Lately, we have introduced different functionalities in our Booking Plugin like adding resources to our booking process and making the plugin compatible with other different WooCommerce plugins. Today we will discuss on how compatibility of Dokan Pro plugin and our Booking & Appointment Plugin for WooCommerce helps vendors sell/book their products easily and conveniently.

Brief Description on Dokan Pro plugin

Dokan is a complete Multivendor e-Commerce solution for WordPress. It has a customised storefront that supports simple, variable, grouped and bookable products. Vendors can experience easy management of products, orders, booking and sales using this plugin.

This is a commission based model where if the products added by the vendor gets booked, the decided commission gets sent to the store owner. Thus it acts as a win win situation for both parties.

Compatibility with our Booking & Appointment Plugin for WooCommerce

Dokan plugin is made compatible with our Booking & Appointment Plugin for WooCommerce, so the vendor’s added products on the store will also have the booking functionality added to it for customers to book their product or services.

Hence vendors can easily add their own bookable products and manage its booking, thereby increasing his sales.

Setting up the Dokan plugin

There are 2 versions of Dokan plugin available in the market. You need to install and activate both Lite and Pro versions of the plugin to start setting up the plugin.

Once this is done, you will find Dokan added as the menu option on the left and when you click on it, the landing page would appear as shown below:

Dokan plugin installed and activated

Once Dokan is set up, the new Vendors can now register via Register Link from the site or a new Vendor can be created from the Users menu option. Let us see how it works with both these options.

Register via Register Link:

Register from the Register link

Add all the Vendor details and register as a Vendor by clicking the I am a vendor option as shown above. Click on the Register button and based on the settings of Dokan, the newly registered Vendor will either be auto approved or will need approval from Store Manager or Administrator.

From the Users menu option:

Add New User page display

On Users Add New page, add all the user details like name, website and assign a role. You can assign a role to the user by clicking on Role dropdown and select Vendor from the displayed list as shown above. Here too, according to the settings of Dokan, the approval for newly registered Vendor will take place.

Now login to the Vendor’s admin panel with his login credentials which you created on the New Users page. Upon logging in, you will be redirected to the dashboard of vendor’s side as you are logged in using the vendor credentials. The dashboard will be displayed as shown below:

Vendor’s dashboard display

Now lets start adding vendor products to the selected store you are made compatible with. For this, go to Products menu option on the left and start adding the products. This process is a replica of creating products from the Admin’s dashboard.

Adding products from the Vendor’s dashboard

All the products added from Vendor’s dashboard are vendor specific products and will be shown along with all other products listed on the website.

Let us create a product from the vendor’s dashboard. For this click on Add new product button on the right top corner of the page. You will be taken to the Add New Product page where you add in all the product details as shown below:

Adding new product details

Now click on Create Product button to finish adding this product to the store. The product details for this product will be shown on the Product’s landing page based on the vendor publishing settings as shown below:

Newly created product added on the Products page

Note: If the setting is enabled to require Admin confirmation, then this product will not be directly listed in the Products List until the Admin or Store Manager approves it.

Now to make this product bookable, read our documentation here.

Different Views of the Edit Products Page

There are 2 views in which the edit page of added products will be displayed on the vendor’s side, namely Tab View and Flat View. These settings are set from the Dokan’s Settings menu option on the Admin’s side. You have to go to Selling Options tab under Settings and select the appropriate style from the Add/Edit Product Style option as shown below:

Now let us see how both these views affect the appearance of the products list on the Products page:

Tab View

 

Tab View of edit products page on the vendor’s side

Flat View

Flat View of edit products page on the vendor’s side