What is a scope of commerce?

What is the scope for e-commerce seller platform integrators ? Can a company help sellers to manage & sell on multiple marketplaces ?

• Most of e-commerce companies are moving to marketplace model. Had thought about a problem that e-commerce sellers having to handle different marketplace sites differently. Is there a scope for a product to help them sell and manage their products on multiple marketplaces with a unified view ? With this problem in mind, we met 2 sellers(big size) in Bangalore. 1. Was a seller with Flipkart & Snapdeal in S.P Road Bangalore - They felt the current seller platforms provided by these companies is good enough and was easy as the electronics product catalog is already available on these platforms. More over they dont have to manage inventories because they had unlimited supply. Managing orders was the only big job. 2. Another seller near double road, who said he has hired low cost people to efficiently manage the job. Infact he even don't know how his employee does the job. But he does it with less cost. One thing that he told us - "I don't want you in between us". This experience helped us understand it may not be worth an idea/problem to chase. Can some experts let me know if the validation was right and is there some scope for a third player to go in between seller & e-commerce site. Recently there were some problems reported where few e-commerce companies could not manage their seller platforms efficiently, even snapdeal launched a brand new order fulfilment platform.

• Answer:

  I personally like your idea. I am in-touch with a few sellers as i run my own marketplace, people will love to manage all under one platform.