Multivendor eCommerce Site – Benefits, Features, & Cost to Build in India

Before you go ahead and hire a website developer in India, you must know some of the basic yet essential features that your multi-vendor eCommerce should have.

Let’s dive in.

#1 Vendors registration

This is where the vendors can signup with your eCommerce marketplace by filling out a simple form.

Here, you can ask your vendors about their below details:

• Name
• Company name
• Brand name
• Phone
• Email
• Preferred store name

To get more registrations, you need to make sure that your web developer has created a simple form for the vendors to signup. If the form is too complicated, you may not get many registrations.

#2 Vendors store

Upon successful completion of the registration form and the admin’s approval, a unique store will be created for each vendor on your marketplace. For example, https://marketplace.com/vendor1/, https://marketplace.com/vendor2/, and so on.

The store page of each vendor should showcase their brand information along with their products.

#3 Vendors’ profile, reviews & ratings

With each product on your multi-vendor eCommerce site, there should be an option for the users to click the vendors’ profiles and see their reviews and ratings from other buyers. Now, these ratings & reviews could be for the vendor or for each product from this vendor. But the idea is to let users know about the quality of the vendor’s products and support.

#4 Vendors badges

This feature is important for the users to know about the status of each vendor on your eCommerce store.

You may like to assign a vendor the badge of a newbie, most trusted, fast selling, etc.

#5 Vendors dashboard

The vendors’ dashboard will allow your vendors to view:

• All of their products
• Manage sales & orders
• The commission accrued
• The payouts
• Edit profile
• Ratings & reviews by the buyers

#6 Buyers’ account and dashboard

Similar to the vendors’ dashboard, the buyers can also have their own dashboard that can have:

• Past orders
• Manage shipping and billing details
• Post reviews and ratings for any product
• Newsletter subscription
• Edit profile

#7 Commission reports (for admin)

For the admin, there must be a section to view the commission reports. These reports will help admin to:

• Disburse the payments to the respective sellers.
• Determine the total payouts to be paid out.
• Determine the total profit from all the sales during a specific week, day, or month.

#8 Sales & Orders reporting (for admin)

The sales & orders report section will allow the admin to:

• View all the sales for a specific duration.
• View the status of any specific order.

#9 Advertising module (for admin)

A section for admin to publish advertising banners for those vendors who are willing to pay & get advertised.

#10 Multi-currency

Since a multi-vendor eCommerce store has different merchants who can be from different countries, it would be a great idea to integrate a multi-currency feature as well.

The multi-currency feature will enable you to accept vendor requests globally and sell the products on your store globally as well.

#11 Robust search

Since there can be hundreds or even thousands of products on your multi-vendor eCommerce store, it could be overwhelming for the users to find their desired product(s).

It is, therefore, a great idea to integrate a robust search feature with your online store so that users can easily search and filter the products based on their preferences & choices.