YITH Multi Vendor/ Marketplace provides administrators an option to decide if they want to allow vendors to manage a ‘Vacation’ module which will enable them to close their shops for vacation. Let’s review how to enable and configure this option:
- To enable the ‘Vendor vacations’ module, the admin needs to go to YITH > Multi Vendor > Modules > All Modules:
- Inside this tab, there is a complete list of all modules available to help admins extend their marketplace with advanced features. The ‘Vendor vacations’ add-on is the first on the list and to enable it, the toggle button simply needs to be switched to ‘Yes’:
- Once enabled, the admin can additionally decide whether to hide the products that belong to the stores in vacation mode from the shop pages or not. This option is found inside YITH > Multi Vendor > Store & Product pages > General:
- Now, let’s review how vendors can manage this feature from their Dashboard. After the admin enables the vacation module, vendors will find a new ‘Vacations’ tab inside their ‘Your Shop’ section. To configure the vacation mode for their shop, first they need to enable the related option:
- Next, vendors can decide if they want to manage the vacation mode manually, or if they want to schedule a specific period and set the from/to dates from a calendar:
- Then, vendors can choose how to manage their shop during vacation mode. They can either Prevent sales – users will not be able to purchase your products or Keep the shop open:
- Finally, vendors can create a custom message from the built-in editor to inform the users about the vacation mode:
- After reviewing all options available, let’s see an example. In the screenshot below, there are the settings configured for a vendor that will close his store for 2 weeks and will prevent sales during this period:
- Also, the following custom message will be shown on his store page to inform the users:
- From the frontend, this is the information the users will see on the vendor’s store page:
