WC Vendors stores vendor applications and commissions in custom tables that sit alongside WooCommerce. Vendors live as users with the vendor role plus a pending or approved flag managed through the WC Vendors approvals screen. Commissions are stored in the pv_commission table with a status field that takes due, paid, and reversed. The default admin offers one screen for vendor approvals and another for commissions, which forces marketplace operators to bounce between them constantly.

SleekView Kanban reads each of these sources directly. Point the board at vendor applications and the Pending column is the approval queue. Approved applicants land in Approved, rejected ones land in Rejected, and the seller dashboard activates immediately on approval. Point the board at commissions and finance works Due left to right, drags each commission row into Paid as the payout clears, and the underlying pv_commission row updates with full hook coverage.

Dragging a commission from Due to Paid calls the same WC Vendors commission update API the admin uses. Vendor notifications fire, commission reports recalculate, and any add-on listening for the commission status change reacts normally. Vendor approvals call the same WC Vendors approval helper, which writes the user meta, fires the welcome email, and unlocks the seller dashboard so the new vendor can start adding products on their next login.

Marketplace operations break down at the seam between vendor sign-up, fulfillment, and finance, and WC Vendors is no exception. The default admin gives vendor approvals their own screen and commissions their own screen, which works fine when the marketplace has a handful of vendors but turns into constant tab-switching once volume picks up. Vendor applications go uninspected for days because nobody happens to open that screen.

Commission payouts get processed at the bank, but the underlying pv_commission rows stay marked Due because the staff member who pressed Send forgot to come back and update the marketplace. Refunded orders generate reversed commissions that pile up invisibly. A board per source fixes the shape of the work.

Vendor approvals are a column you actively drain. The Due commission column is a queue with a clear start and a clear finish, and dragging through it both processes the work and updates the database in the same step. Reversed commissions get their own column for review instead of disappearing into a filter dropdown.

The data stays in WC Vendors. The interface finally maps onto the real-life operations of a marketplace team.