Everything You Can Do with WP Sell Services

A tour of everything you can do with WP Sell Services, the plugin that runs a freelance marketplace on your own WordPress site. Set up with the Setup Wizard, earn with Commission and Tax, Payment Gateways and Payouts, sell with My Services, Sales Orders and Earnings and Payouts, buy with Services, My Orders and Buyer Requests, run the marketplace from Vendors, Orders, Disputes and Withdrawals, show it with blocks and shortcodes, and add the Branding tab and more with WP Sell Services Pro. Made for anyone looking at how to start a freelance marketplace.

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A marketplace on your own site means you keep the sale and set your own commission. Here is everything WP Sell Services does, so you can pick the job you need. You need WP Sell Services. Most is free, and Pro steps are marked. It takes about four minutes. There are seven areas. Set up. Earn. Sell. Buy. Run your marketplace. Show it on your site. Then add more with Pro. Step one. Set up your marketplace. Settings has General, Pages and Emails. The Setup Wizard walks you through it. Categories and Tags organise your services. The video Set up your own freelance marketplace shows it all. Step two. Earn from every sale. Commission and Tax sets your rate, a rate for one seller, and tax. See Choose your commission. Payment Gateways takes offline payments, Stripe and PayPal. See Take your first payments. Payouts sets the minimum and the clearance. Step three. Sell as a freelancer. This is a seller, Priya. My Services holds her listings. See Sell your first service. Sales Orders is where she delivers. Proposals answers buyer requests. See Deliver an order. Reviews and Portfolio build trust. Messages and Analytics keep her in touch. Earnings and Payouts is where she gets paid. See Get paid and withdraw. Step four. Buy and hire. A buyer, Owen, searches Services with filters. See Find and hire the right service. My Orders follows each order, and Favorites keeps the ones he likes. See Place an order and follow it. Buyer Requests lets him post a need and hire from proposals. Step five. Run your marketplace. Vendors lists your sellers, and who is waiting for approval. Orders lists every order, with filters for the ones that need you. Disputes and Withdrawals are where you decide and approve. Moderation holds new services for your approval, once you turn on Service Moderation in Vendor Settings. Review Moderation checks new reviews before they go live. Member reports lists what members flag. My Notifications tells you what needs you, and the Audit Log records who did what. This is the Audit Log. Step six. Show it on your site. Blocks and short codes place the marketplace on any page. See Build marketplace pages. The vendors page is your seller directory. Step seven. Add more with Pro. The Pro welcome page lists what you gain. A licence key switches it on. Stripe Connect and PayPal Payouts pay sellers. Commission rules and seller plans earn more. White label, cloud storage and analytics grow it. The Pro videos show each one. Import reviews brings reviews in from a file. The License screen switches Pro on with your key. The key field stays empty here. That is all seven. Set up, earn, sell, buy, run your marketplace, show it on your site, and add more with Pro. Pick the job you need, and start there. Next in this series: Set up your own freelance marketplace.