Dokan

Turns a WooCommerce store into a multivendor marketplace with per-seller storefronts and a vendor commission dashboard

Best for: Teams that already run, or are willing to run, a WordPress/WooCommerce stack and want the fastest path to a working multivendor marketplace with a mature plugin ecosystem around it.
Skip if: You want a modern JS/TS codebase to build custom marketplace logic on top of - Dokan's extension model is PHP hooks/filters on top of WooCommerce, not an API-first or typed stack.

Dokan is a WordPress/WooCommerce plugin that adds a full marketplace layer on top of an existing WooCommerce install: independent vendor storefronts with their own dashboards, a central admin console for managing every vendor and order, and built-in commission handling on each sale. Dokan Lite is free and open source (GPLv2), while Dokan Pro adds paid modules for things like subscriptions, advanced shipping rules, and store customization. It's the most widely deployed option in this space, powering tens of thousands of live marketplaces, which makes it a reasonable default for teams that already have or are comfortable running a WordPress/WooCommerce stack.

Pros

By far the most battle-tested option here by deployment count, which matters for a marketplace where payment and vendor-payout bugs are expensive
Free Dokan Lite tier is a genuinely complete multivendor marketplace, not a crippled trial - paid modules add on top rather than gating core functionality
Vendors get a real self-service dashboard and storefront out of the box, so the platform owner isn't building vendor tooling from scratch

Cons

You're extending WordPress/WooCommerce's plugin architecture, which shows its age next to API-first, typed marketplace stacks
The commercial GitHub repo (getdokan/dokan) mirrors the free WordPress.org plugin; the higher-value Pro modules live in a separate paid, closed-source add-on
Marketplace performance and stability at scale depends heavily on WooCommerce/WordPress hosting choices, which the plugin itself doesn't control