# Making a marketplace in WP but not sure what to use

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-marketplace-in-wp-but-not-sure-what-to-use/633199
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [May 17, 2015, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-marketplace-in-wp-but-not-sure-what-to-use/633199 "2015-05-17T20:27:16Z")
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### Author: ![Dolan100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@Dolan100](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Dolan100)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2015, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-marketplace-in-wp-but-not-sure-what-to-use/633199/1 "2015-05-17T20:27:16Z")

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Hi I am wanting to make a multi vendor marketplace and as you can imagine since this has been done so many times I have allot of options on how to go about doing this.  
The first way and probably the hardest/most time consuming would be for me to use my web design and front end development skills to create a marketplace that had no functionality, and then bring in a back end developer to give function to the site this way has many pros to it but it would be very difficult to make a fully functional marketplace for me since I don’t have the back end skills.

The second option would be to use a WordPress theme (and there are many) I will list the two I have in mind below:  
My favourite: [http://themeforest.net/item/squarecode-wordpress-theme/8219662](http://themeforest.net/item/squarecode-wordpress-theme/8219662)  
other one: [http://themeforest.net/item/marketica-marketplace-wordpress-theme/8988002](http://themeforest.net/item/marketica-marketplace-wordpress-theme/8988002)

now both of these have great design but the main things that are confusing me/dividing my opinion is first for the “SquareCode” theme this is my favourite and I love the design however this uses a paid plugin “Front End Submissions” **[easydigitaldownloads.com/extensions/frontend-submissions/?ref=4600](http://easydigitaldownloads.com/extensions/frontend-submissions/?ref=4600)**  
which I will happily buy but the other theme apparently uses a free plugin **[wordpress.org/plugins/wc-vendors/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wc-vendors/)** so this has completely torn my opinion on which one to go for and or to go with my first idea of building a marketplace right from nothing which has its pros like a bespoke design and easily brand able but the WordPress idea is tempting since this will basically be a solo dev project.

Please give me any options or ideas you have on what I should to and it will be greatly appreciated, thanks Angus