Logged-in Admins will not see the form. You need to be a logged-out Admin, or a logged-in role that is not Admin.

To allow vendors register and sell products on your site:

1. Create a page in WordPress at Pages > Add New.

2. Enter the shortcode [wcpv_registration] on the page.

3. Publish.

The form looks like this:

Vendor Name must be unique and determines the vendor name for the store, e.g., If they enter “Nike,” this is the name used throughout the store.

Once the vendor has submitted the form, the store owner gets an email notification that a vendor has applied and a user account is created for this vendor. As a Store Owner, you can “approve” the Vendor by changing the User Role to Vendor Admin or Vendor Manager and adding them to a Vendor under the Vendor Admins section.

Store owners can manually add and create a vendor.

1. Go to: Products > Vendors.

2. Complete fields, if known.

3. Assign a Vendor Admin or Vendor Manager to the Vendor User, allowing an existing user to manage this vendor. Using the previous example, vendor “Nike,” go to Products > Vendors , click on a vendor to edit, find the Vendor Admins field (above) and search for the username/email to add as an admin.

4. Give the Vendor User access as a Vendor Admin or Vendor Manager. Go to Users (below), find the Vendor User, click to edit, change the role to Vendor Admin or Vendor Manager.

5. Scroll down to Vendor Management. Here you can allow the user to:

1. Publish Products: This setting determines if this vendor user is allowed to publish products live with or without approval.

2. Manage customers: This setting determines if this vendor user can manage customers which includes their own existing customers and create new customers.

Note: Vendor users with capacity to manage customers will not be able to edit or search for administrator users, for security reasons. If an administrator would like to make a purchase on the store from one of the vendors, it is recommended they use a different account.

After a Vendor User registers via the form or is added manually, his/her role will initially be Pending Vendor.

Once you switch the role to Vendor Admin or Vendor Manager, an email is sent that states their application has been approved and they can now start to set up and manage their store.