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How to set vendors’ permissions

The administrator will have the possibility to manage different permissions to allow (or not) vendors to perform certain actions. Let’s review in detail which permissions are available: 

  1. All vendor permissions are managed from YITH > Multi Vendor > Vendors > Vendors Permissions:
Vendor permissions
  1. In total there are 9 options inside this tab, let’s see them one by one. First, the admin can enable vendors to use an advanced editor for their stores’ descriptions. If enabled, admin can additionally allow vendors to use a media button in the editor:
Advanced editor
  1. Also, it is possible to limit the number of products vendors can publish by setting a maximum amount:
Limit number of products
  1. The admin can decide what will happen after vendors create a product. Either allow them to publish directly, without the admin’s review, or leave the product pending until the admin approves it. This option can be overridden for each vendor:
Admin review - product creation
  1. Besides the previous option, the admin can also ‘Force the “Skip admin’s review” option for all vendors’ which can be overridden inside each vendor’s profile as well:
Force skip admin review
  1. After vendors create their products, it is possible to decide what happens whenever they edit them. Either allow them to publish without the admin’s review or leave the product pending until the admin approves it. This option can be overridden for each vendor:
Admin review - product edit
  1. Next, the admin can choose which actions vendors will be allowed to manage regarding their store and their orders:
Vendor store and order management
  1. Finally, the admin can decide if he/she wants to synchronize all the changes made to parent orders with the vendors’ individual orders, and additionally update the parent order status when editing the suborder status:
Parent - suborder synchronization