Srikanth Nair

@fervous Hi Anna,

Thanks for getting back to me.

I have had another look at the site. I think the logic is the same, however, I am not paying an additional commission, rather, wanting to add to the final amount that will be charged through Stripe. The commission setup is fine (set percentage) for owners/vendors but we want to add 8% so that the end user will be charged that amount, instead of the product/item total. So, at checkout, if total product/item cost is $50, we’d like to add 8% to that so that the total checkout amount will be $54, which Stripe will then charge the customer. Does that make sense?

Would this code – $per_item_addition = $product_price * ( 8 / 100 ); //compute 8% additional fee work if I were to modify the code in https://www.wcvendors.com/kb/commissions-fixed-dollar-amount-fixed-plus-percentage/ and remove the additional commission code?

Thanks again for your help Anna.
Sri

@clothpadshop Thanks for that. I reached out to the author(s) but they said they’re not certain if it works with Bookings, which is what we are primarily using. I have installed the free version to see if it’ll work.

Thanks!
Sri

Hey Anna,

Just letting you know I’ve managed to do this.

Thanks for your help as always.

Sri

Hi Anna,

When I added your code to the functions, it removed the label but brought back the text fields I had hidden with the CSS I shared.

To make changes to the add product/item screen, I have ben using a JS script loaded through functions.

Like “owners-additem”, are there other places I can inject script to (wp_register_script(‘owners-settings’,), say for example, to make changes to the address fields as I am trying to do?

Thanks.
Sri

@thrivinglocally Thanks for that. You’re referring to this WooCommerce add-on: https://woocommerce.com/products/follow-up-emails/, right?

How long have you used it? At $99 it does seem a bit dear but it’ll inform my client nevertheless.

Thanks again.
Sri

@fervous That’s great to hear Anna, thanks!

@CA-CHRIS-JOHNSONGMAIL-COM

Thank you Chris for your reply and explanation.

If someone could integrate refundable security deposits, that would be awesome.

What you have explained with regards to geolocation makes sense but making sense and being able to do it are two different things. I’m not saying I couldn’t but I know it would take me a longer time than someone who understands coding a lot more than I do.

Thanks again!
Sri

Hey @FERVOUS @ben

Anything on “Force Sells” and the other questions above?

Thanks.
Sri

Hi Anna,

Thanks for getting back to me and the feedback/comments to my questions.

1. I’ve had this on my list, just wanted to know if it was possible without an external plugin.

2. I might leave this alone.

3. Not sure if you missed my question about “Force sells” no appearing under “Linked Products” option. I think it would be great if @Ben & team can work on something that’ll help folks like me when it comes to “Refundable Deposits”.

4. That’s what I thought.

Thanks again Anna!
Sri

Hello Ben, Anna and team!

Just a few more questions 🙂

– Is there a way to screen products vendors add? For example, review potentially offensive product listings or listing of items that require a special license? Ideally, we would like the vendors to add products without approval but if they fall into a certain category or contains certain words/images, we would like to review it and then approve/disapprove.

– Is there a way we can review the reviews before it’s published? For example, restrict certain words being used and possibly flag it for us to approve upon the use of those words?

Thanks!
Sri

@ben AWESOME!!! 🙂 THANK YOU!

Hey Anna & Ben and whoever else might find this helpful,

I asked WooCommerce about the security deposit and this is what they had to say:

MY QUESTION: Can I used WooCommerce (along with WooCommerce Bookings) to create a WordPress site where users can rent items to each other and renters protect themselves by attaching a refundable deposit (security deposit) to the item to protect themselves until the rental item is returned?
WOOCOMMERCE ANSWER: You can refund any transaction or any amount in WooCommerce as long as your payment gateway has support for refunds. There wouldn’t be a separate functionality for a Security Deposit specifically. You could create a product called Security Deposit and attach it to your orders or you could add in the deposit to the cost of the booking.

MY QUESTION: If I added “Security Deposit” as a product, I would then just refund that item (Security Deposit) after the rental item returned, is that right?
WOOCOMMERCE ANSWER: Yes that is correct.

MY QUESTION: This would also work in a multi-vendor setup where each vendor/renter/lender would rent their item and have their own “Security Deposit” product, right?
WOOCOMMERCE ANSWER: Yes…if you are using Product Vendors then all the money initially goes to the Admin of the site (you then pay out commissions later if that is part of the your set up) so you can refund the security deposit amount yourself.

So, where WooCommerce mentions their product “Product Vendor” is where I would like to think WC Vendors Pro would take the place, am I right OR do I have to use WooCommerce Product Vendor in my case?

Thanks!
Sri

Apologies for the late reply Ben. Thank you for taking the time to do so!

The solution I have been talking about isn’t for myself but for a client who has already had a bad experience unfortunately with a half-baked solution built on Magento 1.9.

I have been researching on potential solutions and one of the thoughts I had was that I could create this rental marketplace solution for my client on WordPress with WooCommerce + WCVendors Pro + WooCommerce Bookings + BuddyBoss (tight integration with BuddyPress for messaging etc) + build custom bits for the remaining features (security deposits, sms verification, geolocation based searching etc). Am I on the right track, especially with the WooCommerce + WCVendors Pro + BuddyBoss pairing?

I will investigate codeable.io.

Thank you again!
Sri

Thanks for getting back to me Anna 🙂

Is deposits something WooCommerce has to support or is that something you folks can add into WC Vendors Pro?

Any idea on when these features will be available in WC Vendors Pro, some sort of an eta? Sorry, you must get these questions A LOT but I ask so I can pass the right information to a client.

Thank you again for your help and getting back to me!

Sri