VendBoard - Vendor Dashboard for WooCommerce

This plugin allows vendors to safely add and edit their own WooCommerce products without access to wp-admin. New products and content changes require admin approval before publishing.

No. Vendors work only in a frontend dashboard. wp-admin access is restricted to administrators.

No. Each vendor can access and manage only their own products.

Yes. Vendors can add new products and edit existing ones from the frontend dashboard.

Vendors can manage product name, descriptions, images (featured and gallery), price, SKU, barcode, stock level, and product video (YouTube link).

The product edit screen includes a Stock Quantity field and a Stock Status selector. When a vendor enters a quantity, WooCommerce stock management is enabled for that product and the stock status is set automatically from the quantity (respecting your backorder settings). Leaving the quantity empty turns stock management off and uses the selected status instead.

Yes. The edit screen has a Product Status control for publishing or unpublishing, and a Catalog Visibility control for choosing whether a product appears in the shop, in search results, both, or neither. Like stock, these apply immediately. There is one deliberate limit: a product the administrator has never approved cannot be published by a vendor. New products still go live only through the approval workflow, so this cannot be used to bypass review. If a vendor unpublishes a product, approving their other pending edits will not silently put it back online.

Yes. The dashboard has a search box that matches product name, description, SKU and barcode, and the product list is paginated. Products waiting for approval are always listed in full, above the searchable list, so they never get lost behind a filter.

Yes. On any product that uses variations, vendors can set the stock, price and SKU for each variation from their dashboard, and can add new variations by choosing from the options you have already set up on that product. All variation changes apply immediately, without admin approval: stock, price, SKU, availability, and adding or removing variations. To add variations, vendors tick the combinations they sell in one list, fill in price, stock and SKU, and save them all at once. On a new product everything is reviewed together when you approve the product.

Yes. Under Vendor Dashboard > Branding there is a list of your product attributes, and vendors can only use the ones you tick. Attributes already attached to a product are left alone, so hiding one never changes existing products. The values inside each attribute come from Products > Attributes, so editing or removing a value there changes what vendors can choose.

No, and this is deliberate. Attributes such as Size and Colour are site-wide taxonomies shared by every product and every vendor, so only administrators create them and their values. Vendors choose from the values you have attached to their product, which means one vendor can never introduce a term that shows up in another vendor's products or your shop filters. When creating a product, a vendor chooses whether it is a single product or one with options, and ticks which of your attribute values it comes in. They can change the type until you first approve the product; after that it is fixed, because changing it on a live product affects its pricing. Vendors can still tick or untick option values later, to add a new size for example.

No, and this is deliberate. Stock is operational data that your own sales keep changing, so if a vendor's figure sat in the approval queue while orders came in, approving it later would overwrite those sales and leave the store showing more units than actually exist. Applying stock straight away keeps the number honest. Vendors still only ever reach their own brand's products.

New products, and changes to titles, descriptions and images, are saved as Pending Review until an administrator approves them. Price, SKU, barcode, stock, publishing, visibility and variation changes apply immediately.

Admins review vendor submissions and either approve or reject changes. Rejection comments are planned for the Pro version.

Products are grouped automatically:

• In-stock products missing content
• Out-of-stock products missing content
• In-stock products with complete content
• Out-of-stock products with complete content Missing descriptions or images are clearly marked for easy editing.

The free version includes:

• Vendor role and frontend dashboard
• Vendor-only product access
• Product creation and editing
• Admin approval workflow
• Smart product sorting
• Eleven predefined color themes
• English and Hebrew language support
• RTL and LTR compatibility

Yes. Planned Pro features include rejection comments, full color customization, logo upload, and white-label mode. For custom features, contact us at info@web-skipper.co.il.