Marketplace

A marketplace for limited-edition sneakers

A Shopify Plus marketplace where stock is scarce, drops are timed, and the inventory count has to be right the second it changes.

Visit live site
Upper Empire website
Client
Upper Empire
Year
2023
Market
US
Role
End-to-end delivery
Team
4

The client

Upper Empire is a US sneaker retailer trading limited-edition and hard-to-find pairs, built around timed drops and events announced to a large social following.

Several sellers list against the same catalogue, a size can sell out mid-session, and a drop puts a spike of traffic on the store all at once.

What we did

  • Marketplace setup

    Shopify Plus configured as a multi-vendor marketplace, with the catalogue and vendor model behind it.

  • Real-time inventory

    Inventory sync through the Shopify APIs so stock stays accurate across vendors during a drop.

  • Storefront build

    Collection and product pages, size selection and the drop-day surfaces promoted on social.

Stack

  • Shopify Plus
  • Liquid
  • Shopify APIs
  • JavaScript
  • SCSS

Services: Shopify commerce , Apps & integrations