The Product Vendors extension by WooCommerce models each vendor as a term of the wcpv_vendors taxonomy. Vendor settings (PayPal email, commission rate, vendor admin user ids) live in termmeta. Every order line that belongs to a vendor creates a row in the wcpv_commissions table with order id, product id, vendor id, vendor admin id, status (unpaid, paid, void), amount, and timestamps. Orders themselves still live in WooCommerce's order store (wc_orders under HPOS, shop_order posts otherwise).

The default admin lists commissions per vendor with a fixed column set and forces clicks to each commission to mark it paid or void. Filtering unpaid commissions across all vendors, grouping them into payout batches, or building leaderboards by gross sales versus net commission all require custom queries. Product Vendors offers no joined view of orders, commissions, and vendors in the standard admin.

SleekView reads wcpv_commissions, joins the wcpv_vendors taxonomy terms with their termmeta, and surfaces order context from the active WooCommerce order store. Inline status changes route through the plugin's CRUD so payout-notification emails still fire. Marketplace ops, finance, and vendor management all share one source.

Marketplaces grow by adding vendors, and every new vendor multiplies the operational load on the same admin screens. Product Vendors stores commission lines in wcpv_commissions with one row per vendor per order line, vendor metadata in wcpv_vendors termmeta, and orders in the active WooCommerce order store. The data model is clean; the default admin's per-vendor pagination is what slows operators down.

A finance team closing the month wants every unpaid commission in one filtered view, summed per vendor, ready for a PayPal MassPay export. A vendor manager wants a quarterly leaderboard sorted by net commission. Support needs per-vendor history without opening five tabs.

The default admin doesn't ship those screens because most stores don't need them until vendor count crosses fifty. SleekView pivots wcpv_commissions into a cross-vendor workspace with termmeta as columns, status filters as facets, and inline edits routed through the plugin's CRUD. The same source feeds vendor-scoped views for self-service.

The schema has been carrying this weight all along; SleekView just exposes it.