10+ Best Multi Vendor Marketplace WordPress Themes 2022

Multi Vendor Marketplaces are one of the best ways to monetize your WordPress website and became very popular in the last few years. There are multiple niches appropriate for multi vendor marketplace, and choosing the one that suits you best is not hard.

Building a marketplace could be extremely simple and may only take few hours with the right tools and strategy. Talking about tools, we can’t think of better options than WordPress and WooCommerce, as these are not only powerful, yet easy to use, but also completely free.

In today’s article, we are going to show you some of the best multi-vendor marketplace themes of 2022.

What Makes a WordPress Theme Good for Building a Multi Vendor Marketplace?

When choosing the best WordPress theme for your marketplace, there are certain factors to consider, like design, WooCommerce compatibility, special niche features for your business model (e.g. – size guide for fashion websites) and the price of course.

Let’s face the truth – there are no free themes suitable for multi vendor marketplace. Luckily, there are tons of modern and affordable WordPress themes in the $49 – $69 price range that could do the job.

Last, but not least, you’d need to find a theme compatible with your preferred multi vendor plugin.

Popular Multi Vendor WooCommerce Plugins

With the blooming of the marketplace business model and increased demand for specialized software, a lot of companies released their specialized solutions.

Without further ado, it’s time to get straight to our curated list of Best Multi Vendor Marketplace WooCommerce themes.

1. Rigid Markeplace (the most complete solution)

Rigid is extremely powerful WordPress / WooCommerce theme compatible with all major multi vendor marketplace plugins like WC Marketplace, WC Vendors, Dokan and WCFM Marketplace. The theme comes with custom built vendor features like vendors list shortcodes, vendor shop sidebar, custom styling for vendor pages following the main theme styles many more custom built functionalities.

Being on the market since 2017 and constantly updated, Rigid is probably the most complete solution and one of the most popular multi vendor marketplace themes.

It features a vast array of tailor made e-commerce functionalities like product variation swatches, product promo sliders, size guide modals and promo tooltips, AJAX product filters, customizable product layouts, mega menu, automatically applied free delivery option, off canvas cart, off canvas sidebars, dedicated product filters area, add to cart notification with sound and everything a top class e-commerce website may need.

The theme comes with dedicated multi vendor marketplace demo you can import with a single click and what’s even better, you can set your own FREE TRIAL with admin demo to test the functionality before purchase.

Rigid comes bundles with the popular WP Bakery Page Builder and Revolution Slider plugin (save $88) and compatible with many popular plugins like Wishlist, Product Compare, Mailchimp, Caching plugins, bbPress forums, Events Calendar etc.

2. Handy

Handy is popular multi vendor theme powered by WordPress, WooCommerce and the WC Vendors Plugin. The theme comes with plenty of features, like out of the box layout configurator that allows you to set custom layouts on each of you static pages, blog, and shop pages. You can also set any colors you want through our theme’s control panel. Setting a custom font is easy with integrated Google fonts.

The Handy theme developers also offer dedicated top notch support via ticket system, so whenever you get in trouble with the theme you’ll be in good hands.

3. Zass for Handmade Artists (best rated + unique design)

Zass theme for Handmade artists and Artisans is one of the most popular multi vendor marketplace themes, mostly because of it’s unique niche design. The original torn paper accents and pastel colors are perfect match for online shops and marketplaces selling handmade goods made by natural, organic materials. It’s a relatively simple, yet pretty powerful theme suitable for both beginners and professional users. The theme integrates beautifully with WC Marketplace, WC Vendors and Dokan plugins, so whichever plugin you choose, you’ll get the best looking website for your brand.

Zass offers custom vendor features like custom vendor list shortcodes, custom vendor shop pages and everything you need to build your very own marketplace like Etsy. While there are thousands of shop using the Zass theme, it offers enough customization power to make it your own and stand out from the crowd.

The theme also offers powerful portfolio functionality, so you can use it as a product showcase or Etsy affiliate even without WooCommerce.

4. Martfury

Martfury is another modern and flexible WooCommerce Marketplace WordPress theme. This theme is suited for multi vendor marketplace, electronics store, furniture store, clothing store, hi-tech store and accessories store. With Martfury theme you can create your own marketplace and allow vendors to sell just like Amazon, Envato, eBay.

The theme is mostly optimized to use Dokan for the multi-vendor functionality, but also compatible with other major plugins. Once you have those installed, this theme works flawlessly, allowing individual stores, inventory management, coupons, shipping, and commissions. There’s even a built in price comparison engine.

5. Social Marketplace

Social Marketplace by BuddyBoss team is another great marketplace theme built around the WC Vendors plugin. It offers tons of custom built options with modern design and also deeply integrates with BuddyPress plugin to help you build an entire community around your store. The design as we said is clean and modern, as you can expect, and the user-experience has been carefully crafted for both site users and site admins.

While it’s quite pricey compared to it’s main competitors and limited to the use of WC Vendors only as multi vendor solution, it’s deep social integration makes it one of the top runners in this list.

6. Vendify

Vendify is the newest theme in this list. It was released just few weeks ago, but deserves a spot between the others, as it’s the direct descendant of the extremely popular in the past Marketify theme. It’s beautiful design allows for selling physical and digital goods as well as services.

One of the downsides of Vendify is the fact it was built to work exclusively with Product Vendors extension by WooCommerce team, which doubles the price before you even start, but at the end you get what you pay for, so we believe it deserves it’s place in this list.

7. Marketica

Contrary to the previous runner, Marketica is one of the oldest themes on this list. However, it is constantly update and improved and still running strong. Marketica uses a modern design layout, which work great for both physical and digital products.

Apart from the good design of this theme, and its eCommerce marketplace features, Marketica includes the premium WP Bakery Page Builder and Revolution Slider plugins. In addition to saving you money, this also allows you to not only create custom page layouts with ease, but also add animated product and content slideshows to any of your website’s posts and pages.

8. Market

Based on the Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) plugin, Market allows you to create a full featured marketplace like ThemeForest or Envato Elements for digital products. Thanks to the theme options control panel, Market gives you a quick and easy way to change colors and fonts as well as upload your site’s logo.

This WordPress theme also includes a useful page builder tool to customize any of the demo content or create your own custom layouts.

Market theme also features responsive front-end product submission and orders management.

9. Catalog

Powered by WooCommerce & WC Vendors, Catalog theme includes some useful features like support for the popular bbPress plugin, allowing you to build community forums for both buyers and sellers. WP Bakery drag & drop page builder is supported, but not included with the theme and back-end options give you control over colors, typography, icons, and more.

A few nifty usability features like Front-End upload forms and mega menus add even more value. The theme is well supported, documented, and regularly updated by the developer, and set up is fast and easy using the single click demo installation.

10. Xtocky

Beautiful style, plenty of features, compatibility with WC Vendors, Dokan and BuddyPress and a price that won’t break the bank. Considering the total value you get, it’s not hard to understand why the Xtocky WordPress theme is part of this list. With almost full 5 star rating on ThemeForest, clocking in at a very impressive 4.98 rating overall. With a variety of header and footer styles, Xtocky gives you a great way to adjust the look of your site’s navigation.

For every niche of multi vendor websites, Xtocky theme has proven to be a good fit. Xtocky accumulated over 1000 sales so far and the theme’s developer have done a great job supporting it’s customers.

Conclusion

We tried to include only top quality themes that are still kept up to date. There are many other multi vendor themes available, but most of them lack quality, wasn’t up to date at the time we write the article or offer just basic compatibility with some multi vendor plugins, without custom built vendor features.

If you think we missed and important theme that deserve being listed here, let us know in the comments bellow.

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About the Author: Althemist

Dimitar Koev is a graphic and web designer, front-end developer and marketing expert. CEO & founder of the Althemist team (previously known as Koev) - an independent envato market author, focused on building WordPress themes with strong e-commerce accent.