Custom WordPress Marketplace Platform

What we would require:
- Build a fully custom WordPress marketplace and review platform from scratch, modelled on TrustATrader.
- Design a clean, professional, and mobile-responsive layout focused on trust and ease of use.
- Develop a trader application and onboarding flow with manual admin vetting before profiles go live.
- Build comprehensive trader profiles including services, photos, location, and customer reviews.
- Implement search and filtering by trade type, location, and rating.
- Integrate Google Maps for location-based trader browsing.
- Set up a verified customer review and ratings system tied to completed jobs.
- Build a contact and messaging system including direct trader-customer chat and a platform support contact form.
- Integrate a payment gateway with a monthly subscription model and optional premium listing upgrades.
- Configure an auto-approval workflow with the flexibility to switch to manual publishing anytime.
- Optimise the site for SEO including clean URLs, meta tags, page speed, and mobile performance.
- Provide clear instructions for managing traders, reviews, and content via the WordPress admin panel.

Pages included in this project:
- Homepage
- Trader Profile Page
- Customer Profile Page
- Trader Application / Sign-Up Form
- Customer Job review & Feedback Form
- FAQ Page / Contact form
- Trust & Safety Page
- Terms & Privacy Page

FYI - Being a start up business we expect around 500 traders/customers to sign up within the first 12-18 months, we require the website to be sufficient for this traffic and more once the business scales up.

We have gone onto Chat GPT and this is what it recommends for our website, is this something you also agree and is there any additional plugins you would recommend? Please be mindful that we would like to keep costs to the very minimum whilst achieving a sleek and well functioning website with the opportunity of expanding.

Theme:
- MyListing
Plugins:
- SEO: Rank Math (free)
- Forms: WPForms (free)
- Security: Wordfence (free)
- Reviews: Site Reviews (free)
- Language Translator: WPML

Let us know if you require any further details.