Marketplaces
Build and scale your marketplace faster
Onboard global sellers, creators, freelancers, and more. Accept payments and send funds worldwide without friction – all while staying fully compliant and keeping customers on your platform.
Expand to global buyers and sellers
Accept 160+ local payment methods, and pay out seamlessly to 150+ countries with instant and same day options.
Elevate your payment infrastructure
Create a single, integrated payments experience for buyers and sellers on your platform for easy reconciliation.
Reduce complexity
Manage your funds separately from your sellers to streamline operations and help stay compliant.
Unlock new revenue streams
Differentiate by offering additional financial services, including cards and multi-currency wallets, to boost revenue and retention.
Global payments and financial operations for a variety of marketplaces
Retail and reseller marketplaces
Expand your global reach across buyers and sellers, and provide a smooth, compliant, and consistent transaction experience worldwide.
Gig economy and freelancer marketplaces
Enable gig workers and freelancers to be paid immediately via their preferred payment methods, right after they complete work.
Creator economy
Accept global payments for content, tickets, merchandise, and more, and offer fast payouts to creators and influencers worldwide.
Accelerate Global Growth
Scale with speed, confidence, and simplicity
Attract more international buyers
Collect payments from buyers in 180+ countries in their preferred currencies and payment methods, with a locally-optimized checkout flow.
Enter new markets more quickly and efficiently
Deploy a conversion-optimized, frictionless onboarding experience without the pain of building your own native flow. Plus, use pre-built components for checkout, transfers, Know-Your-Customer (KYC), and more.
Keep sellers happy with fast payouts
Easily pay sellers and service providers in 150+ countries, including instant payouts to their bank accounts or branded cards.
Reduce overhead and save on fees
Split proceeds and route funds to sellers after deducting your earnings on each transaction. Save on unnecessary FX fees with like-for-like settlement.
Consolidate and future-proof your payments stack
Airwallex offers an end-to-end solution for global marketplaces. Facilitate secure payments acceptance from buyers around the world. Programmatically split funds and instantly route proceeds to sellers after deducting your platform fee, even if Airwallex isn’t your primary PSP.
Acquirer Agnostic Payouts
Easily integrate Airwallex with other PSPs
Even if you choose to use another primary PSP, you can still benefit from our global payouts capabilities. Any PSP can settle to Airwallex into a holding account where funds are held until you specify when a seller should get paid. Avoid the pain of onboarding with multiple PSPs - your sellers are onboarded to Airwallex as connected accounts, but won't need to be onboarded to each PSP.
Optimize Marketplace Operations
Manage complex marketplace payments
Simplify compliance needs
Automatically separate seller earnings and your marketplace fees, and stay compliant with US 1099 tax reporting for contractor payouts without extra effort.
Benefit from dynamic onboarding logic
Efficiently grow your seller base with our KYC and Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) onboarding processes, tailored to meet local regulations.
Manage and track payments easily
Automatically send sellers their earnings after deducting your fee, and get clear transaction reports for faster reconciliation.
Manage fewer payout partners globally
Provide a consistent seller experience globally by centralizing payouts into a single seller wallet directly on your platform.
Embed financial services
Elevate your marketplace with financial services
Improve seller retention and satisfaction
Differentiate your marketplace by providing value-added financial services to your sellers, including multi-currency wallets, spend cards, lending, and more.
Unlock new lines of revenue
Monetize embedded financial services through a variety of avenues, including transaction fees and FX, and flexibly set prices through application fees.
Marketplace Case Studies
How SHEIN manages end-to-end marketplace payments
The Challenge
SHEIN, the well known global fashion and lifestyle e-retailer, is committed to making the beauty of fashion accessible to all. They use on-demand manufacturing to bring a variety of affordable products to customers in more than 150 countries. To support the growth of their global business, SHEIN needed an end-to-end global payments solution spanning payments acceptance, currency conversion, and payouts across multiple geographies.
The Solution
With Airwallex's Payments for Platforms solution, SHEIN was able to collect online payments from consumers around the world via multiple currencies and payment methods, eliminate costly conversion fees via like-for-like settlement, and streamline payouts to its global base of sellers. Airwallex's global coverage and proprietary infrastructure allowed SHEIN to accelerate its growth worldwide.
How GOAT expanded their global reach
The Challenge
GOAT, the popular global platform for new and used sneakers, apparel and accessories, was looking for a way to grow their global reach. They were eager to expand their seller base beyond the United States and needed a trusted technology partner with a global footprint to facilitate fund flows.
The Solution
GOAT was able to use Airwallex's Payments for Platforms solution to allow global consumers to purchase items in their preferred currencies and payment methods. They were able to easily convert proceeds into multiple currencies when needed, and make fast, cost-effective payouts to their sellers around the world. GOAT was also able to intelligently manage currency risk through Airwallex's advanced transactional FX capabilities. Airwallex's global coverage for both collections and payouts helped enable GOAT to rapidly expand their geographic reach.
How Camplify collects customer payments online
The Challenge
Camplify is Australia's largest and fastest-growing campervan, motorhome, and caravan sharing company. The business has been rapidly growing, helping thousands of van owners around the world share their vans with others. Camplify was looking for a new card acquirer to support their business in Australia and Europe.
The Solution
With Airwallex's Payments for Platforms solution, Camplify was able to develop an integrated payments offering that included Card Acquiring and Payouts. Additional benefits included pricing transparency, an integrated multi-currency card solution, and rapid integration. Camplify is continuing to expand their business globally, automate their payment solutions, and save on payment related costs.
Resources
Discover the untapped opportunity of Embedded Finance
Airwallex surveyed 1,000 SMBs across five countries and interviewed leading platforms with the support of consulting firm Edgar, Dunn & Company to understand the global appetite for embedded financial services and how marketplaces can improve their customers’ experiences through embedded finance.
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Wallets, cards, and the flywheel effect: the formula for marketplace growth
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Understanding security and regulatory compliance when scaling a global marketplace
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How marketplaces can add revenue streams with embedded finance
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