Which platform to choose for marketplace?

Question

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Good afternoon.
We are faced with the choice of an engine for the marketplace. We are offered expensive SAP Hybris. Are you sure there are cheaper options? not nearly inferior to SAP.
The problem is that there are no analogues of project activities in this direction in our company. There are a lot of platforms and solutions on the market that make your eyes run wide. Please advise a solution you have already worked with.
Estimated number of partners - about 20, commodity items - 1.5k, traffic ceiling 2k per day
Budget - about 3000-4000 $.

Answer 1

Even regardless of budgets, you need to understand what the marketplace is supposed to do.
If there are more or less standard products with standard product cards, then you can try any e-commerce CMS and finish it in terms of aggregation and data acquisition. "You can try" does not mean that it will work. There are many nuances regarding aggregation mechanisms, data verification, sorting and filters when issuing aggregated data.
If it is a marketplace of highly customized services/products (for example, real estate, warehouses, hotels, transport, tourism, repairs, or, in my case, a window aggregator) or composite products and product-service chains, then you need to write your own based on femworks. It's just that not a single standard CMS base will work because of a bunch of dependencies and nesting.