MarketKing's vendor dashboard allows each vendor (seller) to manage their own products. Vendors can create products, update them, set images, categories, tags, and almost everything else that an admin can do, without ever needing access to the site backend.
MarketKing's vendor product management has 2 big advantages compared to other multivendor plugins such as Dokan or WCFM:
- First, MarketKing's dashboard is full-screen and separate from the theme, so you can count on it always working and looking the same way, regardless of theme styling or other active plugins on the site.
- Product management uses a deep integration with native WooCommerce functions. This means that vendors have the same native WooCommerce interface the admin has (with specific, thought-out limitations in place). This has significant advantages over standard marketplace plugin dashboard designs, including improved performance, extensibility, seamless compatibility with WooCommerce updates, a standardized UI, and more.
Products Page and Selection
In the Products panel, vendors can view and search a list of all their products.
Vendors can also use the top-left buttons to download a CSV of all products, a PDF file, or print information. There is also an "Edit Columns" button that allows vendors to hide columns or reveal additional information. For example, categories are not shown by default but can be displayed via Edit Columns.
There's a search panel in the top-right corner that searches all fields, as well as a column-based search at the bottom of each column that allows you to specifically search tags, categories, SKU, etc.
Publish Products Capability
There's a global setting in MarketKing -> Settings -> Vendor Capabilities that controls whether vendors can directly publish products or not:
This global setting can also be overridden on each vendor's profile page. For example, the shop admin can allow a vendor to publish products directly after they have worked together for a while and the vendor has proven trustworthy.
If this setting is disabled, vendors can only save products in Draft or Pending status, to be reviewed by the admin / shop manager.
Draft status should be used if the vendor is still working on the product, and "Ready for Review" should be used to let the admin know the product is ready to be reviewed and published. When products are saved as "Ready for Review", a notification will appear in the admin backend dashboard.
B2B and Wholesale
If you need B2B or wholesale capabilities, you can use MarketKing together with our popular B2BKing plugin. B2BKing is a powerful wholesale solution that allows you to set up wholesale prices, control product visibility, add a bulk order form, hide the shop from guests, and much more.
B2BKing is natively integrated with MarketKing (Pro only), so your vendors can directly enter B2B prices or control which groups of users can see which products. For example, they could sell a single product to retail customers only and a box of 12 to B2B users only.
MarketKing Core / Pro Features
MarketKing Core (free plugin on WordPress.org) allows vendors to sell Simple products only.
MarketKing Pro (available on CodeCanyon) also allows vendors to sell Grouped, External, and Variable products. Furthermore, compared to the Core version, MarketKing Pro supports Virtual and Downloadable products, as well as Linked Products (Upsells and Cross-sells).
Additional Screenshots
Here are additional screenshots illustrating vendor product management capabilities and panels. Everything can be managed, from SKU, stock quantity, weight, and dimensions to upsells, attributes, and more.
