Marketplace Kit: New Outing from Shopify Make Creating Marketplaces Easy

August 15, 2022 | | Updated: March 10, 2023

With a new Marketplace Kit from Shopify, users can open up marketplaces in less than 8 minutes. Shopify Marketplace Kit allows users to add commerce features to any platform. Users can access Shopify’s commerce features and connect with millions of merchants and their products. The new version has a quicker development workflow as the company has decoupled from the Shopify CLI. There are two new apps that help merchants get started. Merchants can use flexible APIS to add commerce to existing platforms or create new ones with Shopify apps. The kit allows building marketplaces irrespective of whether you have an existing platform. It gives users access to other merchants to install sales channels and start selling on your platform. Renowned companies like Pinterest, Meta, and TikTok used the kit to add commerce to their platforms.