As a marketplace owner, you may want to control what vendors can and cannot do. This can be managed through the Capabilities tab in the WC Vendors Settings, which can be found under WC Vendors > Settings > Capabilities.
We separate these capabilities into three categories:
- General
- Products
- Orders
General
Here you’ll find general capability options that let you control what vendors can and cannot do to their products and orders.
For the WC Vendors Pro, you have further options to disable and enable certain features:
Products
In this section, you can configure if your vendors can add, submit, and edit their products.
Submit Products
Select this checkbox to grant vendors permission to add and edit products.
Edit Live Products
Enable this option so that vendors can edit products that have been published.
Publish Approval
When this feature is active, vendors can add new products without being reviewed and approved by the marketplace admin.
Orders
In this section, you can configure how your vendors can add, submit, and edit their products.
View Orders
With this option, you can choose whether vendors are allowed to view their orders or not.
Export Orders
By activating this option, you’ll let vendors export their order details to a CSV file.
Products tab
From this tab, you can select which product options vendors can use when they add or edit a product from the vendor dashboard.
Add / Edit Product
Product Types
This feature allows you to select specific product types to hide from your vendors, preventing them from using those options.
Product Type Options
You can also hide certain product type options from your vendors such as Virtual and Downloadable.
Product Data Tabs
Use this option if you need to hide particular product data tabs from your vendors.
Featured Product
Let your vendors add featured products to their stores by enabling this option. This open is only available on the wp-admin product editor page
Duplicate Product
When you activate this option, vendors will be able to duplicate their products instantly.
SKU
Only use this option if you wish to hide the SKU field so that vendors can set up their product SKUs.
Taxes
You can also hide the tax field if you enable this option.
Orders tab
As the marketplace admin, you can go here to allow vendors to view and add order notes. You can also select which customer information can be viewed by vendors.
- View Order Notes
- Add Order Notes
- Customer Name
- Customer Shipping Name
- Customer Billing Address
- Customer Shipping Address
- Customer Email
- Customer Phone
With WC Vendors Pro, you have additional options to hide or enable specific actions from the vendor dashboard, such as adding a tracking number, viewing order details, and more.
Trash – WC Vendors Pro only setting
Here you can enable the option to automatically delete any products or coupons of the vendor when deleted.