GeoDirectory + WooCommerce + WC Marketplace = GeoMarketplace

GeoMarketplace is a new plugin created by the top rated Developer of the GeoDirectory Experts Directory: Webnware

It connects WooCommmerce and WC Marketplace with GeoDirectory, to allow listings owners to sell their products from within their listings, by creating a new profile tab called “Shop”.

shop tab

At the moment it allows to sell only Digital and Physical products, but the developer told us there are plan to integrate the WooCommerce Booking and Box Office Extensions.

So that listings owners could be able to offer online booking capabilities and sell tickets for Events.

We installed the plugin on “GeoDirectory Experts”, our directory of GeoDirectory Developers for Hire, so that they can start selling 3rd party add-ons and or their services packaged at a fix price.

Example could be : GeoDirectory Install & Configuration, SEO, CSV files with public listings data (example: All Hotels in New York) and so on.

Vendor Registration & Dashboard

GeoMarketplace will provide a menu item that behaves differently for different users.

  • It will be invisible for non logged in users and regular subscribers.
  • It will be visible for listing owners with the anchor text “Become a Vendor”.
  • It will be visible for those who registered as vendor with the anchor text “Vendor Dashboard”.

The vendor dashboard comes from WC Marketplace as is:

vendor dashboard

Front End Products Management.

Vendors can create and edit products from a front end form, they can also review orders received.

manage products

add new product

Buyers Front End Orders Management

Buyers can manage orders made and downloads from the front end too.

orders made

order download

Will GeoMarketplace work with V2

This current version is for GeoDirectory V1, however the developer is already working on a new version for GeoDirectory V2. Buyers of the plugin will get the update to V2 for free.

Get it here

The developer decided to sell it through his listing on the GeoDirectory Expert Directory:

Buy GeoMarketplace

Support and Updates

Support and updates will be provided directly by the developer on his website: http://webnware.com/

Published by Paolo

Paolo Tajani is the co-founder and growth hacker of AyeCode LTD. With his business partner Stiofan, they are the makers of the GeoDirectory, UsersWP and Invoicing plugins for WordPress. Paolo developed his first WordPress website in 2008. In 2011 he met Stiofan O'Connor and together they started building and marketing successful themes and plugins for WordPress. Today their products are used by +100.000 active websites.

45 thoughts on “GeoDirectory + WooCommerce + WC Marketplace = GeoMarketplace”

  1. Michael

    I was wondering if WooCommerce is a necessary component. I”m in need of a marketplace that is more like Facebook or Craigslist, where there are no online transactions, it’s handled offline.

    1. Paolo

      You can do that with an extra GD post type. I replied to your email.

      1. Salim

        Hello,

        I had the same question, could you inform me also how to, or send me the same e-mail you sended Mr Michael?

      2. Enrico Gazzola

        Hello,

        I had the same question, could you inform me also how to, or send me the same e-mail you sended Mr Michael?

        1. Paolo

            The email wasn’t adding anything to this: You can do that with an extra GD post type.
            If you have more specific question, please let me know.
            Thanks

    2. Hassan

      I am really happy to see this as i am a big fan of GeoDirectory!

      Would the vendor be able to add product variations? Let’s say it is a restaurant, so the product itself is Pizza, then it has price option for Big or Small!

    3. Educational Organization

      When you say you need GeoDirectory + WooCommerce + WC Marketplace, what do you mean by WooCommerce? Is there a 30 trial period for WC Marketplace? Are there any other examples that we can view other than the GeoMarketplace above?

      1. Paolo

        Hi,

        WooCommerce is probably the most famous WordPress plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/
        No need for a trial of WC Marketplace because it is free too: https://wordpress.org/plugins/dc-woocommerce-multi-vendor/

        The only example I can show is our own Geo Marketplace that is https://geodirectoryexperts.com/

        Here you can see an example of a developer selling a product: https://geodirectoryexperts.com/experts/india/rajasthan/jaipur/full-stack/web-n-ware/

        Thanks

    4. Alphonso

      I’m also very interested in checking this out too with GDV2…
      Any updates on GeoMarketplaceV2 release date?

      1. paolo

        Please see description here: https://geodirectoryexperts.com/product/geomarketplace/

        The GeoMarketplace.zip archive contain 2 plugins, for GeoDirectory V1 and for GeoDirectory V2. The documentation for both plugins can be found inside the zip file too.

        Thanks

    5. Noel

      Thanks Paolo. Do let me know what you hear back from Webnware.

    6. Noel Chhut

      Just checking in again to see if you know if GeoMarketplaceV2 has been released? Thanks

      1. paolo

        Hi, It should be ready, I’ll ask to webnware if it’s included in the zip of V1.
        Thanks

      2. Noel Chhut

        Just checking in again. Were you able to determine with Webnware if V2 is included in the zip of V1?

        1. paolo

          Please see description here: https://geodirectoryexperts.com/product/geomarketplace/

          The GeoMarketplace.zip archive contain 2 plugins, for GeoDirectory V1 and for GeoDirectory V2. The documentation for both plugins can be found inside the zip file too.

          Thanks

    7. Noel Chhut

      Thanks Paolo. I will wait until they release GeoMarketplaceV2.

      BTW – I’ve been following your development. Keep up the great work!

    8. Noel Chhut

      This is great. I just discovered GeoMarketplace and I already have WC Marketplace.

      Sorry, I’m new to GeoDirectory still and my question may be obvious.

      I was thinking initially to have a directory site and a marketplace as two distinct sites for my community. But now with GeoMarketplace, I’m thinking of combining the two sites.

      Question: I want to offer businesses – both online-only and ones with physical locations – to sell on my marketplace, is it possible to have online-only listings with GD?

      Thanks

      1. paolo

        Hi,

        Yes you can create an extra custom post type for online listings and use the default custom post type for the listing with physical location. The Custom post type add-on will be needed.

        Thank you

    9. Marwan

      Is this compatible with other marketplace plugins such as Dokan and wc vendors?

      1. Marwan

        Also, how do the products get added to the listing, lets say a vendor created a product using his/her marketplace plugin dashboard. Will the product automatically get added to the listing? and what if the owner of a listing has multiple listings?

        1. paolo

          You are asked for which listing the product is while adding it from the front end.

      2. paolo

        It is not.

    10. justmark

      Any news on the status of this (ie has it been updated to work with V2, have they added support for other types of transactions, etc)?

      1. paolo

        They are working on it… We’ll let you know once it’s done.

        Thanks

    11. James Liu

      Hi there, do you have a demo I can check it out? Thanks!

      1. paolo

        We installed the plugin on “GeoDirectory Experts”, our directory of GeoDirectory Developers for Hire, so that they can start selling 3rd party add-ons and or their services packaged at a fix price.

        We use it to sell it on the GD experts directory…

        Thanks

    12. Alphonso

      A few questions assuming I’m going to use wpinvoicing.com instead of WC
      1. Is there a new version compatible with GDV2
      2. Is this combination possible: GDV2 + WpInvoicing + GeoMarketplaceV2

      1. paolo

        1. There is and it’ll be released soon.
        2. No this only works with WooCommerce + WC Marketplace.

        Thanks

    13. Leonardo

      Hi there. Can’t believe this is here. I been trying to work out how to do this.
      Now I have 2 questions.
      How does the product owners get paid?
      How are they notified that a product has been sold.

      1. paolo

        WC Marketplace handles pays out. You have several options, including auto or manual withdrawal.
        Yes that do get a notification of each sales they make and they have a dashboard showing their situation.

        Thanks

    14. Sue

      Does it work with Whoop?

      1. paolo

        It should, if you see any problem though, let us know! Thanks

    15. David

      Let’s say I want to users to enable/sell digital downloads using this method above.
      Does this mean your other plugin:

      https://userswp.io/downloads/easy-digital-downloads/

      is redundant?

      Or is it required? I’m just trying to gauge how much I need to spend on plugins!

      Thanks.

      1. paolo

        That plugin wouldn’t be needed and wouldn’t work with the setup described in this post.

        GeoMarketplace is needed to allow listing owner to sell products from within their listing with WooCommerce.

        That plugin only allows to show orders made and invoices in users profile for Easy Digital Downloads, that is a different e-commerce system.

        Hope this helps

      2. David

        I see, thanks paolo.

    16. sayllus

      Is it posible to have a full GeoMarketplace so to speak? In a directory u would look for the vendor maybe using the “nearest” functionality and then u can go into the vendors shop. Would it be posible to do something similar but to look for the nearest product instead of vendor? For instance lets say u have a directory of electronic vendors but if u wat to buy a cellphone that many of the vendors carry and u dont mind the price, Could u filter for that specific product in a similar way the “nearest” feature work? so when u click SEARCH u would be searching each vendors shops (suppossing the product is available) to match the product u want and then the result would be ordered by which vendors are the nearest. Not sure if it makes sense but I think it would be wonderful.

      1. paolo

        That would be possible by adding a tag to the listing for each product created for that listing. I think it could be easily automated too…

    17. Rani Shaikh

      This looks great. Could it in theory be used for people to order food from restaurants? Thanks for sharing wonderful information

      1. paolo

        Absolutely yes.

    18. Diane

      This looks great. Could it in theory be used for people to order food from restaurants? Thanks

      1. paolo

        Absolutely yes Diane, thanks! 🙂

    19. Glenn Donaldson

      will this plugin conflict with any other payment methods?
      I don’t use payment manager?

      1. paolo

        It shouldn’t…

    20. justmark

      This is fantastic! I am building this capability as we speak so I may hold off on that. If they can integrate selling listings as well all my problems are solved as I would not need two different invoicing systems.

      1. paolo

        That is something that we will introduce in the payment manager v2. Maybe not right away, but possibly in version 2.1.
        Thanks Mark

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