WooCommerce Wholesale Setup

I tried several wholesale plugins – there’s a wide price range – but I liked Stephen Sherrard’s the best – and the price is reasonable. Great support, well-thought out and he uses his wife’s fashion store as the testing site.

Check the docs out here:

Woocommerce Wholesale Ordering

Good luck.

Thanks @forkmedia that’s helpful. But since I’m completely separating my retail site and my wholesale site, I don’t think I have to worry about separate pricing. I just need to keep all “add to cart” and checkout functions hidden until the user has logged in.

Any thoughts?

The newest version of my Wholesale Ordering plugin that I released today now adds the option to hide all prices and add to cart button if the user is not logged in. Using that with the various settings in my plugin, you can have retail and wholesale in the same shop and wholesale users will never see retail prices, and vice versa.

However, if you have everything you need already set up for 2 separate stores, hiding the prices and add to cart buttons is not that tough. You could add a fairly simple function to your theme’s functions.php file to accomplish that.

Here is basically what I used, but modified a bit (untested) to be more generic:

function remove_prices_and_buy_buttons($price, $product) {
			if(is_user_logged_in()) return $price;

			$price = '';

			remove_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item', 'woocommerce_template_loop_add_to_cart');
			remove_action( 'woocommerce_single_product_summary', 'woocommerce_template_single_add_to_cart', 30 );

			return $price;

		}
add_filter( 'woocommerce_get_price_html',  'remove_prices_and_buy_buttons', 60, 2);

Put some text/html in between the single quotes on the line with $price=”; If you want some message to appear there. I set up additional options in my plugin allowing the users to define the text that goes there, as well as define the link to the login/register page, so the text prompts them to login to see prices and that text links to the login page.

Dan,

The plugin I recommended can be used in a variety of ways. In testing I set it up with wholesale prices only (no retail) and it requires someone to be approved and set up as a wholesale customer to see anything in the wholesale side of the store. Retail customers don’t know it exists except for the wholesale application buried in the menus. Unless they fill out the application completely and get approved, they don’t see anything except the retail store.

The reason I like the retail and wholesale in one place – you can simply duplicate retail products and then set them up as wholesale and make any big or small changes you want. In our case our wholesale version of our products are bundled together in packs of 3.

The wholesale customer can log in and see the wholesale side of the site and if they want to see the retail store, they simply log out and visit the same site like any retail customer.

I’m not saying the Stephen Sherrard plugin is better than the other guy’s (the one responding above) because I don’t remember if I tested the other guy’s plugin. But I did test enough wholesale plugins to find out most are made by programmers who don’t actually run a wholesale site and therefore left out things I needed.

YMMV

@forkmedia,

The “other guy” is also Stephen Sherrard (me). I just registered on here a long time ago as DBAR Productions, which is my LLC corporation name… started out in music production and recording, and now also doing plugins under my own name.

For the second part of the original poster’s question, there may be other plugins that allow you to have people register and be held for approval before actually creating a user account, in which case you could still use the code I posted above.

For my own plugin, we duplicate the Customer role that Woocommerce sets up to create a new Wholesale Customer role that has a special capability of “order_wholesale”, and wholesale prices, as well as wholesale only products, are only shown to customers when they are logged into a Wholesale Customer role account. Even if they register through Woocommerce, they will only be regular “Customer” until you log in and change their role to Wholesale Customer. In my wife’s case, she creates the Wholesale Customer accounts manually and emails the login info to her wholesale buyers, but you can have them register with your custom form, and then change them to a Wholesale Customer later.

However, you could still use the simple code I pasted above and modify it to also check for a specific role or capability before showing prices and add to cart buttons. Then, you could use one of the free role/capability manager plugins to create your own unique role for your wholesale customers, and then change the role of the user to that role after you have reviewed their application.

You would have to change the first line of the code to something like:

if(is_user_logged_in() && current_user_can('your_role_or_capability_goes_here') return $price;

changing the your_role_or_capability_goes_here text to the slug version of your custom role or capability that you created for your wholesale customer.

@other guy

Haha – that’s funny. I know I can be stupid sometimes but this is one of my favorite faux pas of all time.

thanks so much for the help guys – seems like I’m going to be going with the plugin you’re BOTH recommending haha. I think I’m going to use gravity forms and link it with my mailchimp account…that seems to be the easiest way to approve/disapprove wholesale applicants. But I’m assuming that’ll work with your plugin to hide add to cart/checkout functionality until they’re approved as a ‘wholesale user’. I’m set on keeping my retail site and wholesale site different as different products are offered on each..but as long as I can hide the add to cart buttons and checkout buttons until they’re logged in that’s perfect.

thanks again,
Dan