Customer behavior reports have revealed that for online shopping, the user first visits the store via mobile phones and for taking the final decision they visit the store from the laptop. For a marketplace where several brands and sellers are selling over one platform, it is pivotal to have a mobile application.
Improving the availability of your products and services is a perfect way to boost consumer satisfaction organically and expand your offering. Mobile apps provide a perfect way to reward your consumers and add value.
Advanced OpenCart Marketplace Module is a bundle of Marketplace module and Mobile Application. It is affordable and the best buy if you want to create a marketplace with a mobile app.
All about Advanced OpenCart Marketplace Module:
The mobile app plugin for Advanced OpenCart Marketplace turns your single-vendor website into a multi-vendor marketplace and provides your shop with a mobile app. The no-code OpenCart mobile app for the marketplace lets the store owner improve the audience circle as consumers come to purchase stuff from the store with various tastes and expectations. Allowing several manufacturers to sell their goods to the marketplace would allow the customer the ability to choose from a range of products.
Key features of the Marketplace Module:
The commission Model
The OpenCart Multi-Seller Marketplace Module allows the administrator to set the amount of commission from the backend of the OpenCart Marketplace Module according to his convenience. The module provides administrator access from the store backend to handle the seller’s purchase, earnings, and commission.
Everyone can sell
The customers or any vendor can register as a seller from the front end of the store. The OpenCart Marketplace Plugin provides admin access to accept/reject the backend request for seller account approval. From the admin panel, you can track the number of sellers selling their goods at the Marketplace.
Product and Category Management
The seller is only allowed to add goods in the assigned category. The seller has to submit an acceptance request to the admin to include items in categories other than the assigned one. You may track the items listed by sellers on the Marketplace from the OpenCart Multi-Vendor Marketplace Module admin panel.
Optimize for SEO
SEO is important when you have very tough competition and you want your products to rank in Google search. Meta Keywords, titles, and details for the shop and product page can be introduced by the marketplace administrator from the OpenCart Marketplace Module backend.
Seller Shipping Methods
It is necessary to offer several shipping choices for different customers. Sellers of the OpenCart marketplace can add multiple shipping methods from the seller’s dashboard. The added shipping choices can be monitored from the admin panel.
Custom email templates
It won’t add a good experience if you fail to update your sellers and customers about their order details, order status, and delivery details. The OpenCart Multi-Vendor Marketplace plugin provides the administrator with a list of email templates to alert vendors of any inventory, order status, and seller account changes.
Customer-Centric Mobile App:
Firstly it is to be noted that the mobile app provided by KnowBand for Advanced OpenCart Marketplace is specially developed for customers. Sellers have to access their profiles from seller dashboards but customers can access the marketplace from the mobile app which can be downloaded from the Play Store or Apple store since it is available in both ios and android versions.
The mobile app designed by the mobile app maker for OpenCart Marketplace provides Marketplace compatibility and helps the administrator to increase traffic and sales.
Unique features of Mobile App
- Finger Print Login available for the users
- WhatsApp Chat support and Zopim Chat support
- Admin can customize home screen layout
- Add brand logo on the app
- Real-time synchronization
- Supports payment methods like Google Pay, Apple Pay, PayU, Paytm, EBS, and so on
- Multi-lingual compatible
- It has One Page Checkout
- OTP authentication
Must have functionalities in a marketplace mobile application:
Customers can see the list of sellers:
OpenCart Multi seller Marketplace module allows customers to access, from the seller tab of the mobile app, the list of sellers who sell their goods on the Marketplace.
Seller Products on the store:
Products listed in the Marketplace by the seller can be viewed from the app’s product listing tab.
Write Seller Review:
From the product page and product listing page of the app, users can write their reviews.
Display Seller Summary:
Users can view the Seller Review from the Marketplace mobile app.
Shipping and return policy:
Mobile app developed by the mobile app maker for the OpenCart Marketplace allows the administrator to have their policies at their fingertips to their customers.
Conclusion:
Marketplaces benefit all the three entities involved: Seller, store manager, and the customer. An OpenCart Marketplace Module for turning your OpenCart store into a Marketplace provided by KnowBand can uplift your sales. It enables the store manager to control the marketplace from the store’s backend. The marketplace enables many suppliers to come together on a shared platform to appeal to the marketplace’s broad audience.
