Dragon Mart's E-commerce Transformation with INTECH

Dragon Mart partnered with INTECH to launch a multi-vendor web and mobile marketplace, simplifying shopping for customers and operations for vendors. Flexible payments and rapid delivery expanded reach across the UAE

Client Overview

A Landmark UAE Retail Destination Going Omnichannel

  • Client

    Dragon Mart, Dubai's flagship marketplace housing 6,000+ independent stores serving residents, trade buyers, and visiting shoppers at national scale

  • Industry

    Large-format retail and multi-category marketplace (B2C/B2B) spanning fashion, electronics, home, tools, and lifestyle

  • Core Offering

    Vast, value-driven assortment aggregated under one destination; high footfall and an extensive vendor ecosystem requiring consistent standards

  • Mandate

    Extend the physical marketplace online with a scalable multi-vendor platform and mobile app multilingual UX, secure payments, last-mile integrations, and centralized oversight for vendors, orders, and SLAs

Challenges We Overcome

Marketplace Complexities Hindering Digital Scale

Catalog Sprawl & Inconsistent Taxonomy

Thousands of SKUs across 6,000 stores needed standardized attributes, imagery, and variants to prevent duplicates and preserve search/filter quality

Vendor Onboarding Friction

Diverse seller capabilities required simple dashboards, approvals, and role-based access to ensure compliant listings and reliable fulfillment

Payment Diversity & Checkout Drop-Offs

Cards, wallets, and COD demanded secure, low-friction flows with fraud checks and graceful fallbacks to reduce abandonment

Delivery Orchestration & SLA Gaps

Multiple couriers, variable rates, and UAE-wide coverage needed smart routing, live tracking, and alerting for timely resolution

Multilingual UX & Content Ops

Arabic/English parity required localized navigation, search facets, and synchronized translations across frequent catalog updates.

Solutions

INTECH's Marketplace Solution: Seamless Commerce at Dragon Mart Scale

Vendor Self-Service Console

Dashboards for product uploads, pricing, inventory, orders, and settlements with role-based access and approvals

Catalog Governance & Taxonomy

Standard attributes, variants, and media templates ensure consistent PDPs, strong filters, and duplicate prevention.

Multilingual Storefronts

Native Arabic and English navigation, search, and content workflows keep frequent catalog changes in sync.

Secure Multi-Tender Checkout

Cards, wallets, and COD with tokenization, fraud screening, retries, and finance-friendly settlement exports.

Logistics & Delivery Orchestration

Courier integrations for rate shopping, labels, live tracking, and SLA alerts across UAE coverage.

Mobile App & Engagement

React Native app enabling fast browse, notifications, checkout, order tracking, and easy returns

Live Support & Returns

In-session chat, status notifications, and streamlined RMA flows to reduce friction and build trust

Analytics & Oversight

Real-time dashboards for sales, inventory, vendor KPIs, fulfillment performance, and exception management

Tech Stack

The Commerce Infrastructure Powering Dragon Mart Online

nopCommerce (Multi-Vendor Core)

Marketplace engine for vendor onboarding, catalog, promotions, and order workflows with role-based controls and approvals

ASP.NET Core & EF Core

Secure, modular services for products, inventory, checkout, and reconciliation with auditability and high performance

React Native (iOS & Android)

Native mobile experience enabling browse, notifications, checkout, tracking, returns, and support chat

Payments & Logistics Integrations

Cards, wallets, COD, fraud checks, settlement exports; courier APIs for labels, tracking, and SLA webhooks

Azure DevOps (CI/CD)

Pipelines, gated releases, automated testing, and rollback for reliable, incremental delivery

Localization & Analytics

Arabic/English content operations and real-time dashboards for sales, inventory, vendors, and fulfillment KPIs

Results

Driving Marketplace Scale Across the UAE

50,000+ orders within weeks

Rapid demand capture driven by intuitive discovery, secure checkout, and mobile-first journeys

250,000 registered shoppers

A scalable acquisition engine converting physical footfall into loyal digital customers

25,000 daily visits

Consistent traffic sustained by search relevance, promotions, and app notifications

UAE-wide reach

Multi-tender payments and courier integrations unlocked delivery coverage across regions

Stronger vendor performance

Standardized listings, approvals, and dashboards accelerated onboarding and catalog depth

Higher customer satisfaction

Live tracking, easy returns, and chat support reduced friction and boosted repeat purchases

Business Benefits

From Mall Footfall to Measurable Digital Growth

  • Rapid order velocity

    50,000+ orders within weeks and 25,000 daily visits proved marketplace fit at scale

  • Customer acquisition at pace

    250,000 registered shoppers built a repeatable engine for growth and retention

  • Higher conversions

    Streamlined discovery, multilingual UX, and secure checkout reduced abandonment

  • Operational visibility

    Real-time dashboards for sales, inventory, vendors, and SLAs improved decision speed

  • Reliable fulfillment

    Courier integrations, tracking, and alerts tightened on-time delivery and customer trust

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