What does the law look like when setting up a marketplace business? What’s the difference from a traditional e-com and what do you need to think about before setting up your new platform? Picture a common scenario when an online retailer decides to add a marketplace to their existing e-com, thus creating a hybrid marketplace…
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DEEP DIVE: The Product Data Model
One of the major differences between being a traditional E-com (where products are purchased or manufactured by the E-com owner) and a marketplace is that in a marketplace model, it is the seller herself who is responsible for providing the marketplace with product data. This means that the seller’s product data model must be aligned…
Why you should consider “Onboarding as a Service”
Why “Onboarding as a Service”? And why should you, as a Marketplace operator, consider it? Running a marketplace successfully means that you constantly need to broaden and scale your offer. To be successful, you need to continuously work on adding new Sellers. The need for onboarding often varies over time. This, combined with the fact…
What will e-commerce look like tomorrow?
The landscape of E-commerce is being redrawn at a furious pace. Traditional models are being challenged and platform models are becoming an increasingly interesting alternative for many players. Having the opportunity to broaden their range and at the same time not having to sit on their own stock attracts many for obvious reasons. Many traditional…
PARAGAIA partners with Mirakl!
We are happy to announce a partnership between Paragaia and Mirakl, the leading global marketplace platform provider. As a Solution Partner covering Northern EMEA, Paragaia will liaise with Mirakl to provide support and expertise to their customers by aiding in the implementation of their Marketplace projects. Given the current situation the world finds itself in,…
What is the difference between Dropship and Marketplace?
From Pipes… The traditional pipeline business model is one in which the flow of value is linear from a producer to a consumer, and that’s the model that we’ve seen in the industrial era where manufacturing, media, services, everything has followed a pipeline business model. to Platforms! The Platform Business Model creates value by facilitating…
New team member on board!
Paragaia was started on the first of March this year – we are just over 30 days old. Starting a new company is always a challenge, you do not know what is waiting around the corner and what surprises you will face. We felt that we were reasonably well equipped and that we were aware…