Photography Gear Marketplace Build

I need a full-featured multi-vendor e-commerce platform that lets photographers sign up as individual stores and sell three product categories: cameras and lenses, lighting and studio equipment, and accessories and tripods. The entire flow—from vendor onboarding through product listing, cart, secure payment, shipping options and post-sale dashboard—has to feel seamless for both sellers and buyers.

Core expectations
• Multi-vendor architecture with separate seller dashboards
• Real-time inventory, order tracking and payout management
• Responsive design optimised for mobile checkout
• Integrated payment gateway and escrow or split-payment feature
• Search and filter tuned for gear-centric attributes (mount, focal length, wattage, etc.)
• Basic CMS pages plus blog space for future content marketing
• Clean, performant code ready for future plugin or API integrations

Acceptance criteria
1. A test seller can register, list one item in each product category and complete a dummy transaction end to end.
2. Admin panel exposes vendor management, commission settings and dispute tools.
3. Page-speed score of 90+ on Google Lighthouse desktop and mobile.

If you have solid experience building e-commerce or marketplace sites—especially with platforms such as Magento, WooCommerce + Dokan, Shopify Multi-Vendor or custom stacks (Laravel, Node, React)—please walk me through two relevant projects and the specific challenges you solved. That experience overview will be the key factor in the shortlist.