Articles by Juho Makkonen

When you are choosing a payment service provider, payment costs, ease of integration, and quality of customer service are important things to consider. In this article, we discuss how PayPal, Stripe, Adyen, and MANGOPAY compare in these aspects.

There are a number of specific payment features marketplaces need from a payment service provider. This article compares the key features from four prominent PSPs: PayPal, Stripe, Adyen, and MANGOPAY.

What are the best payment service providers for online marketplaces? This article series helps you answer the question for your specific situation. In the first article, we identify the most relevant PSPs for online marketplaces.

There are dozens of online marketplace software alternatives to choose from. Learn how to make the right choice for your marketplace idea, budget, and future plans.

Starting your marketplace with one city and one vertical is key however for every rule there's an exception. In this case, the most notable one is Thumbtack, a marketplace unicorn which deliberately launched in all US cities and in hundreds of verticals.

Scaling too quickly to new verticals is the most common error when growing a marketplace: this mistake can kill your business before it even gets started. Instead you should focus on one city and one vertical.

The booking flow of your service marketplace is key to offer a smooth experience and get the most of transactions. We lay out a framework to help design and master your booking flow.

The purpose of any marketplace is to facilitate transactions between users. Learn how to build a smooth transaction flow.

How to design your search, categories, sorting, filtering and browsing views.