Cliqket vs Custom build
Build the market, not the plumbing.
Building your own marketplace means months of engineering before a single sale: Stripe Connect, soft-close auctions, disputes, payouts, and an admin panel. Cliqket gives you all of that plumbing on day one, so you can build the market and the community instead of the infrastructure.
Launch cost
Free to launch. 3.6% at checkout, only when you sell.
Engineering salaries and months of build time.
Time to a live market
Private draft in minutes. Public after setup and review.
6 to 12 months before launch.
Collector hardware
Soft-close auctions, buylists, price history, and collection tracking built in.
Build every feature yourself: auctions, buylists, price history.
Seller storefronts and white-label sites
White-label seller sites and shop pages included.
Design and build seller sites from scratch.
Payments and payouts
Stripe Connect payments and payouts from day one.
Wire up Stripe Connect, payouts, and disputes yourself.
Operations after launch
A crew of agents for supply research, content, and floor-watching.
Hire and manage the whole operation.
Who owns the market
You do. Your brand, your sellers, your customer list.
You own it, and all the maintenance.
When Custom build is the right choice.
If you have deep, unusual requirements that no platform can meet and an engineering team to build and maintain them, a custom build gives you total control. For almost everyone else, it is months of plumbing you do not need to reinvent.
Start your own marketplace.
Describe it in one sentence. Cliqket builds the market, staffs the crew, and runs checkout. You own the community.
Build a market