Top Plugins For a Marketplace App On Bubble
Make your marketplace app on Bubble more competitive and enhance your user experience!
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Isn't Bubble like a magic wand? Everyone who gets through its learning curve can now create their apps. Which is great but also brings more competition.
Marketplace apps are on the rise, and if you are creating one too, you need to understand how to be ahead of your competitors and bring your A-game.
Did you know that 80% of apps fail? Ever wondered why? There are many reasons but one of them is time-to-market of new features. Now it can be literally days since the “nice-to-have” feature becomes a “must-have” for everyone.
You can tackle this problem by staying a step ahead and knowing what the customers want.
In the case of a marketplace app, some features are already essential. These include media display, in-depth searching, payment method, social sharing, customer support, etc.
There are hundreds of plugins for Bubble, but you need to make sure that after installing it your app is user-friendly and still works flawlessly. So whether you choose Zeroqode or any other plugin publisher — check the reviews on the forum and documentation thoroughly.
Let’s have a look at some of the top plugins for a marketplace app on Bubble.
1. User-Friendly Payments - Payment Gateway
#1 Stripe Marketplace Express Plugin for Bubble: One of the best payment integration systems and for the right reasons.
Stripe offers advanced payment functionality for your app and various types of transactions for your users.
This plugin was built with an optimal set of payment tools and high performance in mind: you won’t need to install multiple plugins or develop additional basic functionalities that other plugins are lacking.
It has a minimized number of action calls which provides a faster performance and a more clean workflow.
✔️ We created a free tutorial for this plugin to make integration of payment system quick and effortless for you 😊
2. Media Plugins - Display Images, Videos, and more
- Bubble Page to PDF converter Plugin for Bubble: Best for printing! Checks, coupons, any media from your marketplace — it got you covered. This plugin lets you convert images, charts, maps, invoices, lists, and pages.
- Plyr - Video Player Plugin for Bubble: You can display your product videos and adds via this plugin in a super-easy way. All you need to do is choose an element, define a source, and it will be displayed.
- 360 View: Help customers look at your products from every possible angle using this 360-degree viewer plugin.
- Panorama: Give your images a real-like look by enabling the panorama feature. You can look at products or images from every nook and corner via this feature.
3. Maps - Display your whereabouts
Show users a physical location of sellers or stores, track a courier in real time and more.
- MapBox Maps Plugin for Bubble: Play with geo locations and 3D buildings. This plugin will serve you with excellent features such as location tracking, setting a marker and direction, enabling or disabling 3D buildings, zoom, simulation flight, etc.
- Bubble's Google Map Extender Plugin for Bubble: With this plugin, you can set directions/markers, track users, enable 3D mode, track route, etc.
4. AI-Powered Search - Make In-App Searching Lightning Fast
Algolia Search V. 2.0 Plugin for Bubble: indexes the data of your web application with Algolia AI. The plugin allows users to search quickly through the database in Algolia and displays the results in the app. It seems like the search is managed within the app.
If you need more simple solution we recommend you to try our free search plugin for Bubble: ZQ Fuzzy Search & Autocomplete Plugin.
5. Customer Support Via Chat - Live Support To Customers
Intercom - Extended Live Chat Plugin for Bubble: It is an excellent way to communicate with your customers — support them with buying issues, consult and show that you care about their satisfaction. A big step towards perfect customer experience.
Request chats with users from Bubble workflow, send user details to Intercom and engage visitors of your web-site.
6. Social Integrations - Share Items On Social Media
Social Share Buttons Plugin for Bubble: You can share your products all over social media with this plugin. It requires nothing more than placing the element on your page, choosing your style, ticking the share buttons that you wish to appear, and setting the URL you wish to share.
Wrapping up
Here we discussed basic, but essential features for a marketplace built on Bubble.
The set of plugins depends individually on each app unique market niche users needs. Just keep in mind that there is a simple way to add needed features without actual development.
We are always open to your suggestions and feedback, so don’t hesitate to share your opinion.