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By Gaurav Parvadiya | Last Updated On January 4th, 2026
Convert Shipturtle Marketplace to Mobile App and give your buyers and vendors a home on their phones, not just in their bookmarks.
When it comes to seamless transformations of Shopify stores to Multivendor marketplaces, Shipturtle takes the cake. With over 1,000 marketplaces, 50K+ vendors, and 5 million+ orders processed, {Insert Company} has become a powerhouse marketplace that completes the circle with artisan collectives, sneaker resale platforms, B2B wholesale, and more! Shipturtle has processed orders from over 50 countries, making it a global marketplace.
The platform does the heavy-lifting backend work. Everything from vendor onboarding, catalog importation, order split, commission calculations, shipment integrations, and automated payout takes place. It covers B2B, B2C, and C2C models which include products, rentals, bookings, and services.
The shipment integrations do work; however, it does lack in mobile access. Your vendors have access to cloud-based dashboards, and yes, to mobile access. But your buyers? They’re shopping on phones – mobile browsers. They’re checking orders on mobile web interfaces that are poorly optimized.
Apps are a game-changer:
Marketplace buyers gain access to notifications on price drops, restocks, and order updates. They can make purchases easily and frequently. Marketplace vendors receive notifications on orders so they can complete them and keep customers happy. Marketplace owners gain trust and 2-3x higher engagement as they acquire an app. If you’ve built a marketplace with Shipturtle, your next step to maximize that investment is to build a mobile app.
Shipturtle has been rated 4.9 out of 5 stars with 125+ reviews and is the 1 leading multivendor marketplace app on Shopify. It turns standalone Shopify stores into fully functioning marketplaces where they can have multiple sellers list products, process orders, and get paid.
Fashion and apparel marketplaces like Cult Mia, Balardi, and CrepDogCrew.
Artisan and handmade goods platforms like Dusaan, Abel & Tosh, and ArtisanBox.
Food and nutrition brands such as Veeba Foods, Muscle Pump Nutrition, and Al Wholesale.
C2C resale platforms including Bears Club, eNDE Project, and P.S. Bridal Rental.
Home decoration and lifestyle stores include The Purple Pony, Zwende, and Mybageecha.
Sneaker and streetwear fashion can be found at CrepDogCrew.
Zurno offers beauty and nail services.
For Books and media, visit Nextbook.
Multivendor marketplaces have two audiences: The buyers and the vendors. Both audiences are able to leverage and benefit from the implementations of mobile native applications.
According to the Digital Commerce 360 report, the average open rate for emails is 20% while mobile push notifications are opened at 90% and higher. It is easy to see the advantage for a marketplace:
A marketplace that is a browser bookmark means the customer is likely to visit when they actively need to make a purchase. If they have downloaded the marketplace app and it’s on their home screen, they will browse the same way they would on Instagram which is likely to lead to discovery purchases and higher average order values.
Native apps always perform better than mobile websites in terms of speed and responsiveness, which is super important for marketplaces with thousands of products and multiple vendor storefronts.
Having a marketplace in the App Store and Google Play shows its legitimacy. This is especially important for new marketplaces that are trying to compete with more established marketplaces.
Vendors who only check their email once every few hours tend to miss time-sensitive orders. Notifications are typically more visible than emails.
Many Shipturtle vendors are small business owners, artisans, or individual sellers who are not at a desk all day. Mobile apps let them:
Mobile app users engage 2-3x more than web users, which translates to a higher GMV (gross merchandise value) for the same customer base, resulting in lower customer acquisition costs.
Here is how progressive marketplace owners view mobile:
Twinr is not just another website wrapper. It is a mobile platform for commerce focused on user retention, and multivendor marketplaces offer distinct opportunities.
Order confirmations, shipping information, and delivery notifications.
back-in-stock notifications.
price drop alerts for items on their wishlists.
brand new products in the categories they follow.
products from vendors they star.
flash sales and other time-sensitive sales.
reminders to recover their abandoned carts.
New order notifications (they get notified in real time when they get an order).
notifications for order statuses that require their action.
notifications for order payments and commissions.
low stock notifications for their products.
new customer messages and inquiries.
Your Shipturtle marketplace functions perfectly in Twinr.
However, for high-volume moments, you can design bespoke screens that are native only to Twinr:
The AI from Twinr looks at customer purchasing data and can recommend:
There are no fees per message, and there are no costs to setting up OneSignal. Promotional messages, order updates, and announcements to vendors can all be sent at no additional cost.
Monitor app installations, how frequently users open the app, how often users open notifications, and what users buy. Learn which vendors drive repeat visits and which categories see the greatest engagement.
When you edit your Shopify store — adding new products, changing vendors, updating prices — those changes appear in the mobile app. No remaking the app, no resubmitting the app.
Twinr’s team manages submissions to the App Store and Google Play, provides playbooks to guide you through your launch, and offers you the support of a customer success manager.
Ready to give your customers and vendors mobile applications? Here is the procedure:
Having live stores with products available and active vendors
Having mobile-responsive theme (is it possible to use your website to shop on phone browsers?)
Having essential features working (is it possible to browse the site, search, add items to your basket and checkout?)
Having vendor mobile storefronts (if it applies) that display properly
Use Twinr’s visual builders to create the following:
This is the point at which the mobile marketplace activity becomes truly transformative:
“Your order #1234 is confirmed”
“Great news! Your order has shipped – track it here.
“Your package has been delivered.”
“Message from [Vendor] regarding your order.”
“The [Product] you liked is now in stock!”
“New deal: [Product] is 20% off.”
“New products from [Vendor] you follow.”
“Flash sale: 30% off all [Category] items for the next 4 hours!”
“Looks like you left something in your cart!”
“Have you been thinking about [Product]? It’s a bestseller.”
“You haven’t been here in a bit, so I wanted to show you what’s new!”
“New order! [Product] from [City]!”
“You’ve been paid $X!”
“Low stock: [Product] has 2 left!”
Install Twinr’s preview app to check on live devices:
Do one of the following:
Currently, it takes around 2 weeks for most marketplace apps to go live.
Once we go live:
Example: Purchasers can receive notifications when their favorite artists announce new pictures to motivate purchases due to the fact that they sell out quickly.
Web Reality: Sellers list products and wait. Buyers check the site for new products. Buyers see instant notifications and check the site more. Sellers get ship notifications and can ship products should they choose. Communication between the buyer and seller feels like instant messaging and is mobile-friendly.
Example: Cortez Club has tools to instant notify people when products are listed that match their saved searches.
Web Reality: New products sell out in seconds and are rarely restocked. Buyers are unaware when new products are dropping.
Mobile Advantage: Buyers get notified when new products drop.
Example: CrepDogCrew can notify users 15 Seconds before new products drop to ensure their users get products.
Web Reality: Buying is a memory game. Sellers are vendors for their products.
Mobile Advantage: Reminders to reorder are sent to buyers and notifications are sent to vendors when they have a new order so they can fulfill their order quickly.
Al Wholesale can alert restaurant buyers when it’s time to reorder based on their repeat purchase cycle, turning one-time buyers into recurring accounts.
Web Reality: Availability changes only get communicated at the next website visit.
Mobile Advantage: Availability alerts get sent when items become rentable. There are booking confirmations and reminder notifications. Return reminders are sent to minimize late fees. This also improves inventory turnover.
Example: a rental marketplace such as P.S. Bridal Rental could notify brides when their dream dress is available to rent for their wedding date.
Yes. Twinr transforms vendor marketplace storefronts into native apps. All buyers see is the same mobile marketplace storefront shopping experience whether you have 10 vendors or 500. Vendor storefronts, product listings, search results, checkout, all functions mobile as it does web.
If set up that way, vendors can access their Shipturtle dashboards via the mobile app. That said, Shipturtle has their own Android app for vendors. The primary purpose of Twinr is for your buyers marketplace app experience, but is still possible to make a vendor-focused app variant.
When you integrate Twinr with your Shopify store, it can set off notifications based on an order’s status. You can set it so that notification is sent whenever an order is placed, shipped, or delivered. You can also set notifications to be sent for promotional purposes, back in stock alerts, and abandoned cart notifications.
Absolutely. If your Shipturtle marketplace has a B2B wholesale audience and a B2C retail audience, with Twinr you can create a different app for each audience with customized navigation, features, and notification strategies.
Because Twinr syncs with your active Shopify store, new, updated, and removed products will always synchronize in the mobile app. Vendors will still manage products using their Shipturtle dashboards; there will be no change in their workflow.
Median provides a wrapping service for websites so they can be incorporated with simple, custom-named, native features and has to use OneSignal for push notifications, which adds additional costs. For commerce, Twinr includes unlimited push notifications and is a marketplace-focused app, with AI-driven features for engagement, native UI for screens to optimize conversion, and retention-focused metrics to meet the standards of marketplace analytics such as GMV and repeat purchase rate.
Gaurav is the founder and CEO of Twinr, a tech entrepreneur with a decade of experience and a passion for SaaS. With a Master's degree in Computer Science, he specializes in no-code development, driving innovation in the mobile app industry. When he's not busy growing the company, you'll find him writing about tech, growth, software development, e-commerce, and occasionally sneaking in a game of badminton.