Every vendor,
their own postage.
Your vendors post differently. One sends a dress in a mailing bag for £2.50, another ships a coffee table by pallet — and Dokan Lite has one shipping rate for all of them. BazaarKit is the free plugin that gives each vendor their own, and six separate add-ons for marketplaces that need more.
Each vendor's payout is held on Stripe Connect until delivery. Refunds reverse themselves; lost chargebacks claw the money back from the seller, not you.
Every add-on is its own plugin with its own licence. Buy one module, cancel one module — the rest never notice.
Payout release, dispute escalation and review requests run on their own in the background. You read the log, not the queue.
One suite, eight modules.
Switch on exactly what your marketplace needs.
BazaarKit in practice
A marketplace lives or dies on whether buyers believe the parcel will arrive. BazaarKit gives you the machinery the big platforms run — held payouts, protection windows, honest refunds — on your own WooCommerce install.
Buyer pays, the vendor's share is held in your Stripe balance, and the payout releases automatically after delivery plus a protection window. Vendors see exactly what is held and why, on the order that earned it.
Know moreThe modules
Two modules ship free forever. Six more are licensed add-ons — each a separate plugin you can switch on, or off, without touching the others.
Each vendor sets a flat price per listing; buyers pay one bundled rate per shop at checkout. The feature Dokan Lite makes you buy Pro for.
Free coreDocsA vendor pauses their shop and every listing hides and cannot be bought — nothing unpublished, nothing to undo when they return.
Free coreDocsHold each vendor's payout on Stripe Connect until delivery, with automatic refund reversal and chargeback claw-back.
£5 / monthDocsA private buyer↔vendor inbox with image attachments, plus make-an-offer negotiation where an accepted offer checks out at the agreed price.
£7 / month · two in oneDocsThe free core already posts anywhere at the vendor's flat rate. This sets a different price per continent — and lets a vendor leave a region blank to stop posting there.
£5 / monthDocsTwo-way buyer↔seller reviews with one unified store rating. Auto-published, admin-moderated, review requests emailed after completion.
£5 / monthDocsBuyer disputes, seller responses, partial settlements, auto-escalation on a response window you set, and an admin mediation queue with auto-refunds.
£5 / monthDocsAn in-app notification bell plus email with per-category preferences and one-click unsubscribe — PECR-shaped out of the box.
£5 / monthDocsA done-for-you marketplace on your domain — modules configured, theme wired, launch checked. Priced on your brief.
Custom buildRequestThe honest table
Every row here is about BazaarKit's own code and about Dokan Lite, which is free and open to read. We used to price and rate Dokan Pro in this table as well; those were claims about somebody else's product that we could not stand behind, so they are gone. If Pro is what you want, weigh it up on its own terms.
| Capability | Dokan Lite on its own | With BazaarKit |
|---|---|---|
| Per-vendor shipping rates | Not included | Free core |
| One bundled rate per shop, not per item | Not included | Free core |
| Shipping quoted to any destination | Site-wide zones only | Free core |
| Vendor holiday mode | Not included | Free core |
| A deleted vendor's listings never go live to someone else | Not included | Free core |
| Held payouts until delivery (Stripe Connect escrow) | Not included | £5 / month |
| Buyer↔vendor messaging, first-party | Not included | £7 / month |
| Make-an-offer price negotiation | Not included | With Messaging |
| Two-way buyer ↔ seller reviews | Not included | £5 / month |
| Dispute resolution and mediation | Not included | £5 / month |
| Per-continent international shipping | Not included | £5 / month |
| Price | Free | Free core · £5–7/mo per add-on · £99.50 once for all of them |
Pricing
No setup fee, no per-vendor fee, no cut of your sales. Cancel any single add-on without touching the others.
Per-vendor shipping and vendor holiday mode.
No licence, no account.
Or install it from the WordPress.org plugin directory — search BazaarKit under Plugins → Add New, and updates arrive the ordinary way.
Every add-on, one payment, no renewals.
50% off for the first 100 licences, applied automatically at checkout. £199 after that.
Switch on the one module you actually need.
Messaging & Offers is £7 — two features.
14-day money-back guarantee. Full refund within 14 days, no reason needed. After that, cancel whenever you like — future payments stop and the month you have paid for still runs out in full. Full policy.
Buying and licensing is handled by Freemius. Manage or cancel any subscription yourself from your account.
The live demo
One click signs you straight in — no account, nothing to fill out. Everything you do there affects nobody else.
See the add-ons screen, escrow's money-held ledger, the dispute queue and every module's settings.
Open as the owner one-click sign-inSet your own shipping, answer messages and offers, mark orders shipped and watch your payout release.
Open as a seller one-click sign-inMessage a seller, make an offer, buy something and open a dispute — the whole protected journey.
Open as a buyerWhere it comes from
BazaarKit is carved out of Preloved Bazaar, a live UK fashion marketplace — the escrow, the offers, the disputes all shipped there first and got fixed where real money moves. Want the whole thing built for you the same way? Write to info@bazaarkit.online with your brief.
FAQ
An add-on. BazaarKit runs on top of Dokan Lite, the free version, and adds per-vendor shipping and vendor holiday mode — both of which Dokan advertises as paid features. It does not replace Dokan, and it does not attempt to cover everything Dokan Pro does.
No. Dokan Lite ships a “Pro features” screen inside WordPress admin that advertises vendor shipping as one of them, so on Lite you have WooCommerce's site-wide zones and nothing else. The free BazaarKit plugin adds it: each vendor sets a flat price per listing and buyers pay one bundled rate per shop.
The plugin is free forever. Add-ons are £5 a month each, except Messaging & Offers at £7 because it covers two features, and there is a one-off bundle for everything — £99.50 for the first 100 licences, then £199.
With the Escrow add-on, yes. Each vendor's payout is held on Stripe Connect and released after delivery and a buyer-protection window, with automatic refund reversal and chargeback claw-back. If a licence lapses while money is held, settlement keeps running until the ledger is empty.
Yes. Each add-on is a separate plugin with its own licence, so you can run escrow without paying for reviews, and cancel any one of them without touching the rest.
Only for the Escrow add-on, which uses Stripe Connect so each vendor connects their own account and you never hold card data. Everything else — shipping, messaging, reviews, disputes, notifications — works with whatever payment gateway you already use.
Yes. BazaarKit extends WooCommerce and Dokan through their own hooks and templates rather than replacing your storefront, so it works on any theme, including block themes.
Yes — the live demo is a real marketplace with every add-on switched on, and you can sign in as the store owner, a vendor or a buyer with one click. No account needed.
What next
Every module here exists because a real marketplace needed it. If the thing you need is missing, tell us — we read all of it, and the good ideas end up on the roadmap with your name on them.
Prefer email? info@bazaarkit.online
The free plugin takes five minutes and solves per-vendor postage on its own. Add a module later only if your marketplace turns out to need one.