Use cases
For ANY type of digital commerce platform. Even for the most complex and unique ones.
randevu’s infrastructure is adaptable to your business case and tech landscape. See the popular use cases, business sizes and the framework check for your use case.
POPULAR USE CASES
Circular economy and RFQ platforms
One of the most popular topics of new marketplaces and digital platforms is circular economy, combined with RFQ-based platforms. These types of platforms are very efficient and give their users both great business opportunities as well as some good piece of mind as they are mindfully using limited resources.
Circular economy marketplaces
From circular supply chain networks to re-use or re-sell marketplaces and digital platform, these solutions help reducing waste, empty trucks and ships as well as lower the carbon emissions.
Renewable energy platforms
Whether they are about wind, solar, water or other renewable energy source, these platforms and marketplaces allow creation and trade of the renewable energy worldwide.
Sharing platforms
Sharing economy is here to stay. Lots of new businesses are arising from the opportunity to share products, assets and services provided between marketplace participants in order to optimize their usage times.
RFQ e-Procurement platform
These platforms save a lot of time during long RFQ processes. With them, providers are getting an easy way of uploading their bids, whereas consumers can easily compare quotas and offers in a structured way.
For any company size
Matching your needs for every team size and setup
Whether you just starting your company’s journey, you are representing an SME or you have a large team working on your marketplace or digital platform, randevu’s infrastructure is there to help you achieve your goals quicker and more efficient.
USE CASE FRAMEWORK
Platform and marketplace dimensions
How should your logic look like? Is your platform offering services or products? Is it open or closed? Answer the questions below and see what can be done by with randevu’s infrastructure.
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DIMENSION 1 of 5
Platform type
What kind of a platform is your solution going to be? Are users going to rent something, sell something or get matched with other users?
Service offering platforms
On these platforms, providers offer their services to consumers.
Product procurement marketplaces
On procurement marketplaces, providers are listing their products and consumers are mostly able to browse and select their favorite option.
Renting and booking marketplaces
On renting and booking marketplaces, providers mostly list their services, apartments, houses or products, which then consumers can pay to use for a certain amount of time.
Matching platforms
In matching platforms, participants are actively expressing a wish to match with the other participant they were suggested to. These are mostly P2P platforms.
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Matching process and transaction type
Decide “how” and “when” your participants will find out about each other and their listings/supply, at what time of the transaction will they be revealed to the each other and how the process will continue after the match has occurred.
Browse and select
In an AirBnB-like marketplace or platform, consumers browse freely through the offered products/services and choose one to interact with.
RFQ processes
In dynamic Upwork-like platforms, consumers describe what they want and providers competitively bid for products or projects.
Shopping cart
randevu’s infrastructure supports Amazon-like marketplaces where consumers can put multiple products into their shopping cart, from one or multiple vendors.
Matching
In Tinder-like match-making platforms, each participant is actively expressing a wish to match with the other participant they were suggested to.
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DIMENSION 3 of 5
Type of platform offerings
Platforms and marketplaces can have different types of listings (offerings or supplies). Some marketplaces are all about products, others’ provide listed services or even allow matchable profiles of platform participants.
Products
Product marketplaces have digital or haptic products offered on them, such as software, machines or tools. These products can be new and used ones.
Services
Listings of service-focused digital platforms are mostly services offered by registered providers, such as consulting, manual work or logistics.
Peer-2-peer
P2P platforms focus on bringing two or more participants together based on their user profiles, wishes and needs.
DIMENSION 4 of 5
Type of users
Type of users on your marketplace and digital platform influence many decisions in the process of creating, scaling and running your product. Who is using your marketplace?
Physical person (C2C)
A physical person is one who uses the platform for themselves, to fulfill their wishes and needs, and not for a legal entity they work for.
Legal entities (B2B)
Legal entities are companies, organizations, NGOs and governmental institution with legal rights and obligations.
Both (B2C)
It is possible to have both private people as well as legal entities participating on one platform.
DIMENSION 5 of 5
Content visibility and participation
When it comes to visibility and participation rules, there are many questions to be answered. Do users need to login to see the platform offerings? Do users need to be vetted to participate? Do services or products listed on the platform need to be approved by the platform owner before going live?
Open
Open marketplaces usually show their offerings for guests as well – users don’t need to login to view what the platform has to offer.
Closed
Mostly used in the B2B world, closed and vetted platforms ask users to register and login before seeing the platform offer and participate on the platform.
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