Main Street Online Marketplace

MSOC Community E-Commerce Marketplace for Downtown Small Businesses

INVITE: Downtown Marketplace Launch - 9/23/23

Ten downtown organizations are working with Main Street Oakland County to pilot a custom e-commerce marketplace to help their downtown businesses increase revenue selling online. The new service, Shop Oakland County Main Streets, has an official launch date of September 23, 2023 with a demonstration during “Downtown Day” in Rochester.

This new site will help downtown businesses easily sell online cost effectively through one website—marketing together as a localized group. The vendor, Member Marketplace, Inc., builds and maintains the website, provides technical support to the participating small businesses, and helps customers visiting the site.

This platform allows shoppers to complete e-commerce transactions securely with one checkout process, across many Main Street downtown businesses and product and service areas, including apparel and accessories, bath and beauty, books, collectibles and antiques, food and beverage, health and wellness, home and garden, pet supplies and more. Gift cards will be available, also.

The pilot participating MSOC downtowns include Franklin, Highland, Holly, Lake Orion, Oak Park, Ortonville, Oxford, Pontiac, Rochester, and South Lyon. New businesses will be added regularly. The communities can also showcase their downtown with an individual landing page to increase visibility and visitors.

Small businesses already selling online can add the marketplace as an additional selling channel. Businesses with a Shopify or Square website can sync and integrate their shops.

Online marketing training is available through MSOC and Member Marketplace Inc. If you want to be on the list for future training, send your email address to Erick Phillips at Oakland County: phillipse@oakgov.com

To shop at the new site, visit: www.shopocmainstreets.com