- Create a marketplace that can sell anything.
From physical, hand-made products to digital downloads like photographs, themes, fonts, audio or video and even time-based bookings with our integration with WooCommerce Bookings. - Continue selling your own products.
Display vendor products for sale right alongside your own products. - Set vendor-specific commission rates.
Incentivize new vendors to join your marketplace or reward loyal or high earnings with vendor-specific commission rates – while still setting a separate base commission rate across your marketplace. - Reduce your admin.
Allow vendors to manage their own products. - Don’t pay commissions on orders that are not completed.
Set commissions only to be assigned to vendors once the order is completed. - Stay on top of your marketplace with sales reports.
Get an overall view of vendor sales, commissions, and monthly earnings by vendor. - Delay commission payments to account for returns.
Use PayPal Payouts to delay commission payments in case of returns on physical products.
Turn your store into a multi-vendor marketplace
Do you have an existing site and loyal community and would like to find ways to diversify your revenue? Or would you like to start an eCommerce business without investing in creating your product line? With Product Vendors for WooCommerce you can instantly turn a Woo store into a marketplace with multiple vendors, products and payout settings.Allow multiple vendors to sell via your site and, in return, take a commission on sales to cover the costs of managing the site while you focus your efforts on building a community.
Product Vendors caters for both vendors and marketplace owners with specific features that ensure:
Vendors can:
- control their public profile
- manage their products and edit per-product shipping rules themselves
- add private notes to orders or notes to customers (e.g. tracking numbers)
- view their orders and reports on sales performance
- sell physical and/or digital products as well as time-based bookings
- receive commission payouts
Marketplace owners can:
- accept and approve applications from potential vendors
- set up one or more vendor admins to manage vendor’s information
- set up each vendor’s commission and payout schedule
- integrate with WooCommerce Bookings to allow vendors to sell time-based bookings
- display a vendor rating composed of the ratings of all of the products they sell
- set products to need approval before being added to the store on a per-vendor basis
- enable commissions on sales to be a set amount or a percentage and set this individually, per-vendor, per-product, or per-store
- make payments to vendors instantly, manually, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly
info: https://woocommerce.com/products/product-vendors/