Websites for marketplaces
Two-sided platforms, built right.
Marketplaces are hard — auth, listings, payouts, escrow, messaging, reviews, disputes. Get a production-ready foundation in weeks instead of rebuilding it from scratch.
The problem
Sound familiar?
✕Every marketplace rebuilds the same primitives
Auth, listings, payouts, escrow, messaging, reviews, moderation — every team ships these from zero. It takes 6 months. You haven't even launched.
✕Stripe Connect is deceptively hard
Onboarding flows, capability checks, payout schedules, webhook handling, failed transfers. Easy to get 80% right, hard to get 100%.
✕Escrow isn't just "hold the money"
You need dispute workflows, auto-release timers, partial refunds, admin overrides, audit logs. Miss a case and someone's money is stuck.
✕Trust is everything and invisible
Without reviews, messaging history, moderation, and clear disputes — both sides of your marketplace feel exposed. No network forms.
The Orbit approach
Here's what we build instead.
Proven marketplace primitives
We start from the marketplace template — listings, bookings, messaging, reviews, Stripe Connect, escrow, disputes, moderation all already built.
Stripe Connect done right
Express account onboarding, capability checks, webhook handling, payout management, refund flows. Production-tested, not tutorial code.
Full escrow with guardrails
Manual capture, 7-day auto-release, dispute workflow, admin override, audit logs. Every money-movement case handled.
Trust built in
Reviews with aggregation, in-thread messaging, report/flag system, moderation queue, ban enforcement at the middleware layer.
What's included
Everything the template ships with.
- Listings with photos, pricing, availability
- Stripe Connect (Express accounts) for seller payouts
- Manual-capture escrow with 7-day auto-release
- Dispute workflow (buyer ↔ seller ↔ admin)
- Direct messaging between users
- Reviews with sub-ratings and aggregation
- Leaflet map with pin clustering
- Search + filter + sort + pagination
- Reporting + flagging + moderation queue
- Admin dashboard for everything
Ready to build a better marketplaces website?
30-minute discovery call. No obligation. We'll walk through your current setup, what would actually move the needle, and a clear price.
Or browse our full template library.