Online marketplaces are proliferating, especially during this time of pandemic – people cannot just move around places just like the way they used to. Some of these online marketplaces are Facebook Marketplace, Amazon, eBay, Alibaba, Shoppee and the likes.
QUICK, CHEAP SOLUTIONS & DISADVANTAGES:
If you’re planning to setup an online marketplace or multivendor systems, there are quick solutions towards having that. These quick solutions are commonly CMS-driven, like Magento, Drupal, WordPress, Shopify, etc. Through expansions or plugins that you integrate to your favorite CMS, your single-vendor ecommerce can become a multivendor ecommerce, or marketplace. However, you are restricted to what these expansions and plugins can offer that usually results to “customizations”.
Customizing these CMS and/or 3rd party plugins starts to become more and more difficult for you to maintain your site due to:
- high rates of customization jobs,
- frequency of CMS and plugin updates,
- frequency of plugin updates, not to mention
- the rarity of people who would do the customization for you.
On top of that, your system becomes a candidate to what we call “spaghetti codes”, leading to slower performance that adds up to the already expected CMS-driven site’s slow performance.
SOLUTION:
We have dealt with several bespoke projects in the past. UI and technologies may be old but it can easily be remade using newer technologies like NEXTjs with REACT. What’s important is that the relational database is design is with us already. Some of the bespoke projects we’ve handled in the past are:
- Online Marketplace
- Crowd Funding
- Crowd Sourcing
- Health and Nutrition App
- Pup Matching
Each of these include public pages, member private pages, and administrative pages.
We look forward to include yours in our growing bespoke project roster.
Nice Blog! This is true, you can really put your business in to the next level if you make your web design really engaging and eye-catching.