Planning to start a Multi-Vendor Wedding Marketplace?

Now that you know how a multi-vendor works, let’s list down what truly matters – what are the benefits of a wedding marketplace for each user

For Marketplace Owner

As the owner, the main advantage is gaining revenue. And this might be why you landed on this page to answer your question: How will I earn as a marketplace owner?

Like working on trade shows, earn through your marketplace by setting up vendor fees, ad sponsorship fees, or commissions.

Here are some revenue streams for your Wedding Marketplace:

1. Wedding Vendor Sign-up Fees 
   You can opt to charge the vendors with a sign-up fee. This would be attractive to wedding vendors who can’t set up their own site yet or need more advertising options.
   Just make sure that your fee appeals to your target vendors, as low prices may attract low-quality suppliers.
2. Product or Service Listing Fees
   And when you get the site rolling, another option is to set a price for each product or service listing. You could opt for a flat or percentage fee; however, this might discourage vendors from populating your site.
   Hence, if you choose this model, you can encourage vendors to populate the site by offering a certain number of free listings, and in addition to those, you could charge the listing fee.
3. Sponsored Listings
   Another way is to encourage vendors to join your marketplace, list their products or services for free, and encourage them to promote or sponsor their listing.
   This way, your site will be populated with more listings, and the vendors can stand out from their competitors.
4. Commissions
   Another popular revenue model is commission. The owner of the multi-vendor marketplace can charge the vendor a fixed fee or a percentage as their commission whenever they make a sale.
   The advantage of this model is the higher the volume of sales, the more significant revenue you will get.
5. Brides and Grooms Membership
   Exclusive groups usually charge a membership fee. And as a one-stop marketplace, you can charge brides and grooms with a reasonable one-time membership fee that will allow them to fully access your site.

For Wedding Suppliers

We see from different industries – especially during 2020 and 2021 – that more and more brands are choosing to join a multi-vendor marketplace. Moreover, suppliers favouring to join a multi-vendor platform is more likely to be more prominent in all niche industry, for the following reasons:

Cost-Effective

We can say that some wedding suppliers would probably have a decent website to showcase their services or products. But how about the rest? The rest who rely on trade shows or their physical shops. Developing their online stores would cost them thousands of money and numerous hours to materialise it.

Hence, your wedding marketplace will be the solution. You provide suppliers with a cost-effective investment to feature their products and services for only a minimal fee.

Audience Visibility

With the time spent on wedding planning, especially on the hours spent online researching, suppliers need to make sure that they are visible to the couple’s screens. And your optimised marketplace provides a perfect avenue to attract more page visits than any single business can.

The high traffic volume will encourage vendors to join your marketplace, satisfying their need to be discoverable cost-efficiently.

 

For End Customers: Brides and Grooms

The vast range of products and services available on your site makes it easy for couples to compare and discover suppliers. By making sure the suppliers offer various listings will get customers engaged. As a result, gain more traffic and sales to your platform.

Your marketplace could simply gather the best deals from all vendors, ultimately delivering what the brides and grooms desire when planning a wedding — convenience.