For those who don’t know what Poshmark is, it is the largest social commerce marketplace for fashion products. Anyone within the United States can sell their fashion item from the closet and share the style with everyone.

Poshmark has over two million stylists and millions of shoppers on its website.  At the moment there are over 25 million items listed with over 5000 brands.

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The business model of Poshmark is the same as any other online marketplace. Poshmark provides a platform where it allows any registered user to create a listing for an item by downloading the Poshmark app.

In return, the Poshmark receives some commission from the sellers. Currently, it allows only US citizens to buy and sell on Poshmark.

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For delivering the items to the buyers, Poshmark has partnered with the USPS shipping company. After receiving the orders, the sellers need to take a print-out of the shipping label and paste it to the packaging item.

The sellers then have to drop it off at the nearest USPS mailbox or have it picked up from their homes.

When the buyers get the item, Poshmark remits the payments to the sellers after deducting its commissions and other charges. The buyers pay for the shipping costs along with the item ordered.

Poshmark is not only a fashion e-commerce website. It is a community where all the people across the world share their views, opinions, love for fashion. Poshmark is a place where it connects people and their closets.

Well, it is easy to replicate or clone the Poshmark website using various e-commerce platforms such as – Magento, Opencart, or WooCommerce.

But there is one restriction with these e-commerce platforms, they only allow one seller listing functionality.

This means only one seller can list the products for the whole community of customers. It does not have multi-seller or multi-vendor functionality, where other sellers can join and start selling on the same website.

However, with the help of the Multi-Vendor Marketplace extension, these digital platforms can be transformed into a multi-vendor marketplace. Where anyone can become a seller and start selling their products to any customer.

Not only that, there is a huge list of payment and shipping marketplace add-ons available, which further enhance the buying and selling operations of the marketplace.

Further on I’ll show how to add similar features and functionalities of Poshmark in your marketplace. Although marketplace extension offers loads of functions, we still require a few other extensions and add-ons.

The following are some built-in features and extensions which further allows the online merchants to improve their buying and selling activities:-

For viewing all the items listed by a particular seller, the customers can view the Listings page. The customers can view all the products and sort them using various filters and options.

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The Magento2 Multi-Vendor Marketplace extension has a built-in feature, where every seller has their seller collection page. The customers can find all the products listed by a seller.

The customers can browse the products according to categories, sort the products, see items in grid or list view.

The sellers can upload a custom banner for the seller collection page, show their shop name, country name (with flag), and map location.

The Opencart Marketplace extension also has a dedicated seller collection page for each seller.

In the WooCommerce Marketplace, the customers can view the banner image of the store. The customers can view all the seller lists on the right-hand side. The products can be sorted using price and name.

On the Poshmark, the buyers can view the About page of the seller. It shows some information about the seller such as – recent comments received and given, brands following, average ship time, last activity, existence since.

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The Magento Marketplace also offers a seller profile page that can be customized by the sellers themselves. The customers can view the seller logo, social media links, latest ratings and reviews, recently added products.

The customers can also view the details about the return and shipping policies.

In the Opencart Marketplace, the customers can view the seller average ratings, contact information, social media links, description, banner image, and logo.

The sellers have complete access to customize their profile page from their end.

Now, here is the WooCommere seller profile page. The customers can view some description about the shop with the contact details. It also shows the social media links, seller ratings, recent reviews, and recently added products.

Social login capability is the most needed feature for any online store. As customers don’t want to fill the long sign-up form, confirm the email, and then come back and log in to the store.

Instead, the customers can simply use their existing social login credentials from Facebook, Google, Twitter, or Instagram and log in to the store quickly.

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With the help of the Magento Social Login extension, the customers can log in to the store using their existing social-login credentials. Magento Social Login extension supports login via – Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

Customers on Opencart can also use their existing social media credentials from Facebook, Twitter, Google, or LinkedIn using the Opencart Social Login extension.

Apart from offering various credit cards payment methods, Poshmark also allows its buyers to use their PayPal account for making payments. The customers can use the PayPal Express Checkout feature for instantly buying the item.

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Magento and Opencart platforms come pre-installed with PayPal Express Checkout functionality. In WooCommerce, you have to install the free PayPal Express Checkout plugin developed by WooCommere itself.

But, PayPal Express Checkout does not split the payment among the sellers and the admin. All the payment is received by the admin. The admin has to manually pay the sellers outside the Magento system.

With the help of using Marketplace Paypal Parallel Express Checkout for Magento 2, the payment is dynamically divided among the sellers and the admin.

After installing the PayPal Express Checkout plugin in WooCommere. The Checkout with PayPal will appear on all the product pages. All the payments will be received by the admin.

Poshmark provides a flat rate of $6.49 for expedited shipping for all orders. Each order is shipped using 1-3 day USPS Priority Mail. The shipping fee is paid by the buyer.

Multiple items from one seller can be added to the order for the same fee as long as the total weight of the order does not exceed 5 lbs.

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The flat rate shipping is a built-in feature of Magento, Opencart, and WooCommerce platforms. In a flat rate shipping method, one fixed price is charged irrespective of products, location, zip code, or weight.

However, in the built-in fixed rate shipping, the admin or the store owner sets the shipping cost. For allowing sellers or vendors to set their shipping rates, you need to use the following extension:-

Magento 2 Marketplace Fixed Rate Shiping (extension)

Opencart Marketplace Custom Shipping (built-in)

WooCommerce Marketplace Flate Rate Shipping (built-in)

The Poshmark has an official blog page on its website where it publishes articles related to women’s fashion. There are posts regarding fashion tips, stories, parties, meet-ups, and other stuff. Anyone can share their comments on the post using their WordPress account.

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As WooCommerce is a plugin for WordPress, it offers built-in functionality to create blogs for the store. The majority of the popular websites use WordPress for blog management.

In Magento, you need to install the Magento Blog Manager extension for adding blog functionality to the store. Any customer can create a post and publish it on the website. The admin can moderate the blog and the comments of the blogs.

With the help of the Opencart Marketplace Blog extension, the sellers can create blog posts for the customers. On the product page, the customers will find the seller blog link.

The Poshmark app is available on both Apple App Store and Google Play. The users can buy and sell the products within the app. To become a seller on Poshmark, the users need to download the app first and then list the products using the app.

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With the help of Mobikul App Builder, your existing store is converted into an app. The mobile provides fully native apps for both the platforms iOS and Android. The customers, sellers, and the admin can use the app for managing the marketplace.

The Mobikul App is available for all the e-commerce platforms – Magento, Opencart, and WooCommerce. It even supports Multi-Vendor Marketplace.

Poshmark has created a Help & Support section on its website. Here the customers can find all the FAQs related to the Poshmark marketplace.

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To set up the FAQs section in WooCommerce Marketplace, you can install the WordPress Knowledge Base Plugin. It allows you to create an amazing FAQs section for the customers. All the answers are divided into various categories and topics.

For the Magento platform, you can use the Magento Knowledge Base FAQ extension. A separate FAQ page is created on the store, where customers can find answers to their commonly asked questions.

For the Opencart store, you need to install the Opencart FAQ extension. Using this extension, the admin can create a display FAQ section using jQuery-based animation. The customers can click the question heading and expand it for viewing the answer.

Whenever a buyer places an order, Poshmark doesn’t release the payment to the seller until the buyer receives the item. After receiving the item, the Poshmark gives three days to the buyer to return the product to the seller, in case an item is misrepresented from the description.

Image Source – Poshmark

For integrating the RMA management system in Magento Marketplace, you need to install Magento 2 RMA System Marketplace.

Using this, the customers can create a request to return the product to the seller. The sellers can view and manage the RMA request from their end.

For Opencart Marketplace, you can use the Opencart Marketplace RMA extension.

There is an extension available for WooCommerce also, i.e. WooCommere Marketplace RMA. Using this plugin, the customers and the sellers can manage the RMA requests.

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Disclaimer- Poshmark is a registered trademark. Webkul is not a partner or an affiliate of Poshmark. This blog is only from the user’s perspective.

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