Seller Levels Earned From Real Orders in a Service Marketplace
How WP Sell Services promotes sellers from real orders, reviews and on-time delivery, what the thresholds are, and where an admin can step in.
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Blog
Notes on building a marketplace.
Behind-the-build posts, marketplace strategy, plugin updates, and the questions marketplace founders actually ask.
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Milestone Payments for a Freelance Marketplace
How milestone payments work in WP Sell Services: the buyer pays each phase up front and the vendor is credited at payment. Know the trade-offs.
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How Vendor Payouts Work in a Service Marketplace
Commission, clearance days, withdrawal requests and CSV export in the free plugin, plus what Stripe Connect and PayPal Payouts add in Pro.
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Collecting requirements before work starts
How to use WP Sell Services intake forms to capture everything a vendor needs before an order moves to In Progress - and why the order state machine enforces it.
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Guiding a service order from payment to completion
A step-by-step look at the WP Sell Services order lifecycle - from requirements submission through in-progress work, delivery, revisions, and auto-completion.
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Custom WooCommerce Flows a Service Marketplace Eventually Needs
Stock WooCommerce handles checkout. It does not handle service delivery conversations, milestone payments, vendor payouts, or dispute logic. Here is what each custom flow looks like when you build it properly.
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Browse vs request: the two marketplace modes and when to use each
WP Sell Services ships both Fiverr-style browse-and-buy and Upwork-style request-and-quote. Here's how to pick the right mode for your marketplace and when to run both.
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Why we built WP Sell Services
A WordPress plugin purpose-built for service marketplaces, not retrofitted from physical-product tools. The reasoning, the constraints, the decisions.
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