Achieve Multi-tenancy in Monitoring with Prometheus & Thanos Receiver

Hey there! If you are reading this blog post, then I guess you are already aware of Prometheus and how it helps us in monitoring distributed systems like Kubernetes. And if you are familiar with Prometheus, then chances are that you have come across the name called Thanos. Thanos is a popular OSS that helps enterprises achieve a HA Prometheus setup with long-term storage capabilities. One of the common challenges of distributed monitoring is to implement multi-tenancy. Thanos receiver is a Thanos component designed to address this common challenge. Receiver was part of Thanos for a long time, but it was EXPERIMENTAL. Recently, Thanos went GA with the Receiver component.

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Achieve Multi-tenancy in Monitoring with Prometheus & Thanos Receiver

Hey there! If you are reading this blog post, then I guess you are already aware of Prometheus and how it helps us in monitoring distributed systems like Kubernetes. And if you are familiar with Prometheus, then chances are that you have come across the name called Thanos. Thanos is a popular OSS that helps enterprises achieve a HA Prometheus setup with long-term storage capabilities. One of the common challenges of distributed monitoring is to implement multi-tenancy. Thanos receiver is a Thanos component designed to address this common challenge. Receiver was part of Thanos for a long time, but it was EXPERIMENTAL. Recently, Thanos went GA with the Receiver component.

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Multi-cloud Spending: 8 Tips To Lower Cost

A multi-cloud approach is nothing but leveraging two or more cloud platforms for meeting the various business requirements of an enterprise. The multi-cloud IT environment incorporates different clouds from multiple vendors and negates the dependence on a single public cloud service provider. Thus enterprises can choose specific services from multiple public clouds and reap the benefits of each.

Given its affordability and agility, most enterprises opt for a multi-cloud approach in cloud computing now. A 2018 survey on the public cloud services market points out that 81% of the respondents use services from two or more providers. Subsequently, the cloud computing services market has reported incredible growth in recent times. The worldwide public cloud services market is all set to reach $500 billion in the next four years, according to IDC.

By choosing multi-cloud solutions strategically, enterprises can optimize the benefits of cloud computing and aim for some key competitive advantages. They can avoid the lengthy and cumbersome processes involved in buying, installing and testing high-priced systems. The IaaS and PaaS solutions have become a windfall for the enterprise’s budget as it does not incur huge up-front capital expenditure.

However, cost optimization is still a challenge while facilitating a multi-cloud environment and a large number of enterprises end up overpaying with or without realizing it. The below-mentioned tips would help you ensure the money is spent wisely on cloud computing services.

• Deactivate underused or unattached resources

Most organizations tend to get wrong with simple things which turn out to be the root cause for needless spending and resource wastage. The first step to cost optimization in your cloud strategy is to identify underutilized resources that you have been paying for.

Enterprises often continue to pay for resources that have been purchased earlier but are no longer useful. Identifying such unused and unattached resources and deactivating it on a regular basis brings you one step closer to cost optimization. If needed, you can deploy automated cloud management tools that are largely helpful in providing the analytics needed to optimize the cloud spending and cut costs on an ongoing basis.

• Figure out idle instances

Another key cost optimization strategy is to identify the idle computing instances and consolidate them into fewer instances. An idle computing instance may require a CPU utilization level of 1-5%, but you may be billed by the service provider for 100% for the same instance.

Every enterprise will have such non-production instances that constitute unnecessary storage space and lead to overpaying. Re-evaluating your resource allocations regularly and removing unnecessary storage may help you save money significantly. Resource allocation is not only a matter of CPU and memory but also it is linked to the storage, network, and various other factors.

• Deploy monitoring mechanisms

The key to efficient cost reduction in cloud computing technology lies in proactive monitoring. A comprehensive view of the cloud usage helps enterprises to monitor and minimize unnecessary spending. You can make use of various mechanisms for monitoring computing demand.

For instance, you can use a heatmap to understand the highs and lows in computing visually. This heat map indicates the start and stop times which in turn lead to reduced costs. You can also deploy automated tools that help organizations to schedule instances to start and stop. By following a heatmap, you can understand whether it is safe to shut down servers on holidays or weekends.

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How to Monitor Third Party API Integrations

Many enterprises and SaaS companies depend on a variety of external API integrations in order to build an awesome customer experience. Some integrations may outsource certain business functionality such as handling payments or search to companies like Stripe and Algolia. You may have integrated other partners which expand the functionality of your product offering, For example, if you want to add real-time alerts to an analytics tool, you might want to integrate the PagerDuty and Slack APIs into your application.

If you’re like most companies though, you’ll soon realize you’re integrating hundreds of different vendors and partners into your app. Any one of them could have performance or functional issues impacting your customer experience. Worst yet, the reliability of an integration may be less visible than your own APIs and backend. If the login functionality is broken, you’ll have many customers complaining they cannot log into your website. However, if your Slack integration is broken, only the customers who added Slack to their account will be impacted. On top of that, since the integration is asynchronous, your customers may not realize the integration is broken until after a few days when they haven’t received any alerts for some time.

How do you ensure your API integrations are reliable and high performing? After all, if you’re selling a feature real-time alerting, you’re alerts better well be real-time and have at least once guaranteed delivery. Dropping alerts because your Slack or PagerDuty integration is unacceptable from a customer experience perspective.

What to monitor

Latency

Specific API integrations that have an exceedingly high latency could be a signal that your integration is about to fail. Maybe your pagination scheme is incorrect or the vendor has not indexed your data in the best way for you to efficiently query.

Latency best practices

Average latency only tells you half the story. An API that consistently takes one second to complete is usually better than an API with high variance. For example if an API only takes 30 milliseconds on average, but 1 out of 10 API calls take up to five seconds, then you have high variance in your customer experience. This is makes it much harder to track down bugs and harder to handle in your customer experience. This is why 90th percentile and 95th percentiles are important to look at.

Reliability

Reliability is a key metric to monitor especially since your integrating APIs that you don’t have control over. What percent of API calls are failing? In order to track reliability, you should have a rigid definition on what constitutes a failure.

Reliability best practices

While any API call that has a response status code in the 4xx or 5xx family may be considered an error, you might have specific business cases where the API appears to successfully complete yet the API call should still be considered a failure. For example, a data API integration that returns no matches or no content consistently could be considered failing even though the status code is always 200 OK. Another API could be returning bogus or incomplete data. Data validation is critical for measuring where the data returned is correct and up to date.

Not every API provider and integration partner follows suggested status code mapping

Availability

While reliability is specific to errors and functional correctness, availability and uptime is a pure infrastructure metric that measures how often a service has an outage, even if temporary. Availability is usually measured as a percentage of uptime per year or number of 9’s.

AVAILABILITY %DOWNTIME PER YEARDOWNTIME PER MONTHDOWNTIME PER WEEKDOWNTIME PER DAY90% (“one nine”)36.53 days73.05 hours16.80 hours2.40 hours99% (“two nines”)3.65 days7.31 hours1.68 hours14.40 minutes99.9% (“three nines”)8.77 hours43.83 minutes10.08 minutes1.44 minutes99.99% (“four nines”)52.60 minutes4.38 minutes1.01 minutes8.64 seconds99.999% (“five nines”)5.26 minutes26.30 seconds6.05 seconds864.00 milliseconds99.9999% (“six nines”)31.56 seconds2.63 seconds604.80 milliseconds86.40 milliseconds99.99999% (“seven nines”)3.16 seconds262.98 milliseconds60.48 milliseconds8.64 milliseconds99.999999% (“eight nines”)315.58 milliseconds26.30 milliseconds6.05 milliseconds864.00 microseconds99.9999999% (“nine nines”)31.56 milliseconds2.63 milliseconds604.80 microseconds86.40 microseconds

Usage

Many API providers are priced on API usage. Even if the API is free, they most likely have some sort of rate limiting implemented on the API to ensure bad actors are not starving out good clients. This means tracking your API usage with each integration partner is critical to understand when your current usage is close to the plan limits or their rate limits.

Usage best practices

It’s recommended to tie usage back to your end-users even if the API integration is quite downstream from your customer experience. This enables measuring the direct ROI of specific integrations and finding trends. For example, let’s say your product is a CRM, and you are paying Clearbit $199 dollars a month to enrich up to 2,500 companies. That is a direct cost you have and is tied to your customer’s usage. If you have a free tier and they are using the most of your Clearbit quota, you may want to reconsider your pricing strategy. Potentially, Clearbit enrichment should be on the paid tiers only to reduce your own cost.

How to monitor API integrations

Monitoring API integrations seems like the correct remedy to stay on top of these issues. However, traditional Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools like New Relic and AppDynamics focus more on monitoring the health of your own websites and infrastructure. This includes infrastructure metrics like memory usage and requests per minute along with application level health such as appdex scores and latency. Of course, if you’re consuming an API that’s running in someone else’s infrastructure, you can’t just ask your third-party providers to install an APM agent that you have access to. This means you need a way to monitor the third-party APIs indirectly or via some other instrumentation methodology.

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Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus and Thanos

Introduction

The need for Prometheus High Availability

Kubernetes adoption has grown multifold in the past few months and it is now clear that Kubernetes is the defacto for container orchestration. That being said, Prometheus is also considered an excellent choice for monitoring both containerized and non-containerized workloads.

Monitoring is an essential aspect of any infrastructure, and we should make sure that our monitoring set-up is highly-available and highly-scalable in order to match the needs of an ever growing infrastructure, especially in the case of Kubernetes.

Therefore, today we will deploy a clustered Prometheus set-up which is not only resilient to node failures, but also ensures appropriate data archiving for future references. Our set-up is also very scalable, to the extent that we can span multiple Kubernetes clusters under the same monitoring umbrella.

Present scenario

Majority of Prometheus deployments use persistent volume for pods, while Prometheus is scaled using a federated set-up. However, not all data can be aggregated using a federated mechanism, where you often need a mechanism to manage Prometheus configuration when you add additional servers.

The Solution

Thanos aims at solving the above problems. With the help of Thanos, we can not only multiply instances of Prometheus and de-duplicate data across them, but also archive data in a long term storage such as GCS or S3.

Implementation

Thanos Architecture

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Thanos consists of the following components:

• Thanos Sidecar: This is the main component that runs along Prometheus. It reads and archives data on the object store. Moreover, it manages Prometheus’ configuration and lifecycle. To distinguish each Prometheus instance, the sidecar component injects external labels into the Prometheus configuration. This component is capable of running queries on Prometheus servers’ PromQL interface. Sidecar components also listen on Thanos gRPC protocol and translate queries between gRPC and REST.
• Thanos Store: This component implements the Store API on top of historical data in an object storage bucket. It acts primarily as an API gateway and therefore does not need significant amounts of local disk space. It joins a Thanos cluster on startup and advertises the data it can access. It keeps a small amount of information about all remote blocks on local disk and keeps it in-sync with the bucket. This data is generally safe to delete across restarts at the cost of increased startup times.
• Thanos Query: The Query component listens on HTTP and translates queries to Thanos gRPC format. It aggregates the query result from different sources, and can read data from Sidecar and Store. In a HA setup, it even deduplicates the result.

Run-time deduplication of HA groups

Prometheus is stateful and does not allow replicating its database. This means that increasing high-availability by running multiple Prometheus replicas are not very easy to use. Simple load balancing will not work, as for example after some crash, a replica might be up but querying such replica will result in a small gap during the period it was down.

You have a second replica that maybe was up, but it could be down in another moment (e.g rolling restart), so load balancing on top of those will not work well.

• Thanos Querier instead pulls data from both replicas, and deduplicate those signals, filling the gaps if any, transparently to the Querier consumer.
• Thanos Compact: The compactor component of Thanos applies the compaction procedure of the Prometheus 2.0 storage engine to block data stored in object storage. It is generally not semantically concurrency safe and must be deployed as a singleton against a bucket.
• It is also responsible for downsampling of data - performing 5m downsampling after 40 hours and 1h downsampling after 10 days.
• Thanos Ruler: It basically does the same thing as Prometheus’ rules. The only difference is that it can communicate with Thanos components.

Configuration

Prerequisite

In order to completely understand this tutorial, the following are needed:

1. Working knowledge of Kubernetes and using kubectl
2. A running Kubernetes cluster with at least 3 nodes (for the purpose of this demo a GKE cluster is being used)
3. Implementing Ingress Controller and ingress objects (for the purpose of this demo Nginx Ingress Controller is being used). Although this is not mandatory but it is highly recommended inorder to decrease the number of external endpoints created.
4. Creating credentials to be used by Thanos components to access object store (in this case GCS bucket)
5. Create 2 GCS buckets and name them as prometheus-long-term and thanos-ruler
6. Create a service account with the role as Storage Object Admin
7. Download the key file as json credentials and name it as thanos-gcs-credentials.json
8. Create kubernetes secret using the credentials
9. kubectl create secret generic thanos-gcs-credentials --from-file=thanos-gcs-credentials.json -n monitoring

Deploying various components

Deploying Prometheus Services Accounts, Clusterrole and Clusterrolebinding

apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: monitoring
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: monitoring
  namespace: monitoring
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
  name: monitoring
  namespace: monitoring
rules:
- apiGroups: [""]
  resources:
  - nodes
  - nodes/proxy
  - services
  - endpoints
  - pods
  verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
- apiGroups: [""]
  resources:
  - configmaps
  verbs: ["get"]
- nonResourceURLs: ["/metrics"]
  verbs: ["get"]
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
  name: monitoring
subjects:
  - kind: ServiceAccount
    name: monitoring
    namespace: monitoring
roleRef:
  kind: ClusterRole
  Name: monitoring
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
---

The above manifest creates the monitoring namespace and service accounts,

clusterrole

and

clusterrolebinding

needed by Prometheus.

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Top 10 Multi vendor Marketplace Platform Providers 2022

Great evolution has happened in the buying and selling process due to the advent of ecommerce. There is exponential growth in the field of online business and selling and buying happens at the doorstep. The multi seller ecommerce platform has become the next level in the ecommerce niche.

The ecommerce marketplace platforms like Amazon, Flipkart, and eBay have already succeeded in the industry and have set a milestone on sales and revenue.

This fact has inspired many aspiring entrepreneurs and has made them transfer their brick and mortar stores to multi vendor platform.

What is Online Multi vendor Marketplace?

Multi vendor marketplace platform is connect a multiple sellere or vendors to display and sell their products through the platform by agreeing with the terms mentioned by the admin of the platform. They can have their way of promoting their products.

Here is a list of Top 10 Best Turnkey Multi vendor Marketplace Platforms:

Now that you have a better understanding of the key features for Multi vendor marketplace, let’s compare ten of the top Multi vendor providers.

1. Zielcommerce – All in One Multi vendor eCommerce Marketplace Platform

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Zielcommerce is a white label enabled enterprise grade online marketplace software. The multi vendor platform comes with a one time payment option and it is completely customizable and also scalable. 

Platform Highlights

• The feature-rich UI and UX have never missed attracting the users towards the multi vendor ecommerce.
• The platform is user-friendly and it is a perfect device compatible.
• It’s a convenient marketplace solution that provides all round service required for a perfect multi vendor marketplace platform.
• This also supports easy brand recognition and you can get more visitors to your ecommerce platform.

Zielcommerce provides its users with a secured environment through its SSL certified marketplace software and gains the trust of the users. You can be easily promoted online with this SEO-optimized platform. Stay connected with your customers all the time with the in-build communication channels.

The pleasing features of this multi vendor marketplacce solution

• Multilingual and multiple currency support
• Multiple payment options to facilitate buyers
• Real-time tracking feature to track orders online
• Wide delivery option for buyers’ convenience
• A dedicated mobile application that will suit your business demands
• Review and rating system to enhance the performance of the platform
• 24/7 technical support from our end.

Best Use Cases

• Grocery Ecommerce Platform
• Electronics Ecommerce Platform
• Furniture Ecommerce Platform
• Handcraft Ecommerce Software
• Health Care & Pharmacy Platform

Client’s Rating

• Ease of use: 4.5/5
• Customer service – 4.7/5
• Overall: 4.6/5

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2. X-cart – a well-known multi vendor marketplace platform solution

X-cart is a standalone online marketplace solution for your online business needs. You can get the complete comprehensive features within this multi vendor marketplace software that can meet the customers’ expectations. A genuine approach is maintained and the users trust X-cart for its outstanding functionalities that satisfy the multi vendor market demands.

Platform Highlights

• Xcart stands alone in the market by providing best multi vendor marketplace solutions that will facilitate users to increase their online credibility.
• If you prefer to build a multi vendor marketplace platform like amazon or eBay then Xcart is the perfect choice.

It has gained the trust of thousands of users and people who use Xcart as their online multi vendor marketplace software has given the best review about the product.

The salient features of this multi vendor ecommerce platform solution

• One-time payment to purchase the marketplace software
• In-built marketing and promotion tools to promote the multi vendor marketplace software
• Trusted payment gateways integrated with the website
• Reliable order management system.
• On-time delivery management

Best Use Cases

• Hyperlocal Ecommerce Platform
• Jewellery e-commerce Store
• Electronics Ecommerce Platform
• Furniture Ecommerce Platform

Client’s Rating:

• Ease of use : 3.5/5
• Customer service – 3.4/5
• Overall : 3.5/5

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3. Cs cart – a perfect multi vendor marketplace solution

CS-Cart has never disappointed its users and it comes with the complete ecommerce marketplace solution for all your business demands. You can gain perfect control over the online multi vendor marketplace platform and can personalize the platform to suit your business needs. You will get higher visibility and can easily attract your target audience with the CS-Cart marketplace solution.

Platform Highlights

• CS-cart is the most reliable best ecommerce marketplace platform that gives a user-friendly platform for the user.
• The interface is easily understandable and no technical knowledge is needed to maintain the multi vendor marketplace software.

You can gain the attention of global audiences through its multilingual support and can take your brand all over the world and build a strong branding with the help of CS cart.

The key features of this multi vendor ecommerce website solution

• SEO- friendly platform that will help you to get top ranking in all search engines.
• Mobile –friendly and will get you more mobile users as your customers
• Get genuine customer care support
• Well-integrated with all third-party software.
• The online multi vendor ecommerce platform will have social media logins

Best use cases

• Fashion and designs marketplace platform
• Book selling ecommerce platform
• Service marketplace platform
• Food ordering multivendor ecommerce platform

Client’s Rating :

• Ease of use : 4.1/5
• Customer service – 4.3/5
• Overall :4.2/5

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4. Arcadier – Superlative Multi vendor marketplace platform

Arcadier is the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) provider that allows businesses, SMEs, local communities, government agencies and entrepreneurs to manage their online multi vendor marketplace platform more efficiently and affectionately. Arcadier has many attractive features that can grab the attention of vendors.

Platform Highlights

• When you have multiple vendors only then you can call your platform as a best ecommerce marketplace platform.
• This is quite easy when you go for Arcadier.
• The genuine support that you get with this online multi vendor enterprise marketplace platform will retain your vendors and also your buyers and provides better multi vendor marketplace software to your business needs.

Apart from other SaaS online marketplace platforms on the market that offer a temporary solution for all purposes, Arcadier allows users to choose between multiple options in buying and selling products or services to rental spaces and other business models.

**The Prominent features of this online multi vendor marketplace software solution

• The seller can manage to add variations to each listing, and also placing images and surcharges on each and every variant.
• User-friendly platform to get the top ranking in all search engines.
• Manually configure specific dates and hours of your ads on the calendar.
• A Complete customer support assistance

Best Use Case

• Clothing and accessories multi vendor ecommerce platform
• Handicrafts Online marketplace platform
• Hair stylist scheduling software
• On demand movies online marketplace platform

**Client’s Rating: **

• Ease of use : 3.2/5
• Customer service – 3/5
• Overall : 3.1/5

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5. Bigcommerce - Exquisite Multi Vendor Marketplace Software

Multi vendor Marketplace that converts your single admin online store into Multi vendor Marketplace. It provides of adding vendors and maintain the track record of their order and sales. Apart from vendor features, Bigcommerce gives best buyer features that will impress buyers and make them decide on buying products in your online multi vendor ecommerce platform.

Platform Highlights

• Offers and discount features are available that will delight buyers and will make them refer more customers to your best ecommerce marketplace platform.
• You can also easily retain your customers by keeping them about new arrivals and offers.
• As a store admin, you have background access and control and manage the products, orders, vendors and their products.

It comes with an option which, without the approval of the vendor admin the product would not be visible in the forefront. This online multi vendor marketplace platform is excellent features and creating various plans for vendors, a payment management system for vendors.

Impressing features of this online multi vendor marketplace software solution

• Flexible Functionality Product approval
• An admin can have full access to the seller’s profile, products, manage
• Synchronizing products and orders from the “Bigcommerce store” to the "market.
• Without any issue, the admin can create a “Payment” for the seller, once a product is out of stock.

Best Use Case

• best online salon scheduling software for salon owners
• Educational books online marketplace platform
• Food delivery multi seller ecommerce platform
• Fashion and clothing ecommerce platform

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6. IXXO - Ideal Multi Vendor marketplace software

Ixxo is an ideal marketplace solution for those who want to open and manage a high-volume marketplace as IXXO online Multi Vendor ecommerce platform offers unlimited product and unlimited vendor capacity. The marketplace owners can configure vendor privileges purely based on vendors. this help the multi vendor marketplace software owner to provide the basic vendor features, where the vendors dont have much ecommerce experience and privileges.

Platform Highlights

• IXXO is a well-known online multi vendor marketplace platform that ensures perfect product delivery on-time.
• Buyers and vendors can easily track their product and will know its current status.

This will ensure that the delivery is taking place in the right way. If there is any delay then through a proper messaging system the buyer will get intimation regarding the delay. This feature impresses the customer and makes the platform the best one.

Splendid features of this best ecommerce marketplace platform solution

• Simple Checkout Process
• A wide range of payment options
• Responds promptly and friendlily.
• Feature-rich provider dashboard.

Best Use Cases

• Ticket booking multi vendor ecommerce platform
• On-demand cab booking online marketplace platform
• Online grocery ecommerce platform
• Clothing ecommerce platform

**Client’s Rating: **

• Ease of use : 4.1/5
• Customer service – 4.3/5
• Overall :4.2/5

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7. Sharetribe - Structured Multi vendor marketplace solutions

Sharetribe is one of the excellent SaaS platforms for building and launching a online multi vendor marketplace software. Easy setting changes to your color theme and photos, instantly.

Platform Highlights

• It is merged with a integration process, the marketplace allows users to sell products or services online without any technical support.
• Sharetribe has all in-built marketing tools that will easily promote your brand globally with less effort.

This online multi vendor marketplace platform gives a perfect shopping experience to customers and also satisfied selling experience to vendors. Users can trust sharetribe for their business requirement and can get a trustworthy marketplace solution that will leverage their business to greater levels.

Core features of this best ecommerce marketplace platform

• It is a comprehensive tool for customizing your marketplace.
• Responsive Design for users, optimized for every screen.
• More conversions rate and decrease in bounce rate.
• A comprehensive content management system to maintain an active market with visual content.

Best Use Cases

• Travel and stay multi vendor ecommerce platform
• salon appointment scheduling software
• Healthcare ecommerce platform
• Food supply ecommerce platform

**Client’s Rating:**

• Ease of use : 3.9/5
• Customer service – 3.7/5
• Overall :3.8/5

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8. Appdupe - Intuitive Multi vendor marketplace software

A online Multi vendor marketplace platform is an online marketplace where many sellers can sign up, create their profiles and add products and sell when they want. One of the best examples of multi vendor platforms right now is Amazon, and so on. Well, the ecommerce marketplace software has multiple benefits for its users and vendors.

Platform Highlights

• Appdupe gives customers to share their reviews and give ratings for the product they have purchased.
• Vendors can also read the reviews written by their customers and this will help them to enhance their online multi vendor marketplace platform in a better way.
• Appdupe also supports multiple revenue models and users can select the one that perfectly suits their business and can get better returns with minimum investment.

Impressing feature of this best ecommerce marketplace platform

• It provides a hassle-free process
• Easily download and handle their products in a simple way.
• Separate dashboard for seller and buyer data formatting may go all the way.
• Analysis and enhanced the ROI

Best Use Cases

• Hyperlocal multivendor ecommerce platform
• Grocery ecommerce platform
• Mobile & accessories online marketplace platform
  * Cosmetics ecommerce platform
  
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9. Miva - Outbreaking Multi vendor marketplace platform

Is a flexible multi seller ecommerce platform that can be easily modified as their business evolves with more conversions rate, better integrations, with complete solutions for all aspects of online sales, This online multi vendor marketplace software help them generate revenue and increasing the average order value and with less operating costs.

Platform Highlights

Miva suits to any business model and business size. This online multi vendor marketplace platform is very cost-effective and even a startup who plans to start an online store with minimum investment can easily go for Miva.

The online ecommerce marketplace software looks like it has been built from scratch. It inherits all essential features that are needed to run a multi vendor marketplace platform successfully. All you need is to buy the platform and launch the marketplace and can start earning instantly.

Intuitive feature of this best marketplace software

• Admin can control and manage the review and approval of new products
• Flexible commissions for every vendor sale based on subscription plans
• Separate dashboard for a vendor to manage their own product listing
• The separate seller has a unique profile on the marketplace and products limits based on membership plans

Best Use Cases

• Travel ticket booking online multi vendor ecommerce platform
• Grocery and diary online marketplace platform
• Electrical and electronics ecommerce platform
• Healthcare multi vendor ecommerce platform.

**Client’s Rating: **

• Ease of use:4/5
• Customer service – 3.7/5
• Overall: 3.9/5

10. Quick eSelling – A Proven Multi vendor Marketpalce platform

Quick eSelling is a popular multi vendor online marketplace platform with upgrade features and a more comfortable platform for global merchants and seller to start their own online store. Quick eSelling is an online store feature for Customer Engagement and Retention. This platform has been designed to help you significantly increase your sales and save time.

Platform Highlights

• Quick e-selling marketplace platform allows you to set commission plan for every individual vendor.
• You can easily analyze their performance through proper analytics and reports.
• You can boost the poor performing vendor by providing less commission percentage and boost their sale.

his will satisfy vendors and will make them stay with your best multi vendor marketplace software for a long time. You can get complete support from the technical team round the clock. Whenever customization needed the technical team will guide you in designing your own online multi seller ecommerce platform.

The essential feature of this Multi vendor marketplace software

• SEO-friendly for ecommerce web development and essential to ensure high traffic
• Vendors can check sales trends through graphs and data information inputs for building strategies
• A secured platform for merchants and customers’ transitional communication.
• It makes it easy for you to launch your online business effectively

Best Use Cases

• Fashion and accessories marketplace platform
• E-Book marketplace software
• Food and beverages ecommerce platform
• Jewellery online multi vendor ecommerce platform.

Client’s Rating:

• Ease of use : 3.5/5
• Customerservice – 3.3/5
• Overall :3.4/5

11. Smartstore Z – a multifaceted marketplace platform

This is the most recommended online marketplace platform that holds thousands of active users. The advanced security feature supports users to store customers’ data in a secured way. The platform can stand against all malware attacks as it contains SSL certification.

Platform highlights

The extraordinary inventory management system will let sellers maintain their stock in an effective way. The order process will never be interrupted due to a shortage of stock. Proper notifications will be sent to respective sellers whenever their stock hits the minimum value.

This multi vendor software supports thousands of templates and plugins that can be used by users to customize their marketplace to meet their business demands. Being a user-friendly marketplace platform, no technical knowledge is needed to manage the platform. The dedicated dashboard will support the admin to know the exact working condition of their business.

Features of this multi vendor ecommerce marketplace platform.

• The platform is perfectly scalable and supports future business expansion and can hold a huge customer database for a long time.
• Buyers will be benefited as they can utilize multiple delivery options. They can select their convenient delivery slot and can order products.
• Users can integrate their existing software that is used for their business operations with this multi vendor ecommerce platform as it supports any third-party API.
• Sellers are allowed to have unlimited product listings that will help them to reach their customers easily.

 Best use cases

• On-demand cab booking marketplace platform
• Online ticket booking platform
• Refurbished good selling platform
• Hyperlocal multi vendor eCommerce platform

Client’s Rating: 

• Ease of use: 3.8/5
• Customer service – 3.4/5
• Overall: 3.6/5

Smartstore Z is the most compatible multi vendor eCommerce store that will fit into any business model and business size.

5.     Brainview – a commendable online marketplace platform

Brainview has the most enchanting UI & UX that can gain the attention of your target audience and will make them buy products on your platform. Users can get globally connected as the marketplace supports multiple languages and multiple currencies. Advanced technologies are implemented just to provide a seamless shopping experience to customers.

Platform highlights

Excellent customer support is offered by this multi vendor platform and customers can have direct communication with the concerned seller and they can get more details about the product or service before they buy. This will reduce returns and refunds. Many customer-attracting features are available in this marketplace platform like loyalty programs, referral programs, and many more.

Acquiring more customers is not at all a challenge for this best multi vendor marketplace software. Several revenue streams like commission fee, subscription fee, affiliate modules, advertisements, and many more are integrated with this online marketplace platform.

Features of this multi vendor eCommerce platform

• Supports a better authentication process that will avoid spam users entering the marketplace.
• A dedicated mobile application is available and users of both Android and iOS can use and get a better user experience.
• The platform offers multiple payment options that will facilitate customers to pay and buy online through secured payment gateways.
• Customers can enjoy offers and discounts for all products they buy through this robust multi-vendor platform and this will motivate them to refer others to your marketplace.
• Supports social media login and sharing as it benefits both sellers and buyers to login through social media credentials and share products in their social media pages.

Best use cases

• Grocery eCommerce marketplace platform
• Cosmetics and fashion accessories e-stores
• Online movies download eCommerce platform
• Hyperlocal multi-vendor eCommerce platform
• Online jewelry marketplace platform

Client’s Rating: 

·       Ease of use: 4/5

·       Customer service – 4.2/5

·       Overall: 4.1/5

Brainview is the significant multi vendor eCommerce store that give 100% customization and scalability to users.

Types of Multi vendor Marketplace Platform

There are several types of multi vendor marketplace software in the market. One needs to understand all the types and should know to identify which type of marketplace platform suits his business well.

• Vertical marketplace – this type of best marketplace software concentrates only on one particular service and you cannot find a wide range of services in these platforms. Etsy is a good example of a vertical marketplace where the platform sells handmade crafts alone.
• Horizontal marketplace – this platform is opposite to a vertical marketplace where you can find several types of services under one roof. Amazon is a perfect example of this type of marketplace.
• Product-based marketplace – you can find a wide range of products in this marketplace. The products can be physical goods or even digital goods. Amazon and Flipkart are the product-based marketplaces.
• Service-based marketplace – service providers will list their services like plumbing, personal care, pest control, and many more. Upwork and Fiverr are service-based marketplaces.

Start a Ecommerce Business with the Best Marketplace Platforms Provider

The million-dollar question that has arisen in the minds of every budding entrepreneur is how to start a online multi vendor ecommerce platform. Full attention is needed while building a ecommerce marketplace software. It is not as simple as you think. Only through this multi vendor ecommerce platform, you are going to be recognized by the vendors and the buyers. This multi vendor platform is going to earn you money so it cannot have any flaws.

One way of building a online multi vendor marketplace software is to build it from scratch. First, you need to hire a reputed multi vendor ecommerce platform development company that has ample knowledge about this field. Then you need to explain to them about your requirements and expectations.

They will develop and will show you the demo. During the demo session, you can let them know your modifications and they will also clarify your doubts. At last, your multi seller ecommerce platform will be ready to launch and you can start promoting your multi vendor marketplace software.

The major fact to be noted is, when you build a online multi vendor ecommerce platform from scratch you need to wait for a long time and you need to spend more on the development. If you are okay with it then you can proceed. Else you have another option to go with.

Another option is buying ready made online multi vendor marketplace software that will have all the essential features that are required to run the platform successfully. The software will be tested and proved so there will not be any flaws. You can instantly launch the software after purchasing.

You can get an instant solution to building a multi vendor online marketplace software. This method is quite very cost-effective and it is highly advisable for the startups that are new to this field. You can also customize the software to suit your business needs.

Must have Features in a multi vendor marketplace Platform

The features that are built in the online multi vendor ecommerce platform will determine the user experience and will gain customer satisfaction. Now let us check out the comprehensive features that are too in a multi vendor ecommerce platform.

• Easy customization – the buying behaviors of the customers keep changing so the multi vendor ecommerce website should keep changing over a while. So customization is a default expectation in any multi vendor ecommerce platform.
• Advanced search and navigation tool – the best user-interface will provide easy navigation and will let the buyers find the product in a simple way.
• Payment gateways – the online multi vendor ecommerce website should have multiple payment gateways integrated with it. This will provide more convenience to the buyers
• Secured website – the online multi vendor ecommerce platform should have an SSL configuration and should provide a secured transaction to the buyers and the vendors.
• Multi-lingual and multi-currencies support – for reaching a global audience the online multi vendor ecommerce website should support multiple languages and currencies.
• Review and ratings – the buyers expect this feature to be in the online multi vendor ecommerce platform they purchase the product.
• Simple checkout – a complicated checkout process will make the buyers abandon the site. You need to have hassle-free checkout procedures in your online multi vendor ecommerce platform.

Revenue generation channels on a multi vendor marketplace Platform:

The main objective of building a online multi vendor ecommerce platform is to earn profit and generate more sales. This will be the ultimate motive for any entrepreneur. We need to know what are the revenue sources that a multi vendor marketplace software provides to the admin of the platform.

• Commission fee – this is a mutual agreement made between the admin and the vendor where the vendor agrees to pay a certain percentage of commission on all products he sells through the online best multi vendor marketplace software. The commission percentage can vary from vendor to vendor.
• Subscription fee – the admin can set a subscription fee and can make the vendors subscribe with the online multi vendor marketplace software and become a paid member of the platform. The membership needs to be renewed over some time.
• Listing fee – the vendors will be charged when they want their products to be listed on the marketplace solutions.
• Advertisement fee – you can allot some space in your online ecommerce marketplace software for advertisement alone and can allow third-party to post their ads in the allotted space and you can charge them accordingly.\

How Products and Services are delivered in a multi vendor marketplace?

The multi vendor ecommerce platform will follow a hassle-free shipping and delivery process. This is where you can gain the maximum trust of your buyers and will also help you retain your customers effectively.

• Once the order is placed by the buyer, the notification is sent to the concerned vendor from the multi vendor ecommerce platform.
• The vendor will check the availability of the product and will arrange for shipping and delivery. In some cases, the admin of the online multi vendor ecommerce platform will take care of shipping and delivery.
• The online multi vendor ecommerce platform will be integrated with shipping logistics and the logistic people will come and collect the product from the seller and will deliver it to the customers.
• If a service is provided instead of a product then the service provider will get the notification and he will send his technical person to do the service to the customer place.

How it's Beneficial

Online buyers need a one-stop solution to fulfill all their demands. Without searching for several sites to buy several products, users can just visit one online store and find a variety of products and it is quite a time saving process. A single platform that contains several vendors and their products is called a multi vendor ecommerce platform.

With the evolution of technology, multi vendor marketplace platforms have taken a new dimension that can easily predict customers’ buying behavior. The key pillars involved in any multi vendor marketplace are the admin, vendors and buyers. The platform will act as a bridge to connect all of them and facilitate users to be benefited. Let us analyze the benefits of a multi vendor ecommerce platform in detail.

Conclusion

By all means, building best multi vendor marketplace software will surely benefit us and will let to get more returns. We should also accept the fact that there are many challenges that a online marketplace software will face at its early stage. But still the future of this industry is unbeatable and you can firmly set your mind in starting your own multi seller ecommerce platform.

Understanding the importance and the functioning of a online multi vendor marketplace software will help you to build a flawless multi vendor ecommerce software. When you build a multi vendor marketplace platform with utmost perfection then you can easily win the market and can gain your audience’s attention with less effort.

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