Build your own Marketplace for Stores & Products
Businesses serve as great inspiration for all entrepreneurs who are looking to start their own online store. Create a fully customized, responsive online store that speaks to your customers and showcases your products.
In an online world filled with stylish shops and stores, your business needs the best ecommerce software it can get. Choosing the right software for you will help make a real impression – and lots of money too. Selling your own products is truly one of the best ways to make money online. For beginners and new website owners, it might be a bit overwhelming trying to find the perfect plugin for their website. So If you’re also thinking of creating your own online store and are looking for the best ecommerce solution which gives you all the features you need to build an online store, then Stores Marketplace Plugin will surely be the best choice for you.
Your users can create numbers of stores and add large collection of thousands of products which can be Simple Product, Configurable/Variable Product etc. and can sell them with the secure payment gateway. Stores & Products can be created on the basis of various categories which help buyers to search store/products easily and will also increase the visibility on site. This Plugin provides you various features like instant search(dependent on Professional Search Plugin), premium payment gateways, configurable shipping locations, Taxes based on Shipping & Billing Address, Configurable Product Settings, Different design views for your product galleries etc.
A strong relationship between the Seller & Buyer can only be built if the buyers will get what They exactly want from Seller !!
What Is the Need of This Plugin?
Stores Marketplace Plugin allows you to sell anything you want. This includes Simple Product, Configurable/Variable Product etc.
Easy To use Plugin with large variety of customization options as Dashboard will provide all the features with the help of which you can manage every aspect for your store & its products.
You will receive built-in payments for the products on your website with the top & most effective Payment gateway PayPal.
It comes with user reviews and ratings, which means that you can give your customers the freedom to rate your products.
What All We Have For Stores & Products
Stores created with this plugin will provide an ease to the Sellers as they can add numbers of products with large variety of customization & configurations from top to bottom for every aspect which is the most powerful feature of this plugin. Transactions for the orders with secure Payment Gateway PayPal, Cheque or Cash On Delivery will increase the trust of Sellers & Buyers to the one level up as they don’t’ have any need to worry about the frauds and misleading.
So have a look what all features ‘Store MarketPlace Plugin’ actually offered to the sellers for creating & managing their online stores and for the buyer to buy those products online with great ease and sustainability.
Generalized Features of Marketplace
Setup Type
Stores with this plugin can be either created by the Site Admin or by more than one users on your website.
Payment Settings
Payments for orders will be accepted by the site admin first via payment mode (by PayPal, By Cheque, Cash On Delivery).
Terms & Conditions
Store Owner can mention Terms & Conditions for the Store at the time of its creation.
Shipping Settings for Store
This Setting allow the store owners to enter Minimum Shipping Cost for their stores which buyers need to keep in mind while buying any product.
Configurations for Store Image
Configurations for the Store image can be configured by the store owner such as Watermark, Position, Height/Width for Large Photo & Medium Photo.
Contact Details Display
Site Owner can choose to display the contact details of Store owner to the Non-Logged In User.
Location for the Store
Store Owner can select location for the Store at the time of its creation.
Like, Share, Favorite, Follow, Report
Buyers are allowed to like, share, favourite, follow or report any store on your website.
Services for Stores
Store owners are allowed to add services in their store at the time of its creation.
Receive New Store Alerts
Site Admin will get the emails whenever any new store will create on the website
Configurations for Product Image
Store Owner can configure settings for the Product Image such as Watermark, Position, Height/Width for Large Photo & Medium Photo.
Location for the Product
Store Owner can also select location for the products at the time of its creation in which it will be available to the buyers.
Category For Product
Site Admin can choose to make Category field mandatory for the Store Owner at the time of its creation in the store.
Add to Wishlist
Users are allowed to add as many products in their wishlist as they want so that they can buy them in the future if they want.
Favourite Product
Buyers can also mark any of the product as Favourite which will show in the various widgets.
Share Product
Also users can share Products on your website if they want.
Add to Cart View Types
Store owner is allowed to choose View Designs for the Add to Cart widget as ‘Text View’, ‘Icon View’ or both which will attractively show on the Product’s Profile Page.
Open / Closed Status of products
Site Owner is allowed to enable open / closed status of products which will get displayed to the buyers at the Product’s Profile Page.
Comparison of Products
Site Admin can enable comparison among different products of stores which will make easy for the buyers which product they should buy.
Email Alert for New Products
Whenever any new product get created in the store by the store owner, then mail will get sent to the site owner.
Display Buyer’s IP Address
With this feature, the store owners will get the IP address from which the buyer have done purchase for the product. This IP address will also get displayed on the invoice of the Product which buyer will get after the successful purchase.
Activate Store Orders
Site Admin is allowed to choose when the store order will get active like immediately, if user has an existing successful transaction, wait if this is their first or Wait until the gateway signals that the payment has completed successfully.
Stores & Products Creation
Store Category
Store Owner can choose desired category in which he wants to create the Store. The Stores created in different categories will get displayed at the various widgets & pages.
Custom URL
Store Owner is allowed to customize the URl for the store at the time of its creation.
Store Description
Store Owner can give the description for the Store at the time of its creation which will describe the speciality of the store.
Store Main Photo
At the time of Store Creation, Main photo for the Store can also be selected.
Tags
For the Store, various Tags can be entered which will get displayed at the browse tags page on your website. These Tags will help in easy searching.
Store Joining
Store owner can enable joining for the store at the time of its creation.
Invitations for Store
Invitations for the Store can be enabled by the store owner at the time of its creations so that other users can also join the store.
Store Creation Guidelines
Site Admin can write some guidelines for the store owner which they should follow at the time of store creation on your website.
People can search for the Store
Site Admin can enable “People can search for this Store” field while creating and editing Stores.
Product Description
Site Owner can give description for the Product at the time of its creation in the store which will help to describe the specifications for the product.
Product Category
For the Products, Site owner can choose various categories as per the choice at the time of its creation which will help buyers to search more specifically.
Tags
Various Tags for the Products can be mentioned at the time of its creation in the store which will get displayed at the browse tags page.
Discount
Site Owner can allow store owner to apply discounts on the products at the time of their creation in store.This feature is an additional benefit to the store owner.
SKU
At the time of product creation, Store owner need to enter the unique SKU for the product which will be a unique title or code for the product.
Brand Field
Site Owner can enable the Brand field for products in which site owner can enter the brand for the product at the time of its creation.
Stock Management for the products
With the help of this feature, Store Owner can easily manage the stock for various products which were created in the store.
Quantity for Order
Store Owner can configure the quantity for the Minimum Order as well as for the Maximum order which buyers needs to keep in mind while purchasing the product.
Purchase Note
Store Owner can also add Purchase notes for the Products while adding them in the store.
Reviews
Store Owner can enable reviews for the products which buyers can give easily from the product profile page very easily.
Default Weight & Dimension matrix
For the Product, store Owner can give matrices such as weight(Pound, Kilogram, Gram, Ounce) & Dimensions( Cm, Inch, Feet. Meter) which will help the buyers to recognize which type of product they are buying.
Custom Product Start & End Date
Store Owner can also customize the Start & End Date for the Product which will get displayed to the Buyers at Product Profile Page.
Enable Searching for Product
Site Admin can enable People can search option for the Products created in the store.
Product Creation Guidelines
Site Admin can write Guidelines for the Store Owner which they need to keep in their mind at the time of Product Creation on your website.
Manageable Stores & Products
- Admin can manage all the stores created by the users of his website very easily from “Manage Stores” section.
- Admin can use this section to monitor all the Stores and delete offensive material if necessary.
- Also admin can choose any number of Stores as Stores of the Day, Featured, Sponsored, Verified and Hot. Stores can also be get Approved/Disapproved.
- With the advanced “Transfer Ownership” feature, Store Owner can give ownership to other site member as per the choice so the rights will get transferred from the parent store owner to that member to whom the ownership of the store get transferred.
- Admin of the site can manage all the products users have been posted in their stores from “Manage Products” section in Admin Panel.
- This section is used to monitor all the products and admin can delete any offensive material if necessary.
- Admin can choose any number of the products as Product Of The Day, Featured, Sponsored, Verified. Also the Products can be Approved/Disapproved depends upon the choice of the Admin.
- Advanced Search filter will help the site owner to search any of the Product based on the various searching criteria such as Product Title, Store Name, Owner Name, Brand Name, SKU, Price, Product Type, Creation Date, Category, Rated etc. which will makes searching very easy & reliable.
Member Levels based Settings
Below are the settings which are provided on the member level basis to the store owners on posting products on your website. For each Member Level following settings can be enabled:
- Allow to View Stores
- Allow to Create Stores
- Allow to Buy Products
- Allow to Sell Products
- Allow to Edit Stores
- Allow to Delete Stores
- Commenting on Stores
- View Privacy for Products
- Pricing for Store
- Claim Stores
- Multiple Locations For Store
- Operating Hours for Store
- Add Linked Stores
- Crossposting in Stores
- Profile Design types for Stores
- Associated Sub Stores
- Auto Approval for Stores
- Automatically Mark Stores as Featured, Sponsored, Verified, Hot, New
- Enable SEO Fields
- Enable Overview
- Post Attribution in Stores
- Background Photo
- Contact Info
- Enable Store Service
- Announcements
- Store Roles
- Transfer Ownership
- View Insights & Reports
- Add a Button
- Maximum Allowed Stores
- Maximum Allowed Store Albums
- Unit for Commission in Store Product sell: Percentage, Fixed
- Commission Value
- Allow to Join Stores
- Edit CSS Style
Various Configurations for the product can be done on the member level basis which will be enabled by the site admin from the Admin Panel. Following settings can be enabled/disabled for the Products on the member level basis:
- Viewing of Products
- Creation of Product
- Editing of Product
- Deletion of Product
- Commenting on Product
- Product Privacy
- Types of Products: Simple Product, Grouped Product, Bundled Product, Virtual Product, Configurable/Variable Product, Downloadable Product, External / Affiliate Product
- Product Comment Options
- Watermark on Main & Thumb Photos
- Default Photo for Products
- HTML Tags in Products
- Claim on Products
- Product View Privacy
- Adding Products to Wishlist
- Maximum Allowed Product Entries
- Design Views for Product Profile Page
Categories & Profile Fields
- For the stores, Site admin can add various categories which site owners have to choose at the time of Store creation on your website.
- These categories can also be mapped with the Profile Types, so that questions belonging to the mapped Profile Type will appear to users while creating / editing Stores when they choose the associated Category.
- 2nd & 3rd Level categories for the stores can also be created for the parent category.
- For creating the categories for store, following fields have to be filled:
- Meta Title, Meta Description and Meta Keywords
- Category Icon
- Category Banner (image with title and optional URL)
- Category page URL
- Top and bottom content
- For the Products, Site admin can add various categories which site owners have to choose at the time of Products creation in the stores.
- These categories can also be mapped with the Profile Types, so that questions belonging to the mapped Profile Type will appear to users while creating / editing Stores when they choose the associated Category.
- 2nd & 3rd Level categories for the products can also be created for the parent category.
- For creating the categories for products, following fields have to be filled:
- Meta Title, Meta Description and Meta Keywords
- Category Icon
- Category Banner (image with title and optional URL)
- Category page URL
- Top and bottom content
Manageable Dashboard for Stores & Products
Edit Store
Store owner can easily edit any aspect such as Store Title, Description, Design Layout, Price etc for the store from this section.
Store Policies
From this section, Store owner can add various policies for his store such as Terms & Conditions, Return Policy, Shipping Policy etc.
Locations
Store Owner can add multiple locations for the store from this section or can remove them also.
Contact Information
Store owner can add contact information for the store. These details will be visible to other users of this site at various places so that they can easily reach out to the store owner.
Cross Post
Crossposting is a way to share status feed across multiple Stores. Crossposting can only happen between Stores that have added each other. You can control which status post you want to crosspost.
Store Roles
Store owner can assign store role(rights) to any other site member as per the choice. That member can manage all aspects of the Store as same like that of the original store owner.
Manage Notifications
Store owner can manage the notifications for the store and can select the activities on your Store for which you he want to receive notifications.
Post Attribution
With this feature, posts from activity feed will be posted as the name of Stores instead of Store owners’ names. This Setting will affect on new content only.
Operating Hours
From this section, Store owner can add operating Hours for the Store in which the store will get open & available to the buyers.
Transfer Ownership
Store Owner can transfer the ownership of this Store to some other site member. This action cannot be reverted.
Manage Products & Orders:
Manage Products
From this section of Dashboard, Store owner can manage all the products which were created in the store yet. Also new products in the store can be created by clicking on “Create Product’ button in the Dashboard. Also store owner can search any of the specific product by entering the searching criteria in the filter fields.
Manage Orders
This section will help store owner to manage all the orders placed by the buyers for the products of his store. The details for all the orders will get displayed under this section such as Total Item, total Amount for the Product, Shipping Cost, Commission, Owner of the product, Gateway Type, Status, Order Date etc.
Manage Payments:
General Taxes
General Taxes configured by the site admin based on the shipping & Billing address will get displayed under this section.
Taxes
Also Store owner can create taxes for the products of his store based on the shipping & billing address of the buyers and set price based on the Tax Type as fixed or in percentage.
Shipping Methods
From this section, Store Owner can configure Shipping Method for the store and can also configure the minimum & maximum shipping cost for the Products of his store.
Payment Requested
From this Section, Store owner can View, manage and make payment requests to Site Admin for all the orders after the deduction of commission by the site Admin.
Payment Received
This section will contain Payments received for all the Orders by the Store Owner. The payment will get received by the store owner after the deduction of commission.
Sales Stat
Total Statistics for Sales & Orders will get displayed in this section of the store’s dashboard.
Sales Report
From here, Store owner can see the sales report of all the products sold from his store.
Account Details
Here, Store owner need to enter the PayPal Account details in order to receive the payments for the Products ordered from his store.
Store Promotions:
Contact Store Members
Using this section, Store Owner will be able to send message to all of the members of his Store and also to the members of selected Store Role.
SEO
Store owner can also add Title, Keywords & Description for the SEO of his Store. This will help in making the store more visible to the users on web.
Overview
Store Owner can write overall detailed overview for the store from this section which will get displayed to the buyers at the Profile Page of the Store.
Linked Stores
Store Owner can link other stores to choose stores from the suto suggested stores to which he want link. Also stores can be searched which are linked with the store.
Advertise Stores
Store owners can make their Stores more popular inside and outside the social network by advertising by using various tools.
Manage Announcements
Store Owner can create announcements to post them on the Store Profile. Also previous announcements can be edited/deleted.
Manage Apps:
Store Apps
There are many apps available for the Store with the help of which store owner can personalize, configure and manage his Store. These Apps can be simply enabled/disabled as per the choice of the store owner.
Services
Store Owner can add services for his own store from this section of the dashboard.
Store Directory Styling:
Main Photo
Main Photo for the Store can be changed by the store owner from the Dashboard.
Background Photo
Background Photo can also be selected for the Store from the Dashboard.
Design Views
Attractive Design Views for the Stores can selected from the dashboard very easily.
CSS Style
Store owner can change the colors, fonts, and styles of the store by adding CSS code.
Edit Product
Various details for the product can be edit from the dashboard such as Additional Information, Prices & Discounts, Inventory, Advanced settings, shipping information, product availability, linked products, design, privacy etc.
Profile Picture
Profile picture for the product can be selected or edited from the dashboard of Product.
Slideshow
From this section, store owner can add other images of the product in the slideshow with title & Banner.
Orders
Site Owner can manage the orders for the particular product. Site Owner can see all the details for the product such as Order Id, Registration Number, Buyer Name, Email etc.
SEO Details
SEO details for the Product can be configured from the dashboard of the product.
Edit Style
Store owner can change the colors, fonts, and styles of your product by adding CSS code.
Edit Locatione
Also location for the Product can also be configured from the dashboard.
Give Reviews & Ratings
For Stores, buyers are allowed to give reviews & Ratings which means that you can give your customers the freedom to rate your stores.
- For the Stores, buyers are allowed to write Pros & Cons, Description and other details in their reviews.
- Also they can share & report any of the reviews.
- Users can do voting on reviews & ratings.
- Also they can give text in votes as well as “Useful”, “Funny”,”Cool”.
- All the Reviews & Ratings for the stores are manageable from the Admin Panel of this Plugin.
- Site Admin can add numbers of Review And Ratings questions for stores Categories which will be asked from the users whenever they give reviews for the store of that particular category.
Buyers can also give reviews & ratings for the products which they have buy from any of the stores in the marketplace. With the help of reviews & ratings, users can give their response about the product which they have bought.
- For Products, Buyers can give reviews & ratings from 1st to 5th star.
- Also they can recommend the reviews & ratings to the other site users for the publicity of the product.
- Buyer can also share & report any of the review as per the choice.
- Voting on the review can also be done.
- They can also give text in their reviews as “Useful”, “Funny”,”Cool”.
- All the reviews & ratings for the products are manageable from the Admin Panel of this Plugin.
- Site Admin can add numbers of Review And Ratings questions for Product Categories which will be asked from the users whenever they give reviews for the product of that particular category.
Buyer’s Account
The most useful section for the buyers where they can see every details related to the purchasing they have done on your website. From here they can configure essential details also such as Billing Address & Shipping Address which are mandatory to have the product delivered at right location. Following are the aspects which a buyer can see and configure:
Billing Address
For buying any product, firstly buyer need to fill all the details for the billing address such as First Name, Last Name, Email, Phone Number, Country from where billing have done, Complete Address(with City & State) and Zip Code.
Shipping Address
Sometimes the billing address may be different from the shipping address at which the product should be Delivered. So for this the buyer also need to fill the details for the Shipping address just like the billing address on which he want the product to be delivered..
My Orders
From “My Orders” tab buyer can see details for all the orders which he had ordered earlier from the stores on your website. The details which buyer can check are Order ID, Order Date, Total Orders, Status of the order, Gateway type etc.
My Wishlists
From here, Buyer can see all the wishlists with their details which he have created for the products. Also searching can be done on the basis of Product Title, Owner Name, Wishlist Creation Date, Wishlist of The Day, Sponsored, Featured, Approved etc.
My Reviews
From this section, buyer can see all the reviews which were given by him for the products of store on your website. Reviews can also be searched on the basis of Review Title, Product’s Owner Name & the creation date of the review.
Orders and Inventory
Our powerful control panel lets the site admin to process, manage & fulfill all the orders end to end online. In Admin Panel, ‘Manage Orders’ section will contain all the orders placed by the buyers for the products of different stores. Site Admin can monitor all the Orders from this section. Also orders can be searched on the basis of Order ID, Store Name, Owner Name, Order Date, Billing Name, Shipping Name, Commission Amount, Status, Gateway etc. which will help the site owner to search every details for the orders.
Manageable Payments with Gateways
Payment is the most important aspect around which all other elements of the marketplace revolves. Site Admin can manage Payment Requests by Store Owners and Payments Made by the site Admin to the Store Owner.
Payment Requests
- This section will lists all the requests made by the Store Owners to the site admin so that the site admin will release the payment to the store owner after deducting the commission based in the threshold value which site admin have set from the admin panel.
- Admin can use this page to monitor all the requests and take appropriate action for each.
- Also site admin can approve / reject a payment request.
Payment Made to Store Owners
- This section will lists all the payments made by the site admin to the store owner after deducting the commission.
- Site Admin can use this page to monitor all the payments made to the store owners.
- Also searching can be done on the basis of fields such as Store Title, gateway Type, payment Date etc.
Manageable Payment Gateway
From this section, Site Owner can configure details for setting up the Payment Gateway – PayPal in order to take payment from the store owners and processing the whole payment transaction on his website. Fo setting up the payment gateway, site owner need to enter the following details:
- API Username
- API Password
- API Signature
- Gateway Enabled
Store Roles
Site Admin is allowed to choose different roles (rights) for the stores based on the member Roles which store creator will be able to assign to their members according to their requirements. Site Admin can also create new roles from the Admin Panel.
Few of the Store roles are listed below:
- Allow to Edit and Delete Store Posts.
- Allow to Manage Products.
- Allow to Manage Product Payments.
- Allow to Edit and Delete Store Comments.
- Allow to Moderate Posts for approval.
- Allow to Create Associated Sub Stores.
- Allow to Schedule Posts.
- Many more…
Statistics
From this section, site owner will be able to see all the statistics report for the created stores & their Products.
For Stores
- Total Stores
- Approved Stores
- Total Featured Stores
- Total Sponsored Stores
- Total Hot Stores
- Verified Stores
- Favourite Stores
- Total Comments
- Total Views
- Total Likes
- Total Followers
For Products
- Total Products
- Total Approved Products
- Total Featured Products
- Total Sponsored Products
- Total Product Albums
- Total Product Photos
- Total Reviews
- Total Verified Products
- Total Favourite Products
- Total Comments
- Total Views
- Total Likes
Wish Lists
- This section lists all of the wishlists which buyers have created for the products on your website. Admin can use this page to monitor all the wishlists.
- Wishlists can be searched on the basis of Wishlist Title, Owner name, Wishlist Creation Date, Wishlist of the day, Sponsored wishlist, Featured Wishlist.
- Site Admin can mark any of the wishlist as Wishlist of the Day, Featured, Sponsored, Verified from the admin panel.
Add to Cart
- Users are allowed to add numbers of products in their cart if they are interested in buying them from “Add to Cart” button which is present at the Product’s Profile Page.
- Limit for adding the products in cart will be configured by the site admin from the admin panel which is based on the member levels.
- User can use checkout button which is present in the drop down of the Cart button present at the Main Navigation Menu of your site. From here, all the products added by the buyer in the cart will get showed.
- If the buyer is interested in buying those products then easily shopping can be followed by him by clicking on “Continue Shopping’ button.
Manage Shipping Locations
- Admin can add and manage various countries and their regions / states which sellers will use while creating their stores & products in them.
- Sellers and buyers of your site will be able to sell and purchase products only in the locations configured by the admin in the admin panel.
- Also these locations can be enabled / disabled if required.
- Locations can also be imported via CSV file by using the “Import a File” link in this section.
Configurable Taxes
Admin Configured Taxes:
- This section will contain all the taxes configured by the Site Admin based on either shipping address or billing address.
- Also states for the taxes can be configured from “Manage States” section where Site Admin can set taxes as ‘fixed’ on in ‘specific percentage’ based on the different Country & its States.
- For Adding the Tax for the Location → Site Admin need to Configure the below settings:
- Country
- Enable/Disable Tax for all locations
- States
- Tax Type: Fixed/percentage
- Price(US Dollar)
- Price(for % tax type)
- Status of the Tax
Seller Configured Taxes:
- This section will contain all the taxes configured by the Store Owner from the Store’s Dashboard based on either shipping address or billing address.
- States for the taxes can also be configured from “Manage States” option in the dashboard where Store Owner can set taxes as ‘fixed’ on in specific ‘percentage’ based on the different Country & its States.
- For Adding the Tax for the Location → Store Owner need to Configure the below settings:
- Country
- Tax Type: Fixed/percentage
- Price(US Dollar)
- Price(for % tax type)
- Status of the Tax
Manage Albums & Photos
All the photos uploaded in the stores and for the products will get listed in this section. Site Admin can easily manage the Albums & Photos in them from this section of the Admin Panel.
Manage Albums
- This section lists all of the albums your users have created for the photos of stores & products.
- Admin can use this page to monitor all the albums and delete if find any offensive.
Manage Photo
- This section will lists all of the photos your users have created in the stores & products.
- Admin can use this section to monitor all the photos and can also delete if find any offensive.
Mangeable Offer Slideshows
- Site owner create unlimited slideshows to show discount with %age on different products.
- It will help in the advertising of the product which help them to increase the visibility of the products of his store.
- Unlimited slides can be created for the Banner with Background Image, Colors, Captions, Description, additional CTA Buttons on which the users will get redirected after clicking.
- Slides in the Slideshows can be easily managed from the Admin Panel of this Plugin under ‘Offer’ Section. You can also add and manage any number of offer slideshows on your website.
- Site Admin can place the offers anywhere on the website including the Landing Page and any other widgetized page of choice.
Extension
- Stores Marketplace Plugin – Packages for Allowing Store Creation Extension
With this Extension, you can allow the members of your site to create Stores only after subscribing to at-least one of the packages which can be made – Free or Paid from the admin panel. You can make any number of Free / Paid packages by providing different features in each package according to your requirement.
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