How to Launch a Multi-Vendor Store with WooCommerce

Just three days ago, the long-anticipated multi vendor WooCommerce extension has seen the light of day. YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor is catering to the needs of businesses who want to run one store with multiple vendors. Popular examples are Etsy, Amazon, Creative Market, Ali Express, and the Envato Marketplace including ThemeForest.

Customers will thus get the chance to select from a broad range of products from various suppliers whilst store owners are able to earn commissions on such generated sales. This feature-rich extension is available both as a free and premium version. Given the price of just $99 you should really go for the latter one. That way you’ll be able to handle coupons in commission calculation, advanced commission statistics and a lot more features.

Purchase YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor from just $99 »

Features of the Premium Version

• Multiple admins chosen by shop owners
• Advanced vendor details including contact details & social network profiles
• Direct sales of products without prior approval from store admins
• Set different rates to vendor shops & products
• Apply actions for commissions
• Option to allow vendors to create coupons & deals
• Coupon handling: Calculation of commissions based on (discounted) total
• Review management for vendors
• Let vendors decide how and when to be paid or pay manually
• Advanced reports for super admins
• Export date via CSV
• Show vendor name in shop, product detail and/or product category pages
• Automatic or manual approval of new vendor registrations
• Specify terms & conditions that vendors need to accept when registering; Ask for VAT/SSN numbers
• Option to pay out commissions to vendors via bank account (IBAN/BIC)
• Limit number of shop items per each vendor
• Bulk actions for managing vendor registrations
• Exclude vendor products from shop
• Advanced administrative area for vendors
• 3 Widgets: YITH Vendor List, YITH Vendor Quick Info & YITH Vendor Store Location
• Customers can send “abuse reports” to shop admins
• Option to resend emails to new vendors
• Set minimum withdrawal amount for vendors
• Option for vendors to specify featured products
• All vendors shortcode
• Vendor menu
• Option for vendors to temporarily close their shops (e.g. due to vacation): Still allow orders or show catalogue mode
• Support of YITH Live Chat
• Refund management for vendors
• Media management for vendors
• Vendor shop customization: Set store slug, vendor logo & legal notes; Advanced editor for shop description
• Customer privacy protection: Deny vendors access to customer email addresses
• Assign products to vendors in no time
• Google Maps
• Fully compatibel with WPML – Multilingual-ready

Pricing, Support & Updates

Get YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor from $99 for a single site license, $189 for up to 6 sites and $299 for up to 30 websites.

Upon purchase you will be entitled to receive 1 year of free updates and support. YIThemes are also offering a huge collection of WooCommerce extensions such as an EU VAT tax extension or plugins for Stripe and Authorize.net.

Purchase YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor from just $99 »