CerOfertă — Request-First Marketplace
A request-for-quote marketplace: the shopper asks for a price once, sellers each send a single best offer — no bidding wars, no back-and-forth.
CerOfertă flips the classic price-comparison model. Instead of scrolling listings, the shopper searches a product, optionally names a target price, and the request goes out to relevant sellers, each of whom gets exactly one shot at their best offer. Built end-to-end in Laravel, with separate portals for buyers, sellers and admin, an automated offer engine that keeps every request answered even without seller input, and an AI-driven growth engine that recruits new sellers and produces marketing content on its own.
The problem
Shoppers waste time chasing quotes across stores and negotiating back and forth, while sellers get pulled into race-to-the-bottom bidding wars or ignore price-comparison leads that generate 20 near-identical follow-up messages.
The solution
A single-offer request flow: one request in, one final offer out per seller, so shoppers get real, comparable prices fast and sellers commit once instead of haggling. When sellers don't respond in time, a background job auto-generates offers from the platform's own synced market-price data or, as a live fallback, from Google Shopping via the DataForSEO API — so the shopper is never left empty-handed. A separate automation layer recruits new sellers (lead scraping, AI-written outreach, email/website verification, open and click tracking) and an AI suite produces the ad creative and blog content needed to grow traffic.
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Results
Live end-to-end marketplace: request-to-offer flow, an auto-offer fallback that guarantees a response on every request, price-drop alerts to sellers, an automated seller-recruitment pipeline, and an AI content pipeline (banners, videos, blog posts) feeding a multi-platform social scheduler.
What it does
Search-to-request flow
Shopper searches a product, sees indicative market prices instantly, optionally sets a target price, and the request is routed to relevant active sellers in one step.
Auto-offer engine
If no seller responds manually, a queued job builds up to 3 offers automatically — first from the platform's own synced market-price data, then, as a fallback, from live Google Shopping results via the DataForSEO API — so every request gets an answer.
Seller price alerts
When a shopper sets a target price the current market can't match, subscribed sellers are notified automatically so they can undercut and win the sale.
Seller portal
Sellers manage their own product prices, respond to incoming requests, track sent offers, view performance reports, and moderate their own reviews.
Admin back office
Full moderation of requests, offers, sellers, users and reviews, plus category and product management and platform-wide reporting.
AI marketing suite
AI-generated ad banners and videos (OpenAI, Gemini, Claude) with a multi-platform scheduler for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok and Pinterest, including AI-written captions and automatic retry.
Automated seller recruitment
CSV lead import, website-status checks, bulk email discovery, AI-generated outreach letters, and open/click tracking with one-click unsubscribe — a self-serve pipeline for growing the seller network.
Feeds, SEO & analytics
Google Merchant feed, sitemap generation, affiliate price feeds, first-party analytics, custom tracking-script management and error monitoring.
Why it matters
Most price-comparison sites make the shopper do the work of filtering noisy listings, and most quote-request tools drown sellers in repeat follow-ups. CerOfertă collapses both problems into one exchange per seller — and because the auto-offer engine guarantees a response even before the seller network is large, the marketplace delivers value to shoppers from day one while the recruitment automation grows the supply side in the background.
Interested in a similar request-based marketplace?
The same offer-request engine, auto-offer fallback and seller-growth automation can be adapted to other verticals or built as a white-label platform.
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