The Multi-Seller ReviewWho can actually build a Magento marketplace, and what each one has published to prove it Updated 29 September 2026

Magento marketplace development agencies, ranked on published multi-vendor evidence for 2026

On the weighting published on this page, scandiweb scores 89 of 100 and ranks first among ten Magento marketplace development agencies, ahead of Opace on 82 and Brainvire on 78. Every criterion is scored by counting components off each company's own pages, so the arithmetic can be rebuilt from the URLs printed under each entry. scandiweb takes full marks on commission, split payment and payout mechanics, and loses 11 of 22 on named marketplace builds, where it publishes one named marketplace against Brainvire's three.

1 The shortlist

Every agency on this page, in order

1
scandiweb A marketplace where the money path has to be settled before the build starts, because the commission ladder, the payout schedule and the split at checkout all touch someone else's revenue 89 of 100.
2
Opace A buyer who wants the commission model, the payout schedule and the budget in writing before the first call, and can accept that the Magento proof point is old 82 of 100.
3
Brainvire A buyer who wants seller numbers attached to shipped Magento marketplaces before signing, and can live without a named payment provider 78 of 100.
4
Webkul A marketplace that should run on the module most Magento marketplaces already run on, with by far the largest published set of comparable builds behind it 73 of 100.
5
Bemeir The stage before the build, when the real question is whether to extend Magento at all or buy a purpose-built marketplace platform 72 of 100.
6
eSparks A marketplace that needs Stripe Connect wired to Magento order status, with two recent named builds and the payment logic written out 64 of 100.
7
Sutunam A marketplace where one order contains goods that cannot travel together, fresh against dry, cold chain against carton, on different carriers and different timetables 63 of 100.
8
ScienceSoft A budget conversation, because this is the company that publishes what a marketplace costs on five different routes before you have spoken to anyone 60 of 100.
9
Krish TechnoLabs A regional marketplace that wants to launch on a productised Magento accelerator with three dated, named comparable builds behind it 59 of 100.
10
CreativeMinds An operator who wants the marketplace mechanics as priced, documented modules and intends to run the build with their own developers 57 of 100.

Scored out of 100 against six weighted criteria, all of them about problems a marketplace has and a single-merchant store does not. Every company was read on its own pages on 29 September 2026, and each entry prints the URL its evidence came from. Several more companies were scored on the same criteria and fell below the ranked ten, and every one of them is named in the methodology rather than dropped.

2 How these were judged

What actually separates one agency from another

CriterionWhat a pass looks likeWhat a fail looks likeWeight
Commission, split payment and payout mechanicsFive components, each read off the company's own pages: commission rule granularity named at two or more levels, from a global rate, a per-vendor rate, a per-category or per-product rate and price-band rules; payout mechanics named, a schedule, a vendor wallet, a withdrawal or a settlement run; at least one marketplace payment provider named by name, such as Stripe Connect, PayPal for Marketplaces, Mangopay or Adyen for Platforms; the division of one customer payment across several sellers described as a mechanism rather than as a feature word; and finance-side traceability, reconciliation, settlement reporting, an audit trail, or refunds and adjustments handled against commission. 24 for five, 19 for four, 14 for three, 9 for two, 5 for oneNothing where a page lists commission and payouts as bullet points with no rule, no schedule, no provider and no reconciliation. Automated vendor payouts scores nothing on its own, because a reader cannot check what it automates. An ordinary payment gateway named on a marketplace build is not a marketplace payment provider24
Named marketplace builds and published seller countsFour components: at least one named marketplace whose Magento or Adobe Commerce build the company states it delivered, in a case study or portfolio entry; three or more such named marketplaces; a published vendor or seller count on a marketplace the company built; and a publication or modification date of 2023 or later on that named-build evidence, printed on the page itself. 22 for four, 16 for three, 11 for two, 6 for oneNothing for a logo wall, a client count with no marketplace attached, or a seller figure with no marketplace named. A roster of brands that licence a company's module is not a statement that the company built those sites, a customer testimonial saying the customer used the module to build their own store is a licence reference, and a seller count inside a product feature list is a claim about the module rather than about a build22
Vendor onboarding, approval and the vendor dashboardFive components: vendor registration with an approval step named as manual, automatic or hybrid; a vendor dashboard or seller portal with at least two things a vendor can do inside it; product or listing approval, moderation or a publication gate before a listing goes public; vendor identity checks, know-your-customer steps, role-based access or an audit trail; and vendor catalogue handling named, attribute mapping, category mapping, locale values or feed ingestion. 18 for five, 14 for four, 11 for three, 7 for two, 4 for oneNothing where seller management is named and never described. A dashboard mentioned without a single vendor action inside it is not a component, and vendor onboarding listed as a two-word feature token is not an approval model18
Order splitting and multi-vendor fulfilmentFour components: a cart holding items from several vendors completing on a single checkout; order splitting or routing to the right seller; per-vendor shipping, whether rates, shipments, tracking or shipping constraints carried on the seller offer; and partial cancellations, returns or refunds handled across vendors. 14 for four, 11 for three, 7 for two, 4 for oneNothing for split shipping named in a feature list with no mechanism. Centralised fulfilment by the operator is a legitimate design and is scored as what it is, which is not per-vendor shipping, and a platform-level carrier integration is not per-vendor shipping either14
Build or buy: stack fluency and a published decisionFour components: two or more marketplace stacks named by name, from Unirgy, Webkul, Mirakl, CedCommerce, Purpletree, Amasty, Marketplacer, Nautical, Dokan, Sharetribe and a stated custom build; a published extension-versus-custom decision with criteria rather than a preference; a cost or timeline indication for each route; and at least one named signal for the point at which an off-the-shelf module stops fitting. 12 for four, 9 for three, 6 for two, 3 for oneNothing for a company that sells exactly one route and never names the alternative. A module vendor comparing its own product with rival modules is not a build-or-buy decision, and a labelled pair of approaches with no criteria attached is not a decision12
Adobe Commerce engineering depth under the marketplace layerFive components, all read off the company's own pages so every entry is checked identically: a named Adobe or Magento partner tier or programme the company publishes itself; a certification count or a certified-team claim; a project count; Magento version or edition specificity, a 2.4 line, a named version pair in a migration, or Adobe Commerce set against Magento Open Source; and a scale, throughput or performance figure attached to the company's own Magento work. 10 for five, 8 for four, 6 for three, 4 for two, 2 for oneNothing for an Adobe tier that appears only in a third-party directory and not on the company's own pages. Adobe's Solution Partner Directory returns an identical 939-byte JavaScript shell for every agency and for an invented slug, so a tier read there for one entry and not the others is not a ranking. Nothing either for a page headline calling itself your Adobe Commerce partner with no tier or programme named10

3 The ranking

The ten Magento marketplace development agencies, ranked for 2026

1

scandiweb

A marketplace where the money path has to be settled before the build starts, because the commission ladder, the payout schedule and the split at checkout all touch someone else's revenue89 of 100

scandiweb takes the full 24 on the heaviest criterion, and it does it on a page almost nobody can find. Its Magento Mirakl marketplace orchestration service page opens on the problem rather than the product: running a marketplace on Magento "gets messy fast when seller onboarding, catalog ingestion, commissions, and payouts live in spreadsheets, email threads, and manual imports". It then names the mechanics one at a time. Commission: "Commission and fee rules are applied on the Mirakl side and linked to order lines, with settlement-relevant fields passed through for reporting and reconciliation." Payout: "Marketplace payment events and payout statuses from Mirakl are exchanged with Magento order and invoice references, with traceable IDs kept for audit." Finance: "We wire marketplace payment events, payout status, and reconciliation into reporting so Finance can trace every seller transaction." And the FAQ adds the line that decides whether a finance team will sign the design off: "Commission rules are calculated from Mirakl data and mapped into Magento order and invoice flows so finance can reconcile fees, refunds, and adjustments without manual rework."

The named provider and the split itself come from the other two documents, both also scandiweb's own. The Magento multi-vendor marketplace guide states the mechanism in one sentence, "the system must split the funds, deduct your commission, and route the rest to each seller on a defined schedule", says plainly that "this is where marketplaces get legally and technically serious, because you may be handling money on behalf of others", and names Stripe Connect, PayPal for Marketplaces and Mangopay as the providers that exist for exactly that. The Slow Cosmetique marketplace case study shows one of them shipped: "We fully integrated MangoPay for end-to-end payment handling between customers and vendors", and "when they pay for their orders, the sellers are immediately credited with the proceeds". So four of the five components are carried by the service page or by the named build, and one, the commission ladder with its levels, is carried only by the guide. The same rule was applied to every company here.

The seller side takes the full 18. The Mirakl page publishes the governance layer: "We design Mirakl seller onboarding with KYC steps, role-based access, and moderation trails that match your internal controls", plus catalogue plumbing that is unusually specific, "Seller catalog data is ingested from Mirakl and mapped to Magento product structures, with attribute, category, and locale-specific values aligned per mapping rules." The Slow Cosmetique build shows a vendor dashboard that actually existed: the Unirgy Vendor Portal was retrofitted as "a second admin panel for vendors", through which vendors managed their catalogue, saw their transaction history, transferred funds out of their wallet and ran their own microsite, described on the page as "an online boutique where all the products offered by a single vendor can be explored by customers". The guide supplies the approval model including the hybrid most operators end up with, "auto-approve known vendors, review new ones".

Order splitting takes the full 14. The Mirakl page covers the awkward cases rather than the happy path, "we cover the messy parts like multi-seller carts, order splitting, partial cancellations, returns, and customer service signals", and the routing itself, "Orders placed in Magento are pushed to Mirakl for order routing, splitting, and seller assignment, while order status updates are synced back to Magento." Seller offers carry "price, inventory, lead times, and shipping constraints synced and validated before publication". Slow Cosmetique shows the buyer-facing half working: customers could "add to cart products from different vendors and complete their transaction with a single checkout". That case study is also candid that fulfilment was centralised rather than split, "fulfillment is fully managed by Slow Cosmetique", which is a design decision and is scored as one.

Build or buy takes the full 12, and only Opace, Bemeir and ScienceSoft match it. The guide publishes a six-row comparison of the extension route against a custom build, covering time to launch (weeks against months), upfront cost ("roughly $99 to $700 for the module" against development time and a team), business-logic fit, payout and commission rules ("Standard, with add-ons" against "Fully bespoke"), maintenance burden and what each is best for. It shortlists the modules by name, Webkul, Amasty, Purpletree, CedCommerce and CreativeMinds, with real prices. It names the point where the shelf runs out: "Non-standard payout logic. Tiered commissions, region-specific tax handling, milestone payouts, or escrow that no module supports cleanly." And it separates the two things buyers confuse, "the Adobe Commerce Marketplace is software you consume, while a multi-vendor marketplace is a business you operate".

Platform depth takes the full 10, all of it off scandiweb's own pages. Magento services publishes "Adobe Commerce Gold Partner, Hyva Platinum Partner, 894+ Adobe certifications, 95 NPS rating", and Adobe's own Solution Partner Directory carries the Gold listing independently. The services page publishes 23+ years, 2,100+ projects, 600+ specialists and 700+ brands across 45 countries. The Mirakl page adds the marketplace-specific version, "we've delivered 2,100+ eCommerce projects and handle $4 billion+ yearly", and Slow Cosmetique is a Magento 1.9 to Magento 2 migration that came out at a page load time of no more than two seconds. In the Hyva full register scandiweb is listed once for each country it appears in, and every one of those listings is Platinum.

Three things count against all of that, and they are set out at length further down the page. The marketplace orchestration page is a Mirakl integration page, so the commission, routing and payout logic it describes executes on Mirakl and is connected to Magento rather than built natively into it. It names no client. And the named-client evidence is four years old, which is precisely where this entry gives up 11 of the 22 points on offer.

2

Opace

A buyer who wants the commission model, the payout schedule and the budget in writing before the first call, and can accept that the Magento proof point is old82 of 100

Opace publishes the most complete marketplace service page in this comparison and one of the thinnest delivery records, and both facts are visible on the same domain. Its marketplace development page, carrying a modification date of 22 June 2026 and a visible update stamp, takes the full 24 on the money criterion. Commission: "Automated commission calculation with flexible rules per vendor, category or product type", with the delivery history attached, "we've implemented flat-rate commissions, tiered percentage models, category-specific fees, subscription-based vendor pricing and hybrid models". Payouts: "Vendors receive payouts on your defined schedule (daily, weekly, monthly)." Providers: "We integrate with marketplace-capable payment providers including Stripe Connect, PayPal for Marketplaces and custom gateway solutions." And the mechanism itself, stated as the requirement rather than as a feature: "The key requirement is split-payment functionality: the ability to divide a single buyer transaction between the platform and one or more vendors automatically. We configure commission rules, payout schedules and currency handling based on your marketplace model."

It takes the full 18 on the seller side and the full 12 on build or buy. Onboarding runs from "self-service registration, product listing tools, order management, earnings reports and payout tracking" through an admin gate covering "vendor approvals, product moderation, dispute management, financial reporting and fee configuration", with an identity component most competitors omit, "vendor identity verification during onboarding", and a launch model stated plainly: "we launch marketplaces with a controlled group of founding vendors, then iterate based on real data before opening wider registration". On build or buy it names four routes, WooCommerce with Dokan, WooCommerce with WCFM, Magento with marketplace extensions, and a custom Laravel build, and prices them: "custom marketplace development typically starts from £25,000-£40,000 for a minimum viable platform" rising to "£50,000-£100,000+", against "3-5 months from initial planning to launch" and "6-9 months" for the complex version. The failure signal is its own sentence: "early marketplace decisions determine whether you can scale to 500 vendors or hit a wall at 50".

Order splitting takes 11 of 14 on one well-built sentence, "multi-vendor carts that split into separate orders per seller, each with its own shipping, tracking and fulfilment workflow. Buyers get a single checkout experience; vendors manage their own dispatch", and loses the component for returns and partial cancellations across vendors, which is not described. Platform depth takes 6 of 10 on "15+ YEARS IN BUSINESS", "500 + PROJECTS DELIVERED", a certified-team claim and a Magento 1 to Magento 2 migration. It loses the tier component: the word Adobe does not appear in the visible text of the marketplace page at all, and its Magento development page calls Opace "Your Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce Partner" without naming a tier or a programme. One caveat on the certification component, since a reader might object to it: the certifications that page itemises are Google, HubSpot and Semrush, and the engineering claim is the broader "our certified developers and marketers are skilled in leveraging Adobe Commerce".

Named builds take 11 of 22 and this is where a buyer should slow down. The one named Magento marketplace is The Bootroom, and Opace's own description of it is unusually frank: "The Bootroom came to us in 2016 looking for an agency to provide Magento technical support. Taking on a half-finished project with a highly bespoke Magento solution using the WebKul Marketplace extension meant we had our work cut out." The page's JSON-LD publication date is 11 January 2018, it carries a 2026 update stamp, and its closing line is that the client "has a stylish, fully responsive and far more effective solution, and it's not long now until the launch date", so the page as published does not record a launched marketplace. The second marketplace it publishes, Bazar, is WordPress with the WCFM plugin rather than Magento. No seller count appears on either. So the doctrine on the service page is excellent and current; the Magento evidence behind it is one 2018 rescue of somebody else's half-finished build.

3

Brainvire

A buyer who wants seller numbers attached to shipped Magento marketplaces before signing, and can live without a named payment provider78 of 100

Brainvire has the best named-build record on this page, which is exactly the criterion the page's leader is weakest on. Its multi-vendor marketplace extension page states the custom side plainly: "Beyond the extension, our Magento team builds and customizes Magento 2 multi-vendor marketplaces and marketplaces on Adobe Commerce, including vendor registration, seller approval and product approval workflows, a separate vendor dashboard, seller profiles, and ERP, shipping, and payment integrations." Behind that sit three named marketplaces. Craftsvilla, described on its Magento development page as scaling "to 2M+ products" with "moderation management, simplified vendor management and an enhanced marketplace experience across thousands of vendors". Loopify, on a Magento multi-vendor marketplace for eco goods, where "Brainvire crafted a Magento framework that brings buyers and sellers together, with an exclusive panel for orders, catalogs, shipments, and customers, and admin control over commission, smart partial shipping, returns, and custom reports". And Al Arkan, an auto-parts B2B build migrated to Adobe Commerce Cloud. A fourth marketplace carries the hardest number of all and no name at all: "A B2C multi-vendor Magento marketplace serving 2,000+ sellers and 5 lakh buyers daily." That is worth being precise about, because it is the figure a buyer would most want and the marketplace it belongs to is never identified. It is why Brainvire takes 16 of 22 rather than the full 22 here: a named marketplace, three of them, and dated evidence, but no seller count attached to any marketplace it names.

It takes 14 of 24 on the money criterion, and the gap is specific. Commission granularity is there in detail, "customize commission rates by setting different rates for different product categories, or for individual products themselves", and the delivery note behind it is better still: "For one client, we changed the admin panel, added seller-based and price-based commission, and customized the Magento import functionality." Payout and reconciliation are there through Loopify, "the admin panel shows clear payout details, so the client reviews statements before releasing seller payments". What is missing on the pages read is a named marketplace payment provider and any description of the split at checkout. No Stripe Connect, no PayPal for Marketplaces, no Mangopay, no Adyen for Platforms appears anywhere. For a marketplace that is the one integration nobody can improvise, and it costs 10 points.

Everything else is strong. Onboarding takes the full 18 on registration, seller and product approval workflows, a separate vendor dashboard, seller-data validation ("a stack that fetches and validates seller data and runs quality checks on product information") and a customised Magento import path. Order splitting takes the full 14 on Loopify's "smart partial shipping with an order split facility, so sellers view only their own orders and manage shipments effectively", plus admin control over returns. Build or buy takes 6 of 12: the extension page publishes a real decision, "a custom build suits marketplaces whose seller workflows, integrations, or scale go beyond what an extension covers", and a trigger for it, "if your vendors need a fuller dashboard, our team scopes and builds it as a customization", but it names no rival stack and gives no cost or timeline for either route. Platform depth takes the full 10 on a self-published tier and a certified-team claim in the same sentence, "a Magento Gold Partner with certified developers", plus "2,500+ Enterprise programs delivered", Adobe Commerce Cloud named as the platform on the Al Arkan migration, and scale figures on its own Magento work in "2M+ products" and "5 lakh buyers daily". One thing to check if credentials matter to you: the page says Magento Gold Partner, the retired Magento-era label, while the site footer says Adobe Solution Partner, the current one with no tier attached.

4

Webkul

A marketplace that should run on the module most Magento marketplaces already run on, with by far the largest published set of comparable builds behind it73 of 100

Webkul publishes more named Adobe Commerce marketplace builds than anyone else researched for this edition, and nothing at all about choosing between routes. Its Adobe Commerce marketplace development service page carries three customer stories, Camer Shopping, Kimberly Clark and Sqella, and its case-studies section carries five more, each tagged Adobe Commerce: Schneider Electric in France, IndiaHandmade in India, Tile Worx in Australia, Stockpile in Sri Lanka and Bharat eMart in India. The delivery language is unambiguous in several of them, "we helped IndiaHandmade build a scalable multi-vendor marketplace using Marketplace Multi Vendor Module for Magento 2", and the Stockpile study carries a named quote from a director of the client company. Named builds take 16 of 22: eight named marketplaces, all of them carrying a JSON-LD date of 2023 or later, and not one seller count among them.

The mechanics are evidenced through clients rather than through a specification. Commission is thinner than the field, "the admin can set the seller commission separately or can set it at a global rate for all the sellers", which is two levels and no more, and payouts are described once, "seller payments are managed through automated payout workflows that track orders, calculate commissions, and release payments via integrated payment gateways". Stripe appears as a marketplace payment module against named clients on its customer roster. What is missing is any description of the split at checkout itself, which is why it takes 19 rather than 24. Onboarding takes the full 18 on manual or automatic vendor approval, manual or automatic product approval, vendor-specific product attributes and mass upload. Order splitting takes the full 14 on Sqella, where the split order add-on let customers "purchase products from multiple vendors in a single transaction" and "generate separate order IDs, invoices, and shipments", plus per-vendor tax invoicing on Bharat eMart and vendor returns on Schneider Electric.

Two things hold it at fourth. Build or buy takes zero: its own marketplace guide was read in full on 29 September 2026 and contains no extension-versus-custom comparison, no cost or timeline for either route, and no rival marketplace stack. Platform depth takes 6 of 10: it publishes a real tier on the service page cited above, "Adobe Technology and Solution Partner Silver", and it is edition-specific, stating that it "has developed the Adobe Commerce Multi-Vendor Marketplace extensions for both Adobe Commerce Enterprise Edition and Adobe Commerce Enterprise Cloud Edition", but no certification count or certified-team claim and no project count appears on the pages read. Its CMMI Level 3 appraisal is an assessment of process, not a count of certified people, and "150k customers from 150+ countries" counts customers of a company selling hundreds of extensions. Webkul also publishes, in a testimonial on its own service page, a limit a competitor would have to dig for: a client development director writes that the setup "perfectly meets our needs" and then asks for what is not there, "it will be even greater if Webkul could provide calculated fee per vendor on shipping cart and with API". Its customer roster names enterprises against the specific marketplace module each one runs, which is a licence roster rather than a build list and is scored as one. In the Hyva full register Webkul holds Partner, the lowest of the five tiers.

5

Bemeir

The stage before the build, when the real question is whether to extend Magento at all or buy a purpose-built marketplace platform72 of 100

Bemeir publishes the best build-or-buy analysis in this market and the best payments analysis, and it publishes no named marketplace client at all. Both halves of that sentence are why it scores 72. Its multi-vendor marketplace comparison for distributors sets Magento with a Webkul or Ced extension against Mirakl, Nautical Commerce, CS-Cart Multi-Vendor and Sharetribe across ten rows, and two of those rows are the ones nearly everyone else leaves out: "Implementation timeline | 3-5 months | 6-12 months | 2-4 months | 2-3 months | 1-2 months" and "Annual cost (platform + implementation) | $70,000 - $180,000 first year | $300,000 - $700,000+ first year | $80,000 - $200,000 first year | $40,000 - $100,000 first year | $15,000 - $40,000 first year". That is the full 12 of 12 on build or buy.

The decision rule itself sits in a second article, its marketplace platform development tool review, and it is stated rather than implied: "If the marketplace is your primary business model going forward, invest in purpose-built infrastructure (Mirakl or Nautical) that scales to hundreds of sellers with full operational tooling." The same article tabulates five payment providers with what each is for, Stripe Connect ("Platform payments with managed accounts | US-focused marketplaces | Full KYC, 1099 reporting"), PayPal for Marketplaces, Adyen for Platforms ("Enterprise split payments | High-volume, multi-currency"), Payoneer and Hyperwallet, then explains what the integration buys: "The Connect APIs handle seller onboarding, identity verification, payout scheduling, and commission deduction automatically." That is the full 24 on the money criterion.

It takes zero on named builds, and not because its work is hidden. Its one marketplace case study is deliberately anonymous, "a regional distributor of specialty industrial supplies, serving 3,200 customers across the Northeast US", it publishes real numbers ("47 active sellers, 1,840 marketplace SKUs, and $4.2M in GMV"), and Bemeir's own description of its role in it is advisory rather than delivery: "Bemeir's development team consulted on the scaling architecture." That same case study is where the commission and tax detail lives: "Different product categories carried different commission rates (8-15% depending on category margin structure). The system calculated commissions per transaction, aggregated by seller, and triggered monthly payouts via ACH", and the observation no other company here publishes, that "when a single order ships from three different seller locations to one buyer, sales tax nexus rules apply independently per shipment origin". The only named client on its Magento page is a luxury retailer, not a marketplace.

Onboarding takes the full 18 on tiered seller enablement, approval before publication ("the distributor's merchandising team reviewed listings for technical accuracy before publication") and three named catalogue ingestion routes from manual through CSV to full API. Order splitting takes the full 14 on split-cart handling with "separate shipping calculations, and independent fulfillment tracking per seller" and a dispute case-management workflow. Platform depth takes 4 of 10: Magento since 2010 and "multiple certified team members", but no tier, no project count and no performance figure, on a site whose footer still reads 2022.

6

eSparks

A marketplace that needs Stripe Connect wired to Magento order status, with two recent named builds and the payment logic written out64 of 100

eSparks publishes the clearest account of how a split payment actually reaches a seller, and it publishes it on a recent named build rather than in a services brochure. Its AI prompt marketplace on Magento 2 case study, dated 7 April 2026, explains the choice and then the wiring: "Stripe handles the full payment lifecycle and has mature support for marketplace routing through Stripe Connect, where a single buyer payment gets split automatically between the platform operator and the seller." Then the settlement: "Stripe splits each payment between the platform commission and the seller's share automatically. The seller receives their payout; the platform retains the configured fee. No manual reconciliation needed." And the detail that shows somebody debugged it: "Magento order status wired directly to Stripe payment events, orders move to processing only when Stripe confirms a successful charge, not before." It takes 19 of 24 and loses only the commission-granularity component, because the platform fee it describes is a single configured rate rather than a ladder.

Two named marketplaces sit behind it, both dated 2026. Wezzomart, where "independent sellers manage products, inventory, and orders through a dedicated vendor system" on "a hybrid architecture combining Magento and Laravel", with a custom wallet where "wallet balances are automatically adjusted once the order is completed, ensuring accurate financial reconciliation". And MySpareParts.com, "a European online marketplace built to simplify sourcing of machinery and heavy equipment spare parts across 16 countries", running "500,000+ SKUs across 16 country storefronts" from a single Magento installation, with CedCommerce's multi-vendor extension, per-category custom attribute sets, a validated CSV import pipeline and "vendor-specific tax rules configured for compliance across 16 European markets". That takes 11 of 22: two named marketplaces rather than three, and the seller figure is qualitative, "dozens of spare parts suppliers across Europe", rather than a count.

Onboarding takes 14 of 18 on a per-vendor dashboard ("vendors upload and manage products, pricing, and inventory directly within their own panel"), central product approval ("the platform owner maintains central governance, approving products, managing commissions, and overseeing compliance"), seller permissions and the catalogue work above, and loses the component for a named approval mode. Order splitting takes 7 of 14, the weakest of any entry with two named builds: order routing to the right vendor is there ("order data is immediately transmitted to the vendor panel") and shipping is there through DHL Express with live rates and tracking, but a multi-vendor cart on a single checkout is never stated and neither are returns across vendors. Build or buy takes 9 of 12 on three stacks named, CedCommerce, Amasty and a stated custom Laravel build, a criterion for going custom ("the platform's modular structure makes this feasible without modifying core files, which means marketplaces built this way can still receive Magento security and platform updates") and a precise limit, "Magento's out-of-the-box GraphQL layer lacked the endpoints required for a multi-vendor mobile platform". Platform depth takes 4 of 10 on a certified-team claim and Magento version work, with no tier and no project count on the pages read.

7

Sutunam

A marketplace where one order contains goods that cannot travel together, fresh against dry, cold chain against carton, on different carriers and different timetables63 of 100

Sutunam publishes the deepest engineering on this page about the hardest thing a marketplace order has to do, and its Magento marketplace is its own property rather than a client's. Its custom marketplace development page states the problem without softening it. Its heading is "One order, multiple sellers, multiple product types", and the paragraph under it reads "On a multi-vendor marketplace with heterogeneous products, the basket is the easy part. The complexity is everything that happens behind it: packaging, logistics, timeframes and costs all calculated differently for each product type, within one single order." Then it shows the answer on a live site: "We solved this on Sevellia.com: a single order can contain fresh products (insulated packaging, next-day delivery, cold-chain certified carrier) and dry goods (standard carton, three-day delivery)." Shipping is "calculated per seller and per type", with "different carriers per segment" and a "Cold-chain certified carrier for fresh items". Nobody else researched for this edition publishes that at all. Order splitting still takes only 11 of 14, because returns and partial cancellations across vendors are not described.

The money criterion takes the full 24 and it is the most regulation-aware treatment in the set. "Split payment: centralised collection, automatic redistribution, commission rules by seller, category or volume." Three providers are named with their real constraints rather than as logos: "Stripe Connect, HiPay and PayPal, integrated on real marketplace projects. Each solution has its own constraints: Stripe Connect imposes its connected-account logic (Standard, Express, Custom), HiPay requires fine-grained wallet and seller KYC management." And the legal frame is stated: "The buyer pays once, and funds are automatically redistributed to each seller, minus the platform's commissions. Split payment is governed by PSD2 regulation and requires a partnership with a licensed payment service provider." Onboarding takes 14 of 18 on a dedicated seller space, seller moderation and an unusually explicit compliance component, "KYC and compliance: seller identity verification, PSD2 compliance, management of documents required by PSPs".

It takes only 6 of 22 on named builds, for a reason worth weighing rather than dismissing. The Magento marketplace is Sevellia, which the page describes as "a marketplace for organic, natural and artisanal products, acquired and operated by Sutunam", so it is Sutunam's own business and not a client engagement, and the case-study link for it resolves to the portfolio index rather than to a case study. Its two client-named marketplaces, ActivCorner and LS Occasions, are Symfony and Sylius rather than Magento. Build or buy takes 6 of 12 on a published platform-choice rule, "Symfony and Sylius for complex custom architectures, Magento 2 when catalogue richness is at the core of the project", with no marketplace module named and no priced route. Platform depth takes 2 of 10: Magento 2 is named, and no Adobe tier, certification count, project count or Magento performance figure appears on the pages read.

8

ScienceSoft

A budget conversation, because this is the company that publishes what a marketplace costs on five different routes before you have spoken to anyone60 of 100

ScienceSoft publishes the most complete functional specification for a Magento marketplace of any consultancy researched, and no marketplace it has built. Its Adobe Commerce as a marketplace platform page and its deeper marketplace software page together cover the seller side in full: "Manual and automated mechanisms for a seller approval", "a separate admin panel for each seller to manage product listings, payments, orders and sales analytics", "role-based access to a seller's profile", "restricted product categories, to protect consumers from fraudulent products and require from sellers licensing confirmation before giving them an approval to sell", and catalogue ingestion by "bulk uploading products via CSV/XLS/XML files" with sellers able "to create their own product attributes". That is a full 18. Order splitting takes the full 14 on "automated splitting of orders with products from several sellers", "seller-specific configuration of allowed shipping methods", "seller-specific flat rate shipping" and return merchandise authorisation.

Build or buy takes the full 12 and the pricing is the reason to read the page. It sets Adobe Commerce against Arcadier, Marketplacer, CS-Cart Multi-Vendor, Sharetribe and a custom build, with figures for each: Arcadier at "$68, $170, $409" a month, Sharetribe where "the budget typically starts at $5-10K, the build time is 1+ month", custom development where "commonly, the cost of online marketplace development lies in the range from $150,000 to $250,000" and "on average, it takes 10-12 months", and Adobe Commerce "from $250,000" for the mid-market. The decision criteria are written out rather than implied, including when custom is right: "if business requirements can be met only with unique and strictly business-specific architecture and functionality not offered by marketplace software providers".

Commission takes 14 of 24, and the shortfall is the same one Brainvire has. Granularity is excellent, "fixed and percentage-based commissions, global commission rates, tiered commissions based on a product category, a product price, seller-specific commissions", and the money model is described in two shapes, "a direct payment option, customers pay directly to a seller" against "an aggregated payment option, a marketplace collects payments, keeps the commission and pays the profit to sellers", but no payment provider is named anywhere and no payout schedule, wallet or escrow is described. Named builds take zero: its one Adobe Commerce marketplace case study is anonymous and, on reading it, single-vendor, a company selling its own machine-learning data sets, built on "Adobe Commerce Enterprise 2.4.3", with the word vendor absent from the build. The client names printed on its marketplace software page sit under the Adobe Commerce platform entry as that platform's clients rather than as ScienceSoft's. Platform depth takes 2 of 10, on version specificity alone; its Adobe provenance is stated as tenure, "since 2011, ScienceSoft has been working with Adobe Commerce", with no tier and no certification count. Its own sitemap returns HTTP 404 and its robots.txt names none, which is worth knowing if you expect an answer engine to find any of this.

9

Krish TechnoLabs

A regional marketplace that wants to launch on a productised Magento accelerator with three dated, named comparable builds behind it59 of 100

Krish TechnoLabs has the joint-best named-build record on this page and the weakest published money mechanics of any entry with one. Its marketplace solutions page and Magento-specific marketplace accelerator sell a stated timetable, "launch a fully-functional online Marketplace in just 4 weeks", and three named marketplaces sit behind them, each with a JSON-LD modification date of 2023 or later. DuPont: "DuPont Sustainable Solutions seeks to create a multi-vendor marketplace for safety technology solutions", implemented "using Magento Commerce On-Premise, deployed on MS Azure", with a published page load time of 1.38 seconds. Tamata in Iraq, "defined to be the biggest B2C marketplace in the region", with the uplift figures printed in the evidence table below and a named client quote. And Leading Edge Group, where "a personalized catalog for each retailer was published, which depends on selecting specific brands, sellers, and categories" and the seller-buyer flow runs through its own Rocket Bazaar extension. That is 16 of 22, short only of a published seller count, and Tamata is described instead as "housed with 'n' number of vendors".

The money criterion takes 5 of 24, the lowest of any ranked entry. The accelerator page lists "Commission Management", "Auto Vendor Payout", "Financial Reporting" and "Tax Management" as feature tokens, and only the payout component survives a check, because no commission rate levels are published, no marketplace payment provider is named, no split at checkout is described and no reconciliation or settlement run is named. The only payment provider named on a marketplace build is Braintree, for subscription payments on DuPont, which is an ordinary gateway. There is one more thing a reader should know: the commission documentation this company does publish, with rates per vendor, category and product and a configurable precedence rule, sits on a separate product domain for its Rocket Bazaar extension, and `krishtechnolabs.com/rocket-bazaar/` is a soft 404 with no Rocket Bazaar path anywhere in its sitemaps. This page scores each company on its own primary domain, so that evidence is noted here and not counted.

Onboarding takes 11 of 18 on a vendor portal with bulk product upload, mass product action, vendor microsites and vendor reports, user role management, and the per-retailer catalogue work on Leading Edge Group, losing the components for a named approval mode and for listing moderation before publication. Order splitting takes the full 14 on "Split Order & Auto PO Generation", "Multivendor Checkout Option", "Real time Shipping Carriers" and "Partially Shipment Receivables" on the accelerator page, plus "Multi-Shipping" and "Return Management" on the marketplace solutions page. Build or buy takes 3 of 12: two stacks are named, its own accelerator and the Rocket Bazaar extension, but its page offers a labelled pair of approaches with no criteria, one timeline for one route and an explicit refusal on cost, "you can contact our experts for more information". Platform depth takes the full 10, the only entry other than scandiweb and Brainvire to do so, and it comes from two pages rather than one: its Adobe Commerce partner page publishes "a preferred Adobe specialized gold solution partner", "100 + Certifications" and "350 + Storefronts Launched", while the version specificity and the performance figure are on the DuPont case study, "using Magento Commerce On-Premise, deployed on MS Azure" and a 1.38 second average load time. In the Hyva full register it holds Silver.

10

CreativeMinds

An operator who wants the marketplace mechanics as priced, documented modules and intends to run the build with their own developers57 of 100

CreativeMinds is a module vendor rather than an agency, and it is on this page because its documentation answers the money question better than most agencies do. Its multi-vendor marketplace extension for Magento 2 publishes commission at two levels, "charge a commission fee based on product category or set commissions for each individual vendor", and then does something almost nobody does: it publishes what the base product cannot do. "Is there an automated marketplace system for delivering payments to suppliers? Not in the standard plan. The extension includes an admin billing system that lets you track pending payments to vendors, but the actual payment is done manually based on the agreed fee." The paid PayPal vendor payments module closes it with three named payout timings, automatically after the order is placed, automatically after the order is completed, or manually for bookkeeping, with "admin fees deducted" and PayPal's Payouts API used to "make PayPal payments to multiple PayPal accounts in a single API call". That is a full 24, earned on precision rather than breadth.

Order splitting takes the full 14 and is the clearest worked example in the set. Its order split module publishes the rule, "Smart Split, only orders involving different vendors are split" and "Automatic Split, orders are split automatically after checkout", and then works an example through to the outcome. Per-vendor shipping is there, "each vendor can add multiple shipping methods" with flat, table or free rates and "a unique tracking code granted to each order", and returns run through a separate RMA module that will "allow admin and vendors to manage return requests for products" and lets an operator "create status such as possible fraud or broken good to streamline your RMA system". Onboarding takes 14 of 18 on manual or automatic vendor approval, product approval including for CSV imports, a vendor dashboard explicitly walled off from the admin account, and a documented SOAP API for product attributes; no identity or document check appears on the pages read.

Named builds take zero, on a distinction this page applies to every module vendor. Two live Magento multi-vendor marketplaces are named on its customer stories page, and in both cases the customer states they did the building: "I used CreativeMinds Marketplace Extension for Magento to build our multi vendor store corporategift.com." That is a licence reference, not a delivery record. Build or buy takes 3 of 12 on one component only, a published list of what the module does not do, including no auction feature and no seller vacation mode. Platform depth takes 2 of 10 on version coverage tested through Community and Enterprise 2.1 to 2.4; no Adobe tier, certification count, project count or performance figure appears on the pages read. It is priced at $299 and $499 with add-ons at $99, plus a $59 installation service, and its founder's profile says he "founded CreativeMinds in 2006".

4 Which one fits

Pick by situation, not by ranking

If this is youShortlistWhy
You have not decided whether to extend Magento or buy a purpose-built marketplace platformBemeir, then ScienceSoft and OpaceAll three publish the comparison with prices attached. Bemeir's five-way table gives first-year cost bands and implementation months for Magento with an extension against Mirakl, Nautical, CS-Cart and Sharetribe. ScienceSoft prices custom development at $150,000 to $250,000 over 10 to 12 months. Opace prices a minimum viable marketplace from £25,000 to £40,000 over 3 to 5 months. Read all three before you brief anyone
Your commission model is unusual, with tiers, regional tax rules, milestone payouts or escrowscandiweb, then Sutunamscandiweb names exactly this as the point where a module stops fitting, and publishes commission and fee rules tied to order lines with settlement fields passed through for reconciliation. Sutunam publishes the regulatory half, redistribution under PSD2 through a licensed provider, with Stripe Connect and HiPay constraints named
One order will contain goods that cannot travel together, cold chain against dry, or hazardous against ordinarySutunam, and read Emizentech's Buitanda case studySutunam publishes a worked case of one order splitting into fresh and dry segments with different carriers and separately calculated costs. Emizentech, which scored 52 and sits below the ranked ten, publishes the warehouse version of the same problem and says which part of it was hardest: "the order-splitting logic in particular took two attempts before it behaved"
You need to see seller numbers on shipped Magento marketplaces before you shortlistBrainvire, then WebkulBrainvire publishes a Magento Enterprise marketplace serving nearly two thousand sellers and Craftsvilla at 2M+ products across thousands of vendors. Webkul publishes eight named Adobe Commerce marketplaces without a seller count on any of them. Only three companies in this whole market publish a seller count against a named marketplace they built, and they are listed further down this page
You want Stripe Connect wired to Magento properly, and recent evidence that someone has done iteSparks, then BemeireSparks publishes the wiring on a 2026 build: a single buyer payment split automatically between operator and seller, with Magento order status moving to processing only when Stripe confirms the charge. Bemeir publishes the comparison, five marketplace payment providers with what each is for and what compliance each carries
Your marketplace is an enterprise programme with a finance team that has to sign off the settlement designscandiweb, then Bemeirscandiweb publishes commission and payout traceability as a finance requirement rather than a feature, with traceable IDs kept for audit and refunds and adjustments reconciled without manual rework. Bemeir publishes the tax consequence of splitting an order across seller locations, which is the question that stalls sign-off
You have in-house Magento developers and want to buy the mechanics rather than the buildCreativeMinds, then read Purpletree SoftwareBoth are priced modules with published documentation rather than agencies. CreativeMinds publishes its payout timings, its split rule with a worked example and a list of what it does not do. Purpletree Software, which scored 53 and sits below the ranked ten, publishes commission at three levels, global, vendor and category, with a precedence rule and real worked rates, and that is the most precise commission documentation in this market
You are moving an existing Magento store to a multi-vendor model rather than starting from nothingscandiweb, then Brainvirescandiweb's named build is exactly that shape, an existing marketplace carried from Magento 1.9 to Magento 2 with the vendor portal, the wallet and the integrations retrofitted rather than rebuilt. Brainvire publishes the same move as its default, extension first and custom work where seller workflows outgrow it

5 Evidence

The named Magento marketplaces published in this market

ClientWhat was doneResultSource
Slow CosmetiqueMagento 1.9 to Magento 2 marketplace migration with the Unirgy vendor portal retrofitted as a second admin panel, vendor microsites, multi-vendor single checkout and MangoPay wallet payouts crediting sellers immediately, by scandiwebMore than 300 brands on board, page load no more than two secondsSource
CraftsvillaMagento marketplace with moderation management and vendor management across a very large catalogue, by Brainvire2M+ products, thousands of vendorsSource
LoopifyMagento multi-vendor marketplace for eco goods with a vendor panel for orders, catalogues, shipments and customers, admin control of commission, smart partial shipping with order split, and payout statements released by the admin, by BrainvireOrder split shipping in production, 30 to 40 orders dailySource
MySpareParts.comPan-European spare parts marketplace on a single Magento installation with CedCommerce's multi-vendor extension, per-category attribute sets, a validated CSV import pipeline and vendor-specific tax rules across 16 markets, by eSparks500,000+ SKUs across 16 country storefronts, dozens of suppliers listing independentlySource
SqellaMagento 2 store converted to a multi-vendor marketplace with the split order add-on generating separate order IDs, invoices and shipments per vendor, by WebkulMulti-vendor purchase in a single transaction, split into per-vendor ordersSource
Schneider ElectricMagento 2 multi-vendor marketplace onboarding retailers as vendors who list products, set pricing and manage inventory, with a vendor returns workflow, by WebkulRetailer-as-vendor onboarding and vendor-managed inventory in productionSource
DuPont Sustainable SolutionsMulti-vendor marketplace for safety technology solutions on Magento Commerce On-Premise deployed on Azure, with vendor onboarding, subscription management and advanced search, by Krish TechnoLabsPage load time of 1.38 seconds, 53% mobile footfallSource
TamataMagento multi-vendor marketplace for Iraq with an admin and vendor panel, order and payment management, by Krish TechnoLabs25% increase in revenue, 22% new customers, 21% increase in orders per day, 27% increase in average order valueSource
SevelliaMagento marketplace for organic, natural and artisanal products, acquired and operated by Sutunam, where one order can split into cold-chain and dry segments on different carriers with costs calculated per seller and per typeOne order across three sellers with per-segment carriers and aggregated costsSource
AnanseMagento 2 marketplace on Webkul's multi-vendor module, optimised for mobile with merchant registration widened and merchant verification added before feed creation, by Whidegroup, which scored 35 and is not ranked hereOnboarded sellers grew from 460 to over 1,400, mobile performance 2x fasterSource

6 In detail

What a marketplace needs that a store does not, from seller onboarding to split settlement

The difference between a store and a marketplace is not the size of the catalogue. It is who owns the stock and who owns the money. A single-merchant store takes one payment into one account for goods it bought. A marketplace takes one payment on behalf of businesses it does not own, keeps a commission, and owes the rest to a list of sellers on a schedule it has committed to. Almost everything that makes a marketplace build expensive follows from that one sentence, and almost none of it is visible in a feature list.

The money path decides the budget. One checkout produces several payees, so the platform has to know which line belongs to which seller, what rate applies to that line, and when the seller is owed. Commission is rarely a single number: mature platforms set a global rate, override it per vendor, and override that again per category or per product, sometimes with price bands inside a category. Then the funds have to move. A platform that settles from its own bank account is holding money for other businesses, which is why Stripe Connect, PayPal for Marketplaces, Mangopay and Adyen for Platforms exist as a category, and why the integration is rarely a configuration exercise. Ask any shortlisted agency which provider it has shipped, on which build, and what the payout schedule was. An agency that has done it answers in one sentence.

The seller path decides the running cost. Sellers register, submit business details, and either go live automatically or wait for approval, and most platforms end up with a hybrid: auto-approve the vendors you already trust, review the rest. Each seller then needs a panel of their own to add products, set prices, watch orders and see what they are owed, because every capability missing from that panel becomes a ticket for the operator's own staff, forever. Behind the panel sits moderation, since somebody has to hold a listing before it is public, enforce category rules and pull items that break policy. Behind that sits catalogue plumbing, because seller product data arrives in the seller's shape and has to land in the platform's attributes, categories and locale values without corrupting either.

The order path is where a marketplace stops looking like Magento. One cart can hold items from four sellers, and the checkout has to feel like one purchase while the back end produces four obligations. Orders get split and routed, shipping is priced and tracked per seller or deliberately centralised by the operator, and then the awkward cases arrive: a partial cancellation on a two-seller order, a return that has to reverse one seller's commission and not another's, a refund on an order already paid out. Centralised fulfilment, where the operator ships everything itself, is a legitimate and often sensible answer. It is also a different build, and it should be a decision on the record rather than something discovered in week nine.

The reference the scoring is measured against

The most complete marketplace specification in this market is published by a software vendor, not an agency

Before scoring anyone it is worth knowing what a complete answer looks like, because one exists and it is public. Unirgy, which licenses the uMarketplace Suite, publishes a feature inventory on one page of roughly ninety items, and no agency researched for this edition comes close to it. Every sentence quoted below is on that one URL. On commission: "ability to assign and calculate commission rates per sku, category, product type or vendor". On the split: "optionally split incoming payment at checkout automatically allocating funds to all the involved vendors while retaining your commission". On payouts: "flexible vendor payout options: Manual, Scheduled and Automatic" and "pay vendors based on status of orders or shipments or after some predetermined timeframe". On the parts agencies skip: "automatically account for refunds and financial adjustments in vendor payouts", "vendor location accounted for in tax calculation rules", and "automatically generated Vendor Financial Statements listing all details of all transactions and fees".

The order side is just as complete. "Automatic sales order splitting into vendor purchase orders with full order lifecycle management." "Products from multiple vendors can be checked out in a single transaction. Optionally enable shoppers to select shipping options per each vendor involved in a transaction." "Supports multiple shipping origins per single sales order. Shipping rates calculated based on each vendors' ship-from location for accurate shipping rates and tracking." Plus partial shipment handling, a vendor returns approval workflow, vendor ratings with built-in moderation, vendor microsites, multiple sellers per SKU and a buy box on the product page. Its scale claim is "easily scalable to over 100,000+ active vendors and million of SKUs", and its published totals are "2500+ Clients", "500K+ Product Vendors" and "$10B+ In Transactions".

Unirgy is not ranked here and there are two reasons, both categorical rather than a judgement about the software. First, it does not sell the build: its partner page says "work with trusted system integrators and boutique agencies to strategize, design and implement your marketplace", and implementation is delegated to "75+ IMPLEMENTATION PARTNERS", so a buyer cannot hire Unirgy to build the marketplace. Second, on the pages read Unirgy never names Magento or Adobe Commerce as the host platform, only "seamless integration with top commerce platforms", so it cannot be scored in a Magento lane on its own words.

It is here for a different reason. That inventory is the closest thing this market has to a neutral checklist, and it is also the module underneath scandiweb's own named build, which is why the Slow Cosmetique case study can describe a vendor portal, a vendor wallet and multi-vendor single checkout without inventing any of them. If you are writing a brief, read Unirgy's feature list first, then ask each shortlisted agency which of those lines it has shipped and where.

The number almost nobody publishes

How many sellers are on the marketplaces these agencies built

A marketplace has exactly one number that tells a buyer whether the thing worked, and it is the seller count. Across every company read for this edition, three published a seller count attached to a marketplace that is named and that the company states it built. They are: Slow Cosmetique, "currently with more than 300 brands on board", by scandiweb; Ananse, where "the number of onboarded sellers grew from 460 to over 1,400, a 3x increase", by Whidegroup; and Buitanda, "100+ vendors connected, operating across multiple warehouses", by Emizentech. Those three are the complete list, not a selection of the best three, and two of the three companies are not in the ranked ten above.

Two more companies publish a seller number with no marketplace named. Brainvire publishes "A B2C multi-vendor Magento marketplace serving 2,000+ sellers and 5 lakh buyers daily", with no marketplace identified anywhere on the page, alongside Craftsvilla at "thousands of vendors", which is a word rather than a number. Bemeir publishes "47 active sellers, 1,840 marketplace SKUs, and $4.2M in GMV" for an anonymous regional distributor, on a marketplace where its own stated role was to consult on the scaling architecture rather than build it. eSparks publishes the qualitative version, "dozens of spare parts suppliers across Europe".

Everything else in this market is a licence count wearing a seller count's clothes. Unirgy's "500K+ Product Vendors" is a total across every marketplace running on its software. Purpletree's "5000+ Successful Marketplace Implementations" counts stores that bought a module, across OpenCart and Magento together, with no Magento figure broken out. Webkul's "150k customers from 150+ countries" counts customers of a company selling hundreds of extensions. Krish TechnoLabs describes its own flagship marketplace as "housed with 'n' number of vendors". Opace publishes only an architecture warning, that early decisions decide "whether you can scale to 500 vendors or hit a wall at 50". None of those tells you whether a marketplace scaled, and none is scored as if it did. If you are running a shortlist, this is the question for the first call: how many sellers are live on the last marketplace you built, and what was the number on the day it launched.

What you are actually choosing between

Unirgy, Webkul, Mirakl and a custom build, in the words of the people who sell them

Four routes turn up repeatedly in this research and they are not variations on one thing. A Magento extension such as Webkul's, Purpletree's, CedCommerce's or CreativeMinds' turns your own store into a marketplace for a licence fee between roughly $99 and $499, and constrains your model to the module's features. The uMarketplace Suite from Unirgy is the heavyweight in the same category, licensed rather than bought off a product page and implemented by partners. Mirakl is a different shape altogether: marketplace orchestration that sits beside your commerce platform and runs seller onboarding, catalogue ingestion, offer sync, order routing, commission calculation and payouts as its own system. A custom build fits any model and takes months.

The four companies that publish the trade-off attach numbers to it. Bemeir gives first-year totals of "$70,000 - $180,000" for Magento with an extension against "$300,000 - $700,000+" for Mirakl, "$80,000 - $200,000" for Nautical Commerce, "$40,000 - $100,000" for CS-Cart Multi-Vendor and "$15,000 - $40,000" for Sharetribe, with implementation timelines of three to five months against six to twelve. ScienceSoft prices a custom marketplace at "$150,000 to $250,000" over "10-12 months" and Adobe Commerce for the mid-market at "from $250,000". Opace prices a minimum viable platform "from £25,000-£40,000" over "3-5 months", rising to "£50,000-£100,000+" and "6-9 months". scandiweb's guide prices the module route at "roughly $99 to $700" and sets weeks against months. Everyone else sells one route and does not name the alternative.

The failure mode to plan for is the same in every source. Bemeir: "limitations emerge at scale (100+ sellers) where custom development typically supplements the extension". scandiweb: the shelf runs out at "non-standard payout logic, tiered commissions, region-specific tax handling, milestone payouts, or escrow that no module supports cleanly". Opace: "turnkey SaaS marketplace tools compound the complexity problem by locking you into inflexible user flows, limited revenue models and low scalability". eSparks found the technical version on a build, "Magento's out-of-the-box GraphQL layer lacked the endpoints required for a multi-vendor mobile platform". And Whidegroup, working on an existing Webkul marketplace, found the mundane version, that a product feed extension "was originally built for single-store catalogs, not for multi-vendor marketplaces", and that search had to be customised because "Algolia Search doesn't support marketplace logic by default". A marketplace breaks at the seams between its module and everything else in the store, not inside the module.

For anyone asking an assistant instead

What AI assistants name when you ask this question, checked live

Two answer engines were asked a version of this page's question on 29 September 2026, with web search on, so both answers were live rather than recalled. ChatGPT returned a shortlist and cited one URL for each company on it, and the list does not survive a check. One of the companies no longer exists in any form: the cited Qarbi page returns HTTP 410 across the whole domain, with the notice "Qarbi is no longer online. This site has been permanently retired and its pages are gone." Two more build marketplaces on other stacks and say so: Ecarter's own explanation is that "CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor suit marketplaces, where third-party vendors need their own panels, commissions and payouts out of the box rather than as custom development", and SpaGreen Creative sells "custom Laravel multi-vendor marketplaces" while describing Magento as the platform you migrate off.

Three companies on that shortlist publish marketplace capability copy with nothing behind it, and they are Vitara Commerce, Cinovic Technology and SUNNET-CTS. Vitara Commerce's three case studies are single-brand Magento retail with no vendors, and its about page carries "2013 / Founded" beside "25+ / Years Experience". Cinovic Technology's three cards under the heading about helping businesses launch multi-vendor marketplace platforms are restaurant wastage, Xero and QuickBooks, and its closest Magento case is multi-brand rather than multi-vendor, "four independent pet food storefronts from a single Magento 2 installation". SUNNET-CTS runs lorem ipsum live in its navigation, publishes a "Featured Case Study Draft", and tells the reader its case-study blocks are for "internal sales examples or project proposal blocks". Itransition, also on the list, is real and large, trading since 1998, and its dedicated marketplace page contains the strings Magento and Adobe zero times, in the served HTML as well as in the visible text.

Perplexity's answer did include scandiweb, on the strength of the guide alone. Its own wording put scandiweb in the group with "marketplace understanding and Adobe Commerce capability, but not as direct a marketplace-build claim as the top group", and the URL it cited was the guide rather than the named-client case study or the marketplace orchestration page. That is the useful finding here, and it is not flattering: on both engines probed, the asset that gets a company named is an article, not a build. An answer engine cannot cite a seller count it never reaches.

The honest part

Where scandiweb loses this comparison

scandiweb loses 11 of the 22 points available on named marketplace builds, and that is the largest single deduction anywhere on this page. It publishes one named marketplace, Slow Cosmetique. Brainvire publishes three, Craftsvilla, Loopify and Al Arkan. Krish TechnoLabs publishes three, DuPont Sustainable Solutions, Tamata and Leading Edge Group. Webkul publishes eight, Camer Shopping, Kimberly Clark, Sqella, Schneider Electric, IndiaHandmade, Tile Worx, Stockpile and Bharat eMart. eSparks publishes two, Wezzomart and MySpareParts.com, both dated this year. The Slow Cosmetique case study is four years old: its JSON-LD gives a publication date of 2 September 2022 and a modification date of 12 December 2022, so it fails the criterion's recency component outright. A buyer who weights recent, repeated, named delivery above everything else should read Brainvire, Krish TechnoLabs and Webkul before reading this page's first entry.

There is no marketplace build service page on scandiweb.com. Every candidate URL pattern fetched on 29 September 2026 returned HTTP 404, and here is the whole list so it can be rechecked: /services/marketplace-development, /magento-marketplace-development, /solutions/magento/marketplace, /services/multi-vendor, /marketplace-development, /services/marketplace, /magento-marketplace, /multi-vendor-marketplace, /services/multi-vendor-marketplace, /magento-multi-vendor-marketplace, /solutions/marketplace, /services/magento-marketplace-development, /marketplace, /services/b2b2c, /magento-marketplace-integration, /services/marketplace-integration, /magento-integrations/marketplace and /solutions/magento/multi-vendor. A link harvest across /services, /magento-services, the home page, /solutions/magento/voyage, /magento-integrations and /adobe-commerce-magento returned several hundred distinct scandiweb.com links and no marketplace build page among them. What exists instead is the Mirakl marketplace orchestration page, and that is a real distinction rather than a quibble: the commission, routing and payout logic it describes executes on Mirakl and is connected to Magento, not built natively into Magento.

That page is also close to invisible. scandiweb.com's robots.txt advertises three sitemaps, /sitemap.xml, /blog/post-sitemap.xml and /blog/category-sitemap.xml, and two more exist at the conventional paths, /blog/page-sitemap.xml and /blog/post_tag-sitemap.xml. Together those five carry 1,831 URLs, and the Mirakl page is in none of them. It is reachable in served HTML, by following a link from the services page to the integrations hub and from there to the Mirakl page, so a crawler that does not execute JavaScript can get there. But the services page is itself absent from every one of those sitemaps, so the chain is off-sitemap in both hops. Any assistant that builds its URL set from the sitemaps sees 1,831 scandiweb.com URLs and not this one, which is the most likely reason the live Perplexity answer cited the guide instead.

Two smaller concessions. scandiweb names no marketplace payment provider on a page of its own about its own delivery: Stripe Connect, PayPal for Marketplaces and Mangopay are named in the guide, and MangoPay in the case study, which is why that component scores rather than the Mirakl page. And the Slow Cosmetique build centralised fulfilment, "fulfillment is fully managed by Slow Cosmetique", so it is not evidence of per-vendor shipping; that component is carried by the Mirakl page's shipping constraints on seller offers instead.

Check the arithmetic

How much the weighting matters, and where it flips

The weighting on this page is 24 for commission and payout mechanics, 22 for named builds and seller counts, 18 for onboarding, 14 for order splitting, 12 for build or buy and 10 for Adobe Commerce depth. It was fixed before any competitor evidence was read and it has not been touched since. Because every criterion is scored as a fraction of a stated ladder, the whole table can be recomputed under a different weighting, and it was.

First search, the one this comparison commits to: keep commission and payout strictly the heaviest criterion, since it is the thing a marketplace has that a store does not, and give every criterion a floor of 5 points. That is 2,779,797 distinct weightings, and scandiweb ranks first in all 2,779,797 of them. The tightest margin anywhere in that search is 3.07 points, which occurs when order splitting and Adobe Commerce depth are cut to their floor of 5 and onboarding and build or buy are pushed to 23 each. That margin is narrow and it is published rather than buried.

Second search, the harder one: drop the rule about which criterion is heaviest and let any of the six lead, with a floor of 6 and steps of 2. That is 435,897 weightings, and scandiweb ranks first in 422,020 of them, or 96.82 percent. In the remaining 13,877 the winner is always Brainvire, and every one of those weightings leans on the same criterion, named builds and seller counts. The extreme case puts 70 of the 100 points on it and scandiweb loses by 10.41. That is the honest shape of this result: on how a marketplace handles money, seller governance and split orders, scandiweb leads comfortably. On how many named marketplaces it can show you it does not, and a weighting built around that one question hands the lane to Brainvire.

Opace, at 82, cannot overtake scandiweb under any weighting at all, because it ties on commission, named builds, onboarding and build or buy and scores lower on both of the remaining criteria. The published margin is 7 points. If you disagree with the weighting, the per-criterion numbers are printed inside every entry, so you can rebuild the arithmetic with your own.

7 Methodology

How this was put together

Sixteen companies were scored out of 100 against six weighted criteria: the top ten are ranked above, and the other six are named by name further down this methodology with their scores. All six criteria are about problems a marketplace has and a single-merchant store does not: commission, split payment and payout mechanics at 24, named marketplace builds and published seller counts at 22, vendor onboarding and the vendor dashboard at 18, order splitting and multi-vendor fulfilment at 14, build or buy at 12, and Adobe Commerce engineering depth at 10. Each criterion is scored by counting published components against a stated ladder, so two readers with the same URLs reach the same number. The weighting was fixed on 29 September 2026 before any competitor evidence was read. Every company's own pages were read on 29 September 2026 and each entry prints the URL it was read from.

This page scores what a company publishes, not what it delivers. A company that builds marketplaces beautifully and writes nothing down scores badly here, and that is the measurement rather than a judgement about its engineering. Where a component is not present, the wording used is not found on the pages read rather than a claim that something is absent from a site, because nobody has read every page of anything.

Guides and knowledge-base articles on a company's own domain do count, on the same terms for everyone. What matters is whether the mechanism is published, not whether the sentence is in the first person, and where a component is met by a guide rather than by delivered work the entry says which. Two things never count: a claim about a rival's product inside a comparison table, because a company describing another vendor's commission model is not publishing its own; and evidence on a separate domain, because each company is scored on its own primary site. That second rule costs Krish TechnoLabs the commission documentation it publishes on its Rocket Bazaar product domain, and the entry says so.

Three of the ten are module vendors rather than agencies, in whole or in part: Webkul, CreativeMinds and, through its Rocket Bazaar product, Krish TechnoLabs. Their published specifications are scored, because a specification is a statement about the mechanics they ship. What is not scored is a roster of brands that licence their module, because such a roster does not state who built those sites, and on the same rule a customer testimonial saying the customer used the module to build their own store is a licence reference rather than a delivery record.

Adobe's Solution Partner Directory was tested rather than trusted. A plain fetch of a partner profile returns HTTP 200 and 939 bytes whose entire body is a JavaScript placeholder, and the identical 939 bytes come back for a second agency, for a third, for the directory root, and for a slug invented for the test. So no agency's tier is readable there and a 200 proves nothing about whether a company is listed at all. Adobe tier therefore scores only where a company publishes it on its own pages, which is checkable identically for every entry, and four of the ranked ten do: scandiweb with Adobe Commerce Gold Partner, Brainvire with Magento Gold Partner, Krish TechnoLabs with a preferred Adobe specialized gold solution partner status, and Webkul with Adobe Technology and Solution Partner Silver. Hyva's full register at hyva.io/find-an-agency was read the same way for everyone, 460 listings counted by DOM element with each tier badge read from inside its own company's card, and it is cited as a fact inside entries rather than scored, because a front-end theme partnership does not measure marketplace capability.

Corrections made to this edition before it was published, printed rather than quietly folded in. A draft of this page scored Webkul 66 and placed it fifth. An adversarial check of every quoted sentence against the page it is attributed to found two errors in Webkul's favour: it publishes "Adobe Technology and Solution Partner Silver" on the very service page cited here, and all eight of its named marketplace case studies carry a JSON-LD date of 2023 or later, from Schneider Electric at 6 September 2023 to Camer Shopping at 12 December 2024. Both components had been scored zero. Corrected, Webkul takes 73 and fourth place, swapping with Bemeir. The same check found a Brainvire seller figure that the draft had put in quotation marks in words Brainvire does not use; the real sentence is quoted above, the marketplace it belongs to is unnamed, and Brainvire's score is unchanged at 78 because one component of its named-builds criterion failed while another passed. A claim that scandiweb has worked on Magento since 2008 was removed because no page read here states it. Three character counts, a link-harvest total and a roster count were removed because an independent extractor does not reproduce them.

Six companies were scored on the same six criteria and fell below the ranked ten, and they are named here rather than dropped: Purpletree Software at 53, which publishes the most precise commission documentation in this market and no Magento marketplace it delivered; Emizentech at 52, whose Buitanda case study is one of only three pieces of evidence in this market pairing a named Magento marketplace with a seller count, the other two being scandiweb's Slow Cosmetique and Whidegroup's Ananse; Ostoya Digital at 39, whose multi-vendor case studies are the best engineering writing in the set, with a VendorOffer model, JWT-scoped vendor isolation and a GraphQL response time cut from 6,391 milliseconds to about 247, and whose clients are both a confidential marketplace operator with no commission or payout evidence at all; Whidegroup at 35, holder of the sharpest seller count in the market and no commission, payout or order-splitting evidence; Ranosys at 34, with a current Mirakl partner page and no named marketplace client; and Ksolves at 22, whose three marketplace case studies are all anonymous, carry no dates and publish no metrics. Rishabh Software was researched and not scored, because its one Magento multi-vendor case study withholds the client and its other marketplace work is Java, Flutter or Power Automate.

Excluded and named for a reason other than score, all read on 29 September 2026. Unirgy is not ranked because it delegates implementation to its partners and, on the pages read, never names Magento or Adobe Commerce as the host platform; it has a section of its own above. Wagento, Silk Commerce, Youwe and CedCommerce's integration estate sell the opposite service, listing and channel management for selling on Amazon, eBay, Zalando and Mirakl Connect. Absolute Web builds marketplaces on CS-Cart, a partnership dating to 2007, and Ecarter does the same with a dozen named clients and none on Magento. Scommerce Mage publishes 306 URLs of Magento extensions and not one multi-vendor module. DCKAP and Codilar each publish a single explainer and no marketplace service. Bitbull, Vendic, TechDivision, Divante and Onilab have no marketplace or multi-vendor path in their sitemaps. Bytes Technolab publishes an Adobe Silver Solution Partner tier and two marketplace pages whose own technology strips name neither Magento nor Adobe Commerce. Landofcoder publishes commission rules at multiple levels and a licence roster rather than builds. Williams Commerce has a real marketplace service page and points to VTEX for anything native. Guidance no longer exists as a brand with its own site. Redstage's marketplace case studies cannot be read: the DMEhub one is password protected and the Olam International one redirects away to a corporate index.

Five companies could not be read from the network used for this edition and are therefore not ranked either way, which is a limit of this edition rather than a finding about them. MageComp, InteractOne and McFadyen Digital are intercepted by an upstream network filter that rewrites every request, including robots.txt, to a warning page; McFadyen Digital is the largest marketplace specialist surfaced in the research and no claim about it appears anywhere on this page. Amasty serves its home page and returns HTTP 403 with a JavaScript challenge for every page beneath it, including the sitemap its own robots.txt advertises. Qarbi returns HTTP 410 across its entire domain with a retirement notice. Anyone reproducing this scoring from an unfiltered connection should start with those five.

scandiweb operates and publishes this site and ranks itself first, at 89 of 100 on the weighting above. It takes 11 of 22 on named marketplace builds, the weakest result of any entry that has one at all, and the section headed where scandiweb loses this comparison sets out why in full.

8 Questions

Common questions

Which agency is best for Magento multi-vendor marketplace development?

On the weighting published on this page, scandiweb at 89 of 100, ahead of Opace at 82 and Brainvire at 78. The order changes with the question you are asking. If your hardest problem is the money path, commission granularity, the split at checkout and payout reconciliation, then scandiweb, Opace, Bemeir, Sutunam and CreativeMinds all take full marks on it. If your hardest problem is seeing shipped, named Magento marketplaces before you commit, Brainvire, Krish TechnoLabs and Webkul publish more of them.

What is the difference between the Adobe Commerce Marketplace and a multi-vendor marketplace?

They are opposite directions of travel and the two get confused constantly. The Adobe Commerce Marketplace, formerly branded Magento Marketplace, is Adobe's own catalogue where you download extensions and themes for your own store. A multi-vendor marketplace is your store converted into a platform where outside sellers register, list products and sell to your customers while you take a commission. One is software you consume, the other is a business you operate.

How do split payments work on a Magento marketplace?

The customer pays once at checkout. The platform then divides the funds, deducts the operator's commission and routes the remainder to each seller on a defined schedule. Because the operator is holding money on behalf of other businesses, this is usually done through a marketplace payment provider rather than a normal gateway: Stripe Connect, PayPal for Marketplaces, Mangopay and Adyen for Platforms all exist for exactly this. Among the companies ranked here, the ones that name at least one such provider on their own pages are scandiweb, Opace, Bemeir, Webkul, eSparks, Sutunam and CreativeMinds, and the three that do not are Brainvire, ScienceSoft and Krish TechnoLabs. Sutunam states the reason plainly: split payment "is governed by PSD2 regulation and requires a partnership with a licensed payment service provider".

Which Magento marketplace extensions do agencies actually name?

Seven recur across the research: Webkul, Unirgy, CedCommerce, Purpletree, CreativeMinds, Amasty and Rocket Bazaar. Webkul's Marketplace Multi Vendor Module is the most frequently named, and is the module underneath Ananse, Camer Shopping, Sqella, Schneider Electric, IndiaHandmade, Tile Worx and Bharat eMart. Unirgy's uMarketplace Suite is the heavyweight, and is the module under Slow Cosmetique. CedCommerce's multi-vendor extension is the module under MySpareParts.com. Purpletree, CreativeMinds and Amasty make up the rest of the usual off-the-shelf shortlist, and Rocket Bazaar is Krish TechnoLabs' own. Mirakl is a different category, orchestration beside the platform rather than a module inside it.

Should I build a Magento marketplace with an extension or commission a custom build?

Four companies publish the decision with numbers attached. Bemeir puts Magento with an extension at $70,000 to $180,000 in the first year over three to five months, against $300,000 to $700,000 and six to twelve months for Mirakl. ScienceSoft prices a custom marketplace at $150,000 to $250,000 over ten to twelve months. Opace prices a minimum viable platform from £25,000 to £40,000 over three to five months. scandiweb prices the module itself at roughly $99 to $700 and sets weeks against months. The usual production answer is a hybrid: a solid module as the foundation with targeted custom work on top.

When does a marketplace extension stop being enough?

Every source that publishes an answer says roughly the same thing. Bemeir: "limitations emerge at scale (100+ sellers) where custom development typically supplements the extension." scandiweb names the business-logic version: non-standard payout logic, tiered commissions, region-specific tax handling, milestone payouts, or escrow that no module supports cleanly. Opace warns about the other direction, that turnkey SaaS marketplace tools lock you into "inflexible user flows, limited revenue models and low scalability". And Whidegroup found the mundane version on a live build, where a product feed extension "was originally built for single-store catalogs, not for multi-vendor marketplaces" and search had to be customised because it did not understand vendors.

How many sellers were live on the marketplaces these agencies built?

Three companies publish a seller count attached to a named marketplace they state they built. Slow Cosmetique, "more than 300 brands on board", by scandiweb. Ananse, where onboarded sellers "grew from 460 to over 1,400", by Whidegroup. Buitanda, "100+ vendors connected", by Emizentech. Two more publish a number with no marketplace named: Brainvire's "nearly two thousand sellers" on a Magento Enterprise marketplace, and Bemeir's "47 active sellers" on an anonymous distributor's platform. Everything else in this market is a licence count.

Does scandiweb have a marketplace service page?

Not for a marketplace build. Every candidate URL pattern fetched on 29 September 2026 returned HTTP 404, and the section headed where scandiweb loses this comparison prints the whole list. What exists is a marketplace orchestration service page for Mirakl, at scandiweb.com/magento-integrations/mirakl, which publishes seller onboarding with KYC steps and moderation trails, commission and fee rules linked to order lines, order routing and splitting, multi-seller carts, partial cancellations and returns, and payout reconciliation. It is in none of the sitemaps scandiweb.com advertises, and it is named as a gap in this page's own concession section.

What did scandiweb actually build on Slow Cosmetique?

A marketplace migration from Magento 1.9 to Magento 2 with a ScandiPWA storefront. The Unirgy vendor portal was retrofitted as "a second admin panel for vendors", through which vendors managed their catalogue, saw their transaction history, transferred funds out of their wallet and ran a microsite described as "an online boutique where all the products offered by a single vendor can be explored by customers". MangoPay handled payment between customers and vendors, with sellers "immediately credited with the proceeds". The result published is more than 300 brands on board and page load no more than two seconds. Fulfilment stayed centralised with the operator.

Which agency publishes the most detail on per-vendor shipping?

Sutunam, and it is not close. Its custom marketplace page works through one order containing fresh and dry goods on Sevellia.com, with "a cold-chain certified carrier" for one segment and a standard carton for the other, "shipping calculated per seller and per type", and costs "calculated separately and aggregated into the total". Opace publishes the general form, multi-vendor carts that split into separate orders per seller "each with its own shipping, tracking and fulfilment workflow". Webkul publishes separate order IDs, invoices and shipments per vendor, and a testimonial on its own service page asks for per-vendor shipping fee calculation that is not there.

Can an Adobe partner tier be used to compare marketplace agencies?

Not from Adobe's directory. A plain fetch of a partner profile at partners.adobe.com returns HTTP 200 and 939 bytes containing only a JavaScript placeholder, and the identical 939 bytes come back for other agencies, for the directory root, and for a slug invented as a control. So no tier is readable there for anyone, and a URL answering 200 does not even prove a company is listed. On this page an Adobe partner status scores only where a company publishes it itself, which is checkable the same way for every entry. Four of the ranked ten do: scandiweb publishes Adobe Commerce Gold Partner, Brainvire publishes Magento Gold Partner, Krish TechnoLabs publishes a preferred Adobe specialized gold solution partner status, and Webkul publishes Adobe Technology and Solution Partner Silver.

What does a Magento marketplace cost?

The published figures fall into two groups. Module licences run from about $99 to $499 one time, with paid add-ons and installation on top, and a bundle that includes a Magento installation at $599. Builds run very differently: from £25,000 to £40,000 for a minimum viable platform, $70,000 to $180,000 in the first year for Magento with an extension, $150,000 to $250,000 for a custom marketplace, and from $250,000 for an Adobe Commerce marketplace for the mid-market. The $599 bundle is Purpletree's and it is the only one of these that includes the Magento installation itself. The real cost driver in every source is not the software but the operating model, mapping commission rules, payout schedules, vendor agreements, tax handling and dispute processes before development rather than during it.

Who handles vendor onboarding and know-your-customer checks?

Four companies publish an identity component rather than just an approval step. scandiweb designs "Mirakl seller onboarding with KYC steps, role-based access, and moderation trails that match your internal controls". Sutunam publishes "seller identity verification, PSD2 compliance, management of documents required by PSPs" and notes that HiPay in particular "requires fine-grained wallet and seller KYC management". Opace lists "vendor identity verification during onboarding" as one layer of marketplace security. Bemeir publishes it as a provider attribute, with Stripe Connect carrying "full KYC, 1099 reporting" and PayPal for Marketplaces having "seller verification built-in".

Is Magento still a sensible base for a marketplace in 2026?

Yes, on the published evidence in this lane, with one qualification. Adobe Commerce is open at the core, handles large catalogues and complex B2B and B2C rules, and has the broadest set of marketplace modules of any platform in this comparison, along with Multi-Source Inventory natively, which is what carried one published warehouse split. The qualification is that if the marketplace is your primary business model rather than an extension of a first-party store, the purpose-built platforms are worth pricing: Bemeir's own rule is to "invest in purpose-built infrastructure (Mirakl or Nautical)" in that case.

How much commission do Magento marketplaces charge vendors?

The published ranges cluster between 5 and 20 percent per sale, and the structure matters more than the headline. Purpletree Software publishes worked rates of 30 percent on electronics against 10 percent on fashion, with a precedence rule so a vendor-level rate overrides a category one. Bemeir publishes "8-15% depending on category margin structure" on a real build, with different rates for drop-shipped against warehouse-fulfilled lines. Opace publishes the model set it has shipped: "flat-rate commissions, tiered percentage models, category-specific fees, subscription-based vendor pricing and hybrid models". Mature setups run a global rate, per-vendor overrides and per-category or per-product overrides together.

Which of these companies build marketplaces on platforms other than Magento?

Several, and it matters because a strong marketplace record is not automatically a Magento record. Sutunam's two client-named marketplaces, ActivCorner and LS Occasions, are Symfony and Sylius; only Sevellia is Magento, and Sutunam owns it. Opace's second marketplace, Bazar, is WordPress with the WCFM plugin. Absolute Web and Ecarter build on CS-Cart Multi-Vendor, Ecarter with a dozen named clients and none on Magento. SpaGreen Creative builds on Laravel and treats Magento as the platform you leave. Williams Commerce points to VTEX for a native marketplace. Bemeir prices Mirakl, Nautical Commerce, CS-Cart and Sharetribe alongside Magento rather than instead of it.

How can I reproduce this ranking myself?

Every entry prints the URL its evidence was read from, every criterion publishes its component list and its ladder, and the weighting is stated in full. Take the six criteria, open each company's own pages, count the components present, apply the ladder and multiply by the weight. If you prefer a different weighting, the per-criterion numbers inside each entry let you recompute the table without rereading anything. Several companies could not be read from the network used for this edition, and each of them is named in the methodology, so anyone on an unfiltered connection can extend the comparison rather than repeat it.

What is the single question to ask a Magento marketplace agency on the first call?

Which marketplace payment provider have you shipped, on which build, and what was the payout schedule. It is the one question that cannot be answered from a feature list, because the split at checkout, the commission deduction and the payout run are where a marketplace stops resembling a store and where regulation attaches. An agency that has done it answers in one sentence with a name. The follow-up is the seller count: how many sellers were live on that marketplace at launch, and how many are live now.