Marketplace breadth or focused depth. The right answer depends on the business you're building.
Vendasta sells a big marketplace of digital services that agencies resell: 12-month commitments on its bigger plans, and margins you have to model to see. Konvy is a focused AI platform for calls and messages: month-to-month, your rates published. Here's where each fits.
Marketplace agencies vs platform agencies.
AI communications is your recurring service line
You want one focused product to run brilliantly under your brand: voice, messages, reviews, follow-up, outbound. You value clear pricing and month-to-month terms over marketplace breadth.
Reselling a marketplace is the model
You want to bundle dozens of digital services (websites, ads, listings, reputation, social) under your brand without operating any of them. The done-for-you model and volume discounts fit a high-volume reseller.
Where the two platforms actually differ.
Why month-to-month is a commitment, not just a feature.
Vendasta's 12-month commitments on the Professional and Premium plans are well-documented. Platforms that require long contracts do it to protect their revenue against churn. Lock-in is the point.
Konvy is month-to-month because the numbers work without lock-in when the platform delivers. If we cannot earn the renewal every 30 days, we have not earned it. The flexibility is the commitment, not a concession.
If a 12-month commitment is fine for you, the platforms that require one are open to you. If it is a problem, and for most early-stage software businesses it is, month-to-month is the right fit.
We will not pretend otherwise.
You want a marketplace, not a product
If you resell 8-12 different digital services per client and the value to the client is breadth, Vendasta's 250+ marketplace is genuinely without peer.
Done-for-you is the wedge
If you want to sell websites and ads but never operate them, Vendasta's done-for-you service is a real edge no focused platform can match.
You're already at marketplace volume
If your product spend is high enough that the discount wipes out the platform fee, the math tilts your way and the breadth justifies the lock-in.
If you want depth, transparency, and partnership terms.
On the call, we'll walk through the full picture: what you pay, what you charge, and what your client mix actually produces.