Free modules

If you want to allow vendors to manage shipping costs for their products, you can take advantage of the Vendors shipping module.

First of all, just make sure you enable it from the Modules section.

After enabling the module, a new Shipping section will be available in your vendor’s panel, with multiple tabs.

Shipping options

Let’s start with the first tab, the Shipping options:

Enable shipping: enable or disable the module through this option. Use this to temporarily disable the add-on while keeping the settings visible and adjustable.

Default shipping cost: set the default shipping cost to be applied to the entire cart.

Processing time: enter the time required for the shipping of your products.

Shipping from: the vendor can enter the location from where their products will be shipped.

Shipping zones

Once configured the options, your vendors can now configure their own shipping zones from the dedicated tab in their dashboard and add one or multiple shipping methods as they would normally do in WooCommerce shipping zones.

These zones and methods will only apply to the products of the current vendor.

Whenever a vendor shipping fee applies to the cart, this will automatically override the general shipping settings.

What happens if there are products by multiple vendors in the same cart?

As every vendor can set their shipping costs, when a cart contains products of different vendors, multiple shipping methods and costs will apply, one for each vendor.

Extra costs

In addition to the standard shipping settings, every vendor can also set extra costs based on the number of products in the cart with the following two conditions:

1. If the cart contains more than X products, add an extra cost of X for each additional product or as a fixed cost for this vendor.
2. If the cart contains more than X products of the same type, add an extra cost of X for each additional product or as a fixed cost for this vendor.

Policies

Finally, in this last tab, the vendor can set a Shipping policy and a Shipping refund policy. If set, these will appear in the Shipping tab visible on the product page next to the Vendor’s tab and the standard WooCommerce tabs.

Note: the admin can change the label of the Shipping info tab from the → Product page settings.

This is one of the built-in free modules that you can enable to create custom announcements and show them in your vendors’ dashboard.

You can show the announcements to all vendors or to specific ones, based on specific conditions and, if you want to, for a limited time. Let’s see how to configure a new announcement then.

First of all, go to the Modules section and enable Vendors announcements. Once done, you will see a new Announcements tab appear below the Modules menu.

From the Announcements tab, you can see the list of all your announcements.

To create a new one, just click on Add announcement: you will be able to configure your announcement in a modal window. Lets’ see all the options.

Announcement object: enter a text to identify the announcement in the list. This is not visible to vendors.

Content: set up the announcement content; you can use the advanced editor.

Show to: select the vendors that will see this message:

• All vendors
• Vendors that match specific criteria
• Specific vendors

For all kinds of messages, you can then set the following two options.

Schedule announcement: choose whether to publish and remove the announcement manually or schedule it by setting a start and end date.

Vendors can dismiss the notice: enable this option to allow vendors to dismiss the announcement using a close icon.

The Vendors report abuse is one of the free modules that you can enable to give your users the possibility to report any abuse related to the products of your store, especially useful in a marketplace where there is not just one seller.

Make sure you enable it from the Modules tab and after that you will be able to see two new tabs appear: Reported abuse and Report abuse settings.

Reported abuse section

Here you find a list with all the messages sent by your users from the product pages. You can see the reported product, the vendor’s store (if any), the user, the date and finally two actions to see the message and to delete the reported message.

To see the message, click on the eye icon and the message will be displayed in a modal window. You can reply to the user by email by clicking on the Reply button.

Report abuse settings

In this tab you can adjust the settings for the report abuse.

Show “Report abuse” link: choose whether to:

• disable the option, no option will show
• on all products
• only on vendors’ products

“Report abuse” link label: enter the text for the “Report abuse” link.

“Report abuse” link color: customize the default color of the text and on hover.

This link will show on the product page and will look like this.

The user who wants to report an abuse on this product can simply click on that link and leave a message from a modal window:

All messages will appear in the Reported abuses tab and reply by email from there.

This free module allows your vendors to add extra staff members to their store, so they can manage orders and products. First of all, make sure you enable the module from the Modules menu.

Now, your vendors will be able to add members to their store from the new Staff tab available in their dashboard at Your Shop.

They can add first and last name, email and phone number. An email will be sent to the new user with a username and a link to complete the registration:

Once added, the vendor can see all the staff members in the Staff tab and edit permissions for each of them by clicking on the pencil icon:

• Manage orders
• Create and edit coupons
• Manage product reviews
• Create and edit products
• Manage store settings
• View store report

Please, note that all these settings can only be managed by the vendor, the admin cannot control the staff members but only see them from the admin dashboard.