Vendor Automation is a PRO feature set introduced in Split Pay 3.8.0. Every feature here is optional and disabled by default — enabling Vendor Onboarding alone changes nothing about how your site behaves.

Vendor Automation turns Vendor Onboarding into a fully hands-off flow. Without it, you have to create a product for each vendor and assign the vendor's connected account to it by hand. With it, the moment a vendor finishes connecting their Stripe account:

  1. A WooCommerce product is created automatically and assigned to their connected account at your configured vendor share percentage.
  2. The vendor gets a payment QR code linking to that product, ready to share, print, or download.
  3. The vendor and/or the customer receive an email whenever a payment is transferred.
  4. Customers see a custom "money sent" message on the order-received page.

Together with a Name Your Price plugin, this lets you run a "scan to pay any amount" marketplace — tip jars, donations, peer-to-peer vendor payments — with zero per-vendor admin work. See Accept any-amount payments with QR codes for the full recipe.

Where to find the settings

Go to Split Pay settings → Vendor Onboarding and scroll to the Vendor Automation section.

The Vendor Automation section of the Vendor Onboarding settings tab
The Vendor Automation section on the Vendor Onboarding tab (shown with every feature enabled).
SettingDefaultWhat it does
Automatically create a product for each vendorOffCreates and assigns a product when a vendor completes Stripe onboarding. See Automatic Vendor Products.
Vendor share (%)85Percentage of each sale transferred to the vendor on auto-created products. The remainder stays with your platform account.
When a vendor disconnectsKeep the product publishedChoose whether a disconnecting vendor's product stays published (with the account assignment removed) or is set to draft.
Give each vendor a payment QR codeOffShows a downloadable QR code linking to the vendor's product. See Vendor Payment QR Codes.
Email vendors when they receive a paymentOffSends the vendor a "You received a payment" email per successful transfer. See Transaction Emails.
Email customers when their money is sentOffSends the customer a "Your money was sent" confirmation, at most once per order.
Customize the order-received messageOffReplaces the default thank-you text for orders containing split-pay products. See Custom Order-Received Message.

Requirements

  • Split Pay PRO with Vendor Onboarding configured.
  • WooCommerce with a supported Stripe gateway connected to your platform account.
  • Optional but recommended: a Name Your Price plugin (see Automatic Vendor Products) so customers can choose the amount they pay.

In this section

Building on these features in code? See Developer Filters for the 3.8.0 vendor onboarding & automation hooks.