How Arcade Ran a Marketplace for AI-Designed Products on Traide

About Arcade

Arcade let people design unique products with AI, for artisans to make. A shopper created a piece, and a maker crafted it.

The Challenge

Every Arcade product was made to order by a maker. Each order had to reach the right maker, each maker had to be paid for their work, and Arcade took its commission, while its design experience and checkout stayed entirely its own.

The Solution

From 2023 to 2026, Arcade’s marketplace ran on our platform, headless. Its own front end and checkout called our commerce API, with payments through Stripe. Each order was split to its maker as a seller order, Arcade’s commission was calculated on every order, and payouts to makers ran through Trolley.

The Impact

Its own experience, our commerce engine

Arcade designed every screen its shoppers saw. Orders, payments, makers and payouts ran on our API for three years.

Makers paid from one ledger

Every sale was recorded in the platform’s double-entry ledger, and each maker was paid its share through Trolley.

Traide Features for Arcade

Headless Commerce API

Bring your own front end and checkout.

Seller Orders and Payouts

Each order split to its maker, and each maker paid from one ledger.

Commissions

The marketplace’s share, calculated on every order.