Yelo Review: No-Code Peer-to-Peer Marketplace Builder

At Bubble, we empower entrepreneurs and venture enthusiasts to create their ideas without code. We explore and review the many app-building tools and software to give our readers an educated and researched review on each product.

What is Yelo?

Yelo is a peer-to-peer marketplace builder under Jungleworks, a SaaS technology that offers digital businesses products in commerce, logistics, and communications clouds. Yelo is a website builder for coders and non-coders that provides entrepreneurs with advanced marketplace software to build and launch a business quickly. The platform supports selling goods, providing services, or renting products or services.

Yelo's user experience is customizable, allowing you to create mobile responsive websites that are user-friendly for both vendors and customers. You can specify the types of vendors, products, or services you want to display on your site. The no-code platform also allows you to customize a checkout template with different payment options based on your needs. Setting up payments and completing transactions on Yelo are convenient and easy. The merchant also has options to partially or completely refund payments in the original form.

Yelo features a Multi-Vendor Management, Seller Portal, Inventory Management, and Admin Portal for you to manage your online store, communicate with customers, handle orders, and manage customers’ experiences. Users can perform filtered searches and get relevant results with Yelo's search engine.

With analytics, marketing and SEO services, hosting, and data analytics, Yelo allows you to scale and grow your business. Users can use the platform's ratings and reviews system to help build your business's reputation. Yelo also supports a wide range of ready-built themes, templates, and plug-ins for your business needs.

You also have the option to upgrade your plan for a native iOS and Android app that both customers and merchants can use. Unlike other no-code platforms, the back-end and the user interface are already built in on Yelo's platform, limiting customization. If you want to do more with the platform, Yelo offers developer services for an additional cost.

Who is Yelo For?

Yelo users include freelancers, entrepreneurs, consultants, communities and service providers. The app can be used for small to medium sized customer-to-customer (C2C), vendor-to-vendor (B2B), or vendor-to-user (B2C) transactions. Users can create businesses like eBay, Etsy, Thumbtack, and Airbnb.

People who do not know code and are interested in quickly building and launching a small or medium marketplace website and native mobile app may be interested in Yelo.

Yelo’s Cost and Pricing

(Pricing USD model evaluation: July 2020)

Yelo offers four plans: Growth, Premium, Elite, and Enterprise. Each plan has a 14-day free trial and the option to pay annually, semiannually, quarterly, or monthly. All plans except for the Growth plan require an additional one-time cost, unless you opt for annual billing.

Growth: This is the cheapest option at $69 billed monthly, $150 billed quarterly, $294 billed semiannually, and $468 billed annually . It includes an ordering website, unlimited users, unlimited traffic, listings and images, 24/7 customer support, branded dashboard, real-time updates, social login, your own domain, gift cards/wallets, SEO tools, professional reports, integrated payment gateways, a customizable home page, merchant earning settlement, and email whitelisting. The Growth plan supports up to 3,000 transactions per month and has a 2 percent transaction fee.

Premium: At $199 billed monthly (with an additional one time cost of $750), $537 billed quarterly (with an additional one time cost of $750), $1,014 billed semiannually (with an additional one time cost of $500), and $1,788 billed annually, the Yelo Premium plan includes all of the Growth features, plus a multilingual platform, and customer mobile apps on iOS and Android. The Premium plan supports up to 5,000 transactions per month and has a 1.5 percent transaction fee.

Elite: At $250 billed monthly (with an additional one-time cost of $1000), $702 billed quarterly (with an additional one time cost of $1,000), $1,314 billed semiannually (with an additional one-time cost of $750), and $2,304 billed annually, Elite pricing includes all of the Premium features, plus mobile iOS and Android apps for merchants. The Elite plan supports up to 7,500 transactions per month and has a 1 percent transaction fee.

Enterprise: At $242 billed annually (with an additional one-time cost of $999), it includes all of the Elite features, plus a branded chat dashboard and a customized user interface. The Enterprise plan only has an annual option and supports up to 10,000 transactions per month and has a 0.5 percent transaction fee.

Yelo vs. Bubble: A Comparison

How does Yelo compare to another no-code web development platform like Bubble?

Similarities between Yelo and Bubble:

Both Yelo and Bubble feature templates built by designers to choose from.

Both offer fully responsive mobile-friendly websites.

Both offer SEO and Google Analytics to help you engage, measure, and expand your customer base.

Both allow easy access for your teammates to collaborate.

Both equip builders with educational resources and support seven days a week.

Both Yelo and Bubble provide server maintenance, infrastructure, and operations to ensure that your website is always updated to the latest version and is always online.

The key differences between Yelo and Bubble are:

Marketplace Design Features: Yelo allows you to customize the front-end user experiences for marketplaces without code, with the back-end already built in. Only Enterprise subscribers can customize the user interface of the platform. Bubble offers total web design freedom without any knowledge of HTML or CSS and can be used for building marketplaces, social networks, directories, and portals. Bubble allows you to build on the front and back ends without writing a single line of code.

Drag and Drop Editor: Yelo features a design form that users must fill. You can add images, have a custom landing page for your site, and control what is visible to your customers. If you want to see your web design, you must preview the site on another page. Bubble’s drag and drop design feature allows you to design on the spot. You can see changes and fix errors in real time as you edit with Bubble’s live debugger.

Free Option: Bubble offers a free plan that allows users complete customization of your website, includes all core platform features, community support, and the “Built with Bubble!” branding. Yelo offers a a 14-day free trial, but there is no free option.

Mobile App Development- Yelo supports customer and merchant mobile-apps on iOS and Android with the platform’s Elite and Enterprise subscription plans. The mobile apps are developed by Yelo’s developers, and users must pay an additional fee for customization. Bubble users can adapt their web app for mobile using Cordova and other wrappers like Median and Dropsource.

API and Integration: Yelo offers a limited number of third-party software integration. Most integrations include various payment gateways to allow for a global launch. Bubble provides two main APIs in every app, and integrates with thousands of third-party software including Parabola, GitHub, and Algolia to name a few.

Plugins and Templates: Yelo offers a custom landing page for your website, professionally designed themes to meet different marketplace needs, and a limited number of plugins. For a completely customized theme, Yelo offers professional web design services to build your site for an additional cost. Bubble users can choose from over 1,071 plugins, and free and paid templates built by professional designers. You can even build and publish your own plugins and templates.

Check-out System: Bubble offers Stripe and Braintree, and supports complex payment models including subscriptions, deferred payments, third-party transactions, and more. Yelo offers a customizable checkout template, automatically calculates taxes based on country and state, enables full or partial refunds to the original payment methods, and gives you the ability to set discounts on specific products or services.

Tutorials: Bubble offers an e-book manual, short video lessons, step-by-step instructions, and a “How To Build” series to build any kind of application using the no code platform. The Bubble forum is another great tool for users to interact with and learn from each other. Yelo offers an academy with articles on how to start, build, and grow a profitable marketplace business with Yelo. The platform also gives you access to a blog, on-demand business ideas, and a 24/7 live chat support.

Alternatives to Yelo:

Top alternative no-code platforms or tools that allow you to build and manage a marketplace without code include:

Squarespace, Wix, or Weebly for template landing pages and simple CMS for your app, and Wordpress for an open-source CMS platform with plugins and templates.

If you're looking to build a small to medium business with a more simple web app without native mobile app conversion, API integrations, themes, and plugins, try Sharetribe Go.

If you’re looking to build a larger enterprise that offers API integration, allows users to build and integrate front-end and back-end components, and provides a visual workflow editor, try Unqork or Betty Blocks.

Adalo, Glide, or Thunkable are no-code platforms that allow you to build and launch native or mobile apps.

If you want to build a low-cost, robust web app with complete design customization, scalable infrastructure, API's and integration, the ability to build a native mobile app, thousands of plug-in options, and support from an active user community, consider Bubble's no-code platform.

About Bubble

Bubble is a leader in the no-code movement. Bubble offers a powerful point-and-click web editor and cloud hosting platform that allows users to build fully customizable web applications and workflows, ranging from simple prototypes to complex marketplaces, SaaS products, and more. Over 400,000 users are currently building and launching businesses on Bubble - some have gone on to participate in top accelerator programs, such as Y Combinator, and even raised $365M in venture funding. Bubble is more than just a product. We are a strong community of builders and entrepreneurs that are united by the belief that everyone should be able to create technology.

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Disclaimer: The goal of these reviews is to provide an honest, practical, differentiated comparison of features and educate readers on tools in the no- code ecosystem so that you can evaluate how these services fit together and serve your needs.