Hi there,

I've now made an update to the MarketKing Core plugin and I added a function for that.

You can use the following function:

marketking()->get_number_of_followers($vendor_id);

so for example, 

echo marketking()->get_number_of_followers(7);

Kind regards,

Stefan

You got it

Please update to the attached version manually (I'll upload that at a later time, so no worries, all is compatible with future updates).

To update manually, first deactivate and delete your existing version of MarketKing Core. Then upload and activate the attached version.

Function examples:

marketking()->get_vendor_products(4);

This returns an array of all product ids of the vendor with ID 4

But what you asked for is this:

marketking()->get_vendor_products(4, true);

This returns the total number of products (count) that the vendor with ID 4 has.

Hi there,

Do you mean that you want the name of the group of a vendor?

Can you use PHP code like this?

$group_name = get_the_title(get_user_meta($vendor_id,'marketking_group', true));

This will give you the group name if you have the vendor user ID.

Can you use the above?

Kind regards,

Stefan

Hi Quin,

I wasn't aware that could be an issue - I think it probably has to do with the point where the function is called - maybe the function is not loaded yet, or it has to be in the WP loop or something like that.

Please try the following instead of get_the_title:

$post = get_post(get_user_meta($vendor_id,'marketking_group', true));
$group_name = $post->post_title;

Hi Quin,

1) There's currently no integration with this plugin. I think unfortunately it might be hard to get these to work well together. Probably would need custom coding.

There is a chapter here: "How to integrate a plugin": https://woocommerce-multivendor.com/docs/developer-documentation-functions-hooks-custom-code-plugin-integrations/

But sometimes it can be easier and sometimes harder.

2) Generally any WooCommerce theme would also work with MarketKing. I think iBid should work fine as well.

3) To use WCFM with B2BKing, you would need to purchase 2 plugins: the full B2BKing plugin + the B2BKing for WCFM add-on. So it's not just the add-on alone. The add-on simply integrates the 2 but the main plugin is needed also.

If you use MarketKing with B2BKing, there is no need for the add-on because the 2 are already integrated. So you'd need just 1 plugin, the main B2BKing plugin.

4) Sorry,  I am not sure if I understand.

You can use B2BKing in a multi-vendor site. The 2 plugins are fully integrated. You can read about the integration here: https://woocommerce-multivendor.com/docs/wholesale-b2b-b2bking-integration/

Or are you asking about the registration system? The registrations of the 2 plugins are not connected.

Kind regards,

Stefan

4) B2BKing is not a marketplace plugin - it has no multi-vendor functionality.

The purpose of B2BKing is to make the site better for business customers. Usually in most online shops, customers are retail (individual users), not businesses. But if you have business customers, B2BKing will add a lot of useful features:

- Invoice payment gateway - business customers can order and get an invoice they pay later

- Tiered pricing discounts (better prices when purchasing 50, 100, 1000+ items)

- Hide prices for logged out users

- Different prices for different users (E.g. you can have VIP users with better prices)

- Set carton / package quantities (products can only be purchased in quantities like 6, 12, 18, etc)

- Tax exemptions: businesses see prices excluding VAT

- Quote requests for specific products / quantities

etc

You can use MarketKing + B2BKing together. This will allow each marketking vendor to set wholesale prices, tiered pricing discounts, carton quantities for their products, each vendor will be able to respond to quote requests etc.

1) Thank you for the info about WooCommerce Simple Auctions. This is very useful.

I did some tests now also and I think they are mostly compatible, but probably I will need to make some adjustments

I see for example that when editing an auction product, the admin has these panels also:

-> these panels are not available to the vendor (because I have not yet done a specific integration). I do not know how important they are.

I see also the vendor does not have a way to see the current bid price in the dashboard.

But these are just minor things I think - easy to fix - I do not know if there are any big problems.

If you find more information in your testing, please let me know. I am interested to do an integration for MarketKing, so I can advertise an Auctions module.

Many thanks for your feedback!

I'll be trying to integrate this Auctions plugins as soon as possible - would be a great addition to MarketKing,

I will let you know when I have this ready,

Hope you have a great week,