Pre-requisites :
The following points are assumed before writing the article :
– Dokan Multi vendor plugin is already installed on your WooCommerce Store.
– You are familiar with StorePep integration of WooCommerce, how to display rates in your WooCommerce Shopping cart, Print Shipping labels, schedule pickups, generate manifest and track your shipments. You can refer our WooCommerce UPS integration article for more info on the above pointers.
The next step would be to link those vendors with StorePep such that your vendors can show their rates in checkout and generate their own labels.
Connecting Vendors with StorePep :
Login(as admin) to StorePep.com and check for the ‘Users –> Setup’ section. Click on ‘Add New User’ and then provide the details.
StorePep will try to sync the user details from your WooCommerce store as shown below :
Finally, as per screenshot, there are two vendors configured on my Woo Store :
Both these vendors can login to their own view in StorePep after verification of their accounts through email. A sample verification email is shown below :
Vendor View :
On logging onto a vendor view from Storepep.com, you will be able to define your own Shipping Carriers and ‘Ship From’ addresses. By default, the store details will be auto-configured as vendor will be using the same store as the Shop-owner.
So, now your vendor can start importing orders and printing labels from his personal view. This will give him enormous flexibility and agility to do custom shipping.
Order fulfilment :
Suppose there are two or more products from different vendors in a single order. In that case, the vendors can generate their own shipping labels and tracking details will be auto-assigned(in WooCommerce) to a partial order created exclusively for each vendor. For example, in the above scenario, you can see there are two vendors :
– Circle
– anindochk
StorePep, by default splits the existing order into equal number of parts as the number of vendors in the order. As you can see in the screenshot below, Order #437 has two sub-orders #438 and #439 for each vendor :
Tracking details from each vendor is shown in the respective sub-orders of order #437 as shown below :
Pickup and Manifest generation is a breeze and there is no change in process as compared to a Shop-owner generating Pickup and Manifest. To know more about it, you can refer our WooCommerce UPS integration article.
We are marketplace built on Dokan. According to this article we have to enable each of our sellers individually in StorePep. Is that correct?
Does each seller then have to signup for a monthly package from you?
Is their any cost to us as the marketplace provider ?
We want each vendor to use their own accounts at shipper, not our account. Is that possible?
According to this article the seller needs to import the orders into their StorePep account to print labels, get tracking and schedule pickup. Is that correct?
Hi Rich,
Yes, you have to enable each of your sellers in StorePep and each of your sellers doesn’t have to signup for a monthly package with StorePep. You will only have to pay the subscription charges for the plan you choose on StorePep. The shipping charges will be directly paid by the vendor as they have an account with the carrier.
Each of your vendors can use their own account. But, the number of sellers will depend on the plan you choose.
StorePep automatically imports all the orders into your StorePep account and you can print the labels in bulk, schedule the pickup and get tracking within a few clicks.
If you want to know about the subscription plans and other details, I can arrange a demo for you with our Product Owner.
Please let me know on this at hari@storepep.com.
Hi,
In multi vendor marketplaces Is it possible to allow vendors to use specific shipping classes?
If yes please tell me how to do it
Thanks
Hi Yasir,
Thanks for reaching out to us.
I am not sure i got your question in totality. Do you want to know how to use the concept of shipping classes and whether these can be used b vendors? If that is the case, then please find my answer below :
– Shipping class is a feature that allows you to mark a product with a particular class. Once you have done that, you can then use StorePep to configure and assign different shipping methods based on Shipping class. For example, I have hereby attached a screenshot on how to configure a FedEx 2 Day for shipping class ’12vinyl’ : https://prnt.sc/pyd2vr
Now as for the vendors, if they want to specifically configure a rule based on Shipping class, they can notify the admin who can do it for him. For example, here i have configured a rule where if vendor 1 is in cart and the shipping class ‘ball’ is also present, then use this FedEx Ground as shipping method : https://prnt.sc/pyd3bl
You can also understand more about the Dokan StorePep integration through this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2-w7fJmUKg
Alternatively, if you are using WCFM as the multi vendor store, then here is another video for you : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHf45erZLLs