Marketplace development · San Diego
Orcatec is a marketplace development company that builds platforms where buyers and sellers, or customers and service providers, find each other and pay safely. We handle the hard parts: provider onboarding, search, split payments, payouts and trust. Our team is based in San Diego County and works with founders and established businesses across the US.
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Customers book local pros, tutors or contractors. Built around availability, quotes, scheduling and job completion.
Companies buy from verified suppliers with quotes, bulk orders, invoices and net payment terms.
Equipment, space or vehicles rented by the hour or day, with calendars, deposits and damage claims.
Many sellers in one catalog, each with their own inventory, shipping rules and payouts.
A marketplace lives or dies on trust and liquidity. These are the parts we spend the most time on.
Seller and provider sign-up, identity and business checks, document upload and approval queues.
Filters, location search, availability and ranking that show buyers relevant results fast.
Split payments, platform fees, held funds released on completion, refunds and seller payouts through providers such as Stripe Connect.
Two-way ratings, review moderation and a dispute flow your support team can actually manage.
In-app chat, email, SMS and push updates that keep both sides moving toward a completed order.
Tools to manage users, listings, fees and payouts, plus reports on supply, demand and take rate.
How the platform earns money shapes checkout, payouts and reporting, so we decide it early.
A percentage or flat fee taken from each order, calculated per category, seller or volume tier.
Monthly plans for sellers or providers, with limits on listings, leads or features.
Providers pay per qualified lead or confirmed booking, common in local services markets.
Paid placement in search results and categories, clearly labeled for buyers.
We define both sides of the market, the transaction flow, how you earn and which side you will grow first.
Clickable flows for buyers, sellers and admins, tested with real users before development.
The smallest version that can complete real transactions, often in one city or one category.
Analytics, payment monitoring and a roadmap based on where users drop off.
Tell us who buys, who sells and how money moves. We’ll reply within one business day with questions and a rough estimate for the first version.
Currux started with a website and a request flow, then grew into a mobile app. The same staged approach works for most marketplaces.
Currux lets people rent, lease or subscribe to a used car without the usual forms, calls and paperwork. We started with a website and grew it into a mobile app for getting a car in minutes.
Read the case study →We have built scheduling, dispatch and payment flows for our own SaaS product, so we know where service transactions break: no-shows, partial payments, refunds and disputes. We plan for those cases from the first sprint.
Many San Diego founders start with a local marketplace for one region before expanding. We can meet in person, help you scope a launch that fits one city and build the platform to scale to more markets later.
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Do you work with marketplace startups in San Diego?
Can you add mobile apps to an existing marketplace?
How do you solve the chicken-and-egg problem?
A focused first version of your product, built to test with real users and grow into production software.
Learn more →Multi-tenant SaaS products with subscriptions, roles, integrations and mobile apps, built by a team that runs its own SaaS.
Learn more →Front-end, back-end and full-stack web development: customer portals, CMS-backed platforms and fast, reliable sites with real logic.
Learn more →Product design for apps and web software: research, user flows, clickable prototypes and design systems developers can build.
Learn more →Custom storefronts, Shopify and headless builds, inventory and POS integrations, and mobile shopping apps for retailers.
Learn more →Tell us what you want to build. We’ll reply within one business day with questions and next steps.