Marketplace Integrations
BuddyVendor supports four WooCommerce marketplace plugins. Only the integrations for marketplaces you have active are loaded. This page summarizes what each integration provides and where behaviour differs.
Common capabilities
Section titled “Common capabilities”For every supported marketplace, BuddyVendor provides:
- A Products tab on the vendor’s profile showing that vendor’s products.
- A View Store button above the product grid.
- Product creation activity when a vendor publishes a product.
- Product review activity when a product is reviewed or an approved review goes live.
- Registration of the
buddyvendor_productandbuddyvendor_reviewactivity actions.
Favorites, order activity, and per-member preferences are provided by the core plugin and are not marketplace-specific.
Per-marketplace differences
Section titled “Per-marketplace differences”| Capability | Dokan | WCFM | WC Vendors | WooCommerce Product Vendors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vendor Products tab | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Vendor check | dokan_is_seller_enabled() |
wcfm_is_vendor() |
WCV_Vendors::is_vendor() |
WC_Product_Vendors_Utils::is_vendor() |
| View Store link | Dokan shop URL | wcfmmp_get_store_url() |
WCV_Vendors::get_vendor_shop_page() |
Not a public store page (see Troubleshooting) |
| Product / review activity | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Author reassignment sync | Uses Dokan author override | Uses WCFM store field | Yes | Yes |
| Message Vendor button | Yes (store sidebar) | No | No | No |
Reign multi-vendor addons
Section titled “Reign multi-vendor addons”If you run Reign’s Dokan, WCFM, or WC Vendors addons, they defer their social layer to BuddyVendor when it is active. On activation, BuddyVendor removes the overlapping product/review/favorite options from the Reign addon options so the two do not both generate the same activity. See Requirements.
Multiple marketplaces at once
Section titled “Multiple marketplaces at once”If more than one supported marketplace is active, BuddyVendor loads each detected integration. The Vendor Products tab settings (label, slug, position) are shared across marketplaces, so a member who is a vendor in more than one marketplace uses one Products tab configuration.