About Dokan Multivendor
Dokan is a front-end multi-vendor marketplace on WordPress, powered by WooCommerce. It helps users build their own marketplace similar to Amazon, Shopify, eBay, and Magento marketplaces. It helps eCommerce businesses earn through commissions with products ranging from digital and physical to variable products.
Dokan lets vendors sell subscription-based products and services easily from the front end of websites, manage their product SEO with an easy-to-navigate frontend dashboard and drive traffic to eCommerce websites. It makes the marketplace payment system efficiency through an advanced PayPal integration with all PayPal Commerce Platform (PCP) features.
Dokan creates automated multi-seller invoices with templates and downloads them in PDF. It enables vendors to copy a product that another seller is already selling. and turn your regular search bar into an instant advanced product searching tool. It lets customers search by location and verify vendors using their social profiles, phone and even their photo ID.
Pricing
The Dokan plugin offers five different pricing plans. Each plan offers an annual subscription and a lifetime plan. Here’s how they break down.
- Free – the Free version of the Dokan plugin offers the most basic version of the plugin. Features include the ability to have unlimited vendors, front-end vendor dashboard, order management, and vendor withdraw system. Support is limited to free WordPress.org support and the plugin integrates with other plugins like WPML.
- Starter – this plan offers everything in the free plan plus additional features such as the ability to set different commission types, vendor management, advanced reports, social login support, and more. The price for this plan is $149/year or $569 for the lifetime option.
- Professional – this plan includes all the features from the Starter plan as well as Stripe and PayPal integration, Store support, seller verification, access to 9 premium modules, and the ability to use the plugin on 3 sites. The cost for this plan is $249/year or $933 for the lifetime option.
- Business – this plan has all the features found in the Professional plan plus geolocation, vendor subscription product, WC Booking integration, auction mode, staff module, access to 17 premium modules, and the ability to use the plugin on 5 sites. The price for this plan is $499/year or $1746 for the lifetime option.
- Enterprise – lastly, the Enterprise plan comes with LiveChat support option, the ability to install the plugin on 10 sites, 1 hour of a basic installation, and all the features found in the Business plan. The price of this plan is $999/year or $3246 for the lifetime option.
It’s worth mentioning that this many pricing plans can be confusing not to mention the Starter plan doesn’t offer anything valuable. You’d be better off upgrading to the Pro plan simply because this plan offers Stripe integration.
It offers plenty of great features such as front-end vendor dashboard, order management, integration with popular page builder plugins such as Elementor, and plenty of customization options.
The Dokan plugin also offers a lifetime plan as well as a 14-day money-back guarantee.
While it’s true that the plugin is on the expensive side, keep in mind that a lot of development went into this plugin. The bigger issue with pricing is that the plans don’t make a lot of sense and the Starter plan is pretty much useless considering there is no Stripe integration.
Another downside is that the plugin can be glitchy at times and the support is slow so be aware of that when comparing the pros and cons.
