Using a different theme for your marketplace surely helps to provide an enriching experience to the customers while they are browsing your online marketplace store.

OpenCart Multi-Vendor Marketplace is fully compatible with all themes of OpenCart like - eMarket, Journal 2, and Journal 3 Here, you can check here the detailed information on the OpenCart Marketplace compatibility With OpneCart Journal 3 Theme.

Webkul provides patches for all OpenCart themes within the module zip directory itself.

• These patch files are included.
• Supports All OpenCart Themes.
• Responsiveness depends on the theme.
• RTL languages supported.

Opencart Marketplace module provides the commission management for a shop owner. In the base marketplace module store owner can set commission on a global level as well as vendor/seller level. You can also choose the commission based on categories.

• Global Commission management for all Sellers.
• Category based commission management.
• Fixed and Percentage based commission.
• Calculate commission on unit price.
• Calculate commission with tax.
• Set commission priority.

Check out Opencart Marketplace Advance Commission add-on, that allows the admin to set commission based on seller specific products or categories. The admin can create commission rules according to price and set fixed or percent based value. It also supports CSV file upload feature.

Marketplace dashboard gives an overview of the store to the sellers. The sellers can view various statistical data about store performance. There are various features of the dashboard as follows:

• Total Orders.
• Total Sales.
• Total Buyers.
• Low Stock Products.
• Order Status - Processing, Completed, Canceled.
• Sales Analytics - Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly.
• Location of customers on the World Map.
• Latest Orders with details - Order ID, Customer, Date, Price.

Using Marketplace module shop owner can find total sale by each seller, commission, admin amount, remaining amount to pay. Store admin can also pay the seller.

• Admin can pay to the seller.
• Store owner can find seller name, seller commission, seller's total amount.
• Admin can find the remaining amount.
• The Admin can use Mass Payout to pay all sellers at once.
• Print invoice for marketplace transactions.

The admin can do the mapping of product attributes according to the categories. So whenever any seller adds a new product and selects a category, its mapped attribute will appear itself.

• Add, edit, or delete mapped attributes.
• Add parent or child categories.
• The seller can add multiple categories.

The admin and the sellers receive various types of marketplace notifications. The sellers can view their notifications from the frontend. The following types of notifications are visible to both the admin and the sellers:

• New order placed.
• Order status changed.
• Order return requested.
• Product approved.
• Out of stock product.
• Product review received.
• Seller review received.

For integrating SMS notification functionality in OpenCart Marketplace, please check out Opencart Marketplace MSG91 SMS Notification or Opencart Marketplace Twilio SMS Notification modules. The admin, sellers, and customers can receive SMS messages on various marketplace notifications.

Logged in customers can give reviews and ratings to the sellers. The admin can manage these reviews from the back-end. The following options are available to the admin:

• Enable or disable review status.
• Create seller review fields.
• Add, edit or delete a review.

The admin can allow the sellers to manage their orders. The sellers can view the complete order details about the customer, product, shipping address. The following options are available for marketplace order management:

• The seller can print an invoice.
• The seller can cancel an order.
• The seller can add comments in the orders.
• The seller can change order status.
• Admin is notified when order status changes.
• The admin can select order status for sellers.
• The admin can set order status sequence.
• Minimum cart value for checkout can be set.
• Product quantity restriction for discounted products.

Opencart Marketplace offers various SEO tools for increasing user traffic on the website. Create search engine friendly (SEF) URLs that are meaningful to the users and the search engines.

• Add meta title, description, keywords for products.
• Use SEF keyword for the shop (screen name).
• Create SEF URLs for various pages of the store.
• Customize the product SEF URL format.
• Add any extension with SEO URLs.

Opencart Advanced SEO - With this extension, you can create XML sitemap file, display rich snippets, check SERP snippet preview including mobile view, make Facebook Open Graph, Twitter Cards, view SEO Meter suggestions to improve search engine listing.

The sellers can manage the shipping method from the front-end. They can upload CSV file mentioning the country, zip code, weight, price, and max days. The admin can upload CSV file for multiple sellers including its own store.

• Set a custom shipping method title for the front-end.
• Select shipping method - flat, matrix, or mix.
• Add tax class with the custom shipping.
• Customers can view the estimated delivery date.
• Download sample CSV file for reference.
• Add a flat shipping rate for all products and zip codes.
• The admin/seller can add Event-Based/Priority-Based custom shipping methods.

Shipment Label - Once an order gets placed, the seller can generate the shipping label under his account panel. The seller can show a company logo on the shipping label and print it. The printed shipping label consists of the seller detail, customer details, and order details.

Now, the sellers of the marketplace can have a separate seller view just like the admin. This will be available for use after the admin has set the respective setting in the configuration of the marketplace to enabled. The sellers will be able to have the front-end view as of the admin's.

• The admin can allow a separate vendor dashboard.
• Sellers can make use of the separate view just like the admin.
• Sellers can hide the separate view under their account panel.
• Seller’s view will be in accordance with the OpenCart version installed.

OpenCart Multi-Vendor Marketplace supports many language translations including the Arabic RTL (Right to Left) design. To know how to translate the module language, please visit - https://webkul.com/blog/opencart-marketplace-multi-vendor-module/#panel-5

• Compatible with all the RTL theme templates
• Complete Arabic language support
• Easily editable language CSV file

We all know about shopping apps and its advantages-how it reduces and makes our shopping experience more accessible. So it is very important for all the Store owner to have a shopping app for providing a more convenient way to shop from their online store and now Webkul's has launched its new app Opencart Marketplace Mobile App.

Opencart Marketplace Mobile App converts your marketplace store for Opencart into a mobile app. Your customers can easily purchase products on the go. They don't need to have a laptop or desktop, they can easily explore your store through their smartphones. It will not only benefit the store owner and customer it will benefit the sellers too.

• Seller list.
• Seller Collection.
• Seller Profile.
• Seller Dashboard.
• Seller Order History.
• Customer can contact the seller.
• Market Place Sell Page
• User can review seller.
• Seller Location is mentioned on the map.

Dondolo Shop - Based out in Kampala, Uganda, Dondolo does online and offline selling to individuals, companies, NGOs, and local & foreign government agencies.

It deals with mobiles, gadgets, computers, electronics, fashion, auto spares, and other categories.

Learn how a complete e-commerce marketplace solution is built for web, mobile & POS channels and also helping sellers to manage their physical stores.

Additionally, the hyperlocal marketplace system is integrated which enables local shop owners to sell products to nearby customers quickly.