12 Best Shopify Marketplace Multi Vendor Apps – [2023]

Onport is a multi-purpose app that makes managing your multi vendor store very easy. It helps you put orders directly into your vendors’ stores and it can integrate with all major platforms to make paying vendors and synchronizing inventory easier and much, much more. The base of the app allows you to have multi-warehouse inventory management available, allowing you to automate all in-house and dropshipping (i.e. vendor orders) operations.

All inventory and pricing updates can be automatically processed on your website. So, if a vendor changes their prices, it will be reflected immediately on your site, so they, or you, don’t lose out on money. Plus, payments to vendors are automatically calculated and paid through various gateways including PayPal, Stripe, BACs or you could add them to an accounting system and pay them manually.

If your vendors have a new product, they’ll also be able to publish it directly to your store. Making managing your site far less time consuming. And you can preset shipping rules which can be tailored for each individual vendor, so you can account for location and more.

Plus you can give your vendors their own dashboard, giving them an environment that allows them to use your site with confidence.

Onport Highlights:

• Create a dashboard that allows vendors to use your shop in confidence.
• Create shipping and commission rules for each individual vendor.
• Can sync product inventory across vendors and more.
• Automatically pays vendors or can be sent to accounting systems for manual payment.

Order Fulfillment Guru is one of those apps that’s ranked pretty high up there on the Shopify app store for being a multivendor app, and with that they also have a perfect 5.0 ranking.

Order Fulfillment Guru is packed with abilities that will make your multi vendor website run seamlessly.

Order Fulfillment Guru Highlights:

• Automatically split & route orders to multiple suppliers (or ever dropshippers).
• Multiple abilities for sending orders to suppliers and carriers
• Realtime product and inventory sync
• Smart routing based on location

This app is a great option for making sure that you can build an effective, profitable and attractive marketplace for vendors. It allows you to set global commission for all sellers on your store, but you can set unique commission rates for individual sellers or based on the product’s category. As an admin, you can assign existing products to sellers and you can select whether a seller can sell normal or digital products (or both). You can also upload, in bulk, new products and vendors to your store.

To help with customer service, there is a unique reminder feature that checks in on the progress of fulfillment with vendors. All vendors have their own ‘Profile Page’ on the store, therefore customers can see more information about who is supplying the item. Customers can then rate the seller based on their experiences.

To make your marketplace multi-lingual, all you have to do is add the Weglot app. Therefore, not only can you have a great marketplace, you can go international, expanding your customer base and improving revenues and profitability. It also allows you to build a strong set of international vendors that can sell internationally or locally.

Multi Vendor Marketplace Highlights:

• There are payment methods that can split takings between admin and seller.
• Vendors can have auctions for products.
• You can have a membership plan for sellers, instead of taking a commission.
• Enable SMS alerts.

Shipturtle is a relatively new app which arguably packs in a full suite of features needed for converting a Shopify store into a Marketplace, at the most affordable cost. What we liked best is its slick and intuitive User Interface which will ensure ease of use for your vendors. The documentation is quite comprehensive as well.

With Shipturtle, you can automate Order Splitting & Routing and give your Vendors their own dedicated Dashboard and login. From here, they can access their orders, create Shipping labels and generate their own custom invoices. All these features are completely customizable so you can add or revoke Product edit, Shipping, Invoicing and Order routing privileges for each vendor individually. Merchants can also set up tiered Commissions at Global, Vendor, Category or Product levels. The payment calculation and invoicing is completely automated.

Shipturtle Highlights:

• Freemium product – first 100 orders are free! Unlimited products and vendors
• Robust Order Processing workflow. Orders move from New -> Confirmed -> Ready to Ship -> In Transit -> Delivered seamlessly
• Built in integrations for popular Shipping partners like Fedex, Bluedart and more lets you label, track and manage returns easily.
• Extremely fast UI with Bulk action buttons for Labels, Invoices and Emails
• Vendors get professional dashboards and logins
• Set Flat or percent based commissions, create payment invoices

This isn’t the exact same thing as a multi vendor marketplace app, but it has the same features for order management that could make it a fairly useful aspect. This app connects your Duoplane account with your Shopify store so you can have automated communications with all your dropshipping suppliers and 3PL warehouses. This allows you to spend more time building your business and expanding, earning more money while doing less of the backend work.

All orders can be customized so they’re sent to the supplier in the right format, whether that is through PDF, CSV, JSON or another format. The app also supports integration with supplier APIs. And the app can support vendors of all sizes, whether it’s a supplier with limited technological capacity or a larger organization with a fully-funded IT department.

Each vendor can also be given their own backend access to your site, so they can reduce miscommunications about products and suppliers can even manage their orders through your site. And if a vendor hasn’t sent an order off yet, you can request a status update with a click of a button.

Duoplane Highlights:

• Professional dashboard for you and suppliers to manage your relationship and orders effectively.
• Create messages on orders that vendors can see, so you can keep communications up.
• See performance of vendors, so you can reward those who are performing well with you.
• Receiving the tracking information for orders from your vendors.

This great little app can revolutionize how you manage vendor commissions and reporting. You can automatically track vendor commissions and see payment records with ease and with the payments being completed with PayPal, you know funds to your vendors are secure.

To help you as well, you can automatically see how much vendors are paid and track commissions, with customization of how you do that. When you want to get the details into a third-party app, there are download options that allow you to manipulate the data to get meaningful information for analysis.

For commissions you can set start dates from when commissions will be tracked from. You can then customize commissions, so you can set a global commission or be more specific based on the vendor, product or you can override any order manually.

To help with building a strong communications chain between you and your vendors there is a live chat function. Plus you can leave notes on orders for future reference. Finally, you can customize the vendor’s profiles, so you can show why customers should buy a product from you that they’re selling. An excellent tool for building conversions on your marketplace.

Vendor Consignment Highlights:

• Can set different rules for commissions based on numerous functions.
• Can override the commissions on an order-by-order basis.
• Communicate effectively with vendors thanks to live chat and in-order messages.
• Pay your vendors through PayPal.

You can easily split sales and profit for each vendor with this app, saving you time and effort from having to manually do the work. You can assign each, individual vendor a specific commission amount. You can also setup cost of goods and custom deductions for every product or SKU. And then when a product is bought, all the calculations are done for you.

When you want to, you can run custom reports that can filter out certain dates, vendors, products or order status. This allows you to see data related to the performance of your store and therefore you can make improvements to build your brand and sell more items in the future.

The app allows for you to create login credentials for your vendors. This allows them to see your current sales.

In addition, this app can work on your historic sales. After installation, the app will sync the last 250 orders made on your website. Then, as orders are made, it will do the same calculation. The app developer, however, has stated he is willing to help you sync more orders if needed. They are also willing to customize the app for your own specific needs.

Vendor Payout Highlights:

• Run custom reports to find information that can help you grow your business.
• Set commissions for each vendor on your store.
• Create login credentials for all your vendors.
• Can sync historic orders.

Vendors are an important part of your marketplace and you need to look at ways that you can give your vendors an identity on your store. If customers get used to the different vendors on your site, and then develop a preference, then they can often buy from that vendor many times on your website. This app allows you to give your vendors more identity, so they can become a bigger part of your marketing mix.

The app will give you the ability to add a clickable logo for the vendor and a title on the product page. This will lead into a vendor profile and collection page, that the customer can browse through. The image for the vendor can be designed within the app thanks to the image widget builder.

There is no limits on the number of vendors that you can have on your store. Therefore, you can be a large or a small business, it doesn’t matter, this app can be used.

Vendors logo Highlights:

• Give your vendors more identity on your website.
• Add a custom image and profile page that includes all the items the vendor sells on your website.
• Have an unlimited number of vendors on your store.
• Build the image in-app with an image widget builder.

Convert your Shopify store into a marketplace with this app. You can create and manage vendors, products, categories, collections and more easily with this app. If a vendor wants to add a product to your store, they can submit the product to you and you can accept or deny the product being sold. If you don’t want to do this manually, you can set the app to auto-approve products.

Order management is also very easy. You can remind vendors about orders which they haven’t fulfilled yet and you can build an effective portal for your vendors that can be branded to your own color scheme and text.

For any product, you can set the commission. This can be done as a set amount or a percentage. Therefore, you have complete control of your revenue and can earn more or less from the sales, depending on what you think is best for your niche.

There are also a lot of features that allow your vendors to manage their profile, products and orders on your site. Therefore, it has never been easier for your vendors to use your marketplace to create revenue for their business.

Multi Seller Marketplace Highlights:

• Easy to manage marketplace programs that allow you to manage vendors from application to sale.
• Manage commission for each individual product.
• Manage vendor payments with ease.
• Great options for vendors to manage their profile, products and orders with you.

This app is very versatile and allows you to treat each vendor differently. You can set different rates of commission for every vendor and can even set different rates of commission depending on the product category or a combination of both. To help grow your vendors business, you can invite vendors to join your site easily, import vendors or embed a vendor registration link anywhere on your website.

When a vendor applies, you can choose to automatically accept new vendors, which allows for quick scaling, or manual acceptance. And automation can be added to order notifications too. You can be notified when a new order is made and so can the vendors. This can speed up processing of orders and improve customer relations, that can help with customer retention.

Vendors also gain access to their own accounts. They can manage their profile, products, orders and fulfillment from inside their dashboard. And they can only see their orders, not those made for other vendors. If your vendors are on Shopify with their own store, they can enable inventory sync with your store, to prevent overselling of products.

Marketplace in a Box Highlights:

• Is compatible with BigCommerce, WooCommerce and more.
• Allows for the synchronization of a stock between vendor sites and yours.
• Vendors get their own dashboard that allows them to complete several tasks.
• Allows for a lot of automation.