CannaMPx - a cannabis-focused B2B business hub and marketplace to buy and sell new and used equipment, supplies and locate business services. FREE membership and listings, no commission or transaction fees.
Super easy and real quick to signup and post listings which can include images, videos, links, descriptions and more. Powerful keyword and geo search functionality.
Signed up! Website looks pretty good! Excited to be a part.
Thank you and welcome! If you are selling any good or offering any service, please post a listing to be searchable and viewed in the listings. If browsing for something, enjoy and our newsletter that you control can keep you updated on new listings.
The CannaMPx team
What’s your business model and how do you ensure the integrity of products and transactions?
it’s free until it’s not…then we’ll charge you.
Currently, all memberships are FREE and there are NO FEES for your listings or any transactions. As we achieve our target scale of Providers and Buyers on the platform, we will then roll out value-based subscription and/or listing fees. Until then, please enjoy the CannaMPx marketplace AT NO COST TO YOU!
which is a good thing, as there are only a handful of listings at this point…
ahh. I’d like to see a firm pricing commitment before investing time and resources into using a new platform. Call me a pessimist, but I’ve seen a lot of sticker shock over the years that people feel they have no choice but to accept because they’re already entrenched. While not an apples to apples comparison, SAP integration follows the model of “we don’t like it anymore, but it would be too hard to change”.
Thanks for the note! We have very recently launched the site and are focused on building the ecoystem. We need to create and validate the value proposition to the users first before we start to charge any fees. Yes, charging users now with small number of listings and members would be a hard sell, to the point that we need to build out first. Once we have gained scale and members see the value from it (namely they are gaining leads), we will look at implementing a fair membership or listing fee program.
We are currently monitoring the listings to ensure they adhere to our guidelines. As we see abuse levels that increase substantially and/or become more consistent, we have the ability to tweak our processes so that all new posts go through a QC check before they can be live. Additionally, we can also tighten up our membership processes there as well as we see the need. Allowing more open to start and then will consider to make more closed as we need to. Hoping the community aspect will also help us to evolve, similar to this site.
All transactions currently take place directly between the buyer and seller. We are looking to implement a payment processing ability in a future release to facilitate payment transactions, and where we can allow for hold-backs on payments until the buyer has received/approved the transaction.
Thank you for your consideration to help us build the CannaMPx platform and we welcome all feedback as we grow.
Completely understandable. The most desired business model is where a transaction or commission fee is paid upon completion of a transaction - the value (the lead/sale) is directly received from the platform and is then paid for. However with certain products and services that have larger or more complex transactions, this can be very hard to implement online, especially in B2B. The level of effort to become a member and create and manage listings is very minimal. We are not a full-on B2B eCommerce solution and platform where your investment could be substantially greater and agree there you would need to be more cautious of the business model.
Thanks for the good response, best of luck to you and your team.