{"id":5571,"date":"2018-04-11T02:40:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T02:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpthemego.com\/document\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2025-02-26T02:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T02:14:40","slug":"how-to-create-an-online-marketplace-for-wordpress-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpthemego.com\/document\/how-to-create-an-online-marketplace-for-wordpress-website\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create an Online MarketPlace for WordPress Website?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>Online marketplace<\/strong> or multi-vendors is now becoming a <strong>hot trend of ecommerce<\/strong>. It&#8217;s even more and more popular with the booming development of eBay, Amazon, Rakuten, NewEgg, Etsy. Especially, anyone of us now can build an online marketplace like that.<\/p>\n<p>In this article, WPThemeGo will show you<strong> some basic step to create an online marketplace or multivendor WooCommerce website<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">What we need before creating an online marketplace?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Before creating a multi-vendors or marketplace website, you need to have elements such as below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A domain and hosting<\/li>\n<li>A WordPress theme (supporting\u00a0WooCommerce &amp; multivendor plugins)<\/li>\n<li>WooCommerce plugin<\/li>\n<li>A multi-vendor plugin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">How to create online marketplace with WooCommerce?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>With all\u00a0essential points as above, now we can start the very first steps to build a marketplace WordPress site.<\/p>\n<h4>1. Installing WordPress website<\/h4>\n<p>With your own hosting and domain, you can <strong>build a WordPress website<\/strong> on your server. There are some way for you to perform this task and it may due to different hosting provider. However, you can visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Installing_WordPress\">WordPress official website<\/a>\u00a0if you get any trouble during this process.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing, you can login your site at <em>https:\/\/yoursite.com\/wp-admin<\/em> and enter the username and password to <strong>access the Dashboard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demo.wpthemego.com\/themes\/sw_ouioui\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"eMarket\" src=\"http:\/\/wpthemego.com\/images\/blog\/tips\/create-marketplace-wordpress-site\/1-wordpress.png\" alt=\"SW Shop4U - WooCommerce Theme\" width=\"616\" height=\"783\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>2.\u00a0Install\u00a0WooCommerce plugin<\/h4>\n<p>To turn your site into eCommerce platform, we need to use <strong>WooCommerce plugin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We can download WooCommerce from WordPress Plugin Directory. Please go to\u00a0<strong>Plugins &gt; Add New <\/strong>then search for &#8220;<em>woocommerce<\/em>&#8221; and click <strong> Install <\/strong>then <strong>Activate\u00a0<\/strong>this plugin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demo.wpthemego.com\/themes\/sw_ouioui\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"eMarket\" src=\"http:\/\/wpthemego.com\/images\/blog\/tips\/create-marketplace-wordpress-site\/2-woocommerce.png\" alt=\"SW Shop4U - WooCommerce Theme\" width=\"616\" height=\"783\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, your site becomes<strong> an ecommerce site<\/strong>. You can upload products to sell there. However, with WooCommerce, this site is an online store with a shop. Now we need to continue with the next steps.<\/p>\n<h4>3. Turn WooCommerce site into marketplace<\/h4>\n<p>After installing <a href=\"https:\/\/wpthemego.com\/wordpress-themes\/\">WordPress themes<\/a> with WooCommerce ready, we need to do some basic configurations to turn a website into an online marketplace. That&#8217;s <strong>installing multi-vendor or marketplace plugin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Currently we have lots of plugins that you can use for your site. We recommend Dokan Multivendor, WC Vendors and WC Marketplace plugins as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wpthemego.com\/best-selling-multi-vendor-wordpress-themes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>best multi-vendor plugins for WordPress site<\/strong><\/a>. In this article, we will take Dokan Multivendors as an example.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly as installing WooCommerce, we can also <strong>download Dokan Multivendors<\/strong> from WordPress Plugin Directory. Please go to\u00a0<strong>Plugins &gt; Add New <\/strong>then search for &#8220;<em>dokan<\/em>&#8221; and click <strong> Install <\/strong>then <strong>Activate\u00a0<\/strong>this plugin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demo.wpthemego.com\/themes\/sw_ouioui\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"eMarket\" src=\"http:\/\/wpthemego.com\/images\/blog\/tips\/create-marketplace-wordpress-site\/3-dokan.png\" alt=\"SW Shop4U - WooCommerce Theme\" width=\"616\" height=\"783\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After that, you can go to\u00a0<strong>Dokan &gt; Settings\u00a0<\/strong>to do some\u00a0 general and other configuration for your marketplace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demo.wpthemego.com\/themes\/sw_ouioui\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"eMarket\" src=\"http:\/\/wpthemego.com\/images\/blog\/tips\/create-marketplace-wordpress-site\/3-dokan-settings.png\" alt=\"SW Shop4U - WooCommerce Theme\" width=\"616\" height=\"783\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>4. Enable Account Management<\/h4>\n<p>To let other to register in your marketplace,\u00a0you need to visit <strong>WooCommerce &gt; Settings<\/strong> page and click on the \u2018<strong>Accounts<\/strong>\u2019 tab. From here you need to check the boxes next to customer registration option.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demo.wpthemego.com\/themes\/sw_ouioui\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"eMarket\" src=\"http:\/\/wpthemego.com\/images\/blog\/tips\/create-marketplace-wordpress-site\/4-account.png\" alt=\"SW Shop4U - WooCommerce Theme\" width=\"616\" height=\"783\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, you need to make sure that you enable\u00a0<strong>Anyone can register box\u00a0<\/strong>for <strong>Membership<\/strong> options in <strong>General &gt; Settings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demo.wpthemego.com\/themes\/sw_ouioui\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"eMarket\" src=\"http:\/\/wpthemego.com\/images\/blog\/tips\/create-marketplace-wordpress-site\/4-account2.png\" alt=\"SW Shop4U - WooCommerce Theme\" width=\"616\" height=\"783\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>5. Setting up navigation menu<\/h4>\n<p>Now all is about to finish. We need to <strong>create a menu<\/strong> then your user can find the way into the vendor stores.<\/p>\n<p>To do that, you need to visit <strong>Appearance \u00bb Menus<\/strong> page. You will need to add your user account and checkout pages to the navigation menu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demo.wpthemego.com\/themes\/sw_ouioui\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"eMarket\" src=\"http:\/\/wpthemego.com\/images\/blog\/tips\/create-marketplace-wordpress-site\/5-page.png\" alt=\"SW Shop4U - WooCommerce Theme\" width=\"616\" height=\"783\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>6. Testing your marketplace<\/h4>\n<p>Finally, we can go to the site at front end and <strong>register as a vendor<\/strong>, approve it as site owner then try to upload products into the vendor store.<\/p>\n<p>Also, you can create a new vendor in the Dashboad by go to\u00a0<strong>Users &gt; Add New<\/strong> and create an user with Vendor Role.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demo.wpthemego.com\/themes\/sw_ouioui\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"eMarket\" src=\"http:\/\/wpthemego.com\/images\/blog\/tips\/create-marketplace-wordpress-site\/6-vendor.png\" alt=\"SW Shop4U - WooCommerce Theme\" width=\"616\" height=\"783\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To see vendor store page add\u00a0<strong>\/store\/vendor<\/strong>\u00a0to the last part of your\u00a0<strong>URL<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demo.wpthemego.com\/themes\/sw_ouioui\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"eMarket\" src=\"http:\/\/wpthemego.com\/images\/blog\/tips\/create-marketplace-wordpress-site\/6-vendor2.png\" alt=\"SW Shop4U - WooCommerce Theme\" width=\"616\" height=\"783\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congrats! You successfully create a marketplace for WordPress site. You can play more with various features of the multi-vendor plugins in your site to complete your world.<\/p>\n<p>Above are some simple steps on how to create an online marketplace or multi-vendor for WordPress site. 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