MARKETPLACE DEVELOPMENT

Reliable, evolving B2B and B2C marketplaces

Matching, split payments, moderation, disputes, logistics: we build double-sided marketplaces that scale on both sides.

Marketplace expertise

What you get in the first weeks

  • Double-sided architecture (buyers, sellers)
  • Split payments and escrow (Mangopay, Stripe Connect)
  • Moderation and dispute management
  • Search and matching tailored to your business

They trust us

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Our commitment

A marketplace is not a catalog

The classic mistake on marketplaces: confusing them with e-commerce. A marketplace manages two audiences (supply and demand), complex financial flows, disputes, moderation. The architecture is radically different.

At Inprogress, we scope both user journeys separately, set up clean split payment infrastructure and anticipate moderation and disputes from the start — because they always come.

Our responsibility

A marketplace with solid payment foundations

The classic trap: patching payments at the start, handling disputes manually. When volume arrives, everything breaks and the team spends its time putting out fires.

We lay escrow and split payment foundations from the MVP, with an operator back-office that lets you act quickly on edge cases. The marketplace holds when first serious volumes come in.

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Why Inprogress?

Product arbitrations

We help you decide between features requested by customers and those that move the strategic roadmap forward.

Enterprise-grade security

Multi-tenant isolation, audit logs, SSO, GDPR compliance: the product is ready for your most demanding B2B sales cycles.

Delivery speed

Short sprints, regular releases, observability in place: the product moves forward continuously without breaking production.

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Frequently asked questions

Multi-tenancy (strict data isolation between clients), complex billing (plans, add-ons, prorata, upgrades), SSO and granular permissions, stable and versioned public APIs.

Each of these is addressed seriously from scoping, not improvised along the way.

We pick the isolation model that fits your context: shared schema, schema per tenant or database per tenant. Each approach has trade-offs on cost, performance and isolation.

For most early-stage B2B SaaS, shared schema with properly configured row-level security is the right balance.

One to two week sprints, continuous production releases, feature flags to test with select customers before general rollout.

The product team keeps a sustainable pace and your first customers see added value every sprint.

For B2C, Stripe Connect or Mangopay cover most needs (automatic split, escrow, integrated KYC).

For B2B or more complex financial flows, we also work with Lemonway, Adyen for Platforms or direct banking integrations depending on your model.

Complete operator back-office from the MVP: 360° view on a dispute, ability to act on a transaction, exhaustive logs, inter-party messaging.

Moderation can be human (internal operators), semi-automatic (user reports) or AI-driven (problematic content detection) depending on scale.

E-commerce manages one seller (you). A marketplace manages N sellers with split payments, seller onboarding, moderation, inter-party disputes, different legal liability.

The right instinct: don't launch a marketplace thinking "we'll complexify later". Foundations are laid at the start or paid for dearly later.

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