Sharetribe

An open-source React client template paired with Sharetribe's hosted marketplace backend and Stripe Connect payments

Best for: Founders building a rental, booking, or peer-to-peer marketplace who want buyer/seller accounts and Stripe Connect payment splitting handled by a proven backend, with a customizable React frontend.
Skip if: You want a fully self-hostable, code-only marketplace with no recurring platform fee - the transaction backend is a paid hosted service, not something you deploy yourself.

Sharetribe is a two-sided marketplace platform built around a split: an Apache-2.0-licensed React/Express client template (Web Template) that you can freely fork and restyle, connected to Sharetribe's hosted transaction backend, which handles listings, buyer/seller accounts, messaging, reviews, and Stripe Connect payments between the two sides. It's aimed at founders building things like rental, booking, or peer-to-peer marketplaces who want buyer and seller flows, commission handling, and payment splitting already solved, while still owning and customizing the frontend code. Going live requires one of Sharetribe's paid plans - the template itself is free, but the backend it talks to is not a self-hosted open-source service.

Pros

One of the longest-running dedicated marketplace platforms in this space, with Stripe Connect payment splitting and vendor payouts already proven at scale
The client template is genuinely open source (Apache 2.0) and forkable, not just a themeable demo - you own the frontend code
Backend handles the parts that are hardest to get right in a marketplace - transaction state, reviews, messaging, commission logic - so the template isn't starting from zero

Cons

Not a self-hosted, database-in-your-control boilerplate - the marketplace backend is Sharetribe's own hosted service, billed monthly once you go live
The open-source Web Template repo has a small GitHub star count relative to how established the company is, so don't judge it by repo popularity alone
Customization beyond the template's design system means learning Sharetribe's own transaction-process and Integration API concepts, not just React