The Ultimate Guide of Woocommerce Marketplace Plugin

WordPress WooCommerce Multi-Vendor Marketplace Plugin was explicitly developed to switch your WooCommerce website into a multivendor platform with multiple sellers with separate profiles.

Moreover, it gives sellers the functionality of adding products and order management from the seller panel.

Also, using woocommerce multi-vendor marketplace plugin the seller can view and edit his profile information. He can view his product list and search, edit or delete products from it.

Additionally, the seller can view a record of his transactions and sales charts on his dashboard. He can view his order history for all the orders, change his password, and even ask questions to the admin.

Consequently, the admin can also manage the product list, seller list, commissions, and settings as well.

Furthermore, the admin can edit or delete products, approve, disapprove, or assign sellers to products, and set separate commission rates for different sellers. Even can change settings like product auto-publish and seller auto-approval permissions.

Note- Now you can convert the store to a much more accessible mode, by introducing- Multi-Vendor Mobile App for WooCommerce.

Note: Marketplace Lite is required to use Marketplace Pro.

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Watch the video tutorials below to understand the plugin workflow:

Video Tutorial #1 – Backend Configuration

Video Tutorial #2 – Vendor Workflow

Video Tutorial #3 – Customer Workflow

Features

• Multiple sellers can register and upload their products.

• Separate Seller Profile, Shop Logo, and Seller Collection Page with Banner Image.

• Sellers can Manage Shipping from their Own Account panel.

• Product by Feature on the product page is Introduced.

• Admin can allow a separate seller dashboard for sellers which is the same as the admin’s dashboard.

• A seller can easily switch to the default seller dashboard view.

• Sellers can put up queries to the admin under the Queries option.

• The admin can reply to the queries of seller.

• A seller can edit their profile information.

• Admin and seller both can edit or delete the seller’s products.

• The seller can add 4 types of products – Simple, Grouped, External/Affiliate, and Variable Product.

• The seller can add their social network accounts, which will reflect on their profile page.

• Order management is very easy due to the visibility of the billing and shipping addresses of the customers.

• The seller can also print the invoice of the orders.

• A seller can ask questions to the admin.

• Admin can approve or disapprove a seller or seller’s products.

• Admin can assign a product to any seller.

• In the marketplace, we are having an SEO-friendly URL structure.

• Also, allows the admin to set the default commission for every seller.

• Admin can configure different commission percentages for different sellers.

• Admin can print the invoice for the order.

• A buyer can add any seller on the marketplace as a favorite seller.

• Admin can mass assign products to a seller.

• Sellers can add upsell and cross-sell products.

•  This module is now compatible with WooCommerce’s new High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) feature.

• This module is now compatible with WooCommerce’s latest feature Cart and Checkout block.

More Features

• Admin can make transactions to the sellers against the orders for which he has transferred the money to the seller’s account.

• Sellers can also check the transactions made by the admin from their account panel.

• Admin can set different categories for different sellers.

• Owner/Admin can set product types globally for all sellers in the marketplace.

• Admin can approve reviews for sellers from his end.

• Supports default WooCommerce email templates.

• The admin can configure the Endpoint and Title for a seller’s Dashboard, Product List, Order History, Seller Profile, etc.

• Sellers can manage refunds for their orders on the seller’s end.

• The admin receives Product Notifications to publish a seller’s product, whenever a seller creates or edits a product on the seller’s end.

• The admin can use Google Analytics to analyze website data and can check sales performance and product performance only currently.

• Compatible with WPML (The WordPress Multilingual Plugin)

• Frontend seller dashboard endpoints to Woocommerce My Account Page.

• Admin can add Google Map API key for showing top billing countries on seller dashboard properly.

• Settings and documents link in the plugin meta row.

• TineMCE editor on shop about section on seller dashboard.

• Seller mapping on creating an order from the admin end to list the order on the seller dashboard.

• Simplified UI on changing product status on the seller dashboard.

• Appropriate price validation message on seller product edit as in WooCommerce.

• Default shop name as seller name and shop slug as seller’s username.

• Setting for Admin Dashboard endpoint text on seller end.

• The admin can create a seller profile.

Note:- For all orders including sellers, the tax amount will be credited to the admin.

Installation

First of all, the user will get a zip file that needs to be uploaded in the “Add New” menu option in the WordPress admin panel.

For this login to WordPress Admin Panel and in the Dashboard hover your mouse over the “Plugins” menu option and select the “Add New” option.

Following this, the user will see an option on the top of the page that is “Upload Plugin”, click the option to upload the zip file.

Next, on clicking the “Upload Plugin” option, the user will see a “Choose File” button. Click on the button to browse for the zip file as per the image below.

After browsing the file, click on the “Install Now” button to install plugin as per the snapshot.

Furthermore, Once the user installs the plugin, a message “Plugin installed successfully” displays and an “Activate Plugin” is visible to activate the plugin.

In the end, the user needs to click on the “Activate Plugin” button to activate the plugin.

Plus, on activating it, the Marketplace tab will appear in the admin panel as shown in the snapshot below.

Forthwith, update Permalink under “Settings > Permalinks” as “Post name” as shown in the below snapshot.

How do I activate WooCommerce Plugins?

Checkout the steps to activate WooCommerce plugins.

Module Translation

And, to know how to translate the module, you can click here.

How to Translate the plugin using the WPML

Multi-Vendor Marketplace for WooCommerce is compatible and certified by the WPML (The WordPress Multilingual Plugin). A detailed guide is also available to know How to Translate WooCommerce Multi-Vendor Marketplace Using WPML

How to Get Google Analytics Tracking ID

To get the google analytics ID, the user will need to get the Google Analytics Account first. Here, the user can click on the Sign in to Analytics or Start for free if don’t have an analytics account.

Now click on Start for free to create a google analytics account.

Now, sign in using the google account to create and set up analytics properties. Thus a welcome message will display to the user. Now click on Start measuring.

Now enter the further required details to continue.

So, after entering the required details click on the Next button.

Now, enter the property name, select the reporting time zone, and currency.

Now click on the Show advance options to create a Universal Analytics property. You can select as per your convenience, but we have selected Create a Universal Analytics property only.

Now, select from the available options and click on the Create button.

Accept the terms & conditions and process further.

Now select the events for which you want to receive the email notifications from Google and click on the Save button.

Thus, you can simply copy the Tracking ID from the screen and paste it into the module configuration.

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