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<p>Stak Multivendor adds multivendor marketplace and auction capabilities to WooCommerce.<br />
Requires WooCommerce to be installed and active.</p>
<p>Stak Multivendor turns WooCommerce into a vendor-friendly marketplace with built-in auction capability.<br />
Vendors can apply, get approved, create listings from the frontend, manage inventory, and sell using auction or buy-now flows.</p>
<p>Designed for real stores, Stak Multivendor includes vendor operations, buyer-facing browsing tools, escrow baseline controls, and optional live shipping integrations.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Vendor applications and approval workflow</li>
<li>Vendor access control and vendor role tools</li>
<li>Frontend vendor dashboard with profile, listings, and stats</li>
<li>Frontend listing creation and editing (no wp-admin required for vendors)</li>
<li>Auction listing support with bidding flow and buy-now modes</li>
<li>Buy now only, auction only, and auction + buy now listing modes</li>
<li>Public browse listings page with filters, pagination, and AJAX updates</li>
<li>Public vendor profile pages</li>
<li>Buyer-to-vendor rating system</li>
<li>Escrow baseline workflow with admin approval/refund actions</li>
<li>Shipping modes: calculated, flat, free, and pickup-only</li>
<li>Optional live shipping quotes via EasyPost or Shippo</li>
<li>Admin settings for general, form fields, bidding, integrations, API, and appearance</li>
<li>REST API endpoints for headless/mobile integrations</li>
<li>Sample data import tools for faster setup</li>
</ul>
<h3>Why Store Owners Use Stak Multivendor</h3>
<ul>
<li>Launch a multivendor marketplace without stitching together many plugins</li>
<li>Give vendors a cleaner frontend workflow for daily operations</li>
<li>Support auction-style commerce and fixed-price selling in one system</li>
<li>Keep operational control with admin management tabs and workflow settings</li>
</ul>
<h3>Pro Features Add-on (Optional)</h3>
<p>Stak Multivendor is fully usable as a free plugin. If you need advanced marketplace automation and vendor finance workflows, you can add the Pro Features extension.</p>
<h4>What Pro Features adds</h4>
<ul>
<li>Advanced bidding automation: Auto-Bid, Anti-Sniping, Reserve Price, Offers</li>
<li>Buyer retention tools: Saved Search Alerts</li>
<li>Vendor operations: Wallet Ledger, Withdrawals, Messaging, Watchlist, Tickets</li>
<li>Marketplace controls: Vendor Analytics, Escrow Automation, Auto-Approval, Role Manager</li>
<li>Extended integrations: Pro REST API endpoints for advanced app flows</li>
</ul>
<h4>Get Pro Features</h4>
<p>https://stak.ng/multivendor</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin can optionally connect to third-party shipping services when an admin enables live shipping and provides API credentials:</p>
<ul>
<li>EasyPost API (<code>https://api.easypost.com/v2/shipments</code>)</li>
<li>Shippo API (<code>https://api.goshippo.com/shipments/</code>)</li>
</ul>
<p>When enabled, shipping quote requests send destination/shipping address fields and parcel dimensions/weight required to calculate rates at checkout.<br />
No shipping API requests are made unless the feature is enabled by the site administrator.</p>
<p>Service terms and privacy policies:</p>
<ul>
<li>EasyPost Terms: https://www.easypost.com/terms</li>
<li>EasyPost Privacy: https://www.easypost.com/privacy</li>
<li>Shippo Terms: https://goshippo.com/terms/</li>
<li>Shippo Privacy: https://goshippo.com/privacy/</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>Stak Multivendor does not include built-in telemetry or usage tracking.<br />
Plugin data is stored on your WordPress/WooCommerce site database.<br />
If live shipping is enabled, shipping quote data is sent to the selected shipping provider as described above.</p>
<h3>Third-Party Libraries</h3>
<p>This plugin bundles MIT-licensed libraries:</p>
<ul>
<li>SortableJS (1.15.7)</li>
<li>Cropper.js (2.1.1)</li>
</ul>
<p>License attributions and upstream references are provided in <code>THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt</code>.<br />
Full license texts are included in the <code>licenses/</code> directory.</p>


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