Marketplace PRD template
Marketplace PRD template
Generate a build-ready marketplace spec covering two-sided users, listings, payments, trust & safety, and seller onboarding — free to start.
Overview
A marketplace is two products in one: a buyer experience and a seller experience, sharing the same data and fighting over the same trust. Most PRD templates treat them as one user and one flow — which means your AI coding tool gets confused halfway through building checkout and invents its own escrow logic.
Draftlytic generates a structured, editable spec that separates buyer and seller personas from the start, maps the critical trust & safety decisions, and lets you assign every feature to a pricing tier before you write a line of code.
What a marketplace spec actually needs to nail
Two-sided platforms have decisions that flat apps don't: who owns the transaction, how money moves (platform take-rate, escrow, payout schedule), how disputes are handled, and how you keep the supply side engaged long enough to build demand. Draftlytic surfaces all of these as explicit spec fields — not as open-ended prose.
Your generated spec includes separate buyer and seller personas, a typed data model that captures listings, reviews, transactions, and payouts as first-class entities, and a navigation map that shows both the buyer-facing screens and the seller dashboard (with the API endpoints behind each). The constraints section gets a NON-GOALS list so your AI coding tool doesn't bolt on a built-in payment processor when you planned to use Stripe Connect.
At Detailed depth, every feature gets up to four short testable acceptance criteria — useful for something like "Seller payout" where the edge cases (partial refund, dispute hold, minimum threshold) are what actually need speccing.
From idea to GitHub in minutes
Describe your marketplace in a sentence — the niche, who buys, who sells, how money moves. Draftlytic asks a short set of targeted follow-up questions, then generates a full spec: prioritized features split across must-have / nice-to-have / future, a design-token block (colors, fonts, UX patterns), auth methods for both sides (email, OAuth, identity verification if you need it), and an explicit list of external services (payment gateway, image CDN, email, maps).
Once the spec is generated you can chat-edit any section, run an AI Scan to catch gaps (missing dispute flow, unassigned features, thin seller onboarding), and export as Markdown, PDF, or a sequenced implementation plan your AI coding tool can follow step by step. Connect a GitHub repo and push the spec straight to your codebase — free to start, no credit card required.
FAQ
Does the template cover the seller side, not just the buyer?
Yes. Draftlytic generates separate personas for both sides of the marketplace and maps seller-specific screens (dashboard, listing creation, payout history) alongside the buyer flows. The data model treats sellers, listings, transactions, and reviews as distinct entities so nothing collapses into a single generic "user".
Can I spec payment and escrow rules before I start building?
That's exactly what the constraints and external-services sections are for. You define how money moves (take-rate, escrow, payout schedule), which payment provider handles it, and what dispute logic looks like — all as editable spec fields. The NON-GOALS list lets you explicitly exclude anything you're not building in v1 so your AI coding tool doesn't invent it.