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Instant Marketplace
What Is Instant Marketplace?
The ILance software can transform any website into a complete buy and sell marketplace, using various bidding and buying methods. Forward auction for selling single or bulk items via auction or add to cart.
SEO Optimized for web, 100% customizable and multi languages supported. Multiple revenue streams built in to support memberships, commission fees and more. A modern marketplace experience for your customers
Who Uses Instant Marketplace?
ILance caters to anyone with a website from small startups to Enterprise networks in various markets such as Automotive, Electronics, Construction, Services, Medical, Retail, Restaurant, and more.
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Reviews of Instant Marketplace
As Close As You'll Get to eBay
Comments: iLance is no toy. We're trying to start our own revolution of sorts, in dealing with goods that few others are capable nor willing to transact in. iLance was selected by a tight-fit gap analysis and by function for value. Consistent with the experiences of other customers, Reps have been instrumental in getting the business off the ground, and like other customers in the iLance community we are highly anticipating the next release!
Pros:
A fully featured, functionally rich platform that can accommodate selling pretty much anything. Turnkey solution with bundling of cloud services and web hosting meant I was up and running within days. Downloadable source code on the business plan if you're intrepid - otherwise a small but responsive technical support team is there to troubleshoot and customize your deployment as needed. Requires some level of technical background to operate, but like all advanced tools iLance is the rocket launcher you need for a professional online auction business.
Cons:
Bugs. But then Microsoft is not without bugs. A complex software system requires multiple regressions, and iLance does update releases fairly regularly. The bugs are irritating but not transactions impacting for the most part, and the technical team will address it quickly. A background auto updater ensures you're running the latest version.
The best auction software I have found !
Comments:
I was looking for an auction software to create a marketplace for collectors on my website.
I purchased the v4 of Ilance which was already interesting, but there were few bugs.
Now the v6 is really perfect for sellers (easy to list, easy to add pictures, to select shipping costs) and for buyers (easy to order and pay).
Some functions are even better than on ebay (cumulated shipping...).
I highly recommend it
Pros:
It is the only software that really matches ebay competition. You can create auctions, buy it now items, very easy to list items, to register, to follow your sales and so on. Easy to apply fees on sales for the webmaster.
Cons:
The Customer Service was not very helpful in the first year but they have improved a lot and are now trying to help each time there is something wrong with the software. It is now very pleasant to work with them.
The maybe product
Comments: They are more interested in continually modifing the newest version. When the current version is not stable for all their customers.
Pros:
If it work as advertised, it would be great. It is all about the features. I am not really sure what else to say.
Cons:
They have no format support system. Chat sessions with I think the owner, who does not follow up unless you continually remind her. They will gladly take you money, but the group does not follow through to completion. It is not backward compatible with their previous versions so you lose functionality and features with previous version. It seems that it will work only if they host it for you. If you do not host with them, you will have issues.
iLance Online Auctions & Marketplace Software delivers above and beyond for its value!
Comments: As a SaaS customer, without PHP coding access using the hosted version (ex. for adding some custom features), I am still able to fully customize its design by editing the CSS & HTML within the Admin Panel; allowing me to make as many changes as needed to make it truly feel like my very own online marketplace. I have yet officially launched my site, since I'm a one-man show and placing each brick by myself but I am very happy with the results so far and everything I was able to accomplish alone by simply using my limited CSS and HTML knowledge to complete my original theme. I can't wait to be able to be able to buy the full software license and unleash its great potential even further! Choosing the right software company is cruicial for any business, without the right software provider you will be limited in solving any possible issues; I can attest that you can count on iLance to be the right partner for you whenever you are in need to find a solution to any challenges you may have building your marketplace. Great customer service, fast email support, active community and iLance team been incredibly helpful.
Pros:
Ease of use, flexibility with a broad range of features and admin controllability. (Dashboards, Accounting, Customers, Membership Plans, CSS/HTML editor, etc...). Affordable software licence. Many functionalities. User-friendliness of both the back and front-end. Single seller or Multi-vendor, Multi-language. You can tailor and configure it out-of-the-box to suite your business needs. Love the addtion of a Nonprofit & charities manager tool. Excellent customer service. Prompt communication and support.
Cons:
No design theme editor. Software is still available only in English (As a Canadian company, I would have hoped to see it available in French also); there is an XML phrases file available to edit yourself. Major software upgrades (ex. v3, v4, v5, to v6) is not done flawlessly without any interventions to readjust everything accordingly. You may also lose certain previous functionalities between versions (ex. v4 had Reverse Auction and v6 marketplace design has been redone). Company seems more focused on software development and R&D for many years now over marketing and sales of their poduct/solution. Which is good for developping new features and functionalities but without focusing too much on selling and promoting their solution their software is not evolving based on their customer directions and needs but rather their own view of what their customer may or may not need (in my opinion only).
overall it is a great program, the customer support is good, not always timely but I am aware of how
Comments: none yet however when it is finished I can see a very well thought out and implemented software near the level of amazon and ebay, which for the price point of this software is amazing. It may be something i use for other business ideas if this works out with our current use of the program.
Pros:
broad range of features and admin controllability. The program was well thought out, all though it was started selling way too soon as it was not ready for market and although I am well pleased with 'what it will be', I am less than happy with 'what it currently is' now. But in the end, I believe it will be worth all the work. Great job. Would have been better for you to wait on sales though, which is the main reason I cant give 5 stars.
Cons:
not enough admin control, more work needed in this area, but my major concern *and the reason we went this program over other similar and cheaper programs, is the shipping limits. We were sold on the idea of a working shipping calc like amazon has by your sales person. Thus far it has not worked and we been told to keep it turned off, our members are not happy and some have left because it is to hard to figure out shipping without this feature. Also a few other issues like some fields when entered are not remembered in DB, and others like credit card should need a key code or extra security to be able to edit which it does not currently. There have been a lot of bugs and a LONG time waiting for a working version of what we paid for. Although I do understand the nature of coding, the sales people led us to believe it was a final fully working software, not US doing beta testing. WE basically LOST a YEAR and a lot of customers due to this long time delay which at the end of the day equals, =We paid to loose money.
