Contour. Showcase

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2024: Preparing to launch a marketplace for business

SKB Kontur is preparing to launch a marketplace for business. The company announced this on February 20, 2024.

This platform will help companies quickly close their needs for goods: the main task of the service is to make trading fast, safe and profitable. Sellers and buyers are already actively registering on the B2B-Marketplace.

The functionality of Contour. Storefronts allows you to sell any goods for business - from everyday items to products of light and heavy industry. There are no restrictions on sales amounts, you can work throughout Russia. The financial guarantor is the site itself: Kontur. Vitrina stores the buyer's money on her special account and immediately transfers it to the seller after the successful completion of the transaction. The seller pays only 3.5% of the transaction amount. There are no hidden payments and commissions on the site.

Work on the B2B-Marketplace is carried out through electronic document management. Users accept a single offer when registering on site and no longer spend time drawing up and agreeing contracts. The team of experts thought over the functionality of the service from the point of view of users - they were guided by the experience of European and leading Russian sites, based on research on the opinions of sellers. We managed to add some special options.

{{quote 'author = said Dmitry Pinigin, Head of Kontur.Vitryny. | We thought about creating a Marketplace even during the pandemic, when trade and logistics ties began to collapse, problems began to arise among both buyers and sellers. The subsequent situation with external sanctions only aggravated these issues. In the development of the Showcase, we were helped by the experience of creating Contour. Procurement - a service for working with tenders with a 10-year history. We also relied on serious market research. This helped us create a platform where everything the customer cherishes will be on,}}

Soon useful functions will appear on the B2B-Marketplace. In 2024-2026, they plan to connect an auto-check of companies for trustworthiness, add tools for comparing goods inside the site and on other marketplaces, implement the possibility of buying on credit or installments, and introduce settlements through a digital ruble.