Plus, this Multi-Vendor update features all the new stuff CS-Cart 4.7.1 has. Read a separate CS-Cart release post and the changelog<\/a> to learn more. And here are changes for developers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Managing an online marketplace, you naturally have to deal with money distribution. Your sellers pay commissions to you, you make payouts to them: it\u2019s important not to mess things up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The best way to organize money distribution is to automate it. Which is why Multi-Vendor already has a built-in payment distribution system called PayPal Adaptive. Unfortunately, PayPal has made it permanently unavailable\u2014you won\u2019t be able to register in PayPal Adaptive by yourself. We can help you with registering individually<\/i>, although who knows when PayPal will stop Adaptive once and for all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s why we\u2019ve added a similar payment distribution system from Stripe\u2014Stripe Connect<\/a><\/b>. Check the documentation<\/a> to learn how to enable and set it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When a customer is hesitating to choose the product, the opportunity to ask the seller about the product might well be precisely the feature needed to convert the customer into a buyer. The ability to get in touch with a seller right from the product page makes it easy and convenient and makes the product more attractive for buying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Multi-Vendor 4.7.1 features a new add-on, Customer-to-Vendor Communication<\/a><\/b>, which adds the new section Customers \u2192 Message center<\/i> to the admin panel. Customers can now send messages to sellers from a product page and a seller micro-store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Each seller on your marketplace can have their own micro-store and can arrange blocks in the micro-store via the layout manager to make its pages look as they want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Previously, there was an issue, in which the seller couldn\u2019t add certain blocks, such as vendor logo and vendor categories, to pages except for the micro-store home page. This meant that a customer who opened a seller’s product page or article didn\u2019t see their categories or logo. In fact, the customer left the micro-store, and the only way to get back was to press the back button in the web browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Good news: we have fixed this issue! Now, vendor blocks work on all pages, and customers who browse a seller’s products always see that seller\u2019s logo and categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\u2019t forget to read the CS-Cart 4.7.1 release post as Multi-Vendor has all those features, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What do you guys think about these new features in CS-Cart 4.7.1? We\u2019ll be happy to read your feedback in the forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get news, event announcements, and useful eCommerce articles first, follow us on Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi! Multi-Vendor 4.7.1 brings 3 new features: a payment distribution service Stripe Connect, the ability to contact a…","protected":false},"author":31003,"featured_media":6926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ayudawp_aiss_exclude":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21146,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions\/21146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Stripe Connect<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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