Marketplace App, Zoho One and a Website for an Online Wood Marketplace

We picked up a work-in-progress app and took it to launch. The first version has been live on its own domain since the end of May 2024. The app supports:

• company registration, buyer and seller roles and an admin account,
• listings with categories (roundwood, construction timber, biomass, wood products), wood species and units,
• browsing offers with filters, a product detail page and orders with quantity and unit,
• email and push notifications and a responsive version.

After launch we tuned the app with the client against real use (filters, units, SEO of listing URLs, redirects for sold products). We planned a second development phase of three months in sprints.

The whole Lignufy team runs on Zoho One with an all-employee licence. We set up company email on the client's own domain, including aliases and a group address for system emails, which avoided buying another licence. We imported data into Zoho CRM, built web forms with Zoho Forms and designed an API link between the app's listings and the CRM so inquiries and offers are stored without manual work.

We built lignufy.com, which speaks to buyers and sellers separately and has a blog, a contact form and a newsletter. We added analytics (Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity), a sitemap and SEO templates to the website and the app, so every listing has its own title and description based on the product and category.