Build a custom marketplace on an enterprise grade foundation
Launch today, customize without coding – no vendor lock-in.
Launch today, onboard your first users
Start with a fully functional marketplace (product, service or rental). Just add your branding and product description to start onboarding buyers and sellers effortlessly.
Customize your marketplace without coding
Customize your marketplace 10x faster than coding with Dittofi’s visual development studio. Stay responsive to user input to minimize churn, retain early adopters, and find product-market fit fast.
Tech for explosive two-sided growth
Scale to 1,000,000+ users effortlessly using Dittofi’s visual studio and hosting. When ready, access advanced collaboration tools and code exports for engineers.
Own your marketplace source code
Unlike traditional visual development platforms, Dittofi transforms all your visual designs into enterprise grade code. Access, edit and own your code for complete control and to maximize your marketplace sale value.
Build your marketplace today
- Visual development studio
- Unlimited code access
- Scalable architecture
Start with all the essentials
Start development with more than $250,000 worth of prebuilt marketplace features
Content management system
Drive traffic to your marketplace with high quality landing pages, blog pages and informational pages.
Tailored onboarding
Simplify your user onboarding for faster growth with custom onboarding for buyers and sellers.
Listings pages
Boost transactions with captivating listing pages
Enhanced search
Simplify discovery with customizable listing categories, location based and keyword search.
Booking management
Build a better provider experience with built in booking management software.
Secure payments
Use stripe to facilitate buyer and seller transactions in a PCI compliant way.
On platform chat
Cut marketplace leakage and increase transactions with a two-way chat.
Two sided reviews
Build marketplace trust with two sided reviews, star ratings, text reviews, item condition tracking, property specific feedback and more.
Marketing automation
Increase platform revenue by integrating marketing tools to track and engage buyer interest effectively.
Optimized for mobile
100% mobile-friendly and already optimized for Google’s stringent design criteria.
A proven and reliable Tech Stack
Dittofi currently supports fast growing marketplaces in industries as diverse as land rentals, cleaning services, mountain guides, medical clinics and software sales.
Build your marketplace today
- Visual development studio
- Unlimited code access
- Scalable architecture
Build a unique marketplace with no code
Sell new or used products
Create a marketplace that sells digital products such as e-books, illustrations, photos, videos, NFTs, or any other digital asset.
Sell digital products
Create a marketplace that sells digital products such as e-books, illustrations, photos, videos, NFTs, or any other digital asset.
Sell niche products
Develop a niche marketplace that focuses on an underserved or passionate community such as Reverb, Newegg or Petsmart.
Sell handmade products
Build a marketplace like Etsy where sellers can list their own handmade inventory.
Home or land rental
Build a marketplace like Airbnb to help home or land owners unlock value in their unused or underutilized spaces.
Equipment rental
Create a platform similar to Fat Llama for equipment rentals, empowering owners to rent their cameras, scooters, or DJ sets to local consumers.
Vehicle rental
Build a marketplace like Turo for vehicle rentals, enabling owners to rent their cars, motorcycles, RVs or luxury vehicles such as boats, planes, helicopters and so on.
Any property rental
Create any B2B and B2C platform that enables property owners to rent out their idle or underused assets.
Local services
Build a marketplace like TaskRabbit, Thumbtack, or Angie’s List to connect local service providers such as cleaners, plumbers, and music teachers with nearby customers.
Remote services
Create a marketplace where customers can hire remote workers like Upwork, Fiverr, or Remote.com.
Appointment scheduling
Build a marketplace for customers to schedule time with vendors offering virtual services such as mentors, instructors, or online tutors.
Events & experiences
Build a marketplace that connects venues, entertainers, tour guides, or catering services, with customers.
Three-way marketplace
Build a unique three-way marketplace like doordash, that connects customers, restaurants and delivery drivers.
Directory & classified listings
Build a categorized, searchable directory of listings like Craigslist, Gumtree or Yelp.
Negotiation, bartering & gifting
Build marketplaces with custom negotiation mechanisms and options to barter or swap goods and services.
Matchmaking marketplaces
Matchmaking marketplaces connect individuals or entities based on criteria or preference. For example, dating app, jobs boards, roomate finders and so on.
FAQ
Still have questions?
You can build version one of your marketplace while on Dittofi’s 14 day free trial. After this, the platform costs $49.99 while you further validate your marketplace idea. Once you start making transactions on your marketplace, the platform price will increase to $99 per month.
The number 1 reason that marketplaces fail is that they spend too much time building technology early on and fail to launch. Successful marketplaces are all built in collaboration with customers. As such we highly recommend that you launch fast and start onboarding users as soon as possible. After this you should make adjustments to your platform only to solve pain points that your customers experience. This is how marketplaces like Airbnb, Vrbo, Fat Llama, Turo, PeerSpace and Outdoorsy were all developed.
Dittofi’s visual development studio is as flexible as traditional coding. The only difference is that you use a visual development studio. In addition, you have access to your code within Dittofi, so you can edit the code directly. Lastly, if you feel the need or export the source code, you can do this and hand it off to a developer at any point.
You get all of the code for your marketplace, this includes a React based frontend and a backend built on Google Go. These are two high performance languages developed by Facebook and Google. These languages were specifically designed to build large scale systems.
Traditionally there are three types of marketplace technologies: open source, Software as a Service (SaaS) and no-code platforms.
Open source solutions allow you to build and own entirely custom marketplace technology however, they are often poorly designed and require you to hire expensive developers to set up. In contrast, SaaS technologies allow you to build a marketplace without hiring a developer; however, these platforms have extremely limited options to customize. Finally, no-code platforms allow you to build a slightly more custom marketplace than SaaS products however these systems are difficult to learn, only work for basic prototypes and are expensive to scale.
By contrast, Dittofi takes a unique hybrid approach that blends the best of traditional coding with visual marketplace development. With our hybrid approach you can build and own an entirely custom marketplace without coding. All visual designs are then transformed into simple, secure and scalable code that you can deploy in a single click or export and hand off to developers. This allows you to test ideas, find product-market fit and scale in a cost effective way.
Dittofi supports marketplaces that are doing more than $2 million in monthly Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV). In addition, Dittofi’s visual development studio and hosting supports scale ups, enterprise tech teams, professional development agencies and government institutions.
We currently have more than 100 customers who run their SaaS or marketplaces businesses entirely on Dittofi. Whilst we have a specialist marketplace solution, Dittofi also supports enterprise development teams such as US based school districts, banks and government institutions in the development of their technology.
Finding your first property providers and renters can be tricky since without renters there is little incentive for property providers to sign up to your marketplace. Conversely without property providers showcasing their listings, there is little incentive for renters to sign up to your marketplace. This is known as the marketplace chicken and egg problem.
There are various strategies to overcome this problem. One effective strategy is to upload your own rental property first. This was done by the founders of Airbnb, Vrbo, Turo and Fat Llama. Other approaches you can take include building an email list (as done by Outdoorsy), inputting dummy listings to attract traffic, building a high touch sales funnel and so on. Dittofi can support you in the development of all of these solutions and offer a free consultation to help you decide which approach is best for you.
Sign up and explore our marketplace solution on a 14 day free trial. No credit card required
Yes – you can hire Dittofi developers to build your marketplace on an hourly rate of $65 per hour. We need approximately 10 hours to build version 1 of your marketplace however, normally it’s better to launch version 1 of your marketplace by yourself. This will allow you to learn how Dittofi works and reduce your dependency on third party developers. It will also allow you to collect up customer feedback. You can then work with our team on an ad hoc basis to support you as you grow or until you’re ready to hire a full time marketplace development team.