Multi vendor marketplace

You can do it with WooCommerce and one of the multi vendor plugins that works with it. Another way is getting a script on CodeCanyon or ThemeForest, they have several ready-made sites with this feature. You should figure out whether you want to charge them per product/listing, a monthly fee, do you want to accept payments for them, etc...


To get started I'm a big fan of using shared hosting and if the shared hosting doesn't work then I move up. I try to start with shared hosting for most projects.

If you are comfortable with WordPress then WooCommerce with a multi vendor plugin might be what you want. As far as plugins to bring that functionality there are several. Here are a few:

https://woocommerce.com/posts/create...ace-wordpress/ this is a tutorial for using this plugin https://woocommerce.com/products/product-vendors/


https://yithemes.com/themes/plugins/...-multi-vendor/ this company makes great plugins for woocommerce.


https://wordpress.org/plugins/wc-mul...r-marketplace/ I never tried this one but depending on your needs could be free.


As far as payment platform you'll want a merchant account but you want to let them know from the beginning what you're doing since I believe holding payments might put you in a higher risk category and it's better to be truthful from the beginning then losing your merchant account while your site is growing. Popular ones are Stripe, Braintree Payments (owned by PayPal), there are a ton to pick from. Main thing you want to make sure is that it's compatible with whatever platform you choose or you'll have to make it compatible which can cost you more money. Authorize.net is another popular gateway that works with a lot of platforms (for this one your merchant provider usually sets you up with a merchant account with a different company and then uses authorize.net as the gateway).


Remember though most merchant accounts will charge you a minimum of about $80 a month whether you process or not unless you go with something like Stripe or Braintree Payments that charge only a percentage + I think 35 cents per transaction.

I appreciate all the info, I am looking into the woocommerce links you provided. That info about letting the payment processor know my plans on how i plan on using it may have just saved me a heck of a headache!

I am looking at hosting companies now, i am considering siteground. I have read alot about the sitelock scams on bluehost and hostgator, so going to steer clear of them.

Actually, I'm not sure what kind of marketplace would like to start. There has two types of marketplace such as digital product marketplace and physical product marketplace. I'm giving you both solutions-

If you choose digital marketplace niche I'm recommending you a WordPress theme which name is "Eidmart". It's powered by the Easy Digital Downloads plugin. It's recently published on ThemeForest. This theme is perfectly supported for Multi-vendor shop. Using this theme you can display all of ThemeForest product on your website by the Envato API. Eidmart has a lot of features and demos.

Now If you choose physical item niche you can get a perfect theme from ThemeForest. In my opinion, for the physical product, WooCommerce is the best choice. If you would like to support your website as multi vendor store I prefer two versions of Dokan plugins one premium and other paid.

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