Product Updates: Multivendor Marketplace for Shopify

We keep on updating the Multivendor Marketplace app for Shopify to make it even more desirable. Bookmark this blog to check the product updates for the app!

You can now add video while editing products. For this, you need to visit Multi-vendor admin panel>>Configuration>>Product Configuration and enable the tab are given below:

Upload videos:

The admin can allow sellers to add the country of their product origin to the description page. Visit Multivendor Admin Panel > Configuration > Product Configuration:

After enabling this, visit Multivendor Admin Panel > Configuration > Instruction for Marketplace:

Copy the following code into the product.liquid (or product-template, if exist) template inside form tag to display the “Product Origin Country”.

So, when an admin and seller are adding/ editing any product then they have the option to choose the country of origin and fill the HSN code accordingly.

This is how it will look on the storefront:

Note: For existing products, you need to once save them to display this information on the frontend. Also, note that once the product is added, this can’t be updated.

Now, the admin can allow the seller to add the cost price which is the original product price.

The seller can enter the cost price while adding products from his respective seller panel.

The cost price will not be shown on the storefront and generally, it is used to calculate the profit margin.

Go to Admin panel >> Configurations >> product configuration >> Enable ” ALLOW SELLER TO ADD COST PRICE” and click SAVE CHANGES button below.

Now, when the seller will add products from his panel then he will have an option to add the cost price which should be less than the sales price.

You can now hide the “Product Tag” field from the “Add/Edit Product” form.

For this, You need to visit the multi-vendor admin panel>>Configurations>>Product Configuration>>Enable the Tab.

Once you enable this tab, you/sellers won’t get the product tag field while adding a product.

Note:- In case you add/edit products by CSV, make sure that the “Restrict Product Tags” is disable.

Add help text to product form labels for both admin & seller end.

Visit Multivendor Admin Panel > Configuration > Product Configuration. Enable this tab:

Now, to add the help text, visit Multivendor Admin Panel > Products > Product Form Customization. Add the help text and save:

Note these points:

• Product form customization is valid only for normal and digital product and it does not include Global Products.
• It will not affect product CSV format.

This is how they will look on the add product page (both admin & seller end):

Now, once a seller edits a product, the admin can approve/disapprove the updates before they become live on the storefront.

Configure this by visiting Multivendor Admin Panel > Configuration > Product Configuration:

Now, whenever a seller updates a product, the admin will receive an email to approve it. If the admin disapproves, he need to mention the reason for disapproval.

Note that on disapproving, only the product updates will disapprove and not the whole product. Also, the admin needs to manually check what all updates the seller has done.

This will be the status of the product on both admin and seller end:

If the admin disapproves, he need to mention a reason for the same:

Once approved, the product updates will become live on the storefront.

NOTE: In case the admin saves the product after going on the edit product page, the product will get approved.

Now, the admin/sellers can edit products in bulk. All you have to do is visit Multivendor Admin Panel > Products > Product Listing > More Actions > Add product via CSV

In method 1, you just need to upload the updated/edited CSV file.

Make sure in the CSV file that you are uploading, the Product IDs are the same as that of the existing products you are trying to update.

If the product IDs don’t match, the existing products will not be updated and new products will be created.

The admin can allow his/her sellers to create products with product price being zero.

In that case, the product will become a free product. You can configure it by visiting: Multivendor admin panel > Configuration > Products Configuration:

Note: No commission will be calculated on free product and if you have set fixed commission, this feature won’t work with Display Sales Price.

Also, this feature will only work if you have set fixed commission and not % or anything else.

When an item is purchased from your Shopify store, the inventory will only be synced with the app if the item is assigned to any seller registered on your marketplace.

Now, to fetch orders into the app, you need to click the Sync Orders button and sync your Shopify orders with the app.

You can now hide/show the product images in the product listing section by enabling/disabling the below configuration from the product configuration section.

Multivendor Marketplace App Admin panel>>Configuration>>Product Configuration>> Enable/disable SHOW PRODUCT IMAGE FIELD UNDER “PRODUCT LISTING” SECTION>>Save.

Once you enable this tab, Product Images will be visible in the product listing section on both the admin and seller panels.

If you disable the SHOW PRODUCT IMAGE FIELD UNDER “PRODUCT LISTING” SECTION configuration, the product images will not be visible in the product listing section on both the admin and seller panels.

This is how the Admin and Seller Panel will look after the configuration is disable.

Now, the sellers have the Export Details option in the product listing section in their multivendor seller panel.

Multivendor Marketplace App Seller Panel>>Products>>Product listing:

Product price round-off will help the admin to replace a product price number with an approximate value that has decimal value representation. For example, replacing $23.883 with $23.88.

By enabling the product price round-off, a dropdown will appear to select the decimal for the product price round off and select the “decimal number to be round off” from the dropdown.

Click the SAVE button.

For example, if you have selected “2” from the decimal dropdown then decimal numbers like 22.773 round off to 22.77, 23.889 round off to 23.89, and if you have selected “1” from the decimal dropdown

then decimal numbers like 22.673 round off to 22.7, 23.889 round off to 23.9

NOTE:
Product price round-off will be applied on product price, its compare at price, variant price, and its compare at price.

When a customer purchases a product variant, the sold variant is listed in the Variant Inventory section of both the Admin and Seller panels.

They can view all variant orders by navigating to Products > Variant Inventory in their panel. Additionally, they can check the remaining variant inventory by location.

Admin Panel:

Admins can easily manage inventory by filtering the product variant inventory list using “Out of Stock”, “Inventory Tracked” and “Inventory Not Tracked” options. 

Seller Panel:

Introducing the Draft Feature for Sellers!

Sellers now have the flexibility to save their products as drafts before making them live.

To enable this feature, the Admin needs to activate the ” Save Product as a Draft” option.

This setting can be easily configured in the Product Configuration section, giving sellers better control over their product listings.

Once the Admin enables this option, sellers will see the “Save as Draft” feature while adding products. This allows them to save incomplete listings and publish them later when ready.

When you click on Edit Product, you can view the current status of the product. Sellers can then update the status from “Draft” to “Ready for Approval”.

Once updated, the “Approval Pending” status will be visible in the Product Details section.

We’ve made the workflow even smoother! If the “Auto Approve Product” setting is enabled by the Admin,

sellers can now directly approve their own draft products without waiting for manual approval.

Note: Setting the Future Selling date automatically disables the Save as Draft button, as scheduled products cannot be saved as drafts.

This ensures the product is published automatically on the selected future date and time.

MVM Admin & Seller Draft product Reflected in Shopify’s draft product List

On admin panel ->Configuration-> Product Configuration then turn on ‘CREATE PRODUCT AS DRAFT ON SHOPIFY‘ configuration.

By allowing this configuration, When a product is created as a draft by the admin or seller in MVM, it will automatically appear in your Shopify product list for further editing or publishing.

Product Preview button for Draft Items (Admin & Seller)

Both MVM admin and seller panels now include a Preview button for draft products, enabling users to see the product detail page layout prior to making it live on thier Stores.

Draft Status for CSV-Added Products

Now, Products uploaded via CSV by both sellers and admins have option to select product status either as Draft status or Active Status.

We’ve added a new option to the Product form: Shopify Taxonomy Category, making product categorization easier and more accurate.

To display this field in the product form, the Admin can enable the Product taxonomy category config.

To enable, go to Multivendor Admin Panel > Configuration > Product Configuration, and enable the Product Taxonomy Category config.

Then, go to the Product Form Customization section and make sure the Product Taxonomy Category field is marked as visible.

Once these steps are completed, the field will appear in the product form.

Additionally, this option has been added to Dual Sync.

If the admin wants to sync product categories from Shopify to Multivendor, they can go to the Dual Sync section and select Product Taxonomy Category for syncing.

We’ve enhanced the product listing page by adding more specific filter options for admins and sellers. These new filters make it easier to manage and organize products efficiently.

Admins and sellers can now filter products by status, such as Global Product, Approved, Approval Pending, and more, using the available filters.

Additionally, they can perform a specific search using the ‘Search by’ option simultaneously.

Both the filter and search functionalities also work independently.

However, admins and sellers can conveniently search using the “Search by” option.