ELKNZ (الكنز) is an Arabic-first digital services and products marketplace—a premium platform that connects exceptional talent with ambitious projects through curated selling, an escrow-style wallet, gemstone reputation levels, an AI concierge, and a full operations stack. Designed and built by EG Stars.
Success is easier with ELKNZ
ELKNZ was built to redefine freelancing in Arabic: not an open free-for-all, but an exclusive workspace for people who value excellence—buy and sell digital services and instant-delivery products, pay with rails that fit the region, message in real time, earn reviews, and run the whole marketplace from a dedicated admin console.
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What we delivered
- An Arabic-first web marketplace for buying and selling services and digital products.
- A triple-balance wallet (withdrawable / spend / held) with PayPal, InstaPay, Vodafone Cash, and USDT.
- Gemstone reputation levels, an AI Treasure Keeper, and a dedicated admin console with backups.
At a glance
6
Primary service categories
4
Gemstone reputation levels
3
Separated wallet balances
2
Apps: marketplace + admin
Why ELKNZ
- Arabic-first, true RTL — Designed for Arabic with full English—not a bolted-on translation.
- Quality over volume — Selective seller path and a visible gemstone reputation ladder.
- Clearer money movement — Withdrawable, platform-spend, and held earnings—plus local and global rails.
- Dual inventory — Custom services (gigs) and instant digital product downloads.
- Enterprise-grade ops — Separate admin UI, analytics, backups, and commission controls.
Who it serves
Buyers
Discover services and products, request work, pay via wallet, PayPal, or local methods, and track delivery to completion.
Sellers
Publish services and digital products, receive requests and proposals, message clients, and climb gemstone levels.
Service requests
Post what you need in Services Needed and collect structured proposals—an organized reverse marketplace.
Platform team
Moderate users, services, and products; handle refunds and wallet ops; tune commissions and settings.
Marketplace categories
Gemstone reputation levels
Every user progresses on a visible trust ladder: Emerald, Sapphire, Ruby, then Diamond—a badge of honor for activity and quality, with deeper privileges at the top (including anonymity mode for Diamond).
Emerald
The starting tier—build the profile and complete early orders.
Sapphire
Consistent delivery and stronger discovery presence.
Ruby
Trusted volume sellers with stronger review signals.
Diamond
Top of the ladder—prestige, trust, and exclusive capabilities.
Wallet & payments
Three balances, one wallet
Withdrawable funds, platform spend-only balance, and held earnings with a protection window before release—so earning, buying, and withdrawing stay explicit.
Multi-rail top-up and payout
PayPal, InstaPay, Vodafone Cash, and Binance USDT top-ups—with withdrawals through PayPal or local channels according to platform settings.
Order lifecycle and refunds
Accept, refuse, deliver, and message in context of the order—plus an admin-managed refund path when needed. Closer to operational escrow than an unsupervised instant transfer.
Services & digital products
Services marketplace
Rich service pages, discovery and search, favorites, reviews, and custom orders—plus a seller workflow to create and edit offers under quality moderation.
Instant digital products
Ebooks, templates, plugins, fonts, graphics, audio, video, courses, datasets, and code— delivered immediately after payment through a managed product-type catalog.
Requests and proposals
Request-a-service flows and Services Needed connect project owners with sellers through structured proposals—not only unstructured chat.
The Treasure Keeper — AI concierge
An AI guide greets users and helps them navigate the platform—from discovering services to understanding key flows—so entering ELKNZ feels like smart companionship, not a silent link list.
Communication & community
- Realtime messaging — Order-aware conversations over WebSockets.
- Notifications — Alerts for commercial and operational events.
- Best sellers & buyers — Leaderboards that reinforce reputation and discovery.
- Public profiles — Shareable user pages, with privacy options at higher tiers.
Admin & operations stack
Dedicated admin console
A separate Next.js admin and FastAPI admin service: users, categories, service and product moderation, orders and refunds, wallet transactions, and commission settings (buyer / seller / split).
Analytics and backups
Operational analytics dashboards and a scheduled backup service to private object storage— because a marketplace this size needs an ops layer as serious as the customer UI.
Technical architecture
Frontend
Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind—Arabic-first with English.
Backend
FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, JWT—REST APIs and WebSockets.
Media
Cloudflare R2 via media.elknz.com for files and images.
Infrastructure
Docker Compose, admin and backup microservices, Vercel-hosted web app.
ELKNZ — a workspace for top talent
The name ELKNZ / الكنز promises something worth discovering: exceptional talent and ambitious projects on an Arabic-first, AI-assisted marketplace for buying and selling. Designed and developed by EG Stars—from the buyer journey to the escrow wallet and the operations console.
ELKNZ is designed and built by EG Stars.
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