WC Vendors Pro is the premium version of the WC Vendors plugin, offering advanced features and enhanced functionality for building a fully-featured multi-vendor marketplace on WordPress. While the free version of WC Vendors provides essential tools to create a marketplace, WC Vendors Pro unlocks more sophisticated features that allow vendors and marketplace owners to manage their stores with greater flexibility and control.
Here are some key features of WC Vendors:
- Product Management: Vendors can create and manage all WooCommerce product types, including physical, digital, variable, grouped products, subscriptions, membership, bookings, and auctions, with more control over inventory, pricing, and options. Please note that for subscription, membership, bookings, and auction products, the corresponding WooCommerce plugins are required.
- Shipping and Tax Management: Vendors can configure their own shipping rates and tax settings, giving them greater autonomy over their store’s logistics.
- Commission System: WC Vendors Pro allows marketplace owners to set up advanced commission structures. You can set percentage, fixed fee, or tiered commissions, giving more flexibility in how vendors are paid.
- Coupons: Vendors can create and manage their own discount coupons, allowing them to run promotions and offer discounts directly to customers.
- Vendor Store Branding: Vendors can customize their storefronts with logos, banners, and descriptions, enhancing the visual appeal and individuality of each store within the marketplace.
- Reviews and Ratings: Vendors can manage product reviews and ratings directly, helping to build trust and credibility within the marketplace.
- Vendor-Only Features: Access to additional features like detailed reports, earnings history, and order status tracking from the vendor dashboard.
- Customizable Templates: WC Vendors Pro allows full control over the design and layout of vendor pages, product listings, and more, with customizable templates.
Server Requirements
WC Vendors Pro is an advanced extension that builds on the features of the WC Vendors Marketplace free plugin. To utilize the full functionality of WC Vendors Pro, you must have both the WC Vendors Marketplace free plugin and WC Vendors Pro installed and activated on your WordPress site.
Before installing WC Vendors Pro, you will need to set up the basics. If you have already done so, proceed with the guide. If not, read here: WC Vendors Marketplace (Free Plugin) Getting Started Guide
Installation
Before we continue, get a copy of the latest version of WC Vendors Pro plugin, you can get it on our website: My Account – WC Vendors
For this guide, we’ll also follow the setup wizard. There will be a notification bar when you first activate the WC Vendors Pro plugin. Click the “Run the setup wizard” button.
Start of Wizard
General:
You have the option to prevent vendors from accessing the wp-admin or the backend of your marketplace. Enable the setting to redirect any vendors trying to access wp-admin to the selected location.
Commissions:
For clarity, the set fees are what the vendor earns. This means if you’ve set it to 90%, the vendor makes 90% of the sale and you receive 10%.
Global Commission type:
There are four (4) types of commission: Percentage, Percentage + Fee, Fixed, Fixed + Fee.
- Percentage: The vendor receives a percentage of the customer’s purchase amount.
- Percentage + Fee : The vendor receives a percentage of the customer’s total order for the specific vendor, minus the marketplace-defined fee.
- Fixed: The vendor receives a fixed amount on any sale.
- Fixed + Fee: The vendor receives a fixed amount minus the marketplace defined fee.
How do the X + fee work? To keep things simply they’ll earn X amount minus the set fee
For example, if a product is sold for $100 and the fee is set at 5, with a percentage of 50%, the vendor makes $45. Here is the detailed calculation:
50% of 100 = 50; From the 50, Admin deducts 5 as the fee. This leaves 45, which is the vendor’s total commission.
This also applies to Fixed + Fee, ensuring that the fixed earnings are more than the fee.
Coupon Action:
You can think of coupon actions as who will shoulder the discount from their commission. Say the discount $10, and the price of the product is $100
- Before: The vendor’s commission will be calculated ignoring any coupon value
- After: The vendor’s commission will be calculated after any coupon or discount
Now some calculations for better understanding, we’ll assume the vendor commission rates are 90%, and the product is $100, the coupon discount is $1
Before Action:
- Customer pays = 99
- Vendor commission = 90 (90% of 100)
- Marketplace commission = 9 (99 – 90)
The Before action essentially also means that the Marketplace will shoulder any discounts
After Action:
- Customer Pays = 99
- Vendor commission = 89.1 (90% of 99)
- Marketplace commission = 9.9 (99-89.1)
The After action essentially means that the Vendor and Marketplace will split the coupon discount
Vendor Capabilities
Note: By ticking the options, it means that you are disabling the capability.
Product management:
This option will disable the product tab from the vendor’s dashboard. They will also lose the ability to edit/publish products:
Order Management:
This option disables the Orders tab from the vendor dashboard. They will also lose the ability to view any orders
Coupon Management:
This disables the ability to create and manage coupons
Settings Management:
This will disable and remove the Settings option on the vendor dashboard. With this disabled the vendor will not be able to manage his store
Commission management:
Removes the dedicated vendor page to see their commissions
Ratings:
Removes the dedicated page from the vendor dashboard to view ratings. Ratings are from their customers leaving a review on their store:
Vendor Shipping:
This disables the ability to create or update any shipping. It’s located in the Settings Tab
View store:
A simple link the vendor dashboard tabs. This will simply bring the vendor to their dedicated shop page
Pages
It’s best to leave this as default. It’ll simply create the dedicated pages for the Vendor’s Dashboard and the Vendor’s Rating Form.
