How to Let MultiVendorX Vendors Sell Google Meet Meetings

Your MultiVendorX vendors already sell products from their store dashboards. With GoodMeet, they can also sell live Google Meet sessions there, such as a one-to-one consultation. You set up the site side first, then each vendor follows a few steps of their own.

Each vendor gets a Google Meeting area in their own store dashboard. There they create and manage Google Meet meetings, and they can sell a seat in a meeting as a product. Running Dokan or WCFM instead? See the Dokan guide or the WCFM guide.

By the end of this guide, you will have:

• WooCommerce, MultiVendorX, GoodMeet and GoodMeet Pro installed and activated
• Your Google account connected to GoodMeet
• The MultiVendorX integration turned on
• A decision on whether vendors use your Google calendar or their own
• A vendor meeting linked to a product that customers can buy
• Customers who receive the meeting details after their order is completed

Before you begin #

Make sure you have:

• A WordPress site, such as Brightpath Academy at brightpath.example.com
• An administrator account, such as Emily Clark’s
• At least one approved vendor (the store owner of an active MultiVendorX store)
• The Google account your site’s meetings should belong to
• A GoodMeet Pro license, for the Pro features in this guide

Let’s get started.

Step 1: Install WooCommerce and MultiVendorX #

First, make sure WooCommerce and MultiVendorX are installed and activated. GoodMeet adds its vendor area to the MultiVendorX dashboard, and WooCommerce handles the products and orders.

1. In the WordPress admin menu, go to Plugins > Add New Plugin.
2. Search for WooCommerce.
3. Click Install Now, then Activate.

Next, install MultiVendorX.

1. Go to Plugins > Add New Plugin again.
2. Search for MultiVendorX.
3. Click Install Now, then Activate.

Step 2: Install and activate GoodMeet #

GoodMeet creates the Google Meet links and calendar events. GoodMeet Pro adds the MultiVendorX and WooCommerce integrations on top.

1. Go to Plugins > Add New Plugin.
2. Search for GoodMeet.
3. Click Install Now, then Activate.

To use the Pro features in this guide, add GoodMeet Pro from inside GoodMeet. There is nothing to upload.

1. In WordPress admin, open GoodMeet and click Upgrade, then complete the checkout.
2. Go to GoodMeet > Account. Your license shows there, and GoodMeet offers to install GoodMeet Pro.
3. Install GoodMeet Pro, then activate it. If GoodMeet shows Activate Pro, click it.

Step 3: Connect your Google account #

GoodMeet cannot create Meet links until it can reach a Google account. By default, every vendor meeting uses this account.

1. Go to GoodMeet > Settings and click Connect.
2. Upload the JSON file from your Google Cloud project.
3. Click Continue to Google.
4. Choose your Google account and allow calendar access.

Read our step-by-step Google setup guide for the full walkthrough.

Step 4: Turn on the MultiVendorX integration #

GoodMeet adds the vendor area only while both its switch and the MultiVendorX plugin are active. WooCommerce has its own switch too, and it powers the product link, the Meeting Details tab and the order email.

1. Go to GoodMeet > Integrations.
2. Check that the WooCommerce card reads Active. If not, turn its switch on.
3. Scroll to the Marketplaces group.
4. On the MultiVendorX card, turn the switch on. The card then reads Active.

Step 5: Decide whose Google account vendors use #

This one switch decides where vendor meetings land, so pick it before vendors start creating meetings. There are two modes:

• Vendors use the site’s Google account (default). Every vendor meeting goes into the Google Calendar you connected in Step 3. Vendors do no setup.
• Vendors use their own calendar. Each vendor connects their own Google account from a Configure page. Their meetings land in their own Google Calendar, under their own name.

Administrators always schedule with the site’s account, even if they also own a store.

1. Go to GoodMeet > Settings and click Meetings.
2. Scroll to the Calendar group. Vendors use their own calendar is the first row.
3. Hover the info icon to read what it does. When on, vendors get a Configure page under Google Meeting in their dashboard. There they link their own Google account.

Leave the switch off to keep every meeting in one calendar. To let vendors use their own Google account:

1. Turn Vendors use their own calendar on.
2. Click Save changes in the bar at the bottom of the screen.

Step 6: Open Google Meeting in the vendor dashboard #

From here on, the vendor does the work in their MultiVendorX store dashboard. The steps are the same for every vendor.

1. The vendor signs in and opens the store dashboard.
2. In the sidebar, they click Google Meeting, then All Meetings.
3. With Vendors use their own calendar on, the menu also shows Configure.

All Meetings opens the same meeting list and step-by-step form that instructors use on the front end. Vendors see and edit only their own meetings.

Step 7: Connect the vendor’s own Google account (Configure) #

Skip this step if Vendors use their own calendar is off.

While the vendor is not connected, All Meetings shows a Setup Required card titled Power your meetings with Google Calendar. It lists three steps: Go to Configure settings, Sign in with Google and Start creating meetings.

1. The vendor clicks Connect Google Account. Their Configure page opens inside the MultiVendorX dashboard.

1. In the Connect section, the vendor uploads the OAuth JSON file of their own Google Cloud Web application client. The steps match How to connect your Google account to GoodMeet.
2. In Google Cloud, the vendor adds the redirect URL shown on this screen as an authorized redirect URI.
3. They click Continue to Google, pick their account and allow calendar access.
4. Google sends them back to the same Configure page in their dashboard.

The redirect URL looks like this:

https://brightpath.example.com/?goodmeet_vendor_oauth=1

Your actual URL may look different. Always copy it from your own GoodMeet settings.

The Configure page also has a Meetings section. There the vendor sets their own Time zone, Notification reminder, Event status, registration and recurring defaults, then clicks Save changes. Calendar and meeting page options stay with the site owner.

Step 8: Create a meeting as the vendor #

Each product sells a seat in one meeting, so the vendor creates the meeting first.

1. In Google Meeting > All Meetings, the vendor clicks Add new.
2. They fill in the steps: title, date and time, then who can join.
3. They click Create meeting. GoodMeet creates the Google Calendar event and the Meet link.

If the vendor sees Connect your Google account to create this meeting., they have not finished Step 7. Vendors on the site’s account see Google Meet is not connected on this site yet. Ask the site administrator to connect it. if your site connection is missing.

Step 9: Link the meeting to a product #

Linking a product to a meeting is what turns a sale into a seat. On MultiVendorX 5, the vendor does this in their own product editor.

1. In the store dashboard, the vendor opens Products and adds a new product or edits an existing one.
2. In the right column, they find the Google Meeting card.
3. They tick Sell a meeting with this product.
4. In Meeting, they pick one of their own meetings from Choose a meeting.
5. They save the product as usual.

The card lists only the vendor’s own published meetings. Until a meeting is chosen, it shows the reminder Choose the meeting this product sells. Saving the product links the meeting back to it.

Link a meeting from WordPress admin #

As the site owner, you can also link a vendor’s meeting from WordPress admin, for example to fix a product for a vendor.

1. Go to Products and open the vendor’s product, or click Add new product.
2. In Product data, keep Simple product and tick Virtual.
3. Click the Google Meeting tab.
4. Tick Meeting product? and pick the meeting in Meeting.

1. Click the Store tab and choose the vendor’s store in Assign Store, if it is not set yet.
2. Click Publish or Update.

Step 10: Check the result on the product page #

Open the product in a private browser window to see it the way a customer does. Customers buy the meeting like any other product, with the price and an Add to cart button.

A Meeting Details tab under the product lists the meeting title, start time and time zone.

What customers get after they buy #

GoodMeet takes over once the order goes through:

• A customer can buy one seat per meeting product. A second add to cart shows This product is already in your cart. You can only purchase one quantity because it’s a meeting product.
• When the order is Completed, GoodMeet adds the buyer’s billing email as a guest on the Google Calendar event.
• The order email includes Your Meeting Information, with the start time, the meeting page and a Join Google Meet link.
• In My account, the customer finds the meeting under Meetings.

Benefits of using GoodMeet with MultiVendorX #

• Linked from the product editor: on MultiVendorX 5, vendors attach a meeting from the Google Meeting card in their own product editor.
• Commission follows the store: a meeting product is a normal WooCommerce product, and Assign Store decides which vendor gets the sale and the commission.
• Vendors sell only their own meetings: GoodMeet blocks a vendor from linking a meeting another user created.
• One calendar or many: keep every meeting in the site calendar, or let each vendor connect their own Google account.

Troubleshooting #

Vendors do not see a Google Meeting menu #

GoodMeet adds the menu only for approved vendors, while the integration and the marketplace plugin are both active.

Check that:

• The MultiVendorX card is on in GoodMeet > Integrations.
• MultiVendorX is active.
• The user is an approved MultiVendorX vendor.

Vendors see Configure but you want one shared calendar #

Vendors use their own calendar is on.

1. Go to GoodMeet > Settings > Meetings.
2. In the Calendar group, turn Vendors use their own calendar off.
3. Click Save changes. The Configure item disappears and every meeting uses the site’s account.

The vendor sees “Connect your Google account to create this meeting.” #

Vendors use their own calendar is on and the vendor has not connected Google yet. Ask the vendor to open Configure and finish the connection in Step 7.

The Google Meeting card on a MultiVendorX product has no meetings #

The card lists only the vendor’s own published meetings. When there are none, it reads You have no meetings yet. Create one under Google Meeting, then come back to link it.

1. The vendor creates a meeting in Google Meeting > All Meetings.
2. They reload the product editor and pick the meeting.

Saving a MultiVendorX product shows “You can only sell your own meetings.” #

GoodMeet blocks a vendor from linking a meeting another user created. The vendor needs to pick one of their own meetings, or create one first. Administrators can link any meeting.

The Meeting list on a product in WordPress admin is empty #

The list shows only meetings created by the product’s author. Meetings from another user, or drafts, do not appear. Create the meeting as the vendor who owns the product, or make the vendor the product’s author.

Google sends the vendor back without connecting #

The redirect URL in the vendor’s Google Cloud client does not match, or the JSON file is not a Web application client.

Check that:

• The redirect URL was copied from the vendor’s Configure page into Google Cloud.
• It was added under Authorized redirect URIs.
• The JSON file belongs to a Web application client.

Then click Continue to Google again.

The customer did not get the meeting link #

GoodMeet adds the buyer and sends the details only when the order status is Completed.

Check that:

• The order is Completed in WooCommerce > Orders.
• The product has a meeting linked: Sell a meeting with this product on the MultiVendorX card, or Meeting product? in WordPress admin.

Frequently asked questions #

Do vendors need a Google Cloud project? #

No, not by default. Only when Vendors use their own calendar is on does each vendor upload their own OAuth client file.

Can a vendor see other vendors’ meetings? #

No. Each vendor sees and edits only the meetings they created.

Can a vendor link a meeting to a product in MultiVendorX 5? #

Yes. The Google Meeting card in the vendor’s product editor lets them tick Sell a meeting with this product and pick one of their meetings.

Can I run Dokan and MultiVendorX at once? #

Yes, technically: each has its own switch. Most stores run one marketplace plugin. See the Dokan guide and the WCFM guide.

Does a vendor who is also an administrator use their own calendar? #

No. Administrators always schedule with the site’s Google account.

Can a customer buy two seats in one order? #

No. A meeting product is limited to one per cart. Each attendee buys their own seat.

Security best practices #

• Turn on Vendors use their own calendar only if vendors need their meetings under their own name. One site account is easier to manage.
• Ask vendors to create their own Google Cloud client. Never share your site’s JSON file with a vendor.
• Approve vendors before they can sell, so only trusted people create meetings that customers pay for.
• When a vendor leaves, ask them to disconnect Google from Configure, then remove their vendor access.
• Keep WordPress, WooCommerce, MultiVendorX and GoodMeet up to date.

You’re ready to let MultiVendorX vendors sell meetings #

MultiVendorX vendors can now create Google Meet meetings in their store dashboard and link each one to a product. A completed order adds the buyer to the meeting’s calendar event. Next, choose how the meeting page looks and set up the accounts your vendors need.

• How to connect your Google account to GoodMeet
• How to sell Google Meet meetings with WooCommerce
• How to let Dokan vendors sell Google Meet meetings with GoodMeet
• How to let WCFM Marketplace vendors sell Google Meet meetings with GoodMeet
• How to set default meeting settings with GoodMeet
• How to let instructors create meetings from the front end with GoodMeet
• How to choose a meeting page theme with GoodMeet