Build a service marketplace 10x faster
How to build a service marketplace with Dittofi
Use Dittofi’s hybrid no-code platform to build and launch your own unique, enterprise grade, service marketplace 10x faster and without the need for traditional coding skills.
Start with Dittofi’s carefully designed service marketplace templates and launch a feature rich online marketplace today. Customize your marketplace with complete flexibility and scale up with ease – all without the need to hire expensive developers.
Ready-to-use essential features. Customize effortlessly — no coding required.
Drive traffic to your service marketplace
Drive targeted traffic to your service marketplace site with beautiful landing pages that are optimized for search engines and paid ads.
Promote your service marketplace with a blog that offers valuable content tailored to your target audience.
Build well designed about us, FAQs, contact us and teams pages from within Dittofi’s visual editor. These pages can be used to communicate valuable information about your service marketplace.
Use support for multi languages to create a service marketplace that fosters inclusivity, reaches a wider audience and enhances user experience.
This is a must have feature for marketplaces global appeal or in countries where multiple languages are spoken by the general population for example, Canadian French and English.
Streamlined onboarding to accelerate growth
Leverage Dittofi’s onboarding forms to create distinctive onboarding journeys for your service providers and marketplace clients.
Streamline user onboarding with single sign on solutions from Google, Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, Instagram and more.
Promote trust and platform credibility with user profiles for service providers and consumers. Use the enhanced platform credibility to facilitate seamless connections between service providers and consumers.
Use marketing tools such as Mailchimp, Intercom, hubspot and more, to nurture and engage with leads, so that they continue to interact with your business.
Showcase skills, build trust
Allow users to input detailed information, including personal details, skills, qualifications, and relevant experience.
Enable users to showcase their work, achievements, or past projects and platform earnings to build credibility and attract new clients.
Clearly outline the services offered by each user, specifying their expertise and specialization within the marketplace.
Provide users with control over the visibility of their information, ensuring they can manage their privacy settings based on their preferences.
Integrate with popular portfolio platforms so that service providers can seamlessly link or import their existing portfolios for a more comprehensive profile representation.
Incorporate user analytics to track user profile views, and other relevant metrics, providing valuable insights for both users and for you as a platform administrator to know which are the most popular profiles.
Scheduling software to boost bookings
Allow service providers to set their availability and schedule so as to coordinate services effectively and manage client expectations.
Allow vendors to view, amend, merge and cancel bookings.
Reduce scheduling conflicts and boost service provider productivity with the option to integrate work calendars.
Simplify service provider discovery
Get an intuitive keyword search, with built in spell check, synonyms, similar search and common search term references.
Organize services into logical, custom categories. Allow users to filter down to find specific services listed under different categories.
Sort services by any number of different criteria based on the specifics of your marketplace.
Location based search is crucial as often service providers will only service a specific geography or region.
Allow users to save complex searches to rerun for weekly notifications of matched results.
User friendly quoting tools
Use fixed and estimated prices to facilitate quick comparisons and streamline the decision making process, saving time for both buyers and sellers.
Allow buyers to articulate specific project requirements to ensure efficient matching between buyer needs and service provider expertise, leading to increased satisfaction and positive feedback.
Improve transaction efficiency with tools to quickly and easily manage quotes from different service providers.
Allow users to exchange crucial project details, contracts, and other essential documents in a secure and centralized environment.
Secure and effortless transactions
Use off the shelf integration with Stripe, a secure and reliable payment gateway provider used by enterprise graded service marketplaces like Upwork, Fiver and Thumbtack.
Adhere to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance to ensure the security of cardholder information.
Support for various payment methods such as credit cards, debit cards, digital wallets, and other popular forms of online payments.
Use milestone payments to ensure fair compensation when different project phases are completed.
Offer recurring services with a subscription management system that automates regular payments and billing cycles.
Include a clear refund policy and develop a system for managing disputes to address issues promptly and maintain user trust.
Display a detailed transaction history for users to track their payments, view receipts, and maintain a transparent record of financial transactions.
Use Stripe to take payments in 28 countries.
Integrate with any third party payment processor to take payments in markets where Stripe is not used e.g. Africa, India, Bangladesh and more.
Use real-time confirmation of successful transactions to provide users with instant feedback and assurance.
Maximize project success with checklists
Use checklists to help clearly define project requirements and expectations, ensuring both buyers and sellers are aligned on the scope of work.
Checklists assist in organizing tasks and milestones, providing a structured framework for the seamless execution of projects.
Provide a secure space where important contractual and project documents can be securely shared, ensuring that both parties adhere to legal requirements and terms.
Automatically add timestamps document uploads, ensuring that all stakeholders are working with the latest and most accurate project documents.
Cut marketplace leakage, improve project alignment
Cut marketplace leakage with secure on platform communication that reduces the need for users to switch between different applications.
Allow for seamless negotiation of terms, pricing, and project details within the platform, streamlining the entire transaction process.
Enables consumers to seek clarifications on project details and service providers to provide timely responses, ensuring that both parties are aligned on project requirements.
Audit chats to quickly and easily resolve disputes between service providers and consumers, leading to increased trust in your service marketplace.
Build credibility with two way review
Establish mutual trust between providers and renters through two-way reviews, promoting transparency and reliability.
Implement a star rating system to provide a quick and visual representation of the overall satisfaction level with a particular transaction.
Enable users to provide detailed written feedback to elaborate on their experiences, highlighting specific strengths or areas for improvement.
Use double blind reviews to ensure honest and unbiased feedback on your service marketplaces.
Provide the option for users to submit reviews anonymously, fostering honest and candid assessments without fear of repercussions.
Maintain a comprehensive review history for each user, allowing both buyers and sellers to track their performance over time.
Make quick iterations without coding. Scale up with ease.
Build new features 10x faster
Do more with less. Build and test new features faster using Dittofi’s hybrid no-code builder.
Build and deploy quality features at top speed using Dittofi's unique hybrid no-code platform.
Dittofi transforms no-code designs into quality code (React and Google Go) that you can access, edit and own.
With the push of a button deploy new features to your marketplace, knowing they are secure and free from defects.
Dittofi's platform enables you to scale your team, code and infrastructure on demand.
Service marketplace implementations
Guidezone – Two Sided Service Marketplace
Guidezone used Dittofi to build and launch a unique service marketplace for guides in just 10 hours.
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FAQ
Still have questions?
It depends on what your experience is with Dittofi and how you organise your service marketplace development. We would advise using our service marketplace template to build version one of your marketplace. This involves installing the service marketplace template and then customising the frontend of the marketplace. This can be done in approximately 10 hours by a trained Dittofi Engineer.
Dittofi offers you the chance to build a frontend user interface that is in React and a backend in Google Go. All of your marketplace code can then be deployed into Amazon Web Services (AWS) or exported and run on your own infrastructure.
Yes – you can integrate your own React components into Dittofi. You can also use NPM packages and import custom Google Go code into Dittofi that you can then use within Dittofi’s visual builder.
Dittofi has developed several service based marketplaces such as Cleanster, a two sided service marketplace for property managers and cleaners and Guidezone a two sided marketplace for tourists and tour guides. Other examples of service marketplaces include platforms such as Upwork, Fiver, Uber and so on.
Yes – Dittofi offers a whitelabeled, open source marketplace solution that you can take and customize with or without coding. All of the code that you develop using Dittofi’s visual builder belongs to you.
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