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B2BCMarket is a connected marketplace designed to bring businesses, companies, branches, products, buyers, sellers, and merchants together within one structured marketplace ecosystem.
Getting started depends on how you participate in the marketplace. You may be exploring B2BCMarket as a buyer, establishing a seller presence, participating as a merchant, or simply learning how the marketplace is structured.
B2BCMarket is built around connected marketplace entities rather than isolated product listings.
Business
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Company
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Branch
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Product
Understanding this relationship is the best starting point for understanding how B2BCMarket works.
B2BCMarket uses the Connected Entity Architecture (BCEA) to organize its major public marketplace entities.
Each entity can have its own public identity and public catalog URL while remaining connected to related entities.
Learn how the entities connect:
Explore Connected Entity Architecture
The public marketplace structure is built around four primary entities.
Learn about each entity:
B2BCMarket supports different marketplace participants.
Each participant interacts with the marketplace according to their role.
Buyers can discover products and services through the connected marketplace catalog.
A buyer can discover a product and then explore its branch, company, and business context.
Discover Product
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Explore Branch
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Explore Company
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Explore Business
Learn more about the buyer experience:
Sellers can establish their marketplace presence through the connected entity structure.
Depending on their business structure, a seller may work with:
This structure allows a seller's marketplace presence to represent the relationship between the business, its operating locations, and its offerings.
Merchants can participate in marketplace-related business opportunities within the B2BCMarket ecosystem.
Merchant participation can be connected with marketplace activity and revenue-sharing opportunities.
Explore the Merchant Ecosystem
B2BCMarket supports different marketplace relationship models.
The appropriate marketplace model depends on how the business intends to participate and whom it intends to serve.
Learn about Marketplace Models
Marketplace participation can also be organized according to geographic strategy.
A business may participate in:
Learn about Marketplace Strategies
B2BCMarket can support different types of marketplace offerings.
The type of offering affects how it can be represented and how users interact with it.
Product visibility is connected to the marketplace state of the product and the branch through which the product is offered.
Public catalog representation is therefore based on marketplace conditions rather than simply the existence of a product record.
Learn about Product Visibility
B2BCMarket provides a connected catalog representation for its major public entities.
Business Catalog
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Company Catalog
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Branch Catalog
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Product Catalog
Each public entity can be independently accessed while remaining connected to related entities.
Learn about Catalog Architecture
B2BCMarket supports navigation in both directions.
Business → Company → Branch → Product
Product → Branch → Company → Business
This allows users to begin with either a broad business context or a specific marketplace offering.
Public entities are accessed through public URLs built on the B2BCMarket domain and public identifiers.
Public URLs provide direct access to Businesses, Companies, Branches, Products, and other public resources.
Marketplace participation can involve ordering and payment activities.
These activities connect marketplace offerings with commercial transactions between participating parties.
Learn about Orders and Payments
B2BCMarket can provide subscription-based capabilities for participating users and businesses.
Subscription concepts can be understood separately from the connected public catalog architecture.
Revenue sharing provides a mechanism through which eligible marketplace participants can participate in revenue generated through marketplace activity.
B2BCMarket also maintains machine-readable representations of marketplace information.
These can include:
These representations support automated discovery and processing while reflecting the same underlying marketplace relationships.
If you are new to B2BCMarket, the following sequence provides a useful way to understand the platform.
1. Understand B2BCMarket
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2. Understand BCEA
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3. Understand Business, Company, Branch, and Product
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4. Choose Buyer, Seller, or Merchant perspective
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5. Understand Marketplace Models
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6. Understand Marketplace Strategies
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7. Explore the Catalog
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8. Explore Connected Navigation
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9. Learn about Orders, Payments, Subscriptions, and Revenue Sharing
Buyers can begin by exploring products and then following the connected catalog to understand the branch, company, and business behind each offering.
Start with the Buyer Experience
Sellers can begin by understanding how their business structure can be represented through Business, Company, Branch, and Product entities.
Start with the Seller Ecosystem
Merchants can begin by understanding marketplace participation and the opportunities connected to marketplace activity.
Start with the Merchant Ecosystem
Technical readers can begin with the Connected Entity Architecture and Catalog Architecture pages.
These explain how public entities, identifiers, URLs, catalog relationships, and machine-readable representations fit together.
The central idea behind getting started with B2BCMarket is to understand the relationship between marketplace participants and marketplace entities.
Participants
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Marketplace Entities
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Connected Catalog
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Marketplace Activity
Once this structure is understood, the individual features and services of B2BCMarket can be explored according to the needs of each participant.