WooCommerce Frontend Manager (WCFM) is the multi-store / multi-vendor frontend dashboard that sits in front of WooCommerce. Products and orders that WCFM users create still write to the standard WooCommerce stores: wc_orders for HPOS-enabled sites or shop_order posts otherwise, wp_posts (post_type=product) plus wp_postmeta for products. WCFM adds its own tables: wcfm_messages for store-manager chat, wcfm_enquiries for product enquiries, and wcfm_notifications for system messages.

The WCFM dashboard works well for the store managers but site admins still need to oversee, audit, and intervene across every managed store at once. The default WCFM admin keeps screens vendor-scoped, and core WooCommerce admin doesn't distinguish frontend-created records from backend ones. Bulk audits (which products were edited by frontend managers in the last week, which enquiries are unanswered, which managers have unread notifications) require either custom queries or scrolling through vendor dashboards one at a time.

SleekView pivots WCFM-managed inventory and the WCFM-specific tables into joined admin views. Add _wcfm_product_owner or vendor user id as a column on products to filter frontend-managed items, surface wcfm_enquiries response time as a leaderboard, and inline-resolve unanswered messages without leaving WP admin.

WooCommerce Frontend Manager solves a real problem: giving store managers a frontend dashboard so they don't need wp-admin access for daily work. The cost is that site admins lose the per-store overview they had when everything went through the backend admin. Open enquiries, recent message threads, and pending product edits get distributed across as many frontend dashboards as the site has stores, and there's no single screen that shows the whole picture.

The data is consistent: wcfm_enquiries, wcfm_messages, and wcfm_notifications are flat tables with manager user ids and timestamps, and frontend-created products carry _wcfm_product_owner in postmeta. SleekView reassembles them into admin tables that pivot manager id and product id as facets, surface response time as a sortable column, and let site admins resolve or reassign without entering each frontend store. Marketplace moderation, store-manager success, and customer-side enquiry response all share one workspace.

WCFM keeps doing what it does well; SleekView adds the backend X-ray the multi-store admin actually needs.