Is there an 'off the shelf' platform for making a new website similar to Elance?

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Published on 2012-08-16T02:52:08Z Indexed on 2012/09/26 9:52 UTC
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I am interested in developing a website that is similar to 'elance' but for a particular vertical.

Is there an 'off the shelf' platform you can recommend for getting started with this, or would I need to develop this web service from scratch?

When I write 'platform' I am referring to things such as 'shopify' for e-commerce sites, or 'ning' for social websites. I want to create a multi-merchant professional services site.

The site would need to support functionality such as:

  • allowing merchants to open and manage their own profile.
  • merchants would accept payments from customers through the site.
  • file transfers between merchants and customers.
  • merchant ratings by customers.

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