How To: Allow Customers to Apply for a Vendor Account

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Tutorial Difficulty: 1 / 3

Important

Vendors are available only in Multi-Vendor.

Allowing Customers to Apply for a Vendor Account

To allow customers apply for a vendor account, complete the following steps:

  1. In the Administration panel, go to Settings → Vendors.

  2. Tick the Allow users to apply for vendor account checkbox.

  3. Tick the Automatically create the administrator account for the new approved vendor. (If the “Allow users to apply for vendor account” setting is enabled) checkbox.

  4. If you want users to accept your terms and conditions before they can apply for a vendor account, tick the Applying vendors must agree to the terms & conditions checkbox.

    The text of the terms and conditions is stored the language variable called vendor_terms_n_conditions_content. Learn how to work with language variables.

Note

The terms and conditions for applying vendors first appeared in Multi-Vendor 4.3.7.

If you allow users to apply for vendor accounts, you can also make them accept terms and conditions
  1. Click the Save button.
  2. If you use Multi-Vendor 4.3.6 or higher, go to Add-ons → Manage add-ons, click Vendor commissions and enable the Show “Apply for a vendor” link in “My account menu” setting.

The Application Process

After that a customer will see the Apply for a vendor account link in the My Account dropdown menu.

A registered customer can apply for a vendor account using the My Account drop-down menu.

This link leads to the form that the customer must fill in to apply.

Important

You can create the application link elsewhere manually. For example, you can create a menu with an item that leads to dispatch=companies.apply_for_vendor. This is useful when you use Multi-Vendor 4.3.6 or higher and disable or uninstall the Vendor commissions add-on.

Tick the two highlighted checkboxes under Settings → Vendors to allow customers to apply for a vendor account.

After the customer fills out the form and clicks Submit, the administrator of the store can activate the newly created vendor account.

Activating a Vendor Account

To activate a vendor account, the administrator must complete the following steps:

  1. Go to Vendors → Vendors.
  2. Find the vendor account you want to activate.

Hint

The vendor accounts that haven’t been activated or disabled yet have the New status.

  1. Change the status of the desired account to Active.

Hint

Learn more about vendor statuses in the corresponding article of the documentation.

Find the vendor account you want to activate and change its status from New to Active.