When you think of online marketplaces, Amazon, Etsy, and Alibaba are probably the first few names that come to mind. Interestingly, an increasing number of eCommerce hopefuls today are opting for the multi-vendor eCommerce marketplace model.
What is multi-vendor marketplaces? Also known as eCommerce marketing or eCommerce marketplace, the multi-vendor marketplace is a platform that encourages a person, shops or multiple vendors to sell their products with a strategic plan. The owner of the market place is required to draw customers as well as the prepared transactions while third party vendors are responsible for the manufacturing and shipping processes.
Prestashop is open source but it doesn’t support multiple sellers/vendors so if you have a Prestashop website and you want to turn it into marketplace, Marketplace Builder can help you!
What is Marketplace Builder module? Marketplace Builder is the best PrestaShop marketplace module (multi-vendor module) to convert your online store into a marketplace so that multiple sellers can list their products on your marketplace and in exchange you can charge a fixed percentage fee amount for every single order they get or require sellers to pay a membership fee (monthly fee, yearly fee, one-time fee, etc.). Marketplace Builder is compatible with both Prestashop 1.6.x and Prestashop 1.7.x
How to install Marketplace Builder on your Prestashop website?
- Navigate to “Modules / Modules & Services”, click on “Upload a module /
Select file”. - Select the module file “ets_marketplace.zip” from your computer then click on
“Open” to install. - Click on “Configure” button of the module you just installed to open the
module’s configuration page.
Quick access: You can also navigate to Marketplace Builder’s configuration page
through the quick access menu.
*Features of PrestaShop Marketplace Builder module:
For PrestaShop marketplace administrator:
- Detailed statistic charts and helpful information on dashboard
- Seller management: admin can view and manage seller registration requests, seller orders, seller products, seller commissions, seller fee, etc.
- Seller level and badges: admin can add different seller levels with specific commission rate and membership fee. Sellers will earn a reward badge when they enter a new level.
- Billings management: manage seller registration fee (membership fee) billings, auto-notify seller about their membership fee once due.
- Manage sellers’ withdrawal requests
- Create an unlimited number of custom payment methods
- Configure cronjob to automatically send emails to sellers
- Configure notification email and custom notification messages
- Display user’s followed shops and followed products on marketplace homepage
For sellers:
- Dashboard: provide an overview of seller shop status, detailed statistic data of turnover, earning commission, etc.
- Profile: manage seller and shop general information.
- Orders: view order details and update order status
- Products: view product list, manage products (add/edit/delete products), add attribution and features to product, import/export products.
- Support all types of products: sellers can easily upload and sell all type of products such as physical products, virtual products, services, etc.
- Attributes and features: view attributes and features list, using the store’s global attributes/features and/or seller – created attributes/features
- Brands and carriers: view brands and carriers list, add new brand and carrier, using store’s global brands/carriers and/or seller – created brands/carriers
- Commission: a detailed list of commission earned from selling seller products.
- Billings: keep track of seller fee payment billing (membership fee) between the seller and marketplace admin
- Withdraw: sellers can send a withdrawal request to receive their money.
- Pay for order: sellers can pay for their orders using their balance at checkout step.
- Convert into vouchers: convert commission balance into voucher codes
- Messages: manage messages sent from customers
- Seller managers (staffs): sellers can assign shop management privileges for their staffs and enable staffs to manage shop
- Seller shop location: display seller shop location on Google map
Marketplace Builder version 3.0.6 is the best PrestaShop marketplace module that can help you turn an original Prestashop online into marketplace multi vendor. You can easily download this module by click on the link: https://addons.prestashop.com/en/marketplace-creation/32443-marketplace-builder-multi-vendor.html
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