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AEC Market – Skills & Programs Marketplace

AEC Market - multi-vendor WooCommerce marketplace for AEC/BIM, Excel and AI builders: digital products with license keys plus tiered services

by AEC Market · github.com/ibuilder/aec-market · website

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/ibuilder/aec-market/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.

Readme github.com/ibuilder/aec-market ↗

An Envato-style multi-vendor marketplace for AEC/BIM specialists, Excel/automation experts and AI tool authors, built on WooCommerce. Independent builders list and sell digital products (scripts, Excel templates, Revit/IFC add-ins, GPTs) with license keys and tiered services (Basic / Standard / Premium) side by side.

Docs & demo page: https://ibuilder.github.io/aec-market/

Features

Vendor onboarding — front-end application form, manual or automatic approval, dedicated vendor role with minimal capabilities.
Vendor dashboard — front-end tabs for products, orders, earnings and store settings. Vendors never need wp-admin.
Digital products with licensing — downloadable products generate unique license keys on purchase, with per-license activation limits and a public REST API for activation checks from your sold scripts and add-ins.
Tiered services — Fiverr-style Basic / Standard / Premium packages with per-tier pricing, descriptions and delivery times. Tier prices are always re-validated server-side.
Commissions — configurable platform commission (global default plus per-vendor overrides), recorded per line item on order completion and automatically voided on refunds and cancellations.
Payout tracking — vendors store PayPal / Stripe Connect payout details; admins review pending earnings and mark commissions paid.
Marketplace catalog — "Programs & Scripts" and "Services" category trees seeded on activation, ?listing_type= archive filtering, "Sold by" attribution and public vendor store pages.
Standards-friendly — passes the official Plugin Check and full WordPress Coding Standards (WPCS), HPOS-compatible, translation-ready, theme-overridable templates.

Requirements

Requirement	Version
WordPress	6.2+
WooCommerce	8.0+
PHP	7.4+

Installation

Install and activate WooCommerce.
Download the latest aec-market.zip from dist/ (or clone this repo into wp-content/plugins/aec-market).
Activate AEC Market – Skills & Programs Marketplace in Plugins.
Review AEC Market → Settings (commission rate, approval mode, allowed upload types).
Point vendors at the automatically created Become a Vendor page and approve applications under AEC Market → Vendors.

Activation creates the Vendor Dashboard, Become a Vendor and Vendor Store pages, plus the default marketplace category tree.

Shortcodes

Shortcode	Purpose
`[wpaec_vendor_registration]`	Vendor application form
`[wpaec_vendor_dashboard]`	Vendor dashboard (products, orders, earnings, settings)
`[wpaec_vendor_store]`	Public vendor store — `?vendor={id}` or `vendor` attribute

License REST API

Sold scripts and add-ins can phone home to validate their license:

POST /wp-json/wpaec/v1/license/activate     { "license_key": "...", "instance": "..." }
POST /wp-json/wpaec/v1/license/deactivate   { "license_key": "...", "instance": "..." }
GET  /wp-json/wpaec/v1/license/validate?license_key=...

The license key itself is the credential; no personal data is returned.

Extending

Key hooks (all prefixed wpaecmarket_):

wpaecmarket_commission_rate — filter the commission percentage per vendor.
wpaecmarket_commission_recorded — fires per recorded commission; use it to layer on Stripe Connect auto-splits.
wpaecmarket_vendor_applied / wpaecmarket_vendor_approved / wpaecmarket_vendor_deactivated — vendor lifecycle.
wpaecmarket_vendor_product_saved — after a vendor saves a listing from the dashboard.
wpaecmarket_license_created — after a license key is generated.

Templates in templates/ can be overridden by copying them to yourtheme/aec-market/.

Development

composer global require wp-coding-standards/wpcs
phpcs --standard=phpcs.xml.dist .

The phpcs.xml.dist ruleset runs the full WordPress standard. dist/aec-market.zip is the WordPress.org submission build — dev files listed in .distignore are excluded from it.