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Marketplace

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

/ˈmɑːrkɪtpleɪs/nounCore term

In e-commerce, marketplace means: A large website or app where many independent sellers list and sell their products, while the platform handles traffic, payments and often delivery rules.

In Turkish: pazaryeri, pazar yeri, online pazaryeri

How it is used

Used for platforms such as Amazon, eBay, Etsy or the large Turkish marketplaces. Sellers sell on, list on or join a marketplace and follow its seller rules. Teams often compare marketplace sales with sales from their own online store.

Example sentences

  1. Most of our new customers find us on the marketplace first and then visit our own site.

  2. The marketplace changed its commission rates for electronics last month.

Common collocations

  • sell on a marketplace
  • online marketplace
  • marketplace seller
  • marketplace fees
  • join a marketplace
  • third-party sellerAn independent business that sells its products on someone else's marketplace, as opposed to products sold by the marketplace company itself.
  • commissionThe fee a marketplace keeps from each sale, usually a percentage of the selling price that changes by product category.
  • online storeA website or app where a business shows its products and customers can order and pay for them without visiting a physical shop.
  • seller ratingA score that shows how a marketplace seller performs, based on buyer feedback and things like on-time shipping, cancellations and returns.
  • product listingThe entry for a product on a marketplace or store, made up of its title, photos, price, description and details; also the work of creating these entries.

This word in other fields

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