Material Retail has 200 software subscribers and 300 marketplace boutiques
Elliot DGML · ECommerce SaaS Hits $1.5m after Co-Founder Replaced Herself · Aug 14, 2023 · at 12:03
Elliot DGML, co-CEO of Material Retail, breaks down the company's active boutique customer count across its software subscription and marketplace tiers.
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“So we have like, 200 boutiques who are using the, like, full software suite, and then like another, call it, 300 on top of that, who are selling on the marketplace.”
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