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Release history — MultiVendor

Introduction

This page lists the MultiVendor plugin versions and the notable changes in each, so a marketplace owner knows which version they run and what an upgrade brings. Feature details are in the Detailed guide.

Version 1.0.0 — first public release

• Compatibility: gp247/core 3.0, gp247/shop 3.x (S-Cart 3.x). Requires Livewire.
• Packaging: a free MultiVendor edition (up to 3 shops) and a paid MultiVendorPro unlock for everything else. Pro installs on top of Free; nothing is reinstalled.
• The free edition always shows what Pro adds: the menu and the sidebar still list the Pro screens; opening one explains the feature and lists the rest. After installing Pro those same entries open the real screens — no menu rearranging.

The marketplace model

• Many sellers on one domain: a shop lives at /vendor/{code}, a directory at /vendor, the cart is split per shop and each shop gets its own order. The marketplace collects the money and pays each shop its share per period.
• The shop page carries a cover, logo, banners, Products / Reviews / About tabs and a search inside the shop.
• Public trust signals on the shop page: complaint rate, typical handling time, share of complaints and reviews answered — over the last 90 days, hidden until a shop has sold enough for the figures to mean anything.
• A shop name with an icon on product cards and the product page, linking to that shop.

For the marketplace owner

• Manage shops, vendor accounts and marketplace settings; a moderation queue for shops, products and identity profiles, where a rejection needs a reason and is written to an audit trail.
• Commission per shop, resolved in order: the shop's own rate, then its plan, then the marketplace rate.
• Payout runs per period with payout methods, an Excel statement, and a bank instruction file per batch plus one-click settlement of the whole batch against a single bank reference. Only a system administrator can download the file, and every download is logged.
• Clawback after payout when an order is refunded or cancelled, netted into the next period.
• Vendor identity verification with an encrypted profile, a verified badge, and an option to require it before products go live and money is released.
• A disputes desk in two steps: the shop answers first, the marketplace decides, and a refund is written straight into the order's ledger.
• Vendor plans: product cap, own commission, periodic fee netted from the payout, and a switch for which plans shops may pick themselves.
• Commission reports per shop and per period, on two explicit bases, exported to Excel.

For a shop

• Its own admin area at /vendor_admin: dashboard, products, categories, banners, suppliers, shop details, payout history; self-registration when the marketplace allows it.
• Order handling: move an order through the allowed states, record a tracking code, print a delivery note.
• Type an order for a customer, with the unit price filled in from that customer's price group and still editable.
• Its own price groups: a discount percentage per customer group and a mapping of customers into them. A signed-in customer sees their own price everywhere in that shop, and that price is never shown to anyone else.
• Answer the reviews of what it sells; approving, rejecting and deleting a review stay with the marketplace.
• Pick its own plan from the ones the marketplace published, with the fee netted from the next payout.
• Configure the plugins the marketplace opened to shops (shipping, promotions); payment gateways are always the marketplace's to configure.

For customers

• Buy from several shops in one cart.
• Quick bulk ordering per shop: browse by category, paste a list of SKUs, reorder a past order, export a quote to Excel.
• Open a dispute from the order page and follow where it stands.

Notifications

• E-mail to a shop on a new order, on approval, on payout, on a clawback, on an identity decision, and at each stage of a dispute.
• E-mail to the marketplace when a shop or a product is waiting for approval.

Technical

• Both the marketplace and shop admin areas run on GP247 v2 Livewire + TailAdmin — no jQuery, no legacy CSS framework.
• Vendor accounts are separate from admin accounts behind their own guard; every vendor screen is fenced to the shop that is signed in.
• Vietnamese and English. Events Creating/Created VendorStore|VendorUser and Paying/Paid Vendor are available for extensions.
• Runs on restricted hosting: no cron, no queue, no websocket required.
• Mutually exclusive with the MultiStore plugin — two different business models over the same store table.

A note on version numbers

This is the first public release. The 1.1 to 2.6 milestones that appear in internal development records are internal build milestones and were never released.