The compatibility between the Dokan Pro plugin and the Booking & Appointment Plugin for WooCommerce empowers vendors to sell and book their products with convenience.

This powerful integration streamlines the booking process, enhancing both vendor and customer experiences. Dive in to discover how it can elevate your business operations!

A. What is the Dokan Pro plugin?

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

Operating on a commission-based model, Dokan ensures that the agreed-upon commission is automatically sent to the store owner when vendors’ products are booked. This creates a win-win situation for both parties, enhancing profitability and efficiency.

B. Compatibility with our Booking & Appointment Plugin for WooCommerce

When the Dokan plugin is compatible with the Booking & Appointment Plugin for WooCommerce, the vendor’s added products can easily be turned into bookable products.

They receive the entire booking functionality so that customers can easily book their products or services.

C. Setting up the Dokan plugin

You will find 2 versions of the Dokan plugin available in the market.

You must install and activate both Lite and Pro versions to set up the plugin.

Once this is done, you will find the Dokan menu option on the left.

When you click on it, the landing page will appear as shown below:

The Dokan plugin installed and activated

Once Dokan is set up, the new Vendors can now register via Register Link from the site.

A new Vendor can also be created from the Users menu option.

1) Creating Vendors from the Register Link

To register as a Vendor, add all the Vendor details and click the I am a vendor option as shown here:

Register from the Register link

Click on the Register button.

Depending on the Dokan settings, the newly registered Vendor will either be auto-approved or need approval from the Store Manager or Administrator.

2) Creating Vendors from the Users menu option

On the Users Add New page, add all the user details such as name, website, etc.

Assign a role to the user by clicking the Role dropdown and selecting Vendor from the displayed list.

Depending upon Dokan settings, the newly registered Vendors will be approved. 

Add New User page display

Now login to the Vendor’s admin panel with the login credentials you created on the New Users page.

Upon logging in, you will be redirected to the dashboard of the vendor’s side. This is because you logged in using the vendor credentials.

The dashboard will be displayed as shown below:

Vendor’s dashboard display

Let’s start adding vendor products to the selected store that was made compatible with the Booking & Appointment plugin.

Go to the Products menu option on the left and add 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’s 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

Click on the 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 the documentation here.

D. Different Views of the Edit Product Page

The Edit Product Page of added products will be displayed on the vendor’s side in two ways: Tab View and Flat View.

You can set the settings from the Dokan’s Settings menu option on the Admin’s side.

Go to the Selling Options tab under Settings and select the appropriate style from the Add/Edit Product Style option as shown here:

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

i) Tab View

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

ii) Flat View

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

That was a quick guide to help you set up Dokan plugin making it ready for your vendors to create bookable products!