YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor / Marketplace

Create a custom registration form for vendors

In the plugin, you will find a default form that you can customize by adding or removing fields, editing their positions and setting them as mandatory.

Approve or reject the new vendors’ applications

When a potential seller registers through the form, a new vendor will be added to the “all vendors” list with a “pending” status and no further action is allowed from him/her until the admin approves the application manually. Once the vendor is enabled, he/she can access his/her own dashboard to configure the shop, upload new products, etc. Would you rather skip this manual process? You can, by simply enabling the option to automatically approve newly registered vendors.

Manually add new vendors to your marketplace

If you want to, you can also manually add new vendors by simply selecting them out of the existing users or by creating new users in your store. It’s a simple and straightforward process: so easy that it’s impossible to make mistakes.

Set vendors’ permissions

In the “Vendors’ permissions” section, you will find multiple options to set usage rules for your vendors. For example, you can make sure that vendors can only publish a certain number of products, choose whether or not they can generate coupons, manage reviews and more.

These options allow you to always keep control on what your vendors are allowed to do while selling their products in your shop.

Set the vendors’ commissions

Set a global commission rate for all your vendors and choose whether to calculate the commission out of the regular price of the product or the sale price. You can also decide who will get paid taxes (the admin or the vendor) and override the global commission rate by setting a new rate for specific vendors.

Choose how to pay your vendors’ commissions

You can pay your vendors’ commissions manually (e.g. with bank transfers or by issuing payments through PayPal) or you can integrate a payment gateway like PayPal Payouts, Stripe Connect or Account Funds to automate the payouts. By installing any of these plugins, you can also automatically credit the commissions during the checkout process, so when the order is paid and completed, the vendors’ commissions will be automatically paid, in real time.

Let your vendors handle temporary closures of their own shops (due to vacation, sickness, etc.)

Thanks to the built-in “Vendor vacation” module, every vendor will be able to temporarily close his/her own shop and show a notice to inform customers about the reason, the re-opening date and more. Vendors can also choose whether to keep selling their products while the shop is closed or to stop sales and prevent customers from purchasing products in the meantime.

Let vendors add their own staff members

Since version 4.0 a new “Staff manager” module is available and allows vendors to create their own store personnel. Every vendor’s staff member can create products, manage orders and the shop based on the permissions they are given.

Let users report issues with a vendor and monitor all reports

If you enable the dedicated option, a “Report abuse” link will be shown on every product page so users can click on it, add their personal data and explain the reason for the report. Reports can be easily monitored as they are saved in a table visible to the admin in the backend.

Create dynamic messages to show on the vendors’ dashboards

An additional new module included in version 4.0 is the “Announcements” one, where the admin can create custom messages to display on the dashboard of every vendor, of specific vendors, or of those vendors that meet specific requirements.

Thanks to the multiple available options, it is possible, for example, to show a notice only on John Doe’s vendor dashboard and a different notice on the dashboard of all vendors with a certain number of sales or a total sales income; you can also show a custom message only on the dashboard of “featured” or reported vendors, and so on.

Choose the layout and customize the vendor’s store page

The plugin includes three different layouts for the vendor’s store page: choose the one that best fits your shop style and customize the colors, logo size and header image, the vendor’s details to display, and much more.

Monitor commissions, vendors and earnings from the integrated dashboard

Take advantage of the advanced dashboard to monitor your multi-vendor store. Generated commissions, paid or pending commissions, generated earnings, total orders placed, and that’s not all: from this view, you can also spot the top-performing vendors (the ones with the most sales) and the most profitable products (the ones that generate the most commissions).

Take advantage of the integration with YITH Frontend Manager for WooCommerce to create an intuitive and modern vendor’s dashboard

Use our Multi Vendor plugin with YITH Frontend Manager to hide those WordPress and WooCommerce menus vendors should not see and let them manage their own products and commissions on a dedicated dashboard.