Building the marketplace and the operations behind it
For marketplace founders, launching commerce is the beginning. Our work with HobbyMP connects dealer transactions, inventory onboarding, and the stores sellers already operate.
Three ways we helped build HobbyMP
Explore the product decisions and engineering behind commerce, seller onboarding, and inventory integration.
Marketplace transactions
From a negotiated offer to a completed order
Connect product discovery, offers, payments, and order updates in a marketplace built around how collectibles dealers trade.
Inventory onboarding
From inventory files to listings sellers can review
Turn uploaded or pasted inventory into catalog matches, draft listings, and a review queue that keeps sellers in control.
Shopify integration
Keeping store inventory connected to the marketplace
Connect Shopify catalogs and stock updates with marketplace listings while preserving seller decisions about publication.
A product shaped around how dealers work
Hobby Market Pro is a B2B marketplace for trading cards and collectibles. Its founders brought the market knowledge; we helped turn that knowledge into product flows, interfaces, and working software.
The marketplace brings discovery, offers, payments, and order updates into a shared application. Buyer and seller experiences reflect the different work each side needs to do. Buyers and sellers can verify their business in a few guided steps, which helps preserve trust in a marketplace with wholesale pricing.
As the product developed, our work extended into seller inventory onboarding and Shopify integration. Those capabilities connect the marketplace to the files and stores sellers already use.
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From dealer transactions to connected inventory
The order lifecycle gives the application its foundation. Inventory onboarding brings more seller data into that model. Store integration keeps the relationship going as stock changes.
Each project addresses a different operational problem, and each builds on the same catalog, seller workspace, and publication controls.
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Build the marketplace workflow
Connect product discovery, offers, payment, and order progress.
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Bring inventory into a review process
Prepare catalog matches from seller files and make exceptions visible.
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Connect the stores sellers already run
Link Shopify inventory with marketplace listings and seller controls.
Product decisions carried through to working software
Shape the user journeys
Translate dealer needs into catalog discovery, negotiation, and buyer and seller workflows.
Build the operating tools
Connect order states, inventory review, exceptions, and publication decisions inside the application.
Extend the product’s connections
Integrate hosted payments and Shopify inventory with the marketplace’s own records and rules.
"Working with Telos has been a transformative experience for us at Hobby Market Pro."
Ben Karpinski
Co-founder, Hobby Market Pro
What does your platform need to handle next?
Bring the workflow your team manages today. We’ll help identify where product and engineering work can make it easier to run.