EDD Frontend Submissions turns Easy Digital Downloads into a multi-vendor marketplace by letting vendors submit products from the frontend. The default admin scatters that workflow across the standard Downloads list, vendor accounts as a custom role on wp_users, and commissions stored separately in edd_commissions. Approving a queue of pending submissions usually means opening each download post, checking the vendor in postmeta, and toggling status one product at a time.

SleekView reads wp_posts (post_type=download) joined with wp_postmeta for the vendor (_fes_author), commission rate, and submission status, then layers edd_commissions on top so an approver can see pending submissions, the vendor's prior commission history, and current payout status in one row. Filter to post_status=pending for the moderation queue, sort vendors by lifetime commission, or build a vendor-rooted view that surfaces all of their downloads and earnings at once.

Inline edits to product status or commission rate route through the EDD and Frontend Submissions CRUD paths where exposed, so vendor-notification emails and commission-recalculation hooks still fire. Bulk-approving twenty queued products uses the same code path the default admin does, just in one keystroke instead of forty clicks.

Running a digital marketplace on EDD Frontend Submissions is half a content workflow and half a financial one, and the default admin treats them as completely separate jobs. Moderators want to see pending submissions with vendor reputation context, not just a product post with a price. Finance wants commissions joined with downloads and vendor emails for a clean payout reconciliation, not three separate tabs.

Vendor success teams want lifetime activity per vendor to spot dormancy or growth, which means rolling up submissions, sales, and commission totals into one row per vendor. None of that lives in one screen by default because the schema is split across wp_posts, wp_users, wp_postmeta, and edd_commissions. SleekView composes those joins as saved views, gated by role, so each team gets the workspace that matches their actual job.

The underlying writes still route through EDD's CRUD layer, so commission creation and approval emails behave the same as before, just triggered from a much faster surface.