Let ordinary people sell to each other under your brand. Garnet is p2p marketplace software that turns a Shopify store into a marketplace, with a single login for buyers and sellers and automated payouts to every seller.
Book a demoPeer-to-peer marketplace software lets individuals list, sell, and get paid for their own goods on one branded storefront, while the operator sets fees and handles payouts. Garnet Marketplace, a Shopify multi-vendor marketplace app, turns your existing Shopify store into exactly that: a single login for buyers and sellers, listing approval, commissions, and automated payouts, with no custom code.
In a P2P marketplace, the same person might sell a bike on Monday and buy a jacket on Friday. That flips a normal store on its head. You are not managing one catalog. You are managing thousands of individual sellers, most of them not businesses, each expecting to list in minutes and be paid without chasing you.
Three problems decide whether the marketplace works:
Garnet is built around these three jobs. The rest of this page shows how.
The heart of a peer-to-peer marketplace is that anyone can be both sides of the transaction. Garnet supports a single account that lets a shopper start listing their own items without creating a second profile.
Onboarding is fast on purpose: a new seller can be live in about 6 minutes, and you can bulk-import an existing seller base rather than asking everyone to sign up again.
When strangers sell to strangers, quality control is the product. Garnet lets you review and approve every listing before it goes live, set an application step for new sellers, and reject anything off-brand.
Built-in message moderation means buyer and seller conversations stay on the platform, so disputes and off-platform deals do not slip through.
Customers pay once through Shopify checkout. Garnet then splits each order by seller, deducts your commission, and pays each person out through Stripe, PayPal, or Mollie.
You decide when sellers are paid: immediately, after delivery, or once the refund window closes. No spreadsheets, no manual bank transfers.
Garnet is a no-code peer-to-peer marketplace builder. You configure commissions, seller fields, and payout rules from a dashboard, and apply your own white-label branding across the storefront and seller portal.
Because it lives inside Shopify, sellers who already run a Shopify or WooCommerce store can sync their stock instead of re-entering it.
Four steps take you from a single-seller Shopify store to a working Shopify peer-to-peer marketplace.
Add Garnet to your Shopify store from the App Store. Your checkout, theme, and domain stay exactly as they are.
Choose your commission, seller application fields, and when payouts are triggered. This is your business model, done in the dashboard.
Invite people, open public signups, or import an existing list. Buyers can turn into sellers on the same login.
Review the first listings, publish, and start selling. Garnet handles order splitting and payouts from the first sale.
Founded in London in 2021, My Next Bike is the UK's leading platform for second-hand bicycles and e-bikes. It is a classic peer-to-peer model: one login serves both buyers and sellers, so anyone selling their old bike can buy their next one on the same account.
They started with off-the-shelf tools that could not scale. When they moved to Garnet, we imported 3,000+ existing sellers and had the marketplace live in days. Since then:
Resale is where a lot of P2P demand sits. The global secondhand apparel market alone is projected to reach $367 billion by 2029, with online resale growing at 13% a year (ThredUp 2025 Resale Report, data by GlobalData). You do not need bikes to use this model. See more multi-vendor marketplace examples.
A peer-to-peer marketplace platform has to do four jobs a single-seller store never has to. Here is how each maps to Garnet, the multi-vendor marketplace app for Shopify. For a broader view, browse general marketplace software or the online marketplace builder.
| What a peer-to-peer marketplace needs | What Garnet provides |
|---|---|
| Buyers who can also sell | A single login for buyers and sellers, no second signup |
| Trust between strangers | Seller applications, listing approval, and message moderation |
| One cart, many sellers | Shopify checkout, with orders split by seller automatically |
| Pay hundreds of individuals | Commissions plus automated payouts via Stripe, PayPal, Mollie |
Most peer-to-peer marketplace platforms, Sharetribe included, are standalone tools. You build and run the marketplace away from your store. Garnet takes the opposite route and builds on Shopify. Here is the practical difference for a P2P marketplace.
| For your P2P marketplace | Standalone platform (e.g. Sharetribe) | Garnet on Shopify |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | A separate hosted site | Your existing Shopify store |
| Checkout and payments | The platform's own flow | Shopify checkout plus Stripe, PayPal, Mollie |
| Buyer and seller accounts | Supported | Supported, single-login option |
| Themes and apps | The platform's ecosystem | The full Shopify theme and app ecosystem |
| Getting started | Rebuild from zero | Add to the store you already run |
Weighing the two? Read the full Sharetribe alternative comparison.
Garnet is the right fit for peer-to-peer marketplaces that sell physical or digital goods: resale, handmade, collectibles, second-hand, or C2C retail. It is honest to say where it stops. Garnet has no built-in booking calendars, availability windows, hourly billing, or escrow, so rental-by-the-day and service-booking models need extra scheduling tools. If your marketplace is about listing and selling items, it fits. If it is about renting time or booking people, plan for more than Garnet alone.
Pricing plans for peer-to-peer marketplaces of all sizes.
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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.
After trying every marketplace app available, Garnet is definitely the best of them all. Francois is so helpful and has obviously experienced the pain-points himself which make the features even more credible. Best in market by a long shot.
Really happy with Garnet and the approach they take to the entire process. From the outset, nothing was too much trouble, out of regular hours support and a complete willingness to adapt to our needs. Highly recommend.
We switched to Garnet and our vendors are so much happier. Support team resolves issues within hours to days.
It's well built and free of errors. Excellent support. A stable and reliable app. A beautiful, user-friendly UX.
I had a chat with Paul and François about opening a marketplace and they were available immediately to answer all my questions and even set up a call to talk. Great service!
We tried several multi-vendor apps (Webkul etc) before finding Garnet. Most of the multivendor apps are so difficult for sellers to set up their accounts and list their items. Garnet marketplace is very easy to use as a business owner I wanted the seller UX to be straightforward and easy - and this is what Garnet provides. Francois and Paul are both amazing and helped me set up my market place within 24 hours and have been so supportive.
Ich habe Garnet genutzt und muss sagen, dass es eine super App ist! Das Team, der Support und alles, was dazugehört, sind klasse. Die App bietet viele Möglichkeiten, die im Vergleich zu vielen anderen Anbietern, bei denen alles 0815 ist, wirklich herausstechen. Paul hat mir sehr geholfen zu verstehen, wie die App funktioniert, und bei Fragen per E-Mail kam auch immer prompt eine Antwort mit einer Lösung oder einem Lösungsvorschlag.
We've been using Garnet Marketplace for just over a year, it is the most intuitive tool of its kind. Their team has been incredibly supportive from day one, helping us transform our store into a fully functional multi-vendor marketplace. Francois has been outstanding — quick to respond to any issues, open to feedback, and always willing to implement solutions that meet our needs.
Francois was amazing. He was able to help us with the configuration swiftly. And the app runs like silk now for us. Great add on for anyone seeking to sell others products like a mini Amazon.
Garnet multivendor marketplace has been everything I need it to be. I've tried other apps like WebKul and ShipTurtle, and I wasn't particularly impressed. Garnet values you, is constantly coming out with new features, has great support, and is pretty straight-forward.
Garnet always understand our needs as budding market places and approachable. Quick response time as well.
Great platform, founders are super communicative and willing to help.
Fantástica app para vender productos de diferentes vendedores. Atención al cliente muy rápida y eficaz por parte de François. Además, se adaptaron a nuestras necesidades incluyendo nuevas funcionalidades para nosotros.
If you have multi vendors, Garnet is hands-down the best app. The app is great, user-friendly, IT support is always on it. They're always making changes to best fit all the needs of our customers. I love this app.
The design and functionality look great! The founders are very helpful!
Very good customer service, they really listen to you and help you where it's needed. Recommend their app for any marketplaces out there and it's very fast to get up and running.
Unschlagbarer und herzlicher Support. Die beiden Gründer machen gemeinsam den Support und sind offen für jegliche Art von Fragen. Die App ist meiner Meinung nach die fortschrittlichste und derzeit beste Lösung für einen Online Marktplatz im europäischen Raum und darüber hinaus. Und sie werden immer besser. Weiter so!
Garnet has been a key part of our growth. The platform's integrations and customizations helped us solve critical industry challenges, particularly around logistics, and vendor onboarding. It's enabled us to scale significantly over the past 12 months (5x revenues). I highly recommend.
Working with Garnet has been great. Their interface is clear, straightforward, and easy for our sellers to navigate. Their team provides incredible customer service as they are prompt and accommodating to my specific needs. If I need a feature that doesn't exist, they're willing to provide custom work at reasonable prices or even for free. If you're building a marketplace on Shopify and want a partner who shows up and adapts with you, Garnet is the one I'd point you toward.
Got questions about peer-to-peer marketplace software? We have answers.
Ask a QuestionPeer-to-peer marketplace software runs a store where individuals sell directly to other individuals, while the operator sets a commission and handles payouts. Buyers and sellers often share one login.
Garnet adds this to Shopify: seller accounts, split orders, commissions, and automated payouts, with no custom code.
Pick a store platform, add multi-vendor software, set your commission, and open seller signups. On Shopify the fastest route is to install Garnet, turn on a single buyer-and-seller login, then import or invite your first sellers.
Most operators launch in weeks, not months. See how two-sided marketplaces work for the supply-and-demand side of it.
Yes. Shopify sells for one merchant out of the box. Add Garnet and it becomes a Shopify peer-to-peer marketplace where any user can list items, buy from others, and get paid, all through Shopify checkout.
My Next Bike runs exactly this way with 3,000+ sellers.
Both, in effect. Garnet is a Shopify app, but once installed it gives you a full p2p marketplace platform: seller onboarding, listing moderation, commissions, and payouts.
You get the marketplace software without leaving Shopify checkout, hosting, and the app ecosystem.
Sharetribe is a standalone platform, so you build and run your marketplace on a separate hosted site. Garnet builds the same peer-to-peer marketplace on top of Shopify, so you keep Shopify checkout, themes, and apps instead of rebuilding from zero.
The full breakdown is on our Sharetribe alternative page.
Garnet fits peer-to-peer marketplaces that sell physical or digital goods, such as resale, handmade, or collectibles. It has no built-in booking calendars, availability windows, or hourly billing.
So rental-by-the-day or service-booking models need extra scheduling tools on top of Garnet.
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