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Dokan

Multivendor marketplace plugin for WooCommerce; I ran it as PM for three years

4.6 / 5from 769 ratingsSource WordPress.org · 2026-10

22.6 to 30.9releases a year (+37%) on a product I managedSource WordPress.org SVN tags · 2026-10

500 into 42about 500 settings restructured into 42 modulesSource Dokan release · 2026-10

How it works

Marketplace money flow: an order, then the commission, the coupon, the refund and the vendor payout, in that order.

About 500 settings flowing into 42 modules, drawn as one box above a grid of 42 squares.

Settings restructure
About 500 settings into 42 modules, with the categorization and UI designed by me. No option was removed or renamed, so an existing marketplace upgraded without a single configuration changing under it.
Commission, refund and coupon rebuild into one fair reporting system
Tier based commissions, a refund pipeline that splits refunds correctly across vendors, and coupons revamped around the new commission and refund logic. The result is one coherent reporting system that is fair to the marketplace owner, the vendors and the customer.
Printful print on demand integration (first to market for multivendor)
First print on demand integration for multivendor WordPress (Printful), so vendors can sell print-on-demand products.
Request for Quotation
Buyers request and negotiate quotes with vendors.
Product Form Manager
A dynamic form manager for product editing, so marketplace owners design their own product form.