How to Let WCFM Marketplace Vendors Sell Google Meet Meetings

On a WCFM Marketplace store, a vendor who teaches or coaches needs somewhere to schedule live sessions and sell the seats. GoodMeet adds that to the WCFM vendor dashboard. Setup takes two WCFM plugins, so the first step covers both.

Each vendor gets a Google Meeting area in their WCFM dashboard. There they create and manage their own Google Meet meetings, and they can sell a seat in a meeting as a product.

By the end of this guide, you will have:

• WooCommerce, WCFM Marketplace, WCFM Frontend Manager, GoodMeet and GoodMeet Pro installed and activated
• Your Google account connected to GoodMeet
• The WCFM Marketplace 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

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 WCFM vendor
• 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 WCFM #

First, make sure WooCommerce and WCFM are installed and activated. WCFM needs two plugins: WCFM Marketplace for the marketplace and WCFM Frontend Manager for the vendor dashboard.

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

Next, install WCFM.

1. Go to Plugins > Add New Plugin again.
2. Search for WCFM Marketplace, then click Install Now and Activate.
3. Search for WCFM Frontend Manager, then click Install Now and Activate.

Step 2: Install and activate GoodMeet and GoodMeet Pro #

GoodMeet creates the Google Meet links and calendar events. GoodMeet Pro adds the WCFM 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 WCFM Marketplace integration #

GoodMeet adds the vendor area only while both its WCFM switch and the WCFM plugins are active. WooCommerce has its own switch too, and it powers the product link 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 and find the WCFM Marketplace card.
4. If the card shows Activate WCFM Marketplace, click it to activate the plugin, then come back.
5. Turn the WCFM Marketplace switch on. The card then reads Active.

Step 5: Decide whose Google account vendors use #

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.

1. Go to GoodMeet > Settings and click Meetings.
2. In the Calendar group, leave Vendors use their own calendar off, or turn it on.
3. Click Save changes.

The MultiVendorX guide shows this switch with screenshots in its Step 5. Administrators always schedule with the site’s account, even if they also own a store.

Now comes the vendor’s part. The next steps happen in the vendor’s WCFM dashboard.

Step 6: Open Google Meeting in the vendor menu #

GoodMeet adds a Google Meeting group to the WCFM menu of every vendor, right above Customers.

1. The vendor signs in and opens their WCFM dashboard.
2. In the menu, they click Google Meeting, then All Meetings.
3. With Vendors use their own calendar on, the menu also shows Configure. If GoodMeet Classroom is on and the vendor can teach, Live classes appears too.

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. The card has a Connect Google Account button.

1. The vendor clicks Connect Google Account, or Configure in the menu.
2. They upload the OAuth JSON file of their own Google Cloud Web application client.
3. In Google Cloud, they add the redirect URL shown on this screen as an authorized redirect URI.
4. They click Continue to Google, pick their account and allow calendar access.

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 steps match How to connect your Google account to GoodMeet.

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: name, 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.

Step 9: Link the meeting to a product #

Linking a product to a meeting is what turns a sale into a seat.

1. In WCFM, the vendor opens Products and adds a new product or edits one.
2. They tick Virtual, since a meeting has nothing to ship.
3. In the Google Meeting block, they tick Select meeting as product?.
4. In Choose Meeting, they pick one of their meetings.
5. They click Submit.

With Select meeting as product? ticked, WCFM requires both fields. A missing Virtual shows Is virtual: This field is required. and a missing meeting shows Choice Meeting: This field is required.

Step 10: Check the result #

Open the product in a private browser window to see it the way a customer does. Customers buy the meeting like any other product, and a Meeting Details tab lists the meeting title, start time and time zone.

GoodMeet takes over once the order goes through:

• A customer can buy one seat per 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.

Benefits of using GoodMeet with WCFM #

• A menu vendors already open: Google Meeting sits in the WCFM menu, right above Customers.
• Half-linked products cannot be saved: with Select meeting as product? ticked, WCFM refuses to save until the product is virtual and has a meeting.
• The link goes out with the order: the order email carries the Join Google Meet link. The buyer’s billing email also joins the Google Calendar event.
• WCFM commissions as usual: meeting products are normal WooCommerce products, so WCFM pays vendors the usual way.

Troubleshooting #

Vendors do not see a Google Meeting menu #

GoodMeet adds the menu only while the integration and both WCFM plugins are active.

Check that:

• The WCFM Marketplace card is on in GoodMeet > Integrations.
• WCFM Marketplace and WCFM Frontend Manager are both active.
• The user is a WCFM vendor.

Saving a product shows “Is virtual: This field is required.” #

The product has Select meeting as product? ticked but is not virtual. Tick Virtual and save again.

Saving a product shows “Choice Meeting: This field is required.” #

Select meeting as product? is ticked but no meeting is chosen. The vendor creates a meeting in All Meetings first if the list is empty, then picks it in Choose Meeting.

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.

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.

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 Select meeting as product? ticked and a meeting chosen.

Frequently asked questions #

Do I need both WCFM plugins? #

Yes. WCFM Marketplace runs the marketplace and WCFM Frontend Manager draws the vendor dashboard where the Google Meeting menu lives.

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 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, WCFM and GoodMeet up to date.

You’re ready to let WCFM vendors sell meetings #

WCFM vendors can now schedule Google Meet sessions under Google Meeting and sell each seat as a virtual product. Next, see how the other marketplaces and WooCommerce selling work.

• How to let MultiVendorX vendors sell Google Meet meetings with GoodMeet
• How to let Dokan vendors sell Google Meet meetings with GoodMeet
• How to sell Google Meet meetings with WooCommerce
• How to connect your Google account to GoodMeet