The admin has the right to enable or disable the features of extensions and add-ons. Thus, to allow the vendors to purchase a subscription and enable vendors to avail the facilities available in this add-on, the admin has to enable Vendor Membership Addon.

To enable vendor membership

1. Go to the Admin
2. On the left navigation bar, click the MARKETPLACE menu, and then click Vendor Configuration.
   The Configuration page appears as shown in the following figure:
   
3. Click the General tab.
4. Under General, in the Enable Vendor Membership System list, select Yes.
   Note: If the admin selects the No option, then the vendors are not allowed to avail the Vendor Memberships facilities.
5. Click the Save Config button.
   After saving the vendor configuration two changes will appear:A. Vendor Membership Rates Duration in the configuration where Admin can set the duration of the membership plans and it will be visible while creating a membership plan.

   

   B. Vendor Membership in the submenu of the MARKETPLACE menu, available on the left navigation bar of the Admin panel, as shown in the following figure: