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Activate your free vendor account to display, promote & sell your product online!

Do you sell products and manage an inventory, shipping or coupons?

Open an online store for you business so that customers will be able to purchase your products & deals online.

Do you provide a service, accept reservations or offer booking slots?

Register a free Vendor account & let potential customers book your service from within your business listing.

The following guide will get you up & running in no time:

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Become a L’viv Realty Vendor

Submit the form below in order to activate your Lviv realty free vendor account & add smart eCommerce features to your Lviv Realty Business listing. Let potential customers book your service & buy your products and offers online, Now!

Important: This is the name that customers see when purchasing your products & in your store page address. Please choose carefully.

Important Note: The Vendor Name must be unique and determines the name used throughout the L’viv Realty store. If the name is taken, an error will be returned after submitting the form. Your vendor name will be displayed in the header of your products page (along side with your logo) & in your product page address (LvivRealty.com/vendor/VendorName/). Once a vendor has submitted the form, L’viv Realt staff gets an email notification that a vendor has applied and a user account is created for the vendor. A status/role of Pending Vendor is assigned until staff approves registration and applies a different role. There are two possible roles:
  • Vendor Admin – Has access to all settings.
  • Vendor Manager – Has limited access to the Vendor dashboard.
A vendor then receives an email stating their application has been approved, along with the username and password. They can start to set up and manage their store.
After Product, service or offer creation, go to your business dashboard & select them in the “Select Your Services & Products”  field that appears on the bottom of your business editing page. That’s it! Now the product should be beautifully displayed in the listing page. Now that the basic functionality is settled, you can go even further and add more functionality to your products. You can use the WooCommerce Bookings plugin to add various date based bookings/reservations (check those listings) or the Product Vendors plugin to let business owners add and manage their own products, and you earn commissions in a multi-vendor marketplace.

Manage Store

In order to provide eCommerce capabilities to our users we use Woocommerce, the most popular eCommerce cart. We invite you to read Woocommerce products setup documentation.

Vendors can configure settings in the dashboard as they wish, by going to the Store Settings.

Vendors Settings fields, from the Vendor Admin dashboard:

  • Vendor Logo
  • Vendor Profile: Enter a description of you and your store.
  • Vendor Email: List of email addresses, separated by a comma, that receive store-related notifications.
  • Fondy Email: Email associated with the vendor’s Fondy account, to receive payments.
  • Commission: This is set by the Store Owner.
  • Timezone: Location of the vendor store.

The Store Owner can also edit Vendors settings by going to Products > Vendors.

Vendors Settings fields, which the Store Owner can edit:

  • Name: Vendor name displayed to the public.
  • Slug: Based on the Vendor Name and automatically assigned.
  • Notes: Enter any notes about this vendor. Only seen by store owners.
  • Vendor Logo
  • Vendor Profile: Enter a description of you and your store.
  • Vendor Email: List of email addresses, separated by a comma, that receive store-related notifications.
  • Vendor Admins: List of users who have access to manage this vendor. Added by the Store Owner only.
  • Commission: This is the commission amount the vendor will receive. Product level commission can be set which will override this commission.
  • Commission Type: Choose whether the commission amount will be a fixed amount or a percentage of the cost.
  • : Pay commission to vendor instantly when order is paid. (Uses PayPal Mass Payments)
  • PayPal Email: Scheduled commission payouts will be using this PayPal email to receive payments.
  • Timezone: Set the local timezone.
  • Show Per Product Shipping Rules: When enabled, vendor can edit per product shipping rules.
  • Enable Bookings Feature: Enable to allow vendors to create bookable products such as booking classes or lessons.

Adding products in Lviv Realty Vendors is similar to adding products in WooCommerce, and all users who have manage access to the vendor can add/edit products. More info at: Adding and Managing Products.

In Product Vendors, the only difference is vendors must have their products approved by the Store Owner. The process is:

  • Vendor creates a product that is Pending Review after submission to the Store Owner.
  • Email is sent to the Store Owner, notifying him/her that a vendor has submitted a product.

Types of products

In your dashboard you can find your store live report & statistics.

Commissions at a product, vendor or site-wide level are set by the Store Owner.

If he/she has enabled Instant Payment or Scheduled Payments (weekly, bi-weekly or monthly), Vendors need a PayPal account to receive payment for commission.

Product Vendors adds a few user roles. Those roles relate to order, products and settings limited to the product vendor their account is associated with under Products > Vendors. For example, they will only be able to edit their own products.

A vendor can have one of two different roles:

  • Vendor Admin – Has access to all settings: Orders, Reports, Media, Products, Store Settings, Support (contacts the store admin), and Profile
  • Vendor Manager – Has limited access to the Vendor dashboard: Orders, Media, Products, and Profile.

A single user with one user account can be set up to manage multiple vendors if needed, switching between vendors to which they have access.

Vendor are responsible for fulfilling and shipping/sending orders after a customer has bought their product(s).

There are two possible shipping types:

  • Per Product Shipping – If enabled by the Store Owner, shipping costs are passed to the Vendor, and the Vendor has the ability to add their own rates per product. See below.
  • All other shipping methods – If enabled by the Store Owner, shipping costs are charged to the customer, and payment is collected in checkout.

Per Product Shipping

Vendors need to set up their own shipping costs per product, if the Store Owner has enabled Per Product Shipping.

This is set in Product Data under Shipping > Shipping Rules. More information at: Defining Shipping Costs for Products.

The Store Owner sets up and places vendors in the correct tax class with relevant rates, according to location.

Several emails are set up in Product Vendors for Vendors and the Store Owner.

  • Vendor Registration (Store Owner) – Sent when vendor submits registration form.
  • Vendor Registration (Vendor) – Sent to confirm registration form was submitted to store owner.
  • Order Email (Vendor) – Notifies vendor of a new order.
  • Canceled Order Email (Vendor) – Sent to notify vendor that customer canceled.
  • Vendor Approval – Sent to vendors with login and password when registration is approved.
  • Product Added Notice – Sent to store owner to review when product is added by a vendor.
  • Order Note to Customer – Sent to customer when vendor adds a note, e.g., Tracking number, personal thank you.

Bookable Products

To accept bookings, you need to create a bookable product.

  1. Go to: Products > Add New. A familiar WooCommerce interface for product creation appears.
  2. Enter a title and description for your product.
  3. Scroll down to Product Data and select Bookable Product in the dropdown menu.

  4. Tick the Virtual checkbox, if your product does not require shipping. This omits the Shipping Costs tab from your product.

Fields will change to reflect bookable products.

The first settings are booking duration, calendar display and confirmation preferences.

Taxes

Select the appropriate Tax status and Tax class for this product, should you need to charge tax or not.

This determines how long a booking lasts. The duration can be admin defined (fixed block) or customer defined (they need to input on the front-end). Duration units can be Hours, Minutes, Days or Months.

Fixed blocks have a set duration that you define. The customer can only choose one block which will last the defined amount of time. For example hair dresser appointment lasts one hour and you can only book one at a time.

Customer-defined blocks have a set duration, but the customer can choose how many blocks they want. For example, the co-working space is rented out in hourly intervals, and the customer can define how many 1-hour blocks they would like to rent.

If you set your Booking duration to be customer defined:

  • A minimum and maximum allowed value can be included in the General tab. This allows for a more flexible starting schedule.
  • It is possible to use 30-minute blocks and set the minimum to 2 blocks. Your customers now need to book at least one hour, and can add increments of 30 minutes.
  • A customer-defined duration with blocks in minutes/hours will display a dropdown.
A booking can be set in blocks using minutes, hours, days, weeks, and months. If using hours and minutes, you can specify what time the bookings start.

Select Calendar always visible or Display calendar on click. By default the calendar is set to always show.

If the Booking duration is set to be Customer defined with a unit of Days, then another option will be shown to enable the calendar range picker. Enabling this allows customers to select a start date and an end date for their booking within the calendar itself.

If the booking needs to be reviewed by an Admin before confirmation, tick the Requires confirmation? checkbox. Rather than take payment at checkout, the user inputs details and submits them for approval.

To learn more, see Manage Bookings.

Bookings requiring approval will remove other items from the cart. They must be checked out alone, so payment gateways can be safely disabled.

If the Requires Confirmation checkbox is ticked, only the Check Availability option is shown when checking out. Once the booking is approved, the customer receives another email to then submit payment.

 

You may choose whether you want the user to have the option to cancel their booking. After selecting the option Can be cancelled?, two fields appear that allow you to choose how many Minutes/Hours/Days/Months prior to the start date that customers can cancel a booking.

Availability (what slots can be booked) can be controlled via the Availability tab. The first options allow you define dates that can be booked:

 

This setting allows multiple bookings at the same time. With a fixed booking of 1 day and maximum bookings per block set to 2, then each day you can accept two bookings.

If today is March 1 and you set minimum block bookable to 1 month into the future, then the first date a customer could book would be April 1. The same applies to the maximum date bookable.

Based on the unit of time set for the booking (minutes, hours or days), you can specify a period of time after a bookable slot that is unavailable for anyone else to book. For example, if you sell appointments in 1-hour blocks and wish to have a break of 1 hour between them, you can specify a buffer period.

If you prefer to add a buffer before and after your appointments, tick the Adjacent Buffering checkbox. This option adds the specified block both before and after each booking. Defining a buffer period of one hour between booking with adjacent buffering will result into 2 hours between bookings.

Buffer periods are always defined in the same time measurement (minutes, hours or days) chosen for blocks. If you want to have a 30-minute buffer between your 1-hour appointments, be sure to use 60-minute blocks instead of 1-hour blocks.

All dates are

Depending on how you want to set up availability, this option allows you to set available by default or not available by default. Available by default means all blocks are available and you can specifically turn some off with rules, where not available by default means all blocks are not available and must be turned on through availability rules.

Check rules against

You have two options:

  • All blocks being booked – This checks all available blocks within a duration. For example if a customer chooses to book for 5 days and 1 block is equal to 1 day, it will check availability for all 5 days.
  • Starting block only – This checks the first block the user selects. For example if a customer chooses to book for 5 days and 1 block is equal to 1 day, it will only check availability for the first day.

Say you have a weekly rental, but you only allow customers to start their rental on Fridays.

  1. Tick the box.
  2. Select the day (in this case Friday), or day(s) you would like to restrict the booking to start on.

    This does not affect availability; other days are still available, they just cannot be selected as the day(s) that bookings start on.

You can set up specific availability rules, such as availability for:

  • Months
  • Day of the week
  • Time
  • Specific date

To add a rule, select Add Range:

A new row is created, where you can choose a range type, from/to, whether it’s bookable or not (yes or no) and a priority number.

The from/to values differ based on the range type:

  • Date range – from/to will show a datepicker/calendar selection field
  • Range of days – from/to will show a dropdown of days of the week (Monday to Sunday)
  • Range of months – from/to will show a dropdown of months (January to December)
  • Range of weeks – from/to will show a dropdown of weeks (1 to 52)
  • Time ranges – from/to will show time inputs
  • Date Range with time – period with a start date/time and an end date/time. Range applies from start time on the start day to end time on the end date.
  • Date Range with recurring time – set based on a custom date range. Range is repeated on each day in the date range.

Note that the time ranges are not opening hours, but booking hours. If you offer 1-hour time blocks and your shop is open from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, your last booking is at 5:00 pm, not 6:00 pm.

By default, Global availability rules take priority over product level availability rules and product availability rules take priority over resource priority rules. The order can be changed using the priority numbers. A lower priority, irrespective of context, overrides any other context with higher priority number. For example, a 9 will always override 10, even if 10 is on the Global level.

If multiple rows have the same priority, the rules higher on the list will take priority.

Rows can be removed by clicking the X on the far right, or dragged and dropped to sort using the handle on the far left.

Also be aware that availability options can be set up globally if all bookable products share some dates. To read more about Global availability, see Booking Settings.

Costs for specific slots are controlled from the Costs tab.

The two main costs you can add are Base cost and Block cost.

  • Base cost is applied regardless of a customer’s choices on the booking form.
  • Block cost is the cost per block that was assigned in the General tab. If a customer books multiple blocks, this cost is multiplied by the number of blocks booked.

Display cost does not affect the actual cost of the product. In the example above, the product page displays 300 on the frontend. The cost is displayed to the user on the frontend. Leave blank to have it calculated for you. If a booking has varying costs, the lowest available cost is shown and is prefixed with the word “From:”

Beneath the display cost, you have an area where you can define extra costs. This works similar to availability. Click Add Range to begin:

A row appears where you can input the range type, from/to and cost:

The from/to values differ based on the range type:

  • Date range – from/to will show a datepicker field
  • Range of months – from/to will show a dropdown of months (January to December)
  • Range of weeks – from/to will show a dropdown of weeks (1 to 52)
  • Range of days – from/to will show a dropdown of days of the week (Monday to Sunday)
  • Time range – from/to will show time inputs
  • Date range with time – set based on a custom date range
  • Persons count – from/to will show number inputs
  • Block count – from and to will show number inputs

Base cost and Block cost can be added, subtracted, multiplied or divided by the amount you enter. With version 1.10.9 (pending release), you can also directly set the costs applied for the rule.

Rows can be removed by clicking the X on the far right, or dragged and dropped to sort using the handle on the far left.

If multiple rows match, all additional costs are used.

If the booking can be made for multiple persons at once, tick the Has persons checkbox. Once selected, a new tab appears:

You can set a min and maximum for persons. Similar to duration, the customer can input a value on the frontend booking form, if enabled.

Persons also impacts the following cost options:

  • If multiple costs by person count is enabled, all costs are multiplied by the number of persons the customer defines.
  • If count persons as bookings is enabled, the person count is used as the quantity against the block. Remember the max bookings per block setting above? That determines the upper limit for allowed persons per block. Once the limit is reached, more persons cannot book.

The Persons tab also allows you to define different prices depending on the person type. You might want to offer a different price for children or for teachers on a museum tour for example. To set up different person types, tick the Enable Persons Type checkbox in your Persons Tab:

Once you tick this checkbox, you have the option to add multiple types.

Give your Person type a name and define the cost for the type. Adding a description is optional.

You can define a minimum and a maximum number for each person type. For example, you could require at least one adult for each booking while making children optional (minimum 0). If you leave Max blank, there are no other restrictions than those of the bookable product itself.

Clicking the Unlink button will remove the person type from the product. The person type will still exist, but be hidden, this is so previously created bookings are not broken.

For added flexibility, WooCommerce Bookings supports Bookable Resources that can be booked independently within a bookable product. Tick the Has resources checkbox to enable a new tab:

There are two types of bookable resources:

  • Customer selected – A booking form shows a dropdown list of resources that the customer can select.
  • Automatically assigned – A resource is automatically assigned to a customer booking if available.

An example use case for a customer selected resource would be a room type, such as single and twin rooms.

An example use case for an automatically assigned resource would be a hair salon where the resources are staff and someone is assigned a booking. More at: Hair Salon – Bookings Use Case.

After enabling resources, choose your type. If you have chosen Customer selected be sure to give your resource a label. This is what is shown on the frontend booking form.

Resources can be used globally across multiple products. For more information, see: Using Resources.

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