candidate is approved by an admin before the profile appears, which replaces the application as the signal that a person is real. We build approval queues, verified markers, reviews after a transaction and a way to report and remove bad listings.
A revenue model the platform enforces
Commission on each transaction, subscription plans as on Lex Group, credits that unlock contact details as on Restart Talent, featured placement or listing fees: whichever you choose is metered inside the transaction flow, so the platform collects what it is owed without anyone raising invoices by hand.
Search that fits how people look
Buyers search by place first. Lex Group's search works on a map, with filters for property type, location and a price range that respects each listing's own currency, and with regions and neighbourhoods as people in each market use them. Need Parking shows spaces near a postcode, priced by the hour or the month, next to the map.
How we build your marketplace.
Four steps, each with something you can see and test before we move on. The scope and price are fixed before the build starts.
Define the transaction
We write down what is exchanged, who pays whom and when, what the platform keeps, and what has to be true before a listing or a user can go live.
Design both journeys
You get a sitemap and clickable screens for the supply side, the demand side and the admin. Structure is agreed while changes are still cheap.
Build the first working version
We build the smallest version that completes a real transaction end to end: list, find, book or contact, pay. You test each stage as it is finished.
Launch, measure, extend
We launch with your first suppliers and buyers, watch where each side drops off, and add features in agreed stages. Support after launch is available on an agreed scope.
What a marketplace platform includes.
The modules marketplace founders ask for most. You choose which ones the first release needs.
Listings and self-service onboarding
Owners, agents or sellers create and manage their own listings with photos, pricing and availability, and a dashboard showing what is live, what is incomplete and what needs attention.
Search, filters and map view
Search by location, type, price and availability, shown as a list and on a map, with saved searches and favourites so buyers can come back to what they found.
Payments and platform fees
Card payments through a payment provider, with your commission, subscription or credit rules applied automatically. Split payments and seller payouts are built where the provider supports them in your markets.
Verification and moderation
Admin approval before a profile or listing appears, verified markers buyers can see, reviews after a completed transaction, and a queue for reported content.
Enquiries, bookings and messaging
Booking requests, enquiries and messages between the two sides, with notifications by email and push, and contact details shown only when your rules allow it.
Admin panel and CMS
Your team manages users, listings, plans, fees and featured placement, and edits the site's own pages through a CMS without needing a developer.
Mobile apps
iOS and Android apps for buyers, sellers or both, running on the same backend as the website so a listing or a booking is the same record everywhere.
Why marketplace founders work with Moweb.
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Marketplaces already live
Need Parking in the UK, Lex Group's property marketplace in Cameroon and Kenya, and Restart Talent's verified recruitment marketplace are all live, and each has a published Moweb case study. Need Parking rated the engagement 5.0 out of 5 in a published Clutch review.
Certified security and process
Moweb is ISO 27001:2022 certified and CMMI Level 3 appraised. User accounts, listings and payment records stay inside the project team and are never used for anything else.
Fixed scope, owned outcome
We agree the scope, the screens and the price before the build. A single team owns delivery through go-live, instead of selling you hours.
Honest advice on build versus buy
If a ready-made marketplace product covers your transaction, we will tell you and you can test demand there first. We build when the fit is not there.
Marketplaces we build platforms for.
When ready-made marketplace software is enough.
Hosted marketplace builders and marketplace add-ons for common website platforms exist. If your transaction is a standard one, where a seller lists, a buyer pays and both leave a review, in one country and one currency, and you are still testing whether the demand is there, start with one of those. If that is where you are, we will say so on the first call.
A custom build earns its cost when the transaction is not standard: candidates verified before they appear, credits that unlock contact details, sale, rent and short stay in one catalogue, or prices held in more than one currency. It also earns its cost when you need your own mobile apps, when you want to own the data and the roadmap, or when platform fees have grown past what owning the software would cost.
Built with the right tools.
Production-grade technology, chosen to fit your stack and constraints.
Questions about Marketplace App Development.
What teams ask before they start.
It depends on what the first release has to do: whether it is web only or also iOS and Android apps, how listings are created and verified, how payments and platform fees work, and how many countries, currencies and languages it serves. We fix the scope and the price after a short discovery call, before any build work starts.
Proof
Work we have shipped.
Tell us what your two sides exchange and how you earn.
Send us who lists, who buys and where the money moves. We will tell you whether a ready-made platform fits or scope a fixed-price first version.