Simple solution for platform (payment, booking)?
Hi,
do you know any system that can help me to setup and maintain a platform (= many to many) business? The platform I want to build will connect searchers and providers of services where the searchers can buy the service online. There will be money paid from the searcher to the provider (and maybe a provision to me) and ideally booking from searcher to provider would be supported as well.
It feels like there should be some service that helps me setting up such a platform: user management, payment processing (getting money from searcher, paying the provider).
I'm a Laravel developer and like Paddle for Saas payment, but my use case here is beyond that.
Is there any starter package or hosted service for such platform businesses?
Stripe Connect (see their marketplaces use case) is pretty much exactly what you want. However, it can be pretty complex depending on how you want to set it up, but they offer a number of different flows to onboard what would be your "service providers" to receive payments from your searchers.
You'll have to build the user-management side for your platform and then dump your service providers into one of the Stripe Connect flows they offer to get them set up to actually receive payments (or build the whole experience yourself if you want).
@seanmcgary Thanks, exactly what I searched for!