Considering your plugin but have some questions first

Thanks a lot for reaching out Greg. Happy to learn that you are considering our plugin for your website. Please find answers for your queries below:

1. A create products form or shortcode.

>> The main WCMp plugin doesn’t offer this feature as WooCommerce doesn’t offers an option to create product via a form shortcode though we are launching an add-on “Front-end Product Manager” by the end of this week or early next week. Though, the 1st version wouldn’t include support for the virtual product type. Would that in a week’s time after the launch.

2. A display sellers products shortcode.

>> [wcmp_products vendor=”VENDOR LOGIN NAME”], this shortcode would allow you to display a particular seller’s product.

3. A view purchase history and checkout shortcode.

>> I believe this is more like a vendor front-end report. If so, the 1st slot of add-ons would include this one too.

Hope the above info helps. If you need any further clarification do not hesitate to ask.

Regards,
Sandeep

Hi thanks for the prompt reply very impressive.

1) I am assuming this is a premium add-on coming out? And once its out and your virtual products support is released would I need anything else in addition to this plugin and that addon to create a fully front end multi vendor market place? again as said before no-one is getting backend access but me.

2) With the profiles I use the users profiles are all from a /user/ page that embeds a shortcode, so there is no physical user/userprofile/ page, so I would not be able to use that shortcode. What I would need is probably the php do_shortcode([ xxxxx ]) but I would need to pass a variable for the profile ID instead of an actual name, the products are to dynamically show under the correct users profile so I would use $user_id = um_profile_id(); to get the correct ID for displayed products.

3) This is for the user and the seller, the user should be able to see their previous purchases and obviously checkout and purchase a service. The seller should be able to look at all sales made

Glad to be of help Greg. You are correct about the front-end product management add-on. Once this is launched along with the updated version, supporting virtual products, you won’t need any other tool to manage product creation. Everything would be possible from front-end itself.

Coming to point 2, WCMp plugin works with the very same concept like your user profiles. When a seller account is created, no new page is added in the site for that seller. Let me check with team, if they can help with a shortcode as per your requirements.

Sorry, but I over analysed the requirement for the 3rd point. You don’t need any additional plugin for this. WooCommerce, by default allows customers to see their previous orders while WCMp base plugin allows sellers to oversee the entire sales process. For reference, please visit the demo store- https://demo.dualcube.com/wordpress/plugins/dc_woocommerce_multi_vendor/ and login using the vendor credentials- demo_vendor/demo_vendor. Then visit the page- https://demo.dualcube.com/wordpress/plugins/dc_woocommerce_multi_vendor/vendor-dashboard/

If you are happy with the core plugin features, share your experience with others via a 5/5 rating ??

Regards,
Sandeep

Hey Greg,

Follow up on the requirement number 2- We would add this in the next version of WCMp. Would keep you posted.

Regards,
Sandeep

Thank you for the replies,

Please do keep me posted I will be testing your plugin and some other ones soon to find the best integration for our current set up. The winner of this test will probably have their premium version bought ??

@Greg- We have already added this feature in the latest update for the plugin(2.2.3. FYI, here is the shortcode:

[wcmp_products id=”VENDOR ID”] : New attribute for the shortcode that shows products of the vendor.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Sandeep