NexVendor – Simple Multi-Vendor Marketplace

NexVendor – Simple Multi-Vendor Marketplace converts an existing WooCommerce store into a lightweight multi-vendor marketplace. Vendors can register from the frontend, list simple products, view and fulfil only their own orders, track earnings, and request manual payouts. Admins moderate vendors and products, configure commission rules, and process payouts from a dedicated WooCommerce admin screen.

This plugin is intentionally a simple MVP: it does not add custom database tables (it uses WordPress user meta, post meta, and a lightweight internal post type for payout requests), does not modify any WooCommerce core files, and avoids advanced features like vendor subscriptions, vendor shipping zones, vendor coupons, or automated split payments — these are left for future versions.

Core features

• Frontend vendor registration ([nexvendor_marketplace_vendor_registration]) with admin approval workflow
• Frontend vendor dashboard ([nexvendor_marketplace_vendor_dashboard]): overview, products, orders, earnings, store settings
• Branded vendor sign-in page ([nexvendor_marketplace_vendor_login]) that sends vendors straight to their dashboard
• Vendors can add/edit/delete their own simple WooCommerce products, with optional admin approval before products go live
• Orders automatically attributed to the correct vendor per line item, with vendor-only visibility into their own sales and limited shipping details
• Configurable global commission (percentage or fixed amount), calculated and frozen per order item at checkout time
• Vendor earnings tracking: gross sales, commission, pending vs. available balance, and paid totals
• Manual payout request system with admin-managed status (pending / processing / paid / rejected)
• Public vendor storefront pages at /vendor/store-slug/
• A dedicated top-level NexVendor admin area: dashboard, vendors, products, commission, payouts, settings

Security

• All state-changing requests are nonce-protected and capability-checked
• Vendors can only ever read, edit, or delete data they own — ownership is re-verified server-side on every request, never trusted from form fields
• Vendors are blocked from the wp-admin dashboard by default and redirected to their frontend dashboard
• All user input is sanitized on the way in and escaped on the way out
• No custom database tables, no direct unprepared SQL

Requirements

• WordPress 6.0+
• WooCommerce 7.0+ (must be installed and active)
• PHP 7.4+

Shortcodes

Place these on any page or post.

[nexvendor_marketplace_vendor_registration]

The vendor application form. New applicants are created with the Marketplace Vendor role and, when vendor approval is enabled, held as “Pending” until an admin approves them.

[nexvendor_marketplace_vendor_login]

A branded vendor sign-in page. Signed-in vendors are shown a link to their dashboard instead of the form; everyone else gets the login card, and successful sign-ins are sent to the vendor dashboard.

[nexvendor_marketplace_vendor_dashboard]

The vendor dashboard: overview, products, add product, orders, earnings and store settings. Visitors who are not signed in see the same sign-in card here.

[nexvendor_marketplace_vendor_store]

A vendor’s public storefront. Accepts an optional vendor_id attribute, for example [nexvendor_marketplace_vendor_store vendor_id="12"]. Vendor stores are also available automatically at /vendor/store-slug/.