VMVendor is a joomla component and a set of plugins and modules that allow your Virtuemart (VM) Shop to be multivendor easily. It allows every (or some) users of your site to add products to your shop and manage these via a front end form. They can get rewareded for their sells earning points (from the required free AlphauserPoints component) according to their product prices and to a site comission fee kept by shop admin.

 

You can use VMVendor to let users add physical or downloadable products.

VMVendor uses and takes full advantage of the Virtuemart Vendor and products Database.

 

It provides vendors with an add/edit product form, a public vendor profile page and a dashboard page to list orders, payments, moderate products comments, consult sells stats, crate and manage taxes and shipment methods etc...Admin can create various vendor plans and link these to Joomla user groups.With these plans, admin can set vendor groups to set different percentage comission on sales, or various limitations such as product images, files maximum products etc...

Non exclusive list:  'Recommended template providers' that are out of the box compatible with VMVendor : Yootheme
Other J3 templates might be compatible too, but may require you tweak some VMVendor compatibility options.

 

Here is a non exhaustive list of the exciting main features:

• Front end product form (addition, edition, deletion)
  Form includes product name, single or multi categories selection, short and long description, (stock), price (free products supported), weight and dimensions, unlimited files, unlimited pictures, most custom fields types, some 3rd party customfields plugins support: VM2tags, VM2Geolocator etc...

• Front end category addition/suggestion with notification

• Public Vendor profile (Jomsocial, CB and EasySocial are integrated but not required) with Vendor Ajax Rating, Informations (Vendor Image, description, TOS, Legal Info etc..) and products thumbnails paginated. Share buttons, jComments etc...

• Private Vendor dashboard: Sales and customer contacts (address and email/PMS), Vendor Pointsactivity, dynamic sales statistics charts. Product reviews, VAT taxes, shipment methods ...

• Vendors get paid for each of their sold items with Vendor Points, a percentage of the item price. Payment happens when order status goes to Confirmed or Shipped. Commission can vary using Vendor plans according to Joomla user groups.

• Vendors can have their points changed to Paypal cash or IBAN by site admin when they reach a treshold amount.

• Support for Alatak.net Paypal Adaptive solution
• Vendor reference and link to vendor public profile on product details page and inline cart and invoice

• AJAX Google Maps for Vendors locations

• Simple installation of all required extensions during the one click component installation process...