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YITH Account Funds

YITH Account Funds allows all users to have a virtual wallet on your site. They can make a deposit, so the deposited amount can be used as credit for purchases on the site.

The integration with YITH Account Funds allows you to issue vendors’ payouts into their digital wallet.

Additionally, if you also install YITH PayPal Payouts, your vendors can request a payment of their store credit into their PayPal account.

On this page, we’ll go through the following topics.

  1. Activate Account Funds gateway – and get vendors commission credited to a virtual wallet
  2. Extra options for vendors using YITH Account Funds – included redeeming funds with PayPal

1. Activate Account Funds gateway

To enable YITH Account Funds as a gateway and credit vendors’ commissions to their virtual wallet on your site, you just have to make sure that both plugins are installed and enabled from the Plugins page.

Then, enable the Account Funds payment method in YITH > Multi Vendor > Commissions > Gateways.

Activate Account funds

Now, if you want to pay commissions to vendors automatically during the checkout through YITH Account Funds, go back to the Commissions Settings section, and select it as default payment.

Pay commissions in checkout

This is the gateway that will be used by default for automatic payments of vendors commissions. Yet, you can also pay the commissions manually through Account Funds as explained here.

The vendor will be able to see a report of all payments in My Account > Income/Expenditure History.

For more details about the configuration of YITH Account Funds, please, refer to the full documentation here.

2. Extra options for vendors

Whenever you activate Multi Vendor and Account funds, you will be able to see a dedicated tab in the plugin settings YITH > Account Funds > Vendors & Funds. This tab includes two sections, the General settings and the Redeem funds one.

2.1 General settings

In the General settings, you can enable or disable the following options:

  • The vendor can charge funds: this option allows your vendors to deposit funds in their online wallet like any other customer.
  • The vendor can use funds: this option allows your vendors to use their funds to purchase products of your shop.
Funds settings

2.2 Redeem funds with PayPal Payouts

The second section, instead, allows you to configure how vendors can Redeem their collected funds.

Please, note that this specific option requires an additional plugin to be installed, so you’ll need all the three plugins below:

Why should I use this combination of plugins instead of using only YITH PayPal Payouts?

  • If you want to reduce the number of transactions via PayPal and any possible issues with them or with expensive fees.
  • If you want to incentivate your vendors to purchase from your store using their credit, so you both can save on transaction fees.

In this tab, you can set up the redeeming option either as a manual or an automatic process.

Redeem funds
  • Vendor can redeem: make sure you enable this option to let vendors redeem their available funds.
  • Minimum funds to redeem: set the minimum balance necessary for a vendor to redeem funds.
  • Maximum funds to redeem: set the maximum funds that can be redeemed in a transaction, leave empty to disable this restriction.
  • Gateway Method: set the gateway to use for transferring funds from the site to the vendor. At the moment only PayPal Payouts is available and it requires YITH PayPal Payouts For WooCommerce Premium 1.0.12 to use this feature. Please, note that you will pay a fee to transfer money from the site to PayPal.

Now you can choose whether to redeem them automatically or manually.

2.2.1 Automatic payment
  • Automatic Redeem Type: this option allows you to let vendors be paid automatically instead of submitting a payment request every time.
    • None: select this if you want to keep the automatic feature disabled. Make sure you select the manual redeem below to let your vendors submit a request at any time from My Account page (see below).
    • Automatically when the minimum threshold is reached: this way you can issue automatic payments as soon as the minimum amount set above is reached.
    • Automatically, on a specific day and when the minimum threshold is reached: this way you can issue automatic payments on the 1st of the month (or any other day you set) but only for vendors’ accounts that have reached the minimum amount set above. Vendors can however submit a payment request manually if the ‘Manual redeem’ option below is enabled.
      • Redeem Day: choose the day on which issuing the automatic payment, i.e. enter 1 to issue payments automatically on the first of every month.

All transactions will be visible to the vendor in My Account > Income/Expenditure History.

transaction-history-my-account
2.2.2 Manual redemption

Alternatively or in addition to the automatic payment, you can also let vendors redeem their available funds manually on request. Below in YITH > Account Funds > Vendors & Funds, these are the options that you have to configure:

manual-redemption
  • Manual Redeem: enable this option if you want to allow also manual redemption and submit a request from My Account. By enabling this option, you will also be able to customize the button text and colour.
    • Redeem Button: customize the label of the button shown in My Account here.
    • Redeem Button Text Color
    • Redeem Button Color

If you enable this option, your vendors will be able to see a dedicated section in My Account > Redeem funds, from where they can submit a request and being paid immediately.

They can enter a custom amount (between the minimum and maximum allowed if you’ve set up these values in the settings) and as soon as they send the request the payment will be processed through the gateway that you’ve selected (only YITH PayPal Payouts available at the moment).

The payment will be will be recorded in the Income/Expenditure History.

transaction-history-my-account (1)

The transaction status will be available in My Account > Payouts and the admin can check the transaction in PayPal Payouts > Payouts List > Details.

Payout details

For more details about the configuration of YITH PayPal Payouts, please, refer to the full documentation here.

YITH AJAX Search

By using YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search, you can add a search bar to your website, which will allow users to search via AJAX for specific content in your website, searching through posts, pages, and products. 

The integration between these two plugins allows users to enter the vendor’s name and instantly get a list of their products. To do that, all you need to do is install the plugin and activate it.

Then, go to YITH > Ajax Search > Search fields. Here, you can choose to extend the search to all your vendors or enable/disable specific vendors.

Integration with YITH Ajax Search

Please note: after enabling brands, it is necessary to rebuild the index.

Now, if you start typing the name of a vendor, the plugin will automatically show this vendor’s products.

Search by vendor

Moreover, when creating boost rules, you will find a new entry among the conditions that will allow you to increase the visibility of products of specific vendors.

Integration with YITH Ajax Search

For more details about YITH AJAX Search, please, check the official documentation.

YITH Auctions

With YITH WooCommerce Auctions you will be able to create an auction store and let also your vendors create and manage their own auctions. They will be able to create auction products manage:

  • price
  • backup price
  • required amount for a rise
  • auction duration
  • auction rescheduling option

If combined also with YITH Frontend Manager plugin, your vendors will be able to create and edit an auction product from the frontend dashboard.

For more details about how to use YITH Auctions, please, refer to the official documentation.

YITH Badge management

YITH Badge Management allows you to create custom badges for your products where you can show discounts, labels etc.

If used with YITH Multi Vendor also your vendors will be able to create their own badges and apply them to their own products.

After installing and activating YITH Badge Management, just make sure you enable this integration from the Modules tab in YITH > Multi Vendor.

Now, your vendors will be able to see a Badges menu in their dashboard and manage the badges for their own products from this page.

By enabling the field “Enable badge management for vendors” each shop vendor can create badges to apply to his/her products.

For more details about YITH Badge Management and how to set up a badge, please, refer to the plugin documentation.

YITH Booking

YITH Booking and Appointment for WooCommerce allows an advanced management of a booking system for the products of your shop. Once you have configured the prices, services, and availability, the plugin will automatically manage the product depending on the user choice.

By using the plugin in combination with YITH Booking for WooCommerce, vendors can create and sell bookable products in their shop and manage their own bookings.

Specifically, vendors can:

  • create and manage their own bookable products
  • create Booking Services that can be associated to his/her bookable products only
  • see a calendar with their own bookings only
  • see a list with their own bookings only
  • edit their own bookings (for example, edit the dates, change the status etc.)
  • add notes inside any of their own bookings (the notes can either be private or visible to the customer as well)
  • use the People types created by the admin (globally)

To enable all these featuresafter activating both plugins, go to YITH > Multi Vendor > Modules and enable the integration with YITH Booking.

Now, each vendor can create and sell bookable products.

Each vendor can have access only to the bookings registered for his/her products.

Vendors can create and manage Booking Services and People as separate entities. Please, see below for more details.

Bookings page

Every vendor will be able to check all his/her bookings from Booking > All bookings, this is how it will appear:

Vendor's bookings

Edit booking details:

Booking details

Notes on the booking:

Vendor booking note

Vendor Calendar

Every vendor will be able to see all his/her bookings in a calendar as well, available in Booking > Calendar. This is how it looks like:

Vendor calendar

Services

The vendors can’t view nor use the services created by the super admin.

The vendors can apply the services they have created to their own products only.  

Services

Different vendors can create a service with the same name.

The super admin has access to the complete list of all services created in the shop.  For each service, the name of the vendor who has created it will be highlighted.

People

The vendors can’t create new people types for their bookable products. They can use only those made available by the super admin in the product settings.

For more details about YITH Booking setup, please refer to the plugin documentation.

YITH Bulk product editing

YITH Bulk Product Editing allows you to edit multiple products of your store in one go. The integration with Multi Vendor allows also your vendor to bulk edit their own products.

To enable the integration between the two plugins, first of all, make sure you install and activate the Bulk Product Editing plugin and then enable the integration from the Modules tab in YITH > Multi Vendor.

Now, your vendors will be able to see a Bulk product editing menu in their dashboard from where they can apply changes to their products.

Bulk product editing in vendor's dashboard

Additionally, the admin will be able to filter products by vendor and bulk edit only his/her products if necessary. To do this, you first need to add the custom taxonomy Vendor from the Enable fields popup.

Vendor taxonomy

After clicking on the Add button first then on Save, create a table view as described here, and select Vendor to set the condition. Choose Is or Is not and search for the vendor/s whose products you need to bulk edit.

Integration with YITH Bulk Product Editing

Now save the view and start bulk editing the products.

Bulk edit vendors' products

For more details about how to configure and bulk edit products, please, refer to the YITH Bulk Product Editing documentation.

YITH Catalog Mode

YITH Catalog Mode allows turning your e-commerce store into a product catalog without sales enabled. The integration with YITH Multi Vendor allows also your store vendors to configure the catalog functionality for their own products.

First of all, install and activate both plugins, then, enable the integration from YITH > Multi Vendor > Modules.

Multi vendor modules

Now, your vendors will be able to see a dedicated menu item with all the catalog mode settings. These will apply to their store and products only.

They will be able to set up not only the general settings, but also the exclusion list, the inquiry form and the buttons.

Catalog mode module in vendors' dashboard

The options are the same as for the admin, but with the only difference that they apply only to the store of the vendor who is editing them.

Admin extra options

The integration will also enable a few extra options for the admin, who will be able to control and override the Catalog mode settings for all vendors or just selected ones if needed.

In YITH > Catalog Mode > Settings, the admin will be able to see the Administrator overrides vendors’ settings option:

Admin overrides vendors' settings

So, if enabled the admin will be able to choose whether to apply the admin settings to all vendors or just vendors in the exclusion list.

If on the other hand, you want the admin settings to override the ones of all vendors except for a few ones, you set it up to Not apply to Vendors in exclusion list, as you can see below.

Admin settings apply to vendors

If you select to apply or not apply the settings only to vendors in the exclusion list, you will have to add the vendors through the extra tab that will appear in Exclusion list > List of vendors.

Vendor exclusion list

To add a new vendor, just click on the “Add vendor” button and search by their store name:

Add vendor in exclusion list

For further details about YITH WooCommerce Catalog Mode settings, please refer to the official documentation.

YITH Checkout Manager

With YITH WooCommerce Checkout Manager you an customize your checkout page by adding, editing and removing fields.

Thanks to this integration, the custom fields created by the admin with YITH Checkout Manager will show in vendors’ suborders too.

Make sure you install and activate both plugins and you’re ready to go, no other action is required from your side.

For further information about YITH Checkout Manager settings, please refer to the official documentation.

YITH Composite Products

YITH WooCommerce Composite Products allows you to let your customers compose their final product and choose as components other products of your shop. The integration with YITH Multi Vendor allows also vendors to create their own composite products.

Just make sure you install and activate both plugins and the “Composite product” type will also be available to your vendors.

composite mv settings

For more information on how to add a composite product, check the full documentation here.

YITH Cost of Goods

YITH Cost of Goods for WooCommerce allows you to check easily and quickly the real profit margin on the sale of your products.

The integration with YITH Multi Vendor allows you to control how to calculate the vendors’ commissions when the product has a cost set and choose whether to include the cost of the product in the commission or not.

To set up this to your own convenience, just make sure both premium plugins are installed and activated, then go to YITH > Multi Vendor > Commissions settings and you will be able to activate the following options:

Cost of goods

YITH Cost of Goods handling: enable this to include the cost of goods in the commission calculations, disable it if you want to calculate the commissions only out of the product profit.

Show YITH Cost of Goods Information: enable this option to show whether the commission includes the product cost or not also in the commission details.

For a further configuration of YITH Cost of Goods plugin, please, refer to the official documentation here.