Marketrail

One spine · swappable transaction slots

One engine. Any kind of marketplace.

Every marketplace shares the same spine — vendor onboarding, discovery, split payments, gated payouts, reviews, moderation and AI. What changes is the transaction slot: what's sold and how it's delivered. Marketrail runs two slots today, each with its own live demo marketplace.

Explore the engines What changes per slot

Two live demos Stripe Connect payouts AI on every surface

Selling on the live demo marketplaces

What are you selling?

Pick the slot. The spine comes with it.

Each engine is the full Marketrail spine with a different transaction slot — and each runs a seeded demo marketplace you can browse, buy from and sell on.

Maker Market — the live physical goods demo built on Marketrail

Physical goodsLive demo: Maker Market

Browse, add to cart, check out — the seller ships.

Handmade ceramics, textiles, woodwork and prints from independent makers.

Variants with their own stock, decremented atomically with the charge
Cart grouped by shop, shipping per shop
Order tracking, status emails & packing slips
Refunds return the money, reverse the split and restock

Fits: Etsy-, eBay- or Faire-style marketplaces, local goods, multi-vendor retail.

Open Maker Market Engine overview Start a workspace

Pixelory — the live digital assets demo built on Marketrail

Digital assetsLive demo: Pixelory

Licensed, then delivered instantly — nothing ships.

UI kits, icons, illustrations, mockups and templates from independent studios.

License tiers instead of variants — Personal, Commercial and up
Entitlement-gated downloads into a buyer library
Versioned releases, update emails & a license certificate
Refunds revoke the license in the same transaction as the money

Fits: Gumroad-, Creative Market- or Envato-style stores, templates, plugins, stock media.

Open Pixelory Engine overview Start a workspace

Same spine, next slots

Not built yet — the seam is designed for them.

Calendar booking

Book a provider's time or an asset's dates.

Request for quote

Post a job, take bids, release on milestones.

On-demand dispatch

Real-time requests matched to nearby supply.

Directory & lead-gen

Listings and leads; the deal closes off-platform.

The shared core

Built for every player, in every engine.

Buyers, sellers and operators each get their own surface — the same three in every slot.

For buyers

A storefront people trust

Typeahead, filters & semantic search
Favourites & buyer–seller messaging
Secure Stripe checkout & promo codes
Purchase-gated reviews & ratings

For sellers

Powerful vendor tools

Self-serve Stripe onboarding
Listings, orders & refunds
Payout ledger & sales log
Revenue & performance dashboards

For operators

Total control, zero hassle

Commission rules & fees
Moderation — every action reversible
GMV, fee revenue & CSV exports
White-label branding

Automate. Split. Scale.

The money splits itself — in every slot.

Set your commission once and every sale is a Stripe destination charge: the buyer pays, the platform keeps its fee, the seller's share lands in their own account. The money code is identical across engines — only what's being paid for changes.

Destination charges + application feePayouts gated by KYC

Physical goods · Maker Market

Buyer pays: $80.00
Platform fee — 10% of items: −$7.40
Vendor receives: $72.60

Shipping rides through to the seller untouched — the fee is taken on items only.

Digital assets · Pixelory

Buyer pays: $49.00
Platform fee — 10%: −$4.90
Designer receives: $44.10

Nothing ships, nothing else is charged — the download unlocks the moment the payment settles.

Four guarantees, every engine

Marketplace complexity, handled.

Whichever slot you run, the same four rules hold — enforced once in the shared code, not rebuilt per engine.

The split is right

Fee and share come from the same pure money code in every engine — subtotal equals fee plus share on every order.

Payouts are gated

Money only routes to sellers whose Stripe payout capability is verified. No leaks.

Refunds reverse everything

Money, fee and share come back in one replay-safe action — and the goods restock or the license is revoked.

The spine stands alone

Discovery, shops and moderation never import the transaction layer. A seam test enforces it — that's why slots swap.

AI on every surface

AI drafts, the seller's facts fill the gaps.

The AI layer is part of the spine: every engine ships it, under the same rules. Every feature proposes; a person clicks to accept. Nothing is written without a human — nothing is invented, and nothing can't be traced back.

Human in control

AI proposes. You decide. You click. We save.

Built on trust

Grounded, validated, and never writes to your data.

Anthropic Claude

for generative AI

OpenAI embeddings

for semantic understanding

One set of rules.

Every engine.

18 shared AI features. 3 surfaces. Every engine.

Click any feature to see it running on Maker Market, the physical-goods demo.

For Sellers

7 features

For Buyers

6 features

For Operators

5 features

AI features

Surfaces

AI providers

+ 3 more on the digital engine

Changelog drafter (release notes from the real file diff), What's inside (a description from the archive's facts) and License explainer (answers only from the license text).

See them

The three pillars of trust

1. The Fence

AI proposes, a human clicks.

No AI feature writes to the database. Drafts, chips, proposals only — you click to make it real.

2. Honesty

Grounded, never invented.

Only what's visible or provided. No guessing, no made-up facts — stubs instead of speculation.

3. Trust Boundaries

Validated in, validated out.

Model output re-validated, uploads ownership-checked, other people's text fenced as data.

AI providers

Claude Opus 5

Generative & agentic features

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Embeddings & semantic search

Same spine, different slot

What actually changes between engines.

Everything above is shared. This is the part that's rebuilt per slot — inventory, fulfilment, and what a refund has to undo.

Physical goods

Digital assets

What's sold

Physical:Physical products that ship

Digital:Digital files sold under license tiers

Inventory

Physical:Counted stock, decremented in the same transaction as the charge

Digital:Unlimited copies — no stock to track

Variants

Physical:Size, colour, material — each with its own stock

Digital:The license tier is the variant

Checkout

Physical:Cart grouped by shop, shipping added per shop

Digital:Cart of asset + tier, no shipping

Fulfilment

Physical:The seller ships; tracking & status emails

Digital:Instant download through a signed, entitlement-checked URL

After purchase

Physical:Order tracking & purchase-gated reviews

Digital:A library with versions, update emails & a license certificate

Refunds

Physical:Return the money, reverse the split, restock

Digital:Return the money, reverse the split, revoke the license

Seller tools

Physical:Variants & stock, packing slips, shipping

Digital:Archive inspection, versioned releases, review mode

Slot-only AI

Physical:Photo coach, gift finder

Digital:Preview coach, What's inside, changelog drafter, license explainer

Try it

Open Maker Market Open Pixelory

See it live

Your marketplace. Your slot. Our rails.

Browse a live demo, then picture it with your catalog, your brand and your cut.

Physical goods demo Digital assets demo