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Which type of marketplace would you like to create?
Ecommerce (for selling physical or digital products)
Service (for booking tradespeople or arranging rentals)
Project (to find individuals or teams to help with a task or errand)
Some combination of those three
What sort of products do you plan to sell?
Physical goods (electronics, clothes, car accessories, food...)
Downloadable products (software, CMS themes/plugins, movies...)
Will the marketplace be based on your existing website?
Yes, I want to convert my current website into a marketplace
No, I need to build a new marketplace from scratch
Do you have any preference for the content management system (CMS) or programming language to be used?
Which platform was used to create your current site?
WordPress
Joomla!
OpenCart
Magento
Prestashop
Custom PHP site (or a PHP-based platform not mentioned above)
Custom Ruby on Rails site
No preference
Would you consider only free, open-source platforms, or also commercial options
Only free, open-source platforms
I would also consider paid-for options
Which kind of budget do you have for third party software purchase (excluding custom development)?
Up to $500
$500 - $1000
$1000 - $1500
More than $1500
In which territories will your sellers/providers be located?
United States
Europe
Worldwide
Other
Do you need providers and/or customers to be able to provide geolocation information, and/or to search by location?
Yes
Maybe
No
Do you want customers to be able to add goods from different providers to a single shopping cart, and to pay for them in a single transaction?
Yes
No, I am fine with customers paying separately for goods from each provider
Do you want to offer each seller/service provider the ability to fully customise their storefront?
Yes
No, just the ability to filter or group results by supplier is enough
Do you need escrow functionality, to protect sellers and buyers by reserving funds in an intermediary account until goods or services have been delivered?
Yes
No, just an ordinary payment system between customer and provider is enough
Do you need the ability to create and support coupon codes?
Yes
No, we will be using other incentives to attract customers
Which revenue generation model do you plan to use?
Commission paid by customers
Commission paid by providers
Subscription
No preference
Which unit of time does your marketplace charge by?
Per hour
Per day
Per night
Per session
Per week
Per month
Per year
Per minute
Do you need the ability set the time unit individually for each listing?
Yes
No, it will be fine to use the same unit of time across the whole marketplace
Which type of order moderation you need?
Before completion
After completion
No moderation is needed
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