Case Study: Building a Multi-Vendor Food Marketplace

1. The brief

Connect local restaurants with hungry customers in one app: browse menus, order, pay, and track delivery in real time — while the platform handled payments, commissions and payouts to each restaurant.

2. How we built it

1. 1

   Vendor onboarding

   Self-serve restaurant signup, menu management and Stripe Connect accounts.

2. 2

   Discovery

   Search and filters by cuisine, location and rating to drive orders.

3. 3

   Real-time orders

   Live order status from kitchen to doorstep via a socket layer.

4. 4

   Split payments

   Each payment auto-split: platform commission + restaurant payout.

5. 5

   Admin & analytics

   Moderation, fee config and revenue dashboards.

3. The order model

1model Order {2  id           String   @id @default(cuid())3  customer     User     @relation(fields: [customerId], references: [id])4  customerId   String5  restaurant   Vendor   @relation(fields: [restaurantId], references: [id])6  restaurantId String7  items        OrderItem[]8  total        Int9  commission   Int10  status       OrderStatus @default(PLACED)11  createdAt    DateTime @default(now())12}13 14enum OrderStatus { PLACED ACCEPTED COOKING OUT_FOR_DELIVERY DELIVERED }

4. The stack

5. The results

Timeline

~14 weeks to launch

Model

Commission per order

Related service

Marketplace Platforms