Hey there, my name is Antonio and in this tutorial we are building a multi-tenant e-commerce application. Right now we are looking at the public storefront. Each product here is sold by a different merchant. Everything's categorized cleanly, and we have a slick drop-down menu for subcategories. When a customer clicks on a product, they get taken to a dedicated product page.
But notice this. The URL has changed. We are now on a vendor-specific subdomain. That's because each seller on our platform gets their own branded storefront. Once the user adds a product to the cart, they are taken to the checkout screen.
From here, They can either complete the purchase, or they can go back to the merchant's storefront and add more products from the same vendor. This is the vendor's public storefront. It has a similar layout to the main homepage, but it's filtered down to only this merchant's products. The store is branded with the vendor name and completely isolated. Again, we are on their unique subdomain.
After clicking checkout, we are redirected to Stripe checkout screen. And what's really happening behind the scenes is powered by Stripe Connect. The vendor gets paid, and our platform automatically takes a 10% fee from the transaction. That's our revenue model, and you will learn how to build all of this. After a successful purchase, the product shows up in the library.
This is where customers can access their purchases and leave reviews if they want to. When clicking into a product, customers can leave a rating or a written review. And they can also access bonus content uploaded by the creator. The content block supports rich text, so it could be a file download, a welcome message, a license code, a link, anything the seller wants to include. Here we have the Merchant dashboard, powered by Payload.
This is where vendors manage their products, set prices, update descriptions, and assign categories. Before creating anything, they'll have to go through Stripe verification, which is something we handle directly in the dashboard. And finally, here's the Super Admin dashboard. Same clean structure, but with access to all platform entities, users, products, orders, tenants, and more. This is where we demonstrate role-based access control, so vendors only manage their own data while the admin stays in full control of the platform.
So if you are ready to build a fully featured multi-tenant marketplace with payments, Stripe Connect, reviews, role-based access control, and more, Let's get started.