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d like to start a website like grouponclone,living socila....can anyone suggest a best platform for develop

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Short primer: a deals/discount marketplace is as much operations and contracts as it is code. Several replies here already debate “ready-made script” versus custom work — raised display and filtering needs (featured, nearby), flagged the developer-skill requirement, and rightly warned that marketing is the bigger ongoing cost. Platform choice should follow a clear MVP feature set and an operational playbook.

Essential MVP features to define and prioritize:

  • Merchant onboarding and a simple merchant dashboard.
  • Deal editor: start/end, inventory, minimums and pricing controls.
  • Purchase flow with a payment gateway and automatic unique voucher/coupon generation.
  • Email templates and automated confirmations/receipts.
  • Redemption workflow: unique code/QR or manual validation and a merchant redemption log.
  • Basic reporting and finance export for payouts and reconciliation.
  • Search, categories and geolocation filters (featured / nearby sorting).
  • Mobile-responsive UI and SEO-friendly pages.
  • Admin moderation, refund rules and simple anti-fraud checks.

Architecture and business tradeoffs: for teams without backend experience, a hosted/low-code route or hiring a developer reduces time-to-market. For scale, design with background workers (emails, voucher creation), a CDN, queueing for heavy tasks, and a payments solution that supports marketplace payouts. Legal items (merchant agreements, tax handling, refund policy, privacy compliance) must be defined before onboarding merchants.

A practical launch sequence: run a one-city pilot, sign a handful of merchants manually, run 1–2 test deals, instrument conversion and redemption metrics, and measure customer-acquisition cost versus deal margin. That approach follows ’s custom-code caution and echoes ’s emphasis on marketing: technology is only half the work.

Member Avatar for jonnifelix

i have heard about magento which enables us to develop and easy to manage store.. what do u say

Member Avatar for wulaishiwo

magento may be the best choice to you.

Magento is very flexible and powerful,but you should have php skill

Member Avatar for jonnifelix

i dont have enough php skill , let me know if there is any script..

Member Avatar for cable lee

yes there are many groupon clone scripts for magento...

Member Avatar for jonnifelix

can u suggest one.. and where should i get that.

Member Avatar for cable lee

Each script works in different manner, so based on your requirment choose one...

Member Avatar for rocco88

Good luck its going to be very hard to compete with these huge companies. I would recommend a custom coded site.

Member Avatar for mark santa

groupon concept is used by many people now a days
when the groupon was a success,another company started groupalia in spain with the same concept and earned millions of dollars in the same year.
but now its getting saturated as many groupon site are being made by people who thinks it will be a success.When groupon was there,there one and only one groupon and now if you want to compete with the leaders,you should first think about the marketing plan before you purchase any you cannot market the website,the all the money which you had put on making websutea and the domain and hosting will be in loss

Do not create the website yourself as its a complicated and sophisticated website.there are scripts which are available for low price in the market but some wont have the necessary on site marketing features in make sure before you buys it.
you can then customize the design to get a new look.

hope this helps..

Thanks

Member Avatar for jonnifelix

Really what i am thinking to do is a Deal website.. which have to be display deals in various criteria like featured, nearby .. etc.. for the purpose i need a script in magento

Member Avatar for aditd

The best thing is to buy a groupon clone. The start from 0$ to some thousands. It only depends on the features you want available.
You should search for yourself for suggested groupon clone as everybody will suggest the best he likes ( not the best for you ).
I would go with the one from Agriya.

Member Avatar for Jashandeep

Yes Magento is a best solution for you.

Member Avatar for twinlights

another view on the subject is that you visit www.snempire.com They sell a script on which you can build a social network and there you can insert your sales links. Different approach but maybe easier to manage. Up to you to decide.
I wish you the best of luck!

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