Magento2 - Vendor Categories

The useful feature for organising the product, which was only present on panel, now has been also available for vendor’s panel of Vnecoms Marketplace. plug-in allows vendor can add his own categories. With this feature customer will search products easier in vendor’s storefront.

FEATURES

• Quick and easy in installation.
• User frendly interface.
• Smart managing categories and product
• Add new categories right in manage product page
• Adjustable category heading label
• Beautiful Categories tree in vendor homepage

HOW TO USE

• I. Managing from Vendor panel



• 1. Manage




After installing , your vendors can start making and managing their own categories in Vendor panel. First, from side-bar in vendor panel go > Manage Categories, a page for managing categories will be shown in the right:



The page will be divided into 2 parts, the left part is used for showing the categories tree with 2 buttons: Add New Categories and Add Subcategories. The vendor will use this two buttons for making categories tree, when vendor click to one of that two buttons, in the right part they will see three tabs: one for filling the category’s information, another one for filling category’s Meta data and last one for adding products:

• • Category’s information

In this tab, the vendor will fill the required fields for making a category or a subcategory including text fields for typing name and content and some dropdown fields for configuring how the category works like: disable/enable category, include/exclude it in menu, and hide/show its product.

• • Meta Data

This is the place to provide description and keywords about the category. This helps search engines and users to find the types of category they are looking for.

• • Category’s products

Vendor can quick add product to their created category in this tab, a search tool will help them to do it much easier and faster




• 2. Add a product to from managing product page




Vendor can add a product to created categories or new made categories right in managing product page. From side-bar in Vendor panel go > , click to edit an existed product or adding new product:



There’re a field names , where vendor can choose the categories for adding the product among the categories tree. This field also includes a button to create new vendor category very quick and easy.



• II. in the Website Frontend



Now we will see how the categories and its product are showed on vendor’s homepage. But before doing that, we must to do some configuration for making sure that the categories will be shown as expected. First, website admin must sure that the plugin is enabled:



And in the vendor side, all the categories wanted to be show on vendor’s page must be given status enable, and product in category is not hidden. Then from Vendor’s panel go Configuration > Category to type the Category heading label.



Almost done, now go to vendor homepage in the website frontend, the categories tree is shown in the left column of page, under the Category heading label, which is named by vendor in the last configuration. The categories tree contains not only all the categories names, but also the number counting the quantity of product in each category. When customer click to any category, its product will be shown in the right side.

Noted:

In case the website admin changes the URL key of vendor’s page, they must to re-index the .