Fiverr Clone | White Label Freelance Services Marketplace App

Fiverr's real trick was turning freelancing into a product you can add to cart

Before Fiverr, hiring a freelancer meant posting a job, fielding bids, negotiating, and hoping. Fiverr's insight was to flip it: sellers package their work into fixed-scope "gigs" with a clear price and a Buy button, so hiring a logo or a voiceover feels like buying a product rather than starting a project. That one shift is why it scaled. Fiverr did roughly 391 million dollars of revenue in 2024 from about 3.6 million active buyers, and it did it on a marketplace take rate of nearly 28 percent, made up of a fee on the seller and a fee on the buyer of every order. That take-rate engine, wrapped around escrow that protects both sides, is the actual business. The gig listings are just the surface.

When you set out to build a version of this, that is what you are really building: a trust-and-payments layer that lets a buyer pay upfront, a seller deliver with confidence, and you take a clean cut of every completed order. We have built exactly that, and we white-label it to your brand and your niche.

What our Fiverr clone ships

You get a complete two-sided services marketplace. Buyers browse and search categorised gigs, view seller profiles, ratings, and portfolios, order a fixed package or request a custom quote, pay into escrow, chat and share files with the seller, track delivery and request revisions, then leave a review. Sellers get a storefront to create and price gigs and packages, manage an order queue and delivery, message buyers, and withdraw earnings. Underneath is the part that matters: an escrow flow that holds the buyer's payment and releases it to the seller only on approved delivery, a dispute and resolution layer, and a configurable take-rate engine that applies your seller and buyer fees automatically. An admin control tower manages categories, users, disputes, fees, payouts, and analytics.

The price is $7,900 one-time, with full unencrypted source code, 3 months of support, deployed under your brand, and typically live in 15 days. No cut of your transactions comes back to us. Everything else we build is in our white-label catalogue.

The tech stack

A marketplace that holds money and files has to be reliable and searchable. Native iOS and Android apps in React Native, a Next.js web app and admin, and a Node.js backend on PostgreSQL with a properly modelled ledger so escrow balances and payouts always reconcile. Search runs on Typesense or Elasticsearch across gigs and categories, real-time messaging and order updates run on WebSockets, payments and seller payouts run on Stripe Connect with escrow-style holds so you never touch raw card data, and file delivery sits on AWS S3. You receive the full source code for every layer.

How you make money, and the challenge to plan for

The model is one of the cleanest in software: you take a percentage of every completed order, split between a seller fee and a buyer fee, exactly like Fiverr's near-28-percent take rate, and it is fully configurable in your admin. On top you can add promoted gigs and featured placement, seller subscription tiers for lower fees or more listings, and premium buyer features. Because you only earn when a transaction completes, your incentives are perfectly aligned with your users.

And the honest challenge, because every marketplace has the same one: liquidity. You need enough quality sellers to attract buyers and enough buyers to keep sellers active, and you cannot fake either. The operators who win pick a specific niche, say a single vertical of creative or technical services, or a particular language or region the big platforms serve poorly, and own it before broadening. That focus is your advantage over a giant that tries to be everything to everyone. We build you the platform in 15 days and are straight that seeding the two sides is the campaign you run, and we will happily share how the successful ones do it.

Written by the Make An App Like build team. We build two-sided marketplaces with escrow and payouts, and we would rather explain liquidity and take rate than sell you a gig listing page.