This feature request is most definitely for Product Vendors and WooCommerce Bookings working together more seamlessly and I am wondering if others need the same thing. Currently WooCommerce Bookings does 'work' with Product Vendors and its a big improvement on the first version albeit a little limited and I do understand from speaking to the great team and woo that product vendors currently is more suited to physical products. However typically service providers who need a booking system in a marketplace type scenario will want to use one booking calendar to organise their week/month/year of bookings.

1. A simple scenario is this; A customer rings up the vendor and says I want to book tomorrow at 3pm, the vendor would of course check their calendar to make sure their are no conflicts and then pencil the person in. The issue is the vendor right now cannot pencil this person in from the backend of the website, they would literally need to tell the customer to go to the website and make the booking online in order to have one unified calendar view of their week of bookings. Of course the vendor could write down the booking and say come in for your booking tomorrow at 3pm but then their is an online calendar that has a free slot at 3pm tomorrow and immediately their could very well be a conflict.

2. A person does book through the site and then comes into the vendor for their appointment. The vendor then says you need to come once per week for 2 more weeks. Again the vendor is left with no choice but to write it down with pen and paper as their is no way to just book in the customer for say the same time next week and the week after. I am actually not talking about recurring bookings here at all to be honest, I am just saying their is no way right now to manually create a booking for next week and then the week after in two separate steps even. Also if you could do this the customer would get their reminders via the website the next week and the week after, they would get their receipts and they would ultimately get used to the idea of booking online and using the site more often.

So the solution as far as I can tell is that a Vendor should be able to see users that have booked his or her service from the User area of the backend of the website. Right now the user area is entirely turned off but of a bookings website this is not ideal at all of course. Also the Vendor should be able to add new users who have never booked on the website through the user area of the backend of the website - just like an overall administrator would but of course that user that has been added is just added as a regular customer.

This would mean that the vendor could potentially use the woocommerce booking plugin as their unified calendar for all their bookings. It means more bookings are taken on the website and no more pencil and paper organising. Currently adding product vendors and woocommerce bookings just means another calendar that the vendor has to manage and try to avoid conflicts on. It would be amazing to allow vendors add customers and of course only see customers that have booked their services. This is definitely for me right now a number one feature request for product vendors. I am not 100% sure of its application inside a physical store, I imagine its not really a requirement at all, but maybe I am wrong as my head is solely here testing out the Bookings element and product vendors. Any ideas and thoughts are most welcome. thanks for your time everyone.

This idea probably requires a little give and take from both Product Vendors and WooCommerce Bookings. Essentially right now a Vendor cannot fully manage their resources because if they had access to resources they would be accessing every resource side wide. Ideally in a marketplace where the resource is usually a person it would be great for a Vendor Admin to manage their people/resources in a WordPress website. This means less interaction with the Vendor admin from the Marketplace admin and means that the Vendor has alot more control over their own setup of a bookable product. I believe woocommerce bookings may require a little work before this can happen but this is really holding things back currently in terms of scaling any marketplace beyond 20 vendors and their resources. The sooner this happens the better.

I run a bookings marketplace where the Vendor's pricing is determined by many custom factors. Potentially, each customer request would require a slightly different or greatly different price. I want the Vendor to have control over their own pricing.

Example:
- Vendor offers bookable services starting at $200 a per day baseline and lists their service as a "Product" in our store.
- Vendor's service page includes fields created by "Product Add-ons Extension" requesting details from the customer prior to checkout.
- Customer fills out request details and checks out using "Check booking availability".
- Vendor receives new booking email from "Advanced Notifications"
- Vendor adjusts pricing as needed and submits an updated invoice to Customer for payment.
- Customer receives new invoice and clicks "Pay Here" which directs them to an updated checkout page with payment options.

All of the functions are generally there with the exception of the Vendor's Customizable Invoices. The key here is to cut out my website admins during this process. As of now, the vendor can submit the request to an admin, admin can create the invoice and then send it to the customer... I need the Vendor to be directly in contact with the Customer but retain the payment through automatic invoicing.

Please Vote if you like this or let me know if there is a better way!

I need to be able to assign shipping methods by vendor (or exclude those not applicable) as I have vendors in different origins from my shop who are shipping directly to my customers (who are paying me locally and being charged shipping where/if applicable). Current shipping methods assume shop & vendor location are the same. Using product vendor to allow multi-vendors and/or drop-shipping scenario but cart currently returns all shipping options for products bought regardless of who is shipping them. Could also work at product level but given vendor to product ratio is one to many I would assume vendor level is better.

Most online stores have Vendors that:
- take some time to add all their products before you want them live in your store, or
- they need to be taken out of the store temporarily, or
- you no longer carry their products.

You can't delete these Inactive Vendors, due too you need them for reporting, accounting and many other valid reasons.

In the Vendor Profile just check the "Inactive" box and they get taken out of the online store instantly.

Look for it in the next update, if we get enough votes to make it essential. Thank you for your consideration. :)