Online Marketplace Development Company

How we develop online marketplaces

Syndicode is a full-cycle custom marketplace software development company. It means that we assist our customers at each stage of product development, from idea validation to after-launch maintenance and support. This way, we guarantee that our marketplaces will always be stable, relevant, and bug-free.

• Discovery

  The marketplace website development process in our software development company starts with a discovery session. At this stage, we explore the subject area, specify the type of marketplace a customer wants to build, whether it is a product or service one, the target audience (ordinary customers or other companies), and the desired functionality. Apart from that, we identify the potential bottlenecks and the best ways to fix them. This approach is beneficial for companies since they can validate their business ideas without investing too much money. As soon as we define the project complexity, we can provide customers with more accurate time and cost estimates.

  • Product vision
  • Project roadmap
  • Backlog
  • Design prototype
  • User flow
  • Project architecture

• Design

  Our UX/UI design team focuses on creating eye-catching and user-friendly marketplaces that allow businesses to stand out from the competitors with similar products. After getting the key project requirements, they start working on wireframes, which are sketches without any colors or logos showing the position of elements on the web page. These wireframes are later developed into clickable prototypes, which suppose the first user interaction. The prototypes approved by the customers serve as the basis for the final UI design.

  • Design estimates
  • UX Flow
  • Mockups
  • User Stories
  • UI design
  • Сustom themes and icons

• Development

  At Syndicode, we follow the principles of the Agile philosophy. We find this approach beneficial for both customers and our development team since it allows us to mitigate risks and achieve early and predictable delivery of high-quality software solutions. According to the philosophy of Agile, the marketplace website development process is split up into short sprints that usually last for two weeks. At the beginning of each sprint, we prioritize the tasks in the backlog. After that, our development team starts building the required functionality, which is further tested by the quality assurance engineers to make sure that there are no bugs. As soon as all bugs are fixed, the functionality is released to production.

• Release

  It is the last and the most important stage of the custom marketplace development process when your software solution goes live and becomes accessible to end-users and search engines. The final version of the application is released to production, provided the quality assurance engineers did not find any bugs. At the same time, our development team writes technical documentation called release notes describing the crucial functional and non-functional changes that have been made. We cannot underestimate the importance of release notes since they show our customers the value of their product.

• Support

  Syndicode understands how important it is for business owners to stay relevant and satisfy the ever-growing needs of their audience. For this reason, we are always ready to advance the solutions the company has delivered with new functionality and fix bugs that have been reported by end-users. Customers can use our support and maintenance services in two different ways. They can purchase a certain amount of hours per month. Alternatively, they can create a backlog of tasks that will be given to our marketplace development company. Here we recommend collecting tasks until they take at least eighty working hours. This way, you will be able to save on maintenance services.