Chance Gato

The version I just shipped tries to fix that. Vendors and couples can follow each other, chat once they're connected, and book and pay directly on the platform. The part I spent the most time getting right is the payment flow, the vendor doesn't get paid until the couple confirms the job's actually done, so it's not just "pay and hope." It's still early, and I built the whole thing myself as a custom WordPress plugin rather than using off the shelf marketplace tools, so I'm sure there are rough edges I can't see anymore. If anyone here has built or used a two-sided marketplace before, I'd be curious how you handled trust between buyers and sellers, is a confirm-then-pay flow like this enough, or is there something you'd add? Happy to share more about how it's built if that's useful too. wedlift.com if you want to poke around.

Weddlif is a place where wedding vendors meet couples.