Tawk. to

Dokan Multi Vendor Documentation

As part of the lucrative Live Chat module of Dokan, Admins and vendors can integrate their store with the amazing tawk.to platform. It is free software that lets their users monitor and chat with the visitors on their store.

You can easily give live support with one on conversation with the visitor.

Let’s see how you can set up the tawk.to the integration with your Dokan powered multi-vendor marketplace.

For Admin

The admin or the owner of the marketplace doesn’t need to do much. He/She just needs to enable tawk.to from the dashboard.

Navigate to Dokan–> Settings–> Live Chat. There enable tawk.to. Click on Save Changes to finish.

this is a screenshot of TAWK.TO

That’s it for the admin side.

For Vendors

Now, vendors needs to integrate tawk.to with their store. The following steps will help to do that sucessfully.

Step 1: Create a tawk.to account

First of all the vendors need to create their own tawk.to account. Don’t worry, as the platform is 100% free, you don’t need to pay any money to signup.

Step 2: Add property

Now, you need a chat widget where you will get the tawkto property and widget id. For that you need to create a property on your tawk.to account. Follow the below screenshot to create the property.

this is a screenshot ofAdd property

Step 3: Give the necessary credentials to finish creating property

You need to add your Property name, URL, Widget name to finish creating your property.

this is a screenshot of Add credentials

Now, click on the Done button to finish.

this is a screenshot of Done

Step 4: Copy the Property Id and Widget Id

Now, you need your tawk.to property id and widget id. Click on the Add-Ons button,

this is a screenshot of Addons

Now, click on the Chat Widget option.

this is a screenshot of Chat widget

Now, copy the property id and the widget id like the screenshot below.

this is a screenshot of Id's

Step 5: Paste the property id and widget id

You need to paste the tawk.to property id and widget id on your store settings.

Go to your vendor dashboard and click on Settings.

this is a screenshot of Settings

Now, scroll down and enable the Live Chat option. Then paste the tawk.to property id and widget id in the textbox. Click on Update Settings to finish.

this is a screenshot of paste the id

You are nearly there!

Step 6: Test the integration

Create an incognito or a dummy user and go to your store. There click on the Chat Now option and test the integration.

this is a screenshot of Chat now!

You will receive your messages in the tawk.to chatbox.

this is a screenshot of Chatbox

You need to reply them from there as well.

this is a screenshot of Reply.

See the whole conversation.

this is a screenshot of Chats

That’s how you can integrate tawk.to with your Dokan powered mutlivendor marketplace!