05Ecommerce system
Vendor Marketplace
multi-vendor B2B marketplace with split payouts
Independent sellers under one checkout, onboarding themselves and getting paid on a schedule.
- Status
- Live
- Period
- 2025–2026
- Relationship
- In-house venture
- Site
- norpex.ca
- Available as
- Build for you
- Retainer
The pipeline
- 01 OnboardVendors complete their own Connect onboarding
- 02 ListCategories structured around how buyers search
- 03 QuoteRequests routed by category to the right vendor
- 04 CheckoutOne cart across every vendor on the platform
- 05 SettleEscrow cron releases payouts on schedule
- 06 AutomateFive always-on workflows route events and mail
- 5always-on automations
- 2sides onboarded — buyer and seller
- 1checkout across all vendors
The problem
Commercial kitchen equipment is a quote business pretending to be a catalogue business. Buyers need specification help and freight numbers before they will commit; sellers are small distributors who will not adopt a platform that takes a week to join.
What we built
- 01
Implemented Stripe Connect Express so vendors complete their own onboarding and payouts settle automatically, with an escrow schedule between sale and release.
- 02
Built a quote-request flow that routes by product category and vendor, with transactional email and a tracked reply path rather than a shared inbox.
- 03
Ran competitor teardowns of the incumbent distributors and rebuilt the category and specification structure around how buyers actually search for equipment.
- 04
Wired five always-on automations — Stripe event router, form router, conversational assistant, knowledge-base seeder and the escrow cron.
- 05
Reused the storefront architecture proven on Shopflooring, so the second marketplace cost a fraction of the first.
Stack
- Next.js
- React 19
- TypeScript
- Tailwind
- PostgreSQL
- Stripe Connect
- n8n
- Resend
- Railway
Ideal for
Trade groups, distributor networks and category operators aggregating small suppliers who will not adopt a platform that takes a week to join.