Important Features for a High-End Marketplace

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What Does a High-End Marketplace Need?

High-end marketplaces require certain design features, software capabilities, and technologies.

The particulars of these depend on the niche and the audience, or the buyers and sellers.

With a high-end eCommerce marketplace, there’s an emphasis on a white glove, A to Z support, concierge-level aesthetic on the site. It’s a premier or exclusive experience. This is a key aspect of the type of workflow that’s needed.

It’s important that through the design, software features, and technology, all these pieces are infused with this core ethos of a concierge-level experience throughout the process.

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How to Provide a Top-Tier Experience

So, how do you provide this exceptional experience in your high-end marketplace?

How to Provide a Top-Tier Experience

Simplify the Process

One factor is that the eMarketplace platform maximizes the user’s experience by helping them quickly find what they’re looking for.

There typically needs to be a very clean aesthetic, and the site needs to be performant across the board with regards to technology and software capabilities.

The logistics and fulfillment need to be top of the line as well, where everything is thought of and executed in an automated way, if possible, and simplified.

One of the best quotes that comes to mind is that a genius is able to convey something complex in a simple way.

Responsive Design

Fundamentally, we want to deliver an experience from a design perspective that is responsive, cross-browser compatible, and has crisp and vibrant imagery within the high-end marketplace.

Superb Search Function

Superb Search Function

The raw ingredients for a product or an offering start with being able to identify something, the data itself related to the products needs to be curated and managed to be a level of precision that the end user can rely on as being credible information. This information includes the product description, specifications, reviews, and any other information.

Additionally, when somebody is looking for something, they need to be able to find it with fuzzy search, synonyms, misspellings, typos, etc. These still need to show SKUs and other forms of search results.

The search function needs to be simple and easy to use, and for a high-end marketplace, you also want to have a visual experience where the user can navigate through the categories.

Immersive Experience

The user should have an experience where they can really experience these different categories and get visual clues to be able to navigate through. A good example of this is the Apple website.

When they’re completing their order, everything still needs to be at that concierge level.

Seamless Logistic Implementation

There may be logistical pieces around the cost of an item that we need to make sure are implemented properly with regards to insurance options, lead times, the way the items are packed and prepared, scheduled for delivery or pickup.

Typically, it’s delivery scheduling for the different carrier options and making sure that the API integrations are seamless that must be considered.

Interaction Guidelines & Rules

Depending on the market and logic for the market, there may be custom quoting necessary and interaction around that, especially for items that are high end enough, such as jewelry or fine art, or luxury automobiles.

These types of things would probably entail some manual interaction between the buyer and seller, but this process of interaction needs to have some opinionated governance.

Interaction Guidelines and Rules

Therefore, we encourage you to consider what your workflow is for your business, and borrow from best practices going through discovery and implementation validation with our team to make sure you’re taking advantage of any kind of self service and automation. That way, you ensure the buyer and seller are served by the peer-to-peer marketplace.

By providing a lot of opinionated governance within that interaction, the buyer and seller can do minimal effort and have as optimal an experience as possible. This is especially important within the high end side of things.

There’s a lot of opportunity to get this right and provide a basically endless stream of buyers and sellers. This is where you can turn the spigot on or off for your high-end eMarketplace platform. Are you delivering a great experience for buyers and sellers?

Optimization & Security

For technology, there needs to be the ability to find the site, implement SEO (search engine optimization), and have a secure experience.

For this purpose, it’s best to work with a software development company like Clarity Ventures.

We implement high end eCommerce sites and secure sites continuously with our robust security audits and ongoing support, updates, and upgrades to ensure the site is secure.

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We also make sure the website has high performance and high availability, so that if the site gets spikes of traffic, which do occur, especially for popular eMarketplaces, there can be a news release or special promotion, etc., which can also cause spikes in traffic.

Being able to handle this seamlessly is critical to the trust and credibility the marketplace builds from its users.

These are all things that working with the right partner for your high end marketplace eCommerce site will make or break the ability to have a turnkey solution for this.

 

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