Marketplace Transactions & Commerce Basics
Core focus on making core transaction behaviour clearer, more reliable, and easier to manage for admins, sellers, and buyers. Introduced and progressively stabilised essential marketplace mechanics across retail, services, rentals, and space-based use cases.
Key foundational capabilities include:
- Multi-seller transaction workflows (introduced 2016–2018, stabilised 2019–2020): Support for failed, pending, acknowledged, and completed transaction states across multi-merchant checkouts.
- Payment status visibility improvements (expanded 2019): Clearer distinction between transaction status and payment gateway status within admin and seller views.
- Commission and monetisation models (introduced 2017–2019): Early fee configuration, including category-based commissions and seller-level monetisation controls.
- Purchase history and transaction list refinements (expanded 2019–2020): Improved accuracy, filtering, and display of transaction records for admins, sellers, and buyers.
- Purchase and fulfilment state handling (expanded 2018–2019): Foundational support for purchase completion, seller fulfilment actions, cancellations, and status updates across different marketplace models.
- Search, filtering, and discovery (iterated 2017–2020): Consumer-facing search, category filters, and listing discovery enhancements to support growing attribute complexity.
Seller & Listing Management
Focus on enabling sellers to manage listings, variants, and inventory with basic but practical controls.
Key foundational capabilities include:
- Item variants support (introduced 2016–2018, stabilised 2019): Ability to create variant options (e.g. size, colour) with variant-level pricing, stock values, and images.
- Variant ordering and display controls (introduced 2019): Support for re-arranging variant option sequences for clearer presentation.
- Low-stock notification feature (introduced 2020): Seller notifications triggered when inventory thresholds were reached.
- Custom item fields (introduced 2016–2018, expanded 2019–2020): Ability for admins to define additional listing fields, including required attributes and searchable fields.