Thanks Jim! Glad you are having some fun with this one. My brain nearly explodes trying to figure out what you’re trying to accomplish, though! The screen captures you typed about weren’t uploaded, though, so I’ve got no reference of the scenario you’re referencing. Could you please send them again?

I’m curious, based on my first attempt to understand this, if Roles are not what you need, but rather capabilities. A “Role” of Vendor is required for the Pro Dashboard access and such. A capability is essentially a sub-role. Think of it this way:

ROLE: Vendor — They have the capabilities to do things on your site, such as list products, and the sub permissions such as edit products, list new products, add simple products, add virtual products, but not add grouped products, yes to add external/affiliate product, but not add………. The capabilities are what define what each user in the role can actually do, whereas the ROLE of Vendor defines who they actually are.

I’ve *never* used WooCommerce Memberships before. It’s really not my cup of tea, since Membership restricts product access to those in which you allow from my understanding. Then you’re combining Wisdmlabs, LearnDash, BuddyPress, s2Members, and my brain literally just explodes and turns off because it’s SO MUCH integration I dont even know what pieces are being integrated, or even why. You’re confused, and you know what you’re trying to accomplish. Imagine me, just a random guy trying to figure all this out going “holy hell! What’s he doing?!”. 🙂 🙂

If I’m reading too much into this, and you’re just looking to charge people to be a vendor, then that’s actually pretty easy, but you’ve got the wrong plugins for that. Groups for WooCommerce (Paid) + Groups (Free) can allow you to create a product within WooCommerce, to charge a fee for being in a group (lets say you call this group Paid Vendors), and you can restrict the Pro Dashboard to only those who are in the group called “Paid Vendors”. As long as the user is in the group, they can see the dashboard, otherwise, they are shut out till they are.

Let me know how I can help, and help me get my head around what you’re doing. 🙂

We are using the BuddyBoss “Boss” theme. We aren’t affiliated with BuddyBoss in any way, other than they are great theme developers, and we love their themes. I’m not sure if their “User Groups” plugin is what you can use, it would be a much better question for them. 🙂

WC Vendors Pro would *require* that anyone who wants to see the Vendor Dashboard have the role Vendor. You can assign multiple roles, of course, with various third party plugins, and that would work just fine, as long as their primary role is Vendor. The reason the Vendor role exists, instead of a capability, is that the capabilities are not universal for all vendors, and instead tied into WooCommerce and WordPress capabilities. Depending on your settings, vendors can do different things. Your OTHER users on the site should use capabilities, instead of specific roles. 🙂

And I dont see any images still, you cant upload zip files, but you can upload jpg/png/gifs 🙂

Cheers

I have a question: Is there a way to automatically add vendors to groups? I don’t see that capability. I only see the ability to add people one by one using their user name.

@Jim have you had any luck with integrating with LearnDash? I have a need for this as well but as Ben pointed out, integrations are tricky.

Thanks!

Yes, I would like to have all vendors automatically be added to a vendor group in buddypress. or a way to easily sort all vendors, select all and add. Right now it seems they have to request an invitation but this is a private group for support. Thanks!