# WeWeb.io to build marketplaces
**URL:** https://community.weweb.io/t/weweb-io-to-build-marketplaces/3106
**Category:** Ask us anything
**Created:** [June 18, 2023, 9:17pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/weweb-io-to-build-marketplaces/3106 "2023-06-18T21:17:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@benFortunato](https://community.weweb.io/u/benFortunato)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2024, 11:00am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/weweb-io-to-build-marketplaces/3106/21 "2024-02-02T11:00:05Z")
That would be great, thank you! How are your other users handling content and product management? Are they using a third party API or building out everything themselves?
If I’m using a third party ecommerce solution the Rest API plugin would need to be robust enough to do everything that a native plugin like the Xano connector does.
Thinking ahead I could see some issues where I need to sequence a set a async actions, ie A then B then C, but the data from B’s API call comes back before A. This would be done in Javascript using the promise, async and await functions to manage how asynchronous actions are handled.
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### Author:  [@benFortunato](https://community.weweb.io/u/benFortunato)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2024, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/weweb-io-to-build-marketplaces/3106/22 "2024-03-06T17:16:53Z")
Built out a seperate thread to discuss the posibility of WeWeb and Medusa as an e-commerce platform as per our discussion during the office hours. See that thread here: [Using Medusa.js and NPM plugin to build out an e-commerce backend - Optimal Solution?](https://community.weweb.io/t/using-medusa-js-and-npm-plugin-to-build-out-an-e-commerce-backend-optimal-solution/7439)
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### Author:  [@Emmerse](https://community.weweb.io/u/Emmerse)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/weweb-io-to-build-marketplaces/3106/23 "2024-06-19T02:41:23Z")
following all your threads on this topic Ben. I am curious on building out an ecommerce/SaaS on WeWeb as well (coming from Webflow + Wized + Xano)
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### Author:  [@benFortunato](https://community.weweb.io/u/benFortunato)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2024, 7:13pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/weweb-io-to-build-marketplaces/3106/24 "2024-06-19T19:13:05Z")
Welcome to the forum! I haven’t made much progress on this. I was looking into medusa.js but I’m not sure how it will work within weweb. I believe you would set up a separate node.js server, install medesa.js to create the back end infrastructure and then use the Rest API within weweb to communicate with that infrastructure.
I don’t think there is really any good e-commerce solution. There are a lot of good options out their like shopify and big commerce which offer a quick way to have a back end and front end. It depends on how much customization you need.
For us it seemed a big lift to build out a whole no-code solution in WeWeb and Xano. Too many features to rebuild, variants, inventory etc. Seems like this would be a lot more work than using a solution that is out there already.
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### Author:  [@Cole-Matthew](https://community.weweb.io/u/Cole-Matthew)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/weweb-io-to-build-marketplaces/3106/25 "2025-10-13T13:00:43Z")
WeWeb can work for a two-sided marketplace with Xano for the backend. The main challenges are learning workflows, managing users and keeping data secure, but it’s doable with some guidance.
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### Author:  [@nick](https://community.weweb.io/u/nick)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/weweb-io-to-build-marketplaces/3106/26 "2025-10-14T17:29:06Z")
I would argue no. I’m switching away from WeWeb because a single page app and lack of dynamic metadata can’t rank you in search. Right now WeWeb is best used for SaaS until SSR is added.
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