Amazon and eBay are getting rich just
from having vendors selling stuff on their sites.
Well, why not do the same?
There's a system that's called Dokan and it can do the same for you.
It's a multi vendor plug in that you can install on WordPress.
Now it's super flexible and it's super powerful.
And if you ask me, it's creme de la creme for multi vendor stores on WordPress.
Let me show you what I'm talking about right now.
Dokan is a multi vendor system that's going to allow vendors to come to your
site, register, upload their products, and start selling right away.
That way you can earn a commission from all those products that they sell.
So you don't have to have stock,
you don't have to have the actual products or manage them.
They take care of everything and you earn
a commission for that, just like Amazon and eBay.
So let me show you.
Now, Dokan has a really generous free plan
that you want to check out, so install that plugin right away.
Now, let me jump into my WordPress site.
This is my WordPress site.
I already installed Dokan and I activated it.
This is how you're going to get started.
It's a set up wizard to get started right away.
Now, let's get started with this.
Let's go.
You're going to get started with the first set up.
The Bender Store, in this case,
I'll just name it SaaS Master Store, and the shipping fee recipient.
Who is going to pay for the shipping?
In this case, fees will go to the Bender.
That means that the person who is selling it is in charge of the shipping fees.
If you set it to the admin,
that means that they sell and you take care of the shipping.
So just be aware of that.
Tax Fee recipient, again, Bender is the one who's going to take care of that.
Map API, if you're going to add that. Share Essentials.
No, in this case, selling product types.
So if you're only going to sell physical or digital products, set this up.
If not both, you have two type of products.
Go ahead and continue.
Next, we have the new vendor enable selling.
So that means you're enabling vendors to sell.
Commission type, percentage, flat or combined.
In this case, I'll sell it to percentage.
That means that the Admin Commission,
what I'm going to charge for vendors selling on my store is 10 %
in this case and you can sell whatever % you want or fixed rate.
Order status changed to on.
Let's go ahead and continue.
For withdrawal options,
you can allow these type of options, PayPal Bank transfer customer's drill.
Minimum withdrawal limit,
so that means that they have to get this limit for them to withdraw.
That means if they sell a product for $10,
well, they need to accumulate $50 to get that withdrawal.
Order status for withdrawal, complete or processing.
Let's go ahead and continue.
Let's go to our token dashboard.
This is my token dashboard and this is
where I'm going to view everything at a glance.
In this case, I'll view my net sales, commissions earned,
the vendors that are signed up, the awaiting approval that you registered
but are not approved yet, the products that are uploaded here, the withdrawals.
In this case, I created a really simple store to showcase this.
Something really simple but you can create
something really nice like this and use it with a Dokan.
It's up to you.
For this case, I just created these three stores and I'm going to go
to the dashboard and be aware that there's a new Bender dashboard plugin that's free
that you can install and you get a nice looking dashboard like this.
Why am I showing you this?
Because I want you to see that when
vendors go sign up, they're not going to see a dashboard like WordPress.
It's not going to look like this.
It's not going to be like the back end.
They have a nice front end where they can
view other products, their orders, their request, and all of that.
Now, before I show you this, let's continue with the setup.
Now, these are the Dokan settings that you can find on the Dokan.
Go to settings and you're going to view it here.
Now, one of the cool things that they
thought about and I think it's pretty nice that they have this is this search bar.
So if you're looking for a particular setting that you need to find,
for example, if I'm looking for API, it's going to show me where I have to set
up API or where API appears for the setting.
So that's really nice.
Now, I would recommend that you get started here and set up everything here.
So these are the general settings for your site.
You can see this here.
And some of the settings that we set up on the Setup Wizard will be here,
but with all the rest of the options that they have.
For example, the selling options.
Remember, we set up the commission type.
We can go ahead and change it here to a different one if we decide to change it.
The rest of the settings,
vendor capabilities, and the rest of the product information.
Withdraw options.
Again, we can set this up, enable other bank transfer, custom, screw, etc.
Minimum withdrawal limit and change all this from here.
Reversed withdrawal.
Page settings.
In page settings, let's just say,
for example, that these are created by default.
But if you created a brand new page
that you want to set up for a dashboard, for example, or my orders, well,
you can just change it to another page that you've created.
It just changes it here and you go ahead and save it.
The appearance, the Custom Store appearance.
You have all the settings available here for that.
We have the privacy policy, which is pretty much straightforward.
The colors for the store colors, you could change them here.
I set it up to the Ocean 1,
the live search, the store support, seller verification.
Another one that's really important is, for example, the shipping status.
Depending if you want to allow shipping
tracking for all these, go ahead and enable and disable the
quote settings, the live chat, wholesale, EU compliance.
If you're in Europe, go ahead and jump into here and make sure
that you have all these set up correctly for being compliance with Europe laws.
Delivery time, product advertising, geo location, product report of use,
just a lot of information, vendor subscription, and vendor analytics.
Now, I recommend going in through each one of these and set these up.
I know it's overwhelming, but it's just one time that's going
to take you a lot of time to set up, but that's about it.
So dedicated some time to it.
So let's go ahead and jump into our Bender dashboard.
So in Bender dashboard,
like I mentioned before, it's a plugin that you can install
to update the new Bender dashboard look, and it's free.
Okay? Now, in this Bender dashboard,
vendors are going to look at this and it's going to look really professional.
So they're going to set up their store.
In this case, it's letting me know that I
need to finish my profile to get the 100 % percentage.
Then I can view my products that I have here.
In this case, I've set up two products,
but if I want to add a new product from here, I can do so.
Let's go ahead and click New.
I add my image, product name, price,
discounted price, categories, the tags, short description,
or add more images and create the new product or add product.
If you have products that you want to customize, go ahead and select it.
If you want to make some changes or do
the rest of the customizations that you need, for example, the product type,
is it simple, is it variable, is it external affiliate product or group
product, and the settings are going to change depending on what you select.
In this case, I'll show you the simple one.
You have your simple settings that we've
just set up, but then we have the inventory for this,
the skew, manage stock, sold individually, upsell, cross sell.
Basically like a funnel, attributes, RackM atth SEO, wholesale settings.
So if you want to enable this, in this case, I've set it up for this product.
So the wholesale price is going to be 50, but minimum quality is going to be 10.
Order minimum max, shipping tax,
RMA, sell it faster, advance, and enable product reviews or disable them.
So all those options are available
for each one of the products that you register here.
Then you're going to be able to view your orders, your request quotes, your coupons.
And in coupons, you can create your own
store coupons that are going to work for your products.
And you can add them here depending on how you want to use it.
And super easy.
Then we have the reports for this, delivery time, reviews, withdrawal.
So in withdrawal, you're going to build your balance.
So like it says right here,
minimum withdrawal balance is $50 because that's what we set up at the admin side.
The withdrawal threshold is zero days
and we can view also our badges, our return request, our staff.
You want to add some staff to this to help
you out with managing your particular vendor store.
Followers, people who are following you
to see when you upload a new product, analytics for your own store.
So you got general top pages, activity,
location, system promotions, and keywords, everything, and announcements.
In case the admin is making
an announcement, you're going to view them here.
You're going to view tools for your store, import by XML, imported by CSV.
Support, here we go, your customer support tickets and settings for this.
So these are the settings for your store.
This is a banner that I set up just for testing purposes.
If you need to change your store name,
your store product page, how many you want to display,
your phone number, all the information that you need to set up for your store.
It's a really nice looking vendor
dashboard, so it looks really professional.
That means they're not going to know this is made on WordPress.
It's going to think it's something really professional.
It's super easy to set up.
Now, on the inside, aside from the settings,
you have everything that you can view and see what's going on.
For example, you can view the withdrawal information.
You can see the request that you have
right here, reversal withdrawal, the vendors that are created here.
In case you want to set them the status, let's say I want to turn one-off because
it didn't comply with your policy, well, you could just turn them off.
You can also view the abuse reports that people are making, store reviews,
store support, seller badge, request for quotations, announcements.
If you want to make an announcement, go ahead and do it here.
Like I said, you can view that on the dashboard
for the vendors and create an announcement really quickly.
Refunds, reports.
In reports, we're able to also view
in a quick glance everything that has been sold on your store.
For example, you have a quick glance of net sales this month,
the commissions earned this month, the amount of vendors awaiting approval
vendors created this month, withdrawals, etc.
Then we have a quick chart right here that's really interesting.
For example, if I hover over this, this is the number of orders.
In this case, there's three.
The commissions earned $29 and the total sales, which is $290.
Now, in this section, there's also a tab that's called All Logs.
In All Logs, again, we get an overview of each one of these sales.
This is going to be a really long list,
obviously, once you have vendors that start selling.
We're able to view if it's refunded, completed, or still processing.
If we need to have a quick view
of a certain store, we'll click on, for example, Electronix R us.
Then in Electronix R us, we're able to view a quick glance of this.
We can go back.
Then we have the modules.
There are several modules available here that you can enable or disable.
If you are not using a module that you
need on your store, you can go ahead and disable it.
For example,
if you're not using the Follow Store, you can go ahead and disable this.
The geolocation, if that's not something
that you're going to use, go ahead and disable it.
There's all these modules available that you can turn off or on.
Now, I recommend that you jump
into the docs for the modules that you don't understand what they do.
For example, Follow Store.
If you don't know what it does and maybe
you need it or not, go into the docs that is going to open
this document and we're able to view what it can do.
A basic overview and some tutorials
of what it does and it lets us know if we need to enable it or not.
Maybe we donated it for our multi vendor store.
Maybe we do. So that helps us out.
And some of these modules have a video that we can check out.
For example, color scheme customizer.
If I select it, I'm able to view a video
that helps me obviously understand what it can do.
Now, if you want to view the whole list
of modules available on Dokan, go ahead and jump to the link provided
in the description and it's going to take you here.
Go into the modules section in the menu and we're going to be able to view all
the Dokan modules available, including these premium ones that they have.
So for example, if you need the premium Dokan module for WooCommerce booking or
Simple Auctions, you can go ahead and grab these.
Now, if we scroll a little bit down,
we're able to view all the modules available here.
Now, again, we can jump into each one of these and understand what they can do.
For example, it's a quick overview of each one of these.
So for example, if you need this specific module, you can see that it's available
in professional business and enterprise plan.
It's a really great way to understand what plan we need to grab.
For example, if I need to grab a module for my multi vendor store that's specific
to business, I'm able to view the modules available here.
It's an indicator to let me know if this is the right plan for me based on modules.
If modules is the important part, it helps you decide.
Now you can go ahead and view all
the other things that the plans have, but in this case it's a good indicator.
For example, if I need product advertising
for my multi vendor store, then I know that it's only available
on business and enterprise plans, so I should be considering these two plans.
So it's just a little example to help you decide what modules you need.
Now, there's a bunch of modules, you need to check them out.
Like I said, it's really good option for Dokan.
Now, then there's the tools that I've
shown you already, verifications to verify, the advertising.
If you want to add advertising here and just set it up
for this particular store, for this particular product, and you can add it.
Then you have your settings, which I've shown you already.
The idea is to create a really nice
looking store where vendors could come in and sell their products.
Now, if you ask me for personal
recommendations, I recommend that you focus on a niche.
That means that you're not going to go all
out multi vendor store with everything available, like Amazon or eBay.
My recommendation is to focus on something
that you particularly like or there's a need for it.
For example, something that's made for car
parts, something for babies, something for servers, or like that.
That's a pretty cool niche that you can attack and really focus on it and get
vendors to jump in and start selling their products that are focused on that niche.
That's just a quick recommendation.
Now, like I said, Dokan has a free plugin
that you can install right now and start using multi vendor.
If you're looking for the paid version, you can also find that at their site.
Well, that's a wrap for.