Projects One WooCommerce store, turned into a marketplace of sellers
One WooCommerce store, turned into a marketplace of sellers
Other people could list and sell their own products on the client’s site, each keeping their own stock, each taking a cut.
- How long
- 2016
- My role
- DevelopmentSupport
- Kind of project
- Store extensionSmall project
What the business needed.
The client wanted their WooCommerce store to work like a small Alibaba: other sellers listing and selling their own products through the same site, with the store owner taking a percentage of every sale. Each vendor needed to manage their own products, stock and orders, and the store owner needed to control what vendors were allowed to list.
What I did.
I set up a vendor marketplace plugin and configured its rules, then customised it so vendors got their own dashboard to upload products and manage stock, and their own shop front page that only showed their products. I built a login flow for vendors, adjusted the product pages so the new vendor data displayed properly, and made the whole thing work on mobile.
What they got.
A single store where outside sellers could run their own small shop, each with a private dashboard and a public shop page, while the owner kept control of who could sell and what.
For your technical person
Stack: WordPress, PHP, MySQL. Built on a third-party WooCommerce vendor/marketplace extension, with custom rules and settings configured for the client’s commission structure. Custom vendor dashboards for product upload and stock management. Custom shop templates per vendor, so each vendor’s shop front only lists their own products. Modified the existing single-product layout to accommodate vendor data. Custom vendor login flow. Responsive styling across the new vendor-facing pages. Project size: small. Delivered 2016.
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