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title: "Marketplaces | Medusa knowledge base"
description: "Building multi-vendor and rental marketplaces with Medusa: vendors, commissions, payouts, and availability."
url: https://medusajs.com/kb/marketplaces
last_updated: 2026-10-29T06:55:50Z
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# Marketplaces

Building multi-vendor and rental marketplaces with Medusa: vendors, commissions, payouts, and availability.

## Entries

- [How do I build an artisan marketplace with AI coding help?](https://medusajs.com/kb/marketplaces/artisan-marketplace.md): To build a marketplace for local artisans with AI coding help, start from Mercur, a marketplace platform on Medusa. It gives each artisan a vendor panel, splits orders per seller, and pays sellers through Stripe Connect. Deploy it on Medusa Cloud, then customize it with an agent like Claude Code, which reads Mercur's bundled docs.
- [How do I build a multi-vendor marketplace with open source?](https://medusajs.com/kb/marketplaces/multi-vendor-marketplace.md): To build an open source multi-vendor marketplace on Medusa, either follow Medusa's marketplace recipe to add vendors and order splitting yourself, or start from Mercur, a marketplace platform on Medusa built by Rigby. Mercur ships seller onboarding, a vendor panel, commissions, split orders, Stripe Connect payouts, and reviews, and deploys on Medusa Cloud.
- [Build a peer-to-peer rental marketplace: build vs buy](https://medusajs.com/kb/marketplaces/rental-marketplace.md): For a peer-to-peer rental marketplace you can build from scratch, launch on Sharetribe, or start from Medusa with the Mercur marketplace platform. Mercur adds sellers, commissions, reviews and Stripe Connect payouts, and Medusa's rentals tutorial adds availability and per-day pricing. Deposits, insurance and payout timing are custom work.
- [Rental pricing, availability and security deposits](https://medusajs.com/kb/marketplaces/rental-pricing-availability-deposits.md): Medusa's official rentals tutorial prices a rental as the variant's daily price times the number of days, and blocks dates that overlap an existing pending or active rental. Hourly pricing and security deposits are custom. Deposits usually use a separate card authorization or a charge that you refund after the return.
- [How do Stripe Connect payouts work for a marketplace?](https://medusajs.com/kb/marketplaces/stripe-connect-marketplace-payouts.md): Stripe Connect pays marketplace sellers by charging the customer, transferring each seller's share to their connected account, and paying out to their bank on a schedule. For multi-seller carts, Stripe's docs point to separate charges and transfers. On Medusa, Mercur's Stripe Connect package handles seller onboarding and transfers after commission; you decide when payouts run.