YITH Multi Vendor/ Marketplace provides administrators an option to decide if they want to allow vendors to add staff members to their stores. Let’s review how to enable and configure this option:
- To enable the ‘Vendor staff’ 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 admis extend their marketplace with advanced features. To enable the ‘Vendor staff’ module, the toggle button simply needs to be switched to ‘Yes’:
- Now, let’s review how vendors can manage this feature from their Dashboard. After the admin enables the staff module, vendors will find a new ‘Staff’ tab inside their ‘Your Shop’ section. To add new staff members vendors will need to click the ‘Add new staff’ button and complete all required fields:
- After adding the new staff members, the vendor can manage certain permissions regarding the staff capabilities:
- Each staff member can have different permissions, let’s see an example. In the screenshot below, there are two members a vendor has added to his staff:
- Now, looking at the permissions for Jane Doe, she has been granted full permissions:
- On the other hand, John Smith cannot create products or view reports:
- Additionally, the administrator of the shop, can see the list of staff members of each vendor directly from the vendor’s details. From Vendor > Vendor List, by opening the details of any vendor, inside the modal window a ‘Staff’ tab will be visible, and inside the details of each member:
