Sellers
- Seller onboarding
- A back office per seller: products, orders, payouts
- Several sellers offering the same product
Solutions · Marketplace
Your own online marketplace — many sellers, one checkout.
A marketplace is not a bigger shop — it is a shop where the goods belong to other people. You own the brand, the customer and the checkout. The sellers own their stock, their prices and their invoices. We run the platform underneath.
The same platform as every other TritonCart install, with the multi-vendor layer on top.
Who it is for
Who runs a marketplace.
- A retailer widening the range
- You have the customers and the shop; partners have goods you do not stock. They list and ship, you earn the commission — your range grows, your stock does not.
- A manufacturer with its dealer network
- One storefront for the brand; the dealers sell and ship from their own stock, close to the buyer.
- A marketplace for a niche or a region
- Many small sellers who would never build a shop of their own — makers, local producers, specialists — under one brand and one checkout.
Three parties, one shop
01
The operator
You. The brand, the storefront, the customer relationship and the checkout — plus the rules: who may sell, what a listing must contain, what commission applies.
Brand · customer · checkout · rules
02
The seller
Their own catalogue, stock and prices in their own back office. They ship the order and they are the seller of record on the invoice.
Catalogue · stock · price · fulfilment
03
The buyer
Sees one shop, one basket, one payment and one order to follow — even when the basket came from three different sellers.
One basket · one payment · one contact
One order, end to end
One basket, three sellers, one payment.
The buyer pays once. The payment provider splits that money between the sellers and your commission, and each seller ships their own part. Nothing about it passes through your bank account — which is precisely what keeps a marketplace out of regulated territory.
Commission is invoiced by you, to the seller — the buyer never sees it.
Who does what
You decide
The platform does it
- Who may sell
- Seller onboarding, documents, an approval queue.
- What a listing must contain
- Per-seller catalogues, validation and a moderation queue.
- What commission applies
- Commission rules per category or per seller, applied when the order is placed.
- When sellers get paid
- Split payouts through the payment provider, on the schedule you set.
- Which sellers stay
- Seller performance: late shipments, cancellations, returns, response times.
The capability map
Everything a marketplace runs on.
Everything the online shop has, at operator level — plus the layer that turns one shop into many sellers.
Money
- One cart and one checkout across sellers
- Commission rules
- Seller payouts through the payment provider
Storefront
- Search as you type
- Filters from your attributes
- Images sized for every screen
- Pages rendered on the server, cached at the edge
Operations
- Orders and fulfilment in one admin
- Regions, currencies and tax
- Hosting, backups and monitoring — by us
- Operator admin for sellers, categories and commissions
Growth
- Promotions and codes
- Customer groups and loyalty tiers
The questions that decide it
Money and law, before design.
Do we need a banking licence?
No — and you must not need one. The money is split at the payment provider, which is licensed for exactly this. It never lands in your account on its way to a seller; the moment it does, you are holding other people’s money and the rules change.
Who invoices the buyer?
The seller, as seller of record, for the goods. You invoice the seller for commission. Two documents, both produced by the platform.
Who handles returns?
The seller — under the rules you set and the platform enforces, so the buyer still experiences one shop.
What has to be reported?
An EU marketplace reports its sellers’ income (DAC7), and the tax model depends on where sellers and buyers sit. That belongs in the platform from the first order, not bolted on in year two.
Where this stands
No marketplace is live on this yet.
The multi-vendor layer is open source, and the first marketplace built on it is our own — in build now. Until it runs, this page describes a build rather than a case study, and there is no public price, because any number would be a guess. What we can do today is scope it with you honestly.
The way in
Start as a shop. Open to sellers later.
A shop and a marketplace on TritonCart are the same install; the multi-vendor layer goes on top. So you can start with your own goods, build the customers and the brand, and invite sellers when the demand is there — without moving to another system.
Other solutions
Questions
Frequently asked.
Can I start as a shop and add sellers later?
Yes. A shop and a marketplace on TritonCart are the same install; the multi-vendor layer goes on top. Start with your own goods, build the customers and the brand, and invite sellers when the demand is there — without moving to another system.
Is a marketplace already running on TritonCart?
Not yet. The first marketplace on the multi-vendor layer is our own, in build now. Until it runs there is no case study and no public price — any number would be a guess. What we can do today is scope yours with you, honestly.
Thinking about operating a marketplace?
Tell us who sells, who ships, and who you want to be to the buyer. We will tell you what it takes — and, if that is the honest answer, whether you should start as a shop instead.