- Turn your WordPress website into a Freelancer Marketplace
- Fully integrated with Easy Digital Downloads
- Easy to follow workflow
- Comprehensive plugin customization
- Obtain project bids
- Complete email workflows
- Combines selling digital products with selling freelancer services
Plugin Purpose
This Freelancer Marketplace plugin will help you build a freelancer marketplace for WordPress and Easy Digital Downloads. This plugin will be your starting point in creating your dream freelancer marketplace using the ultimate freelancer marketplace solution.
Our plugin offers a comprehensive collection of settings and configurations to give you a total control over your own freelancer marketplace, allowing you to configure it any way you what.
Why creating a Freelancer Marketplace?
The demand for Freelancer Marketplaces is continuously growing at a high rate. With 57.3 million freelancers in the US alone (which makes around 36% of the total country’s workforce), there is no denying that Freelancing is becoming increasingly popular. Also, it’s expected that freelancers will account for as much as 80% of the entire workforce worldwide by 2030.
What is a freelancer marketplace? It is an online platform where businesses can find and hire individual contractors and freelancers to do some work remotely. It acts as an intermediary providing a safe and convenient way to contract remote experts for short-time and long-time projects.
Starting your own marketplace can certainly be daunting, but it helps when you use the right MaaS (marketplace-as-a-service) platform to aid you in bringing your idea to life.
Key Plugin Features
Easy Onboarding Processes
It is a must-have for a Freelancer Marketplace to have a quick and easy onboarding process that will benefit and give ease your upcoming platform users.
The plugin comes with a Short and Quick Project Submission Form for customers to list their projects on your platform. Then, registration is done right after creating the project to make the process easier and simplier for the users.
Then to easily onboard Freelancers on a certain project, customers can either hire them right on the Freelancers List or on the Freelancer Profile. Also, users can also use their Social Logins to register by using the OneAll Social Login Plugin.
Bidding System
The plugin comes with a bidding system, where Freelancers can submit their bids. Bids include also important terms such as Time required, Milestones and a description. Once a Bid has accepted, the project is moved to execution modus.
Commissions
The plugin allows you to set and charge a commission fee either or from both sides (the Freelancer and the Customer). This gives you full control on your business model by setting the fee rates and which side(s) to charge the fee.
Messaging System
The plugin comes with an in-built messaging system to allow Freelancers and Customers to discuss the project and bid in more detailed before accepting. It is a must-have for a Freelancer Marketplace to have an excellent form and way of communication for each user end.
Milestones
This plugin allows both users to create Project Milestones that needs to be approved. Here, Freelance Project uses Milestones for Project Payments. During the Bidding Process, the Freelancer needs to specify the required Milestones while during Project Execution, both users can also create additional milestones.
Ratings
During project execution and upon completion, both Customers and Freelancers can submit their ratings to the other party. Ratings use a 1 to 5 Star scale and also an input field to leave some additional comments. This enables your platform to collect and display valuable feedbacks that help create trust on the users as well as attract additional users.
Dispute Management
During project execution, either party can submit disputes or claims against each other, for reasons of unresponsiveness, not enough information or other reasons which you can define in the settings.
Email Workflows
Freelancer Marketplaces rely on a set of Email Processes to drive user actions. Therefore, this plugin has a built-in, countless email templates which can be edited and customized all the way you want.
Optimizing the wordings of your email are key to pull your users through the workflows starting from onboarding, bidding, project execution, disputes, ratings and project completion.
Modern Layouts
The plugin contains easy to understand, simple but powerful page layouts so that both Freelancers and Customers can easily track the progress of their projects.
Form Builders
This plugin has a built-in, extensive and complete Form Builders that enable site admins to customize both the Freelancer and Customer Registration Forms. It almost has all the important fields you might want to add in your forms, which will surely give more value and color to your User Registration and Profiles.
Documentation & File Folders
Once the project has been approved, users can upload files and documents through the Messaging System. The plugin keeps them in a separate File and Documentation Folder aimed to properly document the project and keep all files in one place.
Timeline
Our plugin also captures the timeline of projects in Execution modus. So both parties can keep track of what’s happening with this project and identify progress easily.
Payments & Withdrawals
Once the customer confirms that the project is accepted or a milestone has been delivered, the funds are credited to the Freelancer’s Balance, paid in escrow by the customer at that time.
If the Freelancer has then a positive fund balance, he can request a withdrawal. The payment then can be done via PayPal transfer (e.g. you can upload a mass payment file in PayPal for larger platforms).
Clean and Precise Backend Pages
A good advantage of this plugin when compared to other platform solutions out there, is it has a very clean, complete and precise backend pages. Right on the WordPress Dashboard, site admins can see complete list and details of the important functions of your Freelancer Marketplace.
Customization
Our plugin offers a comprehensive collection of settings and custom configuration options to give you total control over your Freelancer Marketplace. The aim is to give you the tools you need to build the Freelancer Marketplace you want.
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Frequently Asked Questions
No. For this plugin to work, you must first have installed and configured Easy Digital Downloads in your WordPress website.
No. EDD is a free open source eCommerce solution so the basic plugin is for free. If you want more advanced plugins, then you need to pay for a subscription.
By using our plugin, you can now build your dream EDD Freelancer Marketplace, where customers and freelancers could work together, while you can earn some money in the process. Not only that, but you can also sell digital downloads at the same time.
Yes, all plugins should work in principle as it’s a WordPress website. However, compatibility needs to be tested to avoid plugin conflicts in the future.
Yes. You can use any available Social Login plugins out there to enable Social Logins on our plugin.
Yes. A user can both have the features available for a Freelancer and Customer, but must be verified and/or approved first.
Freelancers will first have to request withdrawal to the site admins, who will therefore process it manually, and just wait for it to get paid directly on the freelancer’s paypal account.
No. We believe for the moment that it is better for the admin to only do and allow manual payments in paying out Freelancers.
Yes. Attaching and uploading files during project submission is allowed.
Yes. Messaging system works fine in our plugin. This will be better explain in the plugin documentation.
Yes. Upon completing a project, both the customer and freelancer can submit their ratings with each other.
Yes. Our plugin is very much compatible with the OneAll Social Login plugin that gives users a very easy registration procedure by just using their social accounts.
Yes. We provide a money back guarantee for 14 days should you not be satisfied with our product and we will issue you a refund.
Only if you decide to keep the subscription. You can cancel your subscription at any time. The subscription allows you to receive plugin updates and support as long as you are subscribed with us. We recommend to keep the subscription and renew it every year as this is a complex plugin which we plan to update regularly.
This plugin has been tested as for EDD Version 2.9.20 and for WordPress Version 5.3.
Yes. If you have any questions and clarifications, just contact us and we will get back to you immediately.
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Note: All paid subscriptions below includes the latest plugin version as well as plugin support and updates for 1 one year.
- Current Version 1.0.4
- WordPress: Tested up to Version 5.3
- Easy Digital Downloads: 2.9.20