Top Marketplace Builders: Shipturtle vs Sharetribe

Shipturtle offers the most advanced vendor dashboards

Read on to discover why Shipturtle is a far better Sharetribe alternative.
We have compared numerous aspects including store frontend, marketplace features, cost & scalability.

Marketplace software overview

Shipturtle—Democratic marketplace extension on Shopify & Woocommerce

Shipturtle is a no-code app integrating with a leading e-commerce platform like Shopify. It is fast, user-friendly, and cost-effective with a typical launch time of under 2 days.

B2C, C2C, and B2B marketplaces have access to various out-of-the-box configurations for shipping, calendar booking, and subscriptions.

Vendor dashboards are designed for scale and complete automation. Let your vendors sync their software feeds, manage products, fulfill orders, and receive payouts across 1000s of transactions in minutes.

Sharetribe—Independent marketplace builder with a small developer community

Sharetribe is a closed ecosystem with basic templates suitable for rental or service marketplaces. It has no support for online mall-type product marketplaces (like Amazon).

It is suitable for small or private vendors with a need to manage 1-20 listings each. Additional features needed by large sellers and brands require extensive customization, contrary to their content resources.

In terms of cost, website features, marketplace features, and scalability, Sharetribe cannot compete with a Shipturtle + Shopify combination.

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Criteria

Shipturtle

Sharetribe

Getting Started

Fast, Scalable, and Stable

Shipturtle caters to B2C, C2C, and B2B marketplaces that offer Products, Services, Digital products, and more.

It is an extension of the world’s most popular website platforms like Shopify.

Offers a 14-day trial period, marketplace is typically launched within 2 days.

Built for scale and large vendors with features like vendor connect, bulk listing management, integrated shipping, and invoicing.

It is self-hosted, white-labeled, offering monthly updates and full backup.

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Simple with Limited Features

Caters to C2C rental and service marketplaces, providing a front-end website engine with embedded vendor logins.

With a 14-day trial period, it requires no technical expertise to launch a basic marketplace.

Self-hosted platform, no need for maintenance and backups.

Simple and stable with a limited feature set.

Scaling requires developer assistance.

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Pricing

Drastic Cost Savings

Shipturtle charges $149 per month, which is 90% less than Sharetribe. Add $79 for Shopify charges to make the comparison likable. (estimated for a marketplace receiving 5000 orders)

Both Shopify and Shipturtle charge payment processing charges via Stripe which is ~$0.30 + 2.5% per order.

Detailed and extensive published feature set with minimal need for any customization.

Shopify and Woocommerce have the world’s easiest drag-and-drop interfaces with a developer community of millions.

No hidden charges. No transaction based charges.

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High Costs & Customizations

Sharetribe charges ~$1500 per month + ~ $1000 per month to developers for “customizations” you will invariably need at that scale. (estimated for a marketplace receiving 5000 orders)

Only basic features are available even on their highest plan.

Customizations will typically cost anywhere from $5000-$20000 for basic requirements like website design, vendor dashboards, shipping, invoicing, etc.

Our research revealed a large number of claims on their website are customizations.

Sharetribe's hidden costs deter budding entrepreneurs. Their per-conversation fee (10-19 cent per conversation fee for C2C platform), along with other undisclosed fees, can significantly impact merchant margins.

Vendor Management

All-in-One Vendor Management

Extremely powerful Vendor management dashboard comprising Vendor onboarding, detailed analytics, custom vendor permissions, customer chat, reviews, and mobile access.

Vendor Connect feature gives Marketplaces a two-way ability to sync with the vendors’ feeds on Shopify, Amazon, etc. Inventory is kept in sync, orders are pushed to their Order Management System and listings are updated automatically.

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Limited Vendor Management Feature

Customers on the website can list their products and become a vendor.

Based on your set transaction type, customers can initiate transactions to book a listing, purchase listings, or initiate a chat with vendors and leave a review.

Limited Vendor management feature.

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Product Management

Customize, Create, and Optimize

Vendors can tailor product fields, create single or bulk listings, and utilize templates for consistency.

Automatic inventory updates and quick edit options enhance efficiency.

Approval flows maintain quality control.

Support for product variants, mandatory fields, and private label products.

Subscription and booking product options.

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Essential Features Only

Lets website users sign up and add their listing.

The marketplace owners can configure the product fields and listing types: Calendar booking, Purchase, and Free Messaging.

No support for bulk listing, approval flow, automatic inventory sync, subscriptions, etc.

Merchants can only set one single percentage commission fee for each party.

There is no built-in mechanism for charging listing fees.

There is no built-in mechanism for charging subscription fees to allow users to be members of the marketplace.

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Scalable Solutions
Seamless Integration
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