Amazon or eBay is an idle multi-vendor website now a days. Everybody who wants to start online business Amazon or eBay is like the dream to them.

If you want to create a marketplace website like Amazon or eBay, you can choose WordPress. Dokan multi-vendor marketplace is a great solution of WordPress. Using Dokan plugin you can create a website like Amazon or eBay.

Dokan multi-vendor plugin is the most popular marketplace solution for WordPress. It lets entrepreneur to create and manage their own online marketplace that caters to multiple vendors from around the world. Dokan has a separate dashboard for admins and vendors which is the best feature of this solution.

According to a statistics Dokan is becoming the tough competitor to the autonomous marketplaces like Magento, BigCommerce, Shopify etc.

With Dokan, users give online vendors a space on the internet where they can set up and run their own store, manage all aspects of their operations, and grow their business. It is the ideal plugin to built the multi-vendor marketplace like Amazon or eBay.

It comes with an intuitive front end that even vendors with limited to no e-commerce experience can create their own store and sell immediately. Vendors can leverage the power of professionally crafted storefront, ensuring their customers have the best marketplace experience whenever they visit.

Dokan is compatible with over a hundred WooCommerce themes, making it easy for online vendors to set up their store without having to start from scratch.

Till now, Dokan has created more than 10,000+ online marketplaces world-wide and has downloaded more than 173,000 times.

Download Dokan from here.

Why Dokan?

Dokan has some splendid features with its minimalist design. Here are the features:

Powerful User-Friendly Dashboard

Dokan has the full WooCommerce options to frontend. Sellers can manage almost everything without touching WordPress backend. From editing their profile information to manage products, orders and all other features, vendors can do it directly from the frontend dashboard.

Vendor-Admin Facility

With Dokan vendors can:

• Upload products according to their requirement.
• Dokan has quick editing option.
• Vendors can run their own offers. They can also add blogs and reviews.
• But admins has got the ultimate power.

Advanced Product Options

With Dokan seller can customize advanced product options such as product variations, stock, discounted price, scheduling of discount, SKU, limit quantity per order, allow/disallow back orders, image gallery etc..

View orders/update order status

In Dokan, sellers can view all orders, filter orders by date or order status. They can update order status (such as processing, pending, shipped etc..)

Percentage based custom commission system

As admin you can set custom commission per sale, based on percentage system. You can add a specific commission for a specific seller.

Custom coupons for sellers

Dokan makes things easier by incorporating the coupon system for WooCommerce into frontend and sellers can feel free to create their own custom coupons.

Seller verification add-on

In Dokan, there is seller verification add-on. Seller verification add-on adds the verification option to your website. If you want to make your website more reliable, you can add a verification system. Verification add-on adds photo ID upload, phone verification and social media sites account verification like Twitter, Facebook.

Fund withdrawal options

Dokan has PayPal and Skrill as withdrawal options. There are also PayPal adaptive and Stripe options but as paid options.

Custom store options 

Sellers can add custom banner to their web store pages, contact form,  social media links, Google map etc..

Vacation mode for sellers

Vacation mode for sellers is one of the most important features for a marketplace. If seller wants to pause their store for some times, they can put their store on hold for a certain period of time. Vacation mode will avoid unwanted orders and their unfortunate cancellation after order placement. This mode helps sellers avoid negative customers feedback.

Sellers can edit customer reviews

As a site admin you can enable customer review options. After enabling this option sellers can manage their customer reviews.

Support system

Support system is available in Dokan as add-on. If site admin enable this add-on, sellers will have a support button on their web store page. Customers can generate support tickets which in turn should be be handled by sellers.

Tax Options

Dokan sellers now have options to customize tax on their own.

Pricing

The Pricing plan of Dokan seemed most convenient to any beginner.

How to build a multi vendor eCommerce website

How To Install Dokan Plugin

Here is the installation guide in a video.

The installation of Dokan is so easy, that anybody can install it with some few clicks.

Create a Marketplace With Dokan

Before install Dokan you must have to install WooCommerce in your WordPress site.

For you we’ll show you the whole installation process.

Step 1: First you have to login to your WordPress site. Then go to Dashboard ->Plugins. In the plugin search box type WooCommerce.

Click on “Install Now” option and then activate WooCommerce.

Step 2: Now you already know how to install any plugin. After successful installation of WooCommerce again go to Dashboard ->Plugins. In the plugin search box type Dokan.

The activation process is similar like WooCommerce. After successful installation and activation you will automatically get a dashboard inside your WordPress as shown below.

Step 3: There is no limitation to set the number of vendors in Dokan. To configure the settings go to WP-admin ->Settings ->General.

To add new users navigate to WP-admin -> Users -> Add New. As an admin, you can add vendors, customers, subscribers, shop manager etc. See the below image.

Your multi-vendor marketplace is almost ready now. Now it’s time for your
vendors to add products in their shops. Once they will add products your marketplace will be on-board.

You can change the default themes if you want. Check all other themes from Dokan compatible themes.

Final Thoughts

Create a website like Amazon using Dokan is not a huge step. You have to consider the best platform before taking the step.

If you want to choose Dokan multi-vendor marketplace, then you can check out its free demo. So, start your marketplace with Dokan.