As a marketplace, you can offer additional financial products to your users to make your marketplace more flexible, and improve your users' experience.
You can offer the following financial products:
- Card issuing
- Business accounts
- Business financing
For example, you have a large food delivery company called Food Delivery and want to offer the following additional financial services to your users:
- Issue cards to the delivery drivers to cover the costs of delivery.
- Create business accounts for the restaurants to pay their suppliers and partners.
- Offer business financing to restaurants you partner with to expand their business.
Based on this use case, here is the one of the simplest account structures you can have:
- A company account (FoodDeliveryLLC), that represents your business entity.
- Three merchant accounts, organized by country/region, to manage regionally available payment methods:
- FoodDelivery_NL
- FoodDelivery_DE
- FoodDelivery_BE
- A store tied to each merchant account, representing your user's restaurant locations:
- Restaurant_AMS
- Restaurant_BER
- Restaurant_BRU
- A balance platform called FoodDelivery_BalancePlatform, which has:
- A liable account holder for your platform, and a liable balance account to hold your platform's funds.
- For each user:
- An account holder defining your user's payment processing capabilities.
- Multiple balance accounts, based on currency, to hold your user's funds.
- A legal entity containing information about your platform.
- For each user, a legal entity containing information about their business.
- A business line containing information about your user's industry. In this case, it is food and delivery services.
- Two payment instruments, whose transactions are processed using the funds in your user's balance account:
- An Adyen-issued card for each delivery driver, that they can use to pay for business expenses.
- A business account for each restaurant, that they can use to pay their suppliers and partners.
- A grant account to track the total amount of the business financing offers that you granted and that the restaurants need to repay after they accept the offer.
The following diagram shows how these resources are connected.
