Description
WooCommerce Multi Vendor Marketplace - Converts your e-commerce store into a fully functional marketplace having multiple vendors with separate vendor profiles and gives vendors the functionality of adding the products from the vendor panel. Using this plugin the vendor can view and edit his profile information. He can view his product list and search, edit or delete products from it.
The vendor can view a record of his transactions and sales charts in his dashboard. He can view his order history for all the orders, change his password, and even ask questions to the admin.
The admin can also manage the product list, vendor list, commissions, and settings. Admin can edit or delete products, approve, disapprove, or assign vendors to products, set separate commission rates for different vendors, and change settings like product auto-publish and vendor auto-approval permissions.
Multi-Vendor Marketplace for WooCommerce helps to achieve success who want to create some extra stream of income online. The best part is that it requires no technical knowledge to set it up. The developers have done a good job of making the setup very easy even for beginners.
Additionally, this WooCommerce Multi Seller plugin comes with interesting features that you don’t see on other plugins such as this one. The developers are constantly updating and adding new features thereby making it even better every day. No doubt, the WooCommerce Marketplace plugin is the “game-changer” for WordPress WooCommerce shop owners. No need to waste time looking for an alternative, you can get the plugin today and enjoy the awesome features that come with it.
Note: This module is fully compatible with all standard WooCommerce themes. Our demo is built using the Fashion Ethereal theme, known for its clean design and seamless WooCommerce integration. You can explore all the features and design elements of the WooCommerce Fashion Ethereal Theme in our fashion ethereal guide. If you'd like to create a marketplace that looks just like our demo, you can also purchase the WooCommerce Fashion Ethereal Theme from our store.
Highlighted Features of WooCommerce Multi Vendor Marketplace Plugin
All Product Types Supported
The admin and the vendor can add all default WooCommerce product types.
Vendor management
The admin can manage all the Marketplace vendors easily. The admin can allow or disallow the vendor registration request
Vendor Order Management
The admin and the vendors can view all their orders with the billing and shipping addresses of the customers.
Flexible Commission Management
The admin can set commission for the Vendors. Moreover, the admin can set the commission in percentage globally for all the vendors. Furthermore, it also has a feature to set different commissions for different vendors.
Separate Vendor Profile
Each vendor will have his own Separate vendor profile. It provides a separate profile that is managed by the vendor. And it is a very important feature of a B2C Marketplace.
Review Management
Customer and can give Review & Ratings to the vendor. This feature makes believe in the vendor. The admin can manage the reviews from the admin panel easily.
Ask Question to Admin
The vendor can inquire from the admin by asking a question. This feature allows vendors to make a query to the admin if they stuck somewhere.
Order Management
The admin and the vendors can view all their orders with the billing and shipping addresses of the customers.
Favorite Vendor
A customer/buyer can mark any vendor/supplier of the marketplace as a favorite vendor. A customer can see all marked favorite vendors under his account panel.
Shipping Management
Marketplace vendors can manage their shipping from their own vendor dashboard. Moreover, the vendor can easily set up the new shipping zones and can add the shipping methods for these zones.
Cart and Checkout blocks
Multi Vendor Marketplace for WooCommerce is now compatible with WooCommerce's latest feature Cart and Checkout blocks.
HPOS Compatible
This Marketplace extension is compatible with the WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage feature.
Headless Commerce Marketplace Development
Webkul Multi-Vendor Marketplace supports Headless Commerce Development with popular frontend frameworks and modern technologies including- React.js, Vue.js, Next.js, Vue Storefront, Gatsby.js.
You may check our WooCommerce Headless Multi Vendor Marketplace which is developed using Next.js framework.
- Build and design a completely customized storefront
- Ultrafast frontend performance with server-side rendering
- Connect with multiple third-party integrations- PIM, DAM, CRM
- Developer-friendly architecture with zero downtime
- Dynamic content following the API-first approach
All Product Types Supported
In Multi Vendor WooCommerce extension, the vendors can create simple, grouped, external/affiliate, variable, and downloadable products by default. The admin can choose the product types that he/she wants to allow for the vendors.
- WooCommerce Simple Product type
- WooCommerce Grouped Product type
- WooCommerce External/Affiliate Product type
- WooCommerce Variable Product type
- WooCommerce Downloadable Product type
You can also check the following Marketplace add on for allowing vendors to create different types of products like:
Flexible Commission Management
The WooCommerce module provides commission management for the store owner. The commission can be applied to the global as well as the vendor/vendor level.
- Global Commission - This commission will be applied to all the vendors.
- Vendor’s Commission - This commission will be applied to the selective category in percent.
- The admin can manage the vendor’s commission from the vendor’s list in the commission section.
- Percent Based - The vendor’s commission will be set in percent, which is helpful in scenarios where the admin wants to vary the commission rates according to the sales.
- WooCommerce Advance Commission – With the help of this module the admin can set the commission on vendor’s categories and vendor’s products. Various rules can be set based on which commission will be applied.
Vendor Dashboard Management
With the help of this Multi Vendor plugin for WooCommerce, the admin can set the commission on vendor’s categories and vendor’s products. Various rules can be set based on which commission will be applied.
Multi-Vendor Marketplace Dashboard helps the vendor to provide an overview of the store. It is a super intuitive and easy-to-understand interface.
- The various statistical data can be viewed by the vendor like Report, Income, growth (with the help of graph).
- Total Orders, Total Sales, Total Products, and Total Categories of the Vendor.
- Today Order Count and Top Products.
- Last seven days sales amount with the help of a graph
- Sales Order Summary (weekly, monthly, and for the current date).
- Most Recent orders.
- Top Billing Countries.
- Top Customers.
Alert Notifications
Notification plays a crucial role in any marketplace website. With the help of this module, there is no need to worry about the products, orders, and vendors alert.
Various notifications are generated from product addition to its approval and from vendor approval to order notifications are appropriately managed with the Webkul Marketplace Module.
- Order Notification for vendors/admin.
- New order placed. Order status changed.
- Review Posted by buyers.
- Product approved.
- Notification for shop followers
- New discounts notifications to followers
For integrating SMS notification functionality in WooComerce Marketplace, you can check out WooComerce Multi-Vendor Sms Notification. The admin, vendors, and customers can receive SMS messages on various marketplace notifications.
Vendor Reviews & Ratings
A customer can give Review & Ratings to the product of the vendor. This will increase the credibility of the vendor and will help build a level of trust for the vendor and its product.
- A vendor gets more and more sales with the help of positive Reviews & Ratings. This is because 63% of the customers are more likely to purchase the product from the site if it has product ratings and reviews.
- Good/bad reviews affect in equal ways so the vendor will make efforts in product delivery and customer service. This will increase the credibility of the website.
Manage Shipping
Now the vendors of the marketplace will be able to manage their shipping from their account panel. Vendors can easily set up the new shipping zones and can add the shipping methods for these zones.
- Set up new shipping zones
- Add new shipping methods
- Configure the shipping cost
- Select shipping method – Marketplace flat rate, local pick-up, free shipping.
- Add tax class with the custom shipping.
The vendor can also use various other shipping methods like:
SEO Friendly URL Structure
WooCommerce Marketplace supports Search Engine Friendly URLs. These SEF URLs are one of the many optimization techniques as they are super useful for Google search bots, readable to end-users, and easy to remember.
Many Websites that are using incorrect or suboptimal URLs get low indexing by the Google crawlers and thereby reduces the site ranking.
Google recommends that the URL structure of a website should be as simple as possible. Best practices tell us to organize content using a method that constructs URLs logically according to what humans would expect to see.
Furthermore, simple words should be included in URLs in favor of long numbers or product ID’s whenever possible.
Inventory Management
With the WooCommerce Marketplace Module, the vendor can configure the stock/inventory for his products.
- The vendor can choose to set the product in or out of stock.
- The vendor can even allow the customer to back order the products.
- If the Allow Backorder is set as allowed, then the customer can place orders even when the product is out of stock.
If you require the vendor's products to be added in bulk, then you can check our Marketplace Mass upload for WooCommerce
Vendor Flags
Admin gets the functionality to allow customers to report vendors and products. To enable it, admin navigates to Vendor Flags section. They get the following configurations,
- Enable or Disable flagging the vendor.
- Field to input Flag text.
- Allow Guest user to flag vendors.
- Toggle button to make selecting a reason for flagging mandatory.
- Toggle button to allow users to enter reasons other than listed ones.
- Field to input Other Field's Placeholder.
Separate Vendor Profile
Once you set up your WordPress site using WooCommerce Multi Vendor plugin, you can go ahead and give people registering on the site.
- The customer can choose to register as a vendor or vendor.
- Each vendor will have his own Separate vendor profile.
- The module provides a separate profile which is managed by the vendor.
- A vendor will get their own panel to control all the things.
- The vendor can manage products, shipping, orders, and all other things from his/her panel only
Vendor Product Page
On the product page, the customer can view which product is from which vendor. Now the customer can identify the product is from which vendor by their name. The Vendor can build a level of trust among the customer for their respective products. This will help in increasing the following:
- The credibility of the merchant will improve.
- Improve the comparative shopping ranking
- Raise the conversion rates
- Increase customer engagement over the site
- The buyers will be able to see the vendor's name on the product page.
- Also, the customer will be able to check the profile page of a vendor by clicking on the name of the vendor at the product page.
Ask Question To Admin
The vendor can inquire from the admin by asking a question to the admin. This feature allows vendors to make a query to the admin if they stuck somewhere. Admin can resolve the queries of vendors by providing appropriate answers.
Advantages
- Admin-vendor communication is encouraged, which will reduce disputes and claims.
- The vendor can easily ask questions to the admin.
- Admin will reply accordingly to the vendor.
- If there is any dispute then, it can be handled effectively.
Vendor Social Connect
The vendor can easily add social media links to their vendor profile. It allows the customers to connect with the vendors directly.
- The vendor can display social media profiles in their vendor profile.
- Added social media links are displayed in the form of a social media icon.
- It helps the vendors to gain followers on the different social media platforms.
- Gaining followers on social media helps the vendors to convert them into buyers.
- The vendor can add their social media profiles like Facebook, Twitter, Linked, etc to the vendor profile.
Order Management
Using this Marketplace for WooCommerce plugin the vendors can view all their orders with billing and shipping address of the customers. The vendor can manage the orders by checking the "Order History" section in the Marketplace panel.
It will display all the orders of the vendors with the details and status of the order. The vendor can manage all the functions related to the order from one page only.
- The vendor can print an invoice.
- The vendor can change the order status.
- The vendor can cancel an order.
- Admin is notified when order status changes.
- The vendor can view the total orders along with the count for respective status.
- The vendor will be able to see the growth (through the graph).
- The admin can select order status for vendors.
You can check the following add-ons of the marketplace which will enhance the customer experience and will provide vendors will additive functionality.
Multiple Vendor Products Checkout At Once
- Multi-Vendor Marketplace provides various features and multiple vendor products checkouts at once is one of them.
- The Buyer/Customer can purchase the product from various vendors/vendors without any hassle in a single go.
- The buyers can also update the product quantity or can even remove the existing products from the cart.
Check Sales/Performance Using Google Analytics
Google Analytics integrated within your WooCommerce store may now be used by the admin to analyze and record data from their website.
It helps the admin in understanding how customers engage with their stores.
- The store admin can use Google Analytics to analyze website data and can check sales performance and product performance only currently.
- The store admin can enter the Google Analytics tracking ID to track the website data on their Google Analytics account.
- The store admin can use Google Analytics to decide their marketing strategies based on the analytics data.
- The store admin can use the Audience data to target the right audience for their marketing campaigns.
Full Arabic Language Support
Multi Vendor Marketplace module for WooCommerce supports many language translations including the Arabic RTL (Right to Left) design. To know how to translate the module language, please visit:
- Compatible with all the RTL theme templates
- Complete Arabic language support
- Easily editable language.POT file included
Certified WPML Plugin
WPML (The WordPress Multilingual Plugin) is a WordPress plugin that helps to make a WordPress website multilingual.
Now we have made our Multi Vendor Marketplace for WooCommerce compatible with WPML.
The admin can convert the Multi Vendor Marketplace into a multilingual store by following the easy steps.
Even it is easy to translate the product page, cart page, and checkout page into the desired language.
Moreover, the vendor can also translate their product into multiple languages too.
Our Multi Vendor Marketplace for WooCommerce is officially certified by WPML.
Compatible with Elementor
WooCommerce Marketplace is compatible with Elementor. With the help of Elementor, the admin can add the vendor page using Elementor's shortcode widget.
- Admin can add the shortcode [marketplace] to the vendor page.
- Elementor's shortcode widget will show on the vendor registration and login page.
- And the vendor will be able to access it after logging in.
- Vendors can see their profile details as well on the same page.
Store Owner/Admin Benefits
Using Multi-Vendor Marketplace and its add-on offers various benefits for the store owner. Almost every big e-commerce website has a marketplace within their store from Etsy to ASOS from eBay to Amazon to Best Buy.
WooCommerce Multi-Vendor Marketplace and its add-on provide store owners a complete and state of the art online marketplace, here are few points by which store owner can benefit a lot:
Earning of store owner becomes easy. Now a store owner can earn a huge amount of commission as the marketplace plugin provides a very flexible commission system. Even by using marketplace advance commission add-on admin can set any kind of commission scheme from global to per vendor commission and also based on per product category.
Price comparison is very impressive and almost a key factor in winning the marketplace. WooCommerce Marketplace Plugin with Price Comparison Add-on provides the feature by which the very same product can be added by multiple vendors using different prices and quantities like amazon or best buy.
Huge Traffic and more sales conversion after converting your store into the marketplace. The reason is pretty simple once you (store owner) will provide space for other merchants to add the product to your store, it will increase no. of products, more social media share, and more options for the buyer.
Marketplace Vendor Benefits
Putting your product in a marketplace is always a plus point for vendor/vendor or small shop owners. So it is hugely beneficial for them to increase the sales conversion by adding their product to a branded marketplace.
Using a marketplace like Webkul's Multi Vendor Marketplace will have all the details for his/her orders, shipping, and payments. Also, the vendor has all the access of their product so they can manage their products and inventory with ease.
Huge Number of Supported Add-Ons
Multi-Vendor Marketplace supports a range of add-ons from shipping to payment and from vendor-buyer communication to feature enhancements, there are various supported plugins exist for the marketplace. Here are a few examples below:
- Marketplace Sales Promotion add-ons (ex -Vendor Price Comparison, Pricelist)
- Marketplace Feature Enhancement (ex - Advanced Commission, Split Order, Buyer-Vendor Communication, Wallet System, POS, Booking & Reservation)
WooCommerce Marketplace Mobile App
In the evolving world, mobile apps play a vital role in bringing an exponential growth in the business structure. Webkul is all set to move to these new areas of mobile applications and is stepping from the world of eCommerce to mCommerce with the new product of Multi Vendor Mobile App for WooCommerce.
- The app offers customers an attractive interface like category carousel, banner slider.
- Offers filters or sorting by based on price, newness, popularity, and ratings.
- Allows vendor to manage their accounts from the app offering reach to almost anywhere.
- The customer can view the featured products and the new products on the home page.
- Easy configuration of the app by the admin from the backend.
Supported Payment Method
WooCommerce marketplace works with multiple payment method providers and we already have the respective integrations available.
- Marketplace Adyen Payment For WooCommerce
- Marketplace MangoPay Payment Gateway for WooCommerce
- Multi-Vendor PayUmoney Payment Gateway for WooCommerce
- Marketplace DIBS Payment Method for WooCommerce
- Multi-Vendor Stripe Plugin for WooCommerce
- WooCommerce Marketplace Square Payment Gateway
- WooCommerce Marketplace PayPal Commerce
Supported Shipping
WooCommerce marketplace works with multiple shipping method providers and we already have the respective integrations available.
- Marketplace Table Rate Shipping Plugin for WooCommerce
- Multi-Vendor Shipstation Integration for WooCommerce
- Marketplace Per Product Shipping Plugin for WooCommerce
- Shipping Restriction Plugin for WooCommerce
- Marketplace USPS Shipping For WooCommerce
Complete Features List
- Multiple vendors can register and upload their products.
- Separate Vendor Profile, Shop Logo, and Vendor Collection Page with Banner Image.
- Vendors can Manage Shipping from their Account panel.
- Product by Feature on the product page is Introduced.
- Admin can allow a separate vendor dashboard to vendors which is the same as the admin’s dashboard.
- A vendor can easily switch to the default vendor dashboard view.
- Vendors can put up queries to the admin, and these queries will be listed under the Vendor Queries option.
- The admin can reply to the queries of the vendor.
- In this Multi Vendor plugin for WordPress, a vendor can edit their profile information.
- Vendor’s products can be edited or deleted by the vendor as well as the admin.
- The vendor can add 4 types of products- Simple, Grouped, External/ Affiliate, and Variable Product.
- The vendor can add their social network accounts, which will be visible on their profile page.
- Order management is very easy due to the visibility of the billing and shipping addresses of the customers.
- The vendor can also print the invoice of the order. A vendor can ask questions to the admin.
- Admin can approve or disapprove a vendor or vendor’s products.
- Admin can assign a product to any vendor.
- SEO-friendly URL structure has been incorporated in the Marketplace.
- Admin can set the default commission for every vendor.
- The admin can also configure a different commission percentage for different vendors.
- A buyer can add any vendor of the marketplace as a favorite vendor.
Newly Added Features
- Admin can mass assign products to a vendor Vendors can add upsell and cross-sell products
- Admin can make transactions to the vendors against the orders for which he has transferred the money to the vendor’s account.
- Vendors can also check the transactions made by the admin from their account panel.
- Admin can set different categories for different vendors.
- Admin can set product type globally for all vendors in the marketplace.
- Admin can approve reviews for vendors from his end.
- Supports default WooCommerce email templates.
- The admin can configure Endpoint and Title for a vendor's Dashboard, Product List, Order History, Vendor Profile, etc.
- Vendors can manage refunds for their orders in the vendor end.
- The admin receives Product Notifications to publish a vendor's product, whenever a vendor creates or edits a product on the vendor end.
- The admin may only utilize Google Analytics to examine website data and monitor sales and product performance.
Support
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