- 1 production marketplace, plus unlimited test & staging copies
- Unlimited sellers & products
- Full builder: storefront, seller portal & admin
- Cards, Apple Pay & Google Pay via Stripe
- Automatic commissions & seller payouts
- Seller tool connections (inventory, repricing & ERP)
Product tour
Everything you need to run a marketplace — in one place
A branded storefront for your shoppers, a portal for your sellers and a control room for you. Payments, commissions and payouts are built in — and it all runs on your own server, under your control.
- Pay only when you sell
- No monthly fee or minimum
- Unlimited sellers
- Cancel anytime
Storefront & checkout
A storefront shoppers trust. A checkout that just works.
Give shoppers the polished, familiar experience of a big marketplace — with your name on it. They browse every seller at once, buy in one go and always know where their order is.
Illustration: a storefront product page where Nova Supply Co. wins the buy box at $119.00, with more buying options from three other sellers listed underneath.
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Your homepage, your way
Set the homepage hero and featured categories right from your admin.
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Search and smart filters
Shoppers narrow results by the product details that matter in each category.
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The buy box
Several sellers can offer one product. The best in-stock offer wins; the rest appear as more buying options.
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One cart, many sellers
The cart groups items by seller, and a single checkout pays for them all.
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Guest checkout
No account needed. Shoppers get a private tracking link by email.
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Pay their way
Cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay.
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Tracking & order lookup
Every shipment is tracked, and any order can be found by order number and email.
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Verified-purchase reviews
Only shoppers who bought a product can review it — so reviews stay trustworthy.
One checkout — a separate shipment from every seller
However many sellers are in the cart, shoppers pay once. The order then splits into one shipment per seller, each with its own tracking and delivery confirmation, while the shopper keeps one simple order to follow.
- One payment covers every seller in the cart
- Each seller ships and tracks their own part
- Shoppers confirm delivery from their tracking page
- Order confirmation and shipping emails sent automatically
Illustration: one shopping cart with 3 items from 2 sellers, grouped into a separate shipment per seller, paid in a single checkout of $206.00.
Seller portal
A portal that lets sellers run their own shop
Sellers get a professional back office from day one. They list, stock, ship and get paid on their own — less admin for you, a better experience for them.
Illustration: the seller portal inventory manager listing products with price, stock count, a low-stock warning and a switch to pause or activate each listing.
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“Sell with us” applications
New sellers apply from your storefront, and you choose who joins.
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Sales dashboard
Each seller sees their sales, orders and what needs attention today.
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Inventory manager
Stock adjustments with full history, quick price edits and pause or activate any listing.
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Low-stock alerts
Sellers spot what is running low before it sells out.
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Spreadsheet import & export
Update hundreds of listings at once with a simple CSV file.
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Add listings in seconds
Offer on a product already in your catalog, or propose a new one for your approval.
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Drag-and-drop photos
Sellers and your team upload product photos straight from their computer — no image hosting needed.
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Order fulfilment
Accept, ship with tracking or cancel — and the shopper is kept up to date by email.
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Earnings & payouts
A clear earnings ledger, a live balance and payout requests in a click.
Admin & control
Your control room for the whole marketplace
See everything, approve anything and step in whenever you need to. The admin keeps you firmly in charge without burying you in busywork.
Illustration: the marketplace admin dashboard showing gross sales, commission earned, active sellers, a weekly sales chart and recent orders from several sellers.
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Live dashboard
Gross sales, commission earned, sellers and orders at a glance.
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Seller approvals
Review applications, approve new sellers and suspend anyone who breaks your rules.
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Product approval queue
New products wait for your OK before they appear in your store.
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Categories & product fields
Two-level categories with custom fields that power shopper filters.
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Commission your way
A marketplace default, per-category rates and per-seller overrides.
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Order oversight
Cancel, refund with optional restock, or mark any order as delivered.
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Payout processing
Review and process seller payouts from one screen.
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Customer email outbox
See every email your marketplace has sent to shoppers.
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Launch-readiness checklist
Know exactly what is left to do before you open your doors.
Categories built around your niche
Create categories and sub-categories that match how your shoppers think. Add custom product fields to each one — sellers fill them in when they list, and shoppers use them to filter.
- Text, number, whole number and yes/no fields
- Single-choice and multiple-choice options
- Required or optional — you decide
- Sub-categories inherit fields from their parent
- A different commission rate for any category
Illustration: the category editor. The Audio sub-category has a 10% commission and custom product fields such as brand, wireless and battery life, which become filters shoppers can use.
Payments & payouts
Get paid on every sale — automatically
Payments are powered by Stripe, so shoppers pay with confidence and money flows the right way on every order. Your commission is kept automatically; sellers get their share once the order is delivered.
Worked example: A $120 order at a 12% commission earns you $14.40. Launchpad’s fee on that sale is x% of $120, billed with the rest of the month’s sales. Standard Stripe payment processing fees are separate.
Illustration: order #1053 for $180.00 splits automatically. Nova Supply Co. sells $120.00 at a 12% commission, earning you $14.40 and the seller $105.60. Harbor & Pine sells $60.00 at 10%, earning you $6.00 and the seller $54.00. Your total commission is $20.40.
How each order line’s commission is decided
The first rule that applies wins — and the rate is locked in at checkout, so later changes never rewrite past orders.
- 1 Seller rateA special rate you have agreed with this seller, if you set one.
- 2 Category rateOtherwise, the rate for the product’s category.
- 3 Marketplace defaultOtherwise, your marketplace-wide rate.
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Fast, familiar checkout
Cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay, through Stripe Checkout.
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Card details stay with Stripe
Payment details are handled by Stripe and never touch your marketplace.
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Automatic commission split
Stripe Connect sends each seller their share and keeps your commission.
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Automatic sales tax
Stripe Tax calculates sales tax at checkout, so you don’t have to.
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Paid after delivery
Seller proceeds are released only once an order is delivered.
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Rates locked in
Commission is fixed on each order line at checkout — history never changes.
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Simple refunds
Refund from your admin, with the option to put stock back.
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Built-in safeguards
Careful handling of retries, refunds and reconciliation, so every cent adds up.
Branding & presets
Your brand, front and center
Shoppers should remember your marketplace, not the software behind it. Make it unmistakably yours in minutes — no designer or developer required.
One-click industry presets
- General retail
- Electronics
- Fashion
- Food
- B2B industrial
Illustration: the branding editor with marketplace name, uploaded logo, color swatches and one-click industry presets, next to a live preview of the storefront.
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Name & logo
Upload your logo and it appears across the storefront, next to your marketplace name.
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Your colors
Pick your brand colors and see them everywhere at once.
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Homepage hero
Write the headline, message and button that greet every shopper.
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Announcement bar
Promote free shipping, a sale or seller recruitment across every page.
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Industry presets
Start from a look and starter categories tailored to your industry.
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Changes go live instantly
Save and your storefront updates immediately — no waiting.
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Your own domain
Run on your own web address — you own it and you control it.
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Emails in your name
Order and shipping emails are signed with your marketplace’s name.
Seller tools
Grow faster with the tools your sellers already use
Established sellers run their business on inventory, repricing and ERP tools. They can connect those tools to your marketplace — so stock, prices and orders stay in sync without double entry. It’s included, with no add-ons to buy.
Illustration: a seller's connected tools — inventory sync, a repricing tool and an ERP — each marked as connected, with a log of recent activity.
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Seller tool connections
Connects to the inventory, repricing and ERP tools your sellers already use.
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Sellers set it up themselves
Sellers connect their own tools from the seller portal — no requests landing on your desk.
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Activity you can see
A clear log of what each connection sent and when, right in your admin.
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Dashboards for everyone
Sales and commission for you; sales, orders and earnings for every seller.
You own it
Your server, your rules.
Launchpad is a marketplace builder you download and run yourself. Install it on your own server or cloud account with our step-by-step install guide, connect Stripe with our going-live guide, and keep it current with new releases while you’re subscribed.
Illustration: the launch-readiness checklist with 5 of 6 steps complete and the custom domain being connected.
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Self-hosted
Install it on your own server or cloud account, with step-by-step guides in our Help Center.
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Docker-ready
Includes a Docker setup with automatic HTTPS, or install directly on a Node.js server.
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Your data
Your sellers, shoppers and orders live on your server, not ours.
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Pay only when you sell
x% of sales, billed monthly — no monthly fee, minimum or setup fee. Standard Stripe payment processing fees are separate.
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Instant download
Your license key and download are on your account page right after checkout.
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Updates & new releases
Download new versions while you’re subscribed, with a guide for each update.
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Test & staging copies
Run unlimited test copies to try changes before they go live.
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Real people
Support from our team is included with your subscription.
Updates & support
Help whenever you need it
The Launchpad plan includes the full builder, every update and support from our team — with no add-ons to buy.
- Self-host on your own server or cloud
- Updates & new releases
- Step-by-step install guides & Help Center
- Support from our team
Pricing
Ready when you are
One plan includes the whole platform you just toured, with unlimited sellers — and you only pay when you sell.
Start building your marketplace today.
Sign up, download the builder, and follow our step-by-step guide to launch on your own server. You only pay when you sell.