Custom Shopify Auction Marketplace App with Headless Storefront

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Jewelry auction listings with search and a product filter on the bids.com storefront

Our custom auction app with a headless storefront, built with Ruby on Rails and React, bypassed Shopify's limits, optimizing SEO with server-side rendering and ensuring fast page loads. The scalable marketplace includes inventory management, an MLM program, custom checkout, and advanced features like real-time bidding, automatic bidding, and analytics, driving a 70% increase in conversion rates.

Project details

Services: Custom apps and integrations
Headless commerce
SEO
Industry: Jewelry and accessories
Partner: VT Labs eCommerce Agency · 5 from 3 reviews · Shopify partner since 2017
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What was delivered

Custom auction app built with Ruby on Rails and React
Headless storefront with server-side rendering
Real-time and automatic bidding
Inventory management
MLM program and custom checkout
Analytics

Inside the project

A headless auction storefront built past Shopify's limits

Bids.com runs online auctions, and the project images show a jewelry catalogue of rings and earrings with search and a product filter. VT Labs eCommerce Agency built a custom auction app with a headless storefront in Ruby on Rails and React to get around Shopify's limits. The storefront uses server-side rendering, which the agency says was done to improve SEO and keep page loads fast.

Bidding, checkout and an MLM program in one marketplace

The marketplace combines real-time bidding and automatic bidding with inventory management, a custom checkout, an MLM program and analytics. VT Labs eCommerce Agency describes the build as scalable and reports that it drove a 70% increase in conversion rates.

About the partner

VT Labs eCommerce Agency is a Shopify Select partner based in Tallinn, Estonia, a partner since 2017 with a 5 rating from 3 reviews. It works in English and lists jewelry and accessories among its industries.

Frequently asked questions

Who built the custom Shopify auction app and headless storefront for bids.com?

VT Labs eCommerce Agency built it, using Ruby on Rails and React, with server-side rendering for SEO and fast page loads.

What features does the bids.com Shopify auction marketplace include?

According to VT Labs eCommerce Agency, it includes real-time bidding, automatic bidding, inventory management, an MLM program, a custom checkout and analytics.

What results did the bids.com auction marketplace report?

VT Labs eCommerce Agency reports that the marketplace drove a 70% increase in conversion rates.

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