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Selling Third Party Products On Your WooCommerce Store

In a recent Business Bloomer Club discussion, a member sought advice on efficiently listing a friend’s products on their WooCommerce shop. The goal was to maintain a streamlined checkout process on their site while ensuring all proceeds from the friend’s product sales go directly to the friend.

Managing external product transactions manually was proving time-consuming, and setting up a marketplace seemed like an overly complex solution for the requirements. Below, we’ll explore a few potential approaches to achieve this setup, including some lighter, effective alternatives to a full-fledged marketplace.

Best WooCommerce marketplace plugin?

What is the WooCommerce marketplace plugin you’d recommend? We are debating between:

WCFM Marketplace – https://wclovers.com/
Market King – recommended in one of your articles
YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor / Marketplace
WC Vendors – https://www.wcvendors.com/
WC Marketplace – https://multivendorx.com/

WooCommerce: How to Set Up a Multi Vendor / Marketplace Website

Are you looking to build a marketplace where multiple vendors advertise and sell their own products?

Would you like to build the next eBay, or perhaps Etsy, while earning commissions or fees for each vendor or marketplace transaction?

In this article we’ll take a look at the main features, challenges and advantages of building a multivendor platform based on WooCommerce.

WooCommerce: Multi-Vendor / Marketplace Solutions

Building the next Amazon is everyone’s dream.

Allowing sellers to use your online platform to reach wider audiences without holding stock, investing in shipping and warehousing and – let’s be honest – with a few dollars budget… is actually possible in WooCommerce.

The WooCommerce Multi-Vendor/Marketplace scenarios are many – not a surprise. And sometimes, a plugin is all you need to build an Etsy-alike website. Not bad for a small investment – you can focus on the marketing while the WooCommerce plugin does the rest.

However, building a full website, no matter its project specifications, is never easy. Many WooCommerce and ecommerce entrepreneurs underestimate how much work, caution, attention, patience and money are needed to develop an online marketplace.

Nothing is free – if something looks doable with a $79 plugin you also need to consider the cost of time, outsourcing, marketing and third parties (such as picking a reliable hosting).

Anyway, today we’ll take a look at some of the best plugins for turning a WooCommerce website into a multi-vendor marketplace, as well as a simple PHP snippet that might just be enough for you. Enjoy!