How to Start WooCommerce Multi-Vendor Store Using Dokan
Multi-vendor online stores also known as multi-vendor marketplaces are becoming popular nowadays. The idea behind a multi-vendor store is to allow individuals, resellers, and/or companies to create their profiles and sell products. The big giants are Amazon, Alibaba, Etsy, ThemeForest, and eBay, etc.
Today, I will guide how you can easily create a WordPress marketplace from scratch. Before moving ahead, here are the few prerequisites:
- Hosting
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
- A Multi-Vendor Plugin (Dokan)
1. Hosting
Since you are going to create a marketplace for a large audience, you would require an optimized and secure WordPress hosting like Cloudways. A managed cloud hosting platform for speedy WordPress sites and an optimized WooCommerce hosting solution. Since we will be using a multi-vendor plugin (Dokan) by WeDevs. There is also a guide on WeDevs to speed up a multi-vendor store.