With the world moving increasingly online, having an online store has become an essential requirement for most businesses. If you have opted for a WooCommerce powered store, you need a feature-rich and beautiful looking theme for your storefront.
Vendify is a premium marketplace theme from Astoundify, which works with WooCommerce to offer a hassle-free and powerful solution to set up a full-featured online store.
So whether you need an online store to sell your own brand of products or looking to build a WooCommerce multivendor marketplace with plugins where third-party vendors can sell their products for a fee or commission. Creating a niche online marketplace to help vendors connect with buyers and make a sale is a terrific way to generate some passive income with minimum effort.
Let’s take a detailed look at what the theme has to offer.
Getting Started
It just takes minutes to set up your website with the Vendify theme. After installation, all you’ve to do is enable automatic theme updates, install recommended plugins, import demo content (optional) and you’re good to go. During the process, you are assisted by a setup guide that provides step-by-step support.
Having said that, a fast WooCommerce hosting server is recommended for online ecommerce stores and marketplace. A faster hosting solution not only handles high traffic spikes but also ensures faster loading time, which in turn means low bounce rate and less dropped sales.
Theme Design
Any marketer worth their salt knows that the look and feel of a website is a key element in determining success. Astoundify has done a great job in the design department, and the theme boasts a sleek and stylish minimalist design, well-balanced with usability.
The theme is compatible with the Elementor Page Builder and you can easily create custom WordPress layouts without having to write code. Using the theme’s style kit, users can do multiple customizations at once.
You can adjust individual colors in the ‘Elements and Palette’ section and the ‘Typography’ section includes all the options related to fonts. If you do not want to experiment with individual colors or fonts for sections, you can choose from a set of predefined options.
A really nifty feature is the dedicated designs for the product and seller pages. The product page features all the necessary options such as product images, descriptions, pricing information, categories, shipping information, and reviews.
Fully customizable menus, headers, and footers, ‘Shop sidebars’ for widgets are just some of the other remarkable design elements.
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Theme Features
Since the theme is built for WooCommerce, you can take advantage of the wonderful ecommerce options that come with the platform. For starters, you can utilize components such as product and order management, setting up shipping and payment terms through the dashboard. There is also a plethora of useful WordPress and tools (Mailchimp for emails, Google Analytics, SEO plugins like Yoast) to grow your business.
The theme is a great fit for every niche – Vendify can be used for all types of products and services, digital or physical, or even a mix of both to suit your business processes. Vendors can edit their products live on the site with updates being reflected as they work. Easy drag and drop editor enables vendors to directly manage all product aspects such as images, attributes, product dimensions, etc.
WooCommerce’s ‘Social Login’ integration allows your visitors to register and log in to your marketplace using their credentials for any popular social networking sites.
Vendor Management
One of the incredible features of the theme is the ease of managing multiple vendors, who can quickly set up their shop at your marketplace. If you’ve allowed the vendor to create an account through a registration process, they can immediately set up shop and start selling after your approval. The account registration process is handled via frontend forms, making the process very easy for the vendor and marketplace owners.
The theme has thoughtfully incorporated all the essential features to help your vendors boost their sales, and thereby your revenue. Vendors can customize their space for their brand by customizing the store logo, cover photo, shop description, their own shop policies, and even provide links to their social media accounts.
Vendors have a feature-rich dashboard where they get real-time analytics and can view and track necessary information including total products, total orders, recent orders, etc. The data is illustrated with charts and graphs for quick assimilation and evaluation. Furthermore, vendors can run their own marketing campaigns with dedicated coupon codes to boost sales.
The Message feature enables the vendors to communicate with their customers effortlessly from their dashboard. This feature also enables you to have better control over the vendor-customer communication.
Payment Options
You get to choose the payment gateways and set up custom vendor commission, either as a fixed amount or a percentage. Moreover, the commission aspect is automatically taken care of once a purchase is made and the amount is sent to the vendor when the order is fulfilled.
Pricing Plans
The theme offers two pricing plans – one at $79 comes with standard support for 6 months and one priced at $104 with extended support for 12 months. Both options come with the usage license for a single site, with no additional subscription or renewal charges. All Vendify theme users also get an exclusive 20 percent discount on all Xtendify services. With a 14-day money-back guarantee, it’s a deal you absolutely cannot miss!
Final Words!
If you want to build a single or multi-vendor ecommerce store, Vendify WordPress theme is definitely an attractive option. A straightforward set-up process, a clean and appealing design, easy vendor management are just some of the powerful features that make this theme irresistible. At this price, this could be an investment that repays you many times over as profit from sales or sales commissions from vendors.
Note: This article was published in collaboration with Astoundify.
Mustaasam Saleem
Mustaasam is the WordPress Community Manager at Cloudways. Where he actively works and loves sharing his knowledge with the WordPress Community. When he is not working, you can find him playing squash with his friends, or defending in Football, and listening to music.
