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# Getting started
### 1. Plugin Installation
#### Method 1: Manual Plugin Upload
1. Locate the file **`togo-marketplace.zip`** inside the **`plugins`** folder of the package downloaded from ThemeForest.
2. Log in to your **WordPress Admin Dashboard**.
3. Navigate to **Plugins → Add New**.
4. Click **Upload Plugin**.
5. Select the file **`togo-marketplace.zip`** and click **Install Now**.
6. After installation is complete, click **Activate** to enable the plugin.
#### Method 2: Install via Theme Setup Wizard
1. Log in to your **WordPress Admin Dashboard**.
2. When prompted, click **Begin Installing Plugin**.
3. Locate **Togo Marketplace** in the required plugins list.
4. Click **Install** and wait for the process to complete.
5. Activate the plugin when prompted.
After installing the plugin, you need to import the following template file (vendor-marketplaces.zip) into Elementor:
{% file src="/files/HGcOvp31WlDidCwUxHzf" %}
Go to **Elementor → Editor → Templates → Import Templates → Select the downloaded ZIP file → Import Now → Continue**.
Then follow the instructions here to create the required pages before getting started: [Create pages](/togo-wordpress/vendor-marketplace/create-vendor-marketplace-pages.md)
### 2.What Togo Marketplace does
It turns your Togo travel site into a marketplace: many vendors can list tours (trips), customers book and pay (via WooCommerce), and vendors manage listings, bookings, messages, earnings, and payouts from the front end.
**What you need**
* WordPress with the Togo theme and related Togo booking features.
* Togo Marketplace plugin (this plugin).
* Elementor — vendor tools are added as widgets in the Marketplace category.
* WooCommerce — for checkout, orders, and discount coupons.
**Important setup (site owner)**
In the WordPress admin, go to **Settings** → **Togo Marketplace** and link each feature to a page, then drop in the matching widgets (Create Trip, Booking List, My Tours, etc.). Until those pages are set, some menu links may not work as expected.
**Multi-vendor support**
Several independent vendors can sell tours on the same website. Each vendor has their own WordPress user account with the Vendor role, a vendor profile (business information shown to customers), and tours they create or that are assigned to them. Customers see all tours together; each tour is tied to the vendor who offers it.
For site owners (administrators):
* Vendor role: The plugin creates a Vendor user role with permissions to manage their own trips, media, and related content.
* Vendor profiles: Vendors appear as Vendors in the admin (custom type). You can mark vendors as verified and active so only trusted, approved businesses appear in public listings (inactive vendors can be hidden from archives).
* Registration workflow: You can turn on Auto-Activate Vendor in Togo Marketplace settings so new vendor accounts are marked active automatically, or leave it off and activate vendors manually after review.
* Demo content (optional): Under Developer Tools on the same settings screen, you can generate or remove demo vendor accounts for testing (best on staging sites).
For vendors
* Sign in with your vendor account. Use the vendor dashboard and linked pages (tours, bookings, messages, etc.) built with Elementor.
**Advanced commission system**
The platform commission is the percentage of each sale that belongs to the site owner; the rest is treated as the vendor’s side of the revenue for earnings and reporting. In Togo Marketplace, this rate is configured once for the entire marketplace.
For administrators
* Open Settings → Togo Marketplace.
* Set Vendor Commission (%) to a number from 0 to 100.
* Example: 15 means the platform keeps 15% and the vendor’s net share is calculated from the remaining 85% (exact wording on invoices and reports follows your theme and booking templates).
* When you change this percentage, new calculations and dashboards use the updated setting; individual bookings may still show the rate that was stored when the booking was created (so records stay understandable over time).
For vendors
* On booking and earnings screens, you can see gross amounts, commission, and net earnings so you know what the platform fee was for a given booking.
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