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Learn how The Archive Place created an elegant digital marketplace with Ultra Commerce, delivering a premium shopping experience while promoting sustainable fashion through circular retail practices.
Introduction
The Archive Place has luxury in mind, redefining the outlet shopping experience. They have stripped away the overwhelming noise that exists amongst outlet/retail, and fast commerce. Instead, The Archive Place has positioned themselves as curators of well-crafted pieces, extending the life cycle of fashion and ensuring customers are receiving an optimal shopping experience.
The Archive Place is launching several initiatives designed to embed a circular and regenerative fashion model within their retail concept. We are thrilled to be part of the journey.
The problem
The Archive Place saw an opportunity in the fashion sector to provide customers with a positive experience when seeking good deals on high-end items. Typically, this is coupled with very “sales” focused content, timers, large promotional text, and call outs. The Archive Place was after the complete opposite – providing a digital outlet experience without the exclamation marks. The Archive Place wanted to feature retailers of high-end, luxury fashion items, whereby the well-crafted pieces last a lifetime, and not a season. Leveraging UC Marketplace’s out-of-the-box B2C functionalities, The Archive Place were able to test and validate the concept in an accelerated time frame, and begin their journey to embed circular and regenerative fashion model.
The solution
The Archive Place is a beautiful product marketplace that allows customers to shop timeless luxury fashion items across a variety of brands and designers. The Archive Place was a 100% partner implemented marketplace solution by iCube. ICube delivered the end-to-end solution including design, front-end build, implementation and integration of 3PL for order management.
Thanks to the clean and elegant design of the marketplace, customers landing on the platform can feel the premium nature of the brands from the very first page. Intuitive navigation allows customers to easily search through multiple items and categories, filtering pieces by price and brand.
Multi-vendor capabilities of the marketplace enable the vendors to have administrative control over their products, including product information, inventory, pricing, and promotions.
Finally, The Archive Place team is perfectly equipped to manage the marketplace on their end, onboard and manage vendors, handle the product fulfillment process using a 3PL service provided by Next3PL, and arrange vendors payments via Stripe.
The outcome
The Archive Place has received remarkable success, slowly and gradually growing their list of fashion retailers and increasing popularity among affluent consumers.
The ultimate goal of The Archive Place is to empower their community to extend the life cycle of fashion (also reducing waste) by enabling brands to re-circulate their archive pieces.
Further down the road, the team plan to launch several initiatives designed to embed a circular and regenerative fashion model within their retail concept.
