Basics of Vendor in VaahStore
What is Vendor?
A vendor is a person or business that purchases goods and services from distributors and resells these items to consumers or other businesses.
In short, it means that the person or business who sell products to Store.
How to create a Vendor?
After activating VaahStore, to create a vendor go into VaahCMS > Store > Vendors then click on create button. A form to create Vendor will open.
Requirement to create a Vendor
| Fields | Descriptions | |
|---|---|---|
| Name | This will contain name of the vendor. | |
| Store | This is to choose Store for the vendor. | |
| Approve By | The user which has approved the vendor. By default it is the current active user. | |
| Owned By | The user who owned the vendor. | |
| Status | This is to set the status of the vendor. | |
| Status Notes | Notes are to describe your decision for any status. | |
| Is Default | This is to make current vendor default option for VaahStore. | |
| Auto Approve Products | To automatically approved product from this vendor. | |
| Is Active | This is to Activate or Deactivate your vendor. |
Add product to vendor
After creating a vendor, to add products directly to vendor look into the table where all the listing of vendor is coming.
Over there under the Product column you will find the total count of the product to their respective vendors along with an option + to add new product, click on that.
After that a Add Product page will open.
Inside the Add Product page there is a dropdown to select and add product.
All the added product will be shown in the below table, and some basic changes to the product can be done in the table and then click on above save button, to save the changes.
API
create
URL
POST <public-url>/public/api/store/vendorsRequest samples
parameter = [
"name", // String
"slug", // String
"vh_st_store_id", // Id
"approved_by", // Id
"owned_by", // Id
"taxonomy_id_vendor_status", // Id
"status_notes", // String
"is_default", // Boolean
"auto_approve_products", // Boolean
"is_active", // Boolean
];Response sample
{
"status": "success",
"messages": [
"Saved"
],
"data": {
...........
...........
...........
}
}Get List
URL
GET <public-url>/public/api/store/vendors?rows={number_of_rows}Response sample
{
"success": true,
"data": {
...........
...........
...........
}
}Get Record
URL
GET <public-url>/public/api/store/vendors/{record_id}Response sample
{
"success": true,
"data": {
...........
...........
...........
}
}Save Product
URL
POST <public-url>/public/api/store/vendors/productRequest samples
parameter = [
..........
'same as create'
..........
"products": {
"can_update" // Boolean
"id" // product id
"product" // Id
"status" // Id
},
];