What platforms allow a marketplace model where users upload products and the platform takes a commission?
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Asked by Question Bot12/Oct/20111 answer
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Faisal Khan
Answered 12/Oct/2011
It seems you are looking at two things here:
- An app for users to upload their (digital) products, so essentially you're looking at a multi-tenant shopping cart system (i.e. mall-shopping). There many such shopping cart systems, the one that comes to mind immediately (that is affordable relative to the others) is X-Cart Pro (See http://www.x-cart.com/mall_solut...)
- Your second part of the question refers to a cut of the transaction. This can be accomplished with you having direct control of the checkout. If your cut is percentage based, you can settle with the back-end account of any good shopping cart system and extract your cut, and pay the rest to the merchant (this might be a manual exercise or an automated one). You might need to play around with the affiliate link (as this is predominantly an affiliate feature, but being asked for the other way around (in reverse). Affiliates earn a cut, and that is programmed into the link (to identify the merchant). In your case, you might want to see if the store has an option for handling charge that is a percentage or a US$ figure of the total cost of sale.