Turn your Shopify store into a professional online multi-vendor marketplace.
Best vendor experience. Onboard vendors in less than 6 minutes.
We are your technical partners with dedicated support.
Retail marketplaces for physical products, digital goods platforms, and service marketplaces. Garnet delivers smooth vendor onboarding, a clean consumer experience, and scalable catalog management.
Learn moreWholesale purchasing, industrial equipment trading, professional service exchange, and business supply procurement. Garnet provides the flexibility needed to support complex B2B logic, from custom pricing to order routing.
Learn moreGarnet provides a modular solution designed for easy admin and product management, supporting your journey from MVP to a fully engineered enterprise platform.
Test your market, onboard sellers smoothly, manage commission models with complete control, and scale your operations as your growth accelerates.
François, Garnet's founder, faced the same challenges that you face while building a marketplace for a major Asian electronics company. Since no solution offered enough control, flexibility, or support, he built one himself.
The resulting platform scaled across 9 countries and contributed to a valuation exceeding $500M. This hands-on experience shaped how we built Garnet and how we support clients.
We have supported 200+ marketplaces. This gives us deep insight into both the technical requirements and the business realities of building, launching, and scaling multi-vendor marketplaces.
When you choose Garnet, you're not just adopting software, you are partnering with a team that understands how successful marketplaces are built and run.
No chatbot. Support is provided directly by the Garnet team. When contacting support, users interact with specialists familiar with marketplace operations and the platform itself.
Documentation, in-app messaging, and direct exchanges are available to address configuration, migration, or operational questions.
Our headquarters are located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This allows us to share significant working hours with teams across Europe, the Americas, and other regions, ensuring smooth communication, faster responses, and reliable support wherever you operate.
Our marketplace platform is designed to support both the marketplace operators and the vendors with all the tools needed for success. Some of the most common features are presented below.
Connect with the tools you already use through our set of native integrations.
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Onboard vendors through email invitation or a dedicated vendor application page.
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Customize the vendor portal to match your brand.
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We support both B2B and B2C marketplaces, across any type of industry.
Marketplaces that bring together independent makers, artisans, and small brands offering original, handcrafted, or limited-run products to consumers.
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Marketplaces designed to showcase nearby shops, regional producers, and independent retailers, helping local businesses reach customers within their community.
Garnet is without doubt the best multivendor marketplace I've used. The platform is intuitive, simple and meets our needs perfectly. Customer support is always responsive and available.
App very useful as a marketplace. Simple intuitive, easy to manage and above all great support and quick attention by François. He helped us at all times and adapted the platform to our needs and new features for us.
After testing multiple apps, Garnet is the best marketplace app we have used. With their expertise, they've created an intuitive and simple solution (for us and vendors). Garnet is constantly improving their offering, releasing new features and their customer service is some of the best we have received.
Garnet was a breath of fresh air after struggling to get Webkul and other marketplace technologies set up. Garnet is incredibly easy to use for both me as the store owner and my vendors. It's getting new features nearly every week and constantly improving. So glad I found this app!
Garnet Marketplace is a new app but Francois is constantly updating and improving features. His customer service and integration support is next level. He responds to emails quickly and works closely with you to ensure the app is meeting your specific needs. The app is much simpler to set up and easier to navigate (for both ourselves and our vendors) than other marketplace apps we had trialled.
Garnet has been the easiest way to implement a multi-vendor marketplace into my Shopify store. Other marketplace apps like Webkul seemed so daunting to use, but with Garnet, the integration worked seamlessly with my store collections. My vendors have been able to easily track their sales with the user interface, and there was no code involved for getting the app up and running.
Having explored various multi-vendor marketplace solutions, ranging from Dokan to Shopify Multi-vendor, I can confidently say that none surpasses the excellence of Garnet. Garnet simplifies the vendor account setup, product addition, and payment process, creating a user-friendly environment that incentivizes vendors to join your platform. What sets Garnet apart is not only its exceptional...
We installed the Webkul Market Place app and it covers all the bases, however, it requires much time and experience. Along comes Garnet and everything is so much easier and better. François the developer is a good man who responds promptly when needed. I highly recommend the Garnet Marketplace app.
François and the team have been exceptional and really helped our marketplace grow into what it is today. Through this app we were able to build a scalable marketplace with all the functionality you can expect from any leading c2c marketplace.
Garnet provides an elegant UI that ensures a frictionless vendor experience helping marketplaces that supports ease in vendor acquisition. Garnet far surpasses competitors. The documentation is robust and clear. The support and communication offered by the Garnet team is stellar.
Garnet has been an absolute game changer for us as a Marketplace. Our team efficiencies have improved by 40% as there are such few issues and anything that pops up is dealt with swiftly.
Whenever I was missing a feature or needed something implemented in a different way, François thought with me and helped me find a solution. A truly flexible and collaborative approach.
We're working to set up a vertical marketplace and the team at Garnet has been extremely helpful and supportive. The tech is clean and the app has what is needed to support our use case!
Amazing customer service! I had questions about customizing fields for my store, I received a call right away and changes were made within days.
Easy to use. The team is very responsive and professional. So far they have everything I need to start my multivendor site.
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Got questions? We've got answers! Check out our FAQ section to find answers to the most common questions about Garnet.
Ask a QuestionA multi-vendor marketplace is an online ecommerce website where multiple vendors can sell their products. Famous online marketplaces are Etsy, Amazon, eBay, etc.
Vendors can manage their own inventory and prices, they fulfill orders and get paid by the multi-vendor marketplace.
The multi-vendor marketplace usually takes a commission on each sale. Sometimes the vendor needs to pay a monthly fee to sell on the marketplace.
Garnet Marketplace turns your Shopify store into a multi-vendor marketplace.
Garnet Marketplace provides the whole interface necessary for vendors to create an account, manage their products, fulfill their orders, and more.
1. Garnet Marketplace is focused on the vendor experience.
When a vendor is happy with the multi-vendor platform, they will provide products at their best price, without quantity buffers, and will accept lighter commissions. The marketplace can then scale easily to bring more SKUs and make more sales.
2. Garnet Marketplace is a technical partner.
You don't know how to code? We do. We also know how to talk to developers and discuss technical issues with vendors and partners. We know what works. We adapt to your business needs with customizations.
You can't miss it, the Install on Shopify button is everywhere on this page :).
So install the Garnet Marketplace app on your Shopify store, let yourself be guided, and contact us if you need help. All plans come with a 30-day money-back warranty.
Garnet Marketplace is a Shopify app. It is built on top of Shopify's GraphQL API.
Shopify manages the customer-facing part of the business: customer see products on a Shopify, they can add products to their cart and checkout.
Garnet Marketplace manages the vendor-facing part: vendors can manage their products, inventory, orders, and more.
Garnet Marketplace takes care of everything. All different components of the order are split per vendor: line items, shipping, taxes, discounts.
Vendors have access to the details of the order: shipping address, delivery address, line item properties and more.
Garnet does not have a limit on the number of vendors. As an example, one of our clients has over +70k vendors with +650 integrations. Contact us to learn more about our Enterprise Plan.
Garnet Marketplace was initially created in 2020 as part of a company internal project. Since 2023, Garnet Marketplace is open to other Shopify stores.
Yes. Garnet Marketplace is integrated with several payment providers such as Stripe, Paypal, or Mollie.
Yes. It is important for a marketplace to validate the content before products are approved. Hence Garnet Marketplace offers an additional step for the marketplace to approve the products.
If there are vendors you trust, you can always enable auto-approval for them.
Yes. Vendors will see your brand name, logo, colors, and domain name. There are no mentions of Garnet Marketplace on the platform.
Contact us! We are open to customizations. We'll assess your needs, provide you with a quote, and we get to work.
The strength of a marketplace is its number of vendors. The more vendors, the more products, the more sales.
Garnet Marketplace enables you to manage a great number of vendors, products, and orders.
Yes! All plans come with a 30-day money-back warranty. If you're not satisfied, we'll refund your payment, no questions asked.
And, another yes! It is common for vendors to fulfill orders or edit products directly on their mobile phone.
We have a great documentation containing all features. Here is the link.
Are you looking for new features? Then check our release notes.
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