How to allow Vendor to register & setup store, but Admin must approve 'go live'?

[CAM]

I would like the following setup for Vendor registration(I have Ultimate + Groups add-on);

* Vendor can register
* * is it possible to move the verification code? See image – bad ux.
* Vendor sees setup wizard.
* Vendor can add products etc.
* Admin must approve seller to ‘go live’ (ie. make store/products available for sale).

What do I need to do to achieve this? I can only see global ‘Product Approval’ (Settings > Marketplace Settings) or option to ‘Required Approval’ which would prevent Vendor from getting started setting up their store (Settings > Vendor Registration).

Thanks

[Sushobhan]

Hi,
Thanks for getting in touch with us!
It looks like you have already figured this out. Well, almost.

Admin must approve seller to ‘go live’

For this to work, enable ‘Required Approval’ from WCFM admin dashboard >> Settings >> Vendor Registration.
Now to set all the vendors’ capability, go to the Capability menu. From here you can control various vendor capabilities. Like if you disable ‘Publish Products’ then your vendors can only submit the products and it will not goes live until you the admin approves them. To know more about Capability settings visit here- https://docs.wclovers.com/capability/
Thank You!

[CAM]

For this to work, enable ‘Required Approval’ from WCFM admin dashboard >> Settings >> Vendor Registration.

But if I set this, then the Vendor does not get to continue with store setup; They must complete a form, and then wait until Admin approves them before they can continue to setup store etc.

For anybody reading, currently the best method I have found so far is;

* Disable ‘Required Approval’.
* Use a very short registration from (because is a bit confusing with verification code in middle of form).
* * Now user can register quickly & be immediately directed to Vendor setup Wizard.
* Configure Groups Vendor capabilities to prevent automatic publishing for new Vendors (ie. ‘Pending Vendors’).
* Create another similar Group for ‘Approved’ vendors with publishing ability.

I think this flow works for me (however I still think in future release WCFM should consider moving that Verification code…OR paginating the form into 2 steps: (1) Email + Verification…then next step (2) input other form data.

Thanks

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