Why does Admin need shipping methods as well as vendors?

Hello, this feels like kind of a silly question, but this is my first cs-cart marketplace and setting shipping seems more complicated than it needs to be: I’m not clear on why Admin needs to set up shipping methods, if CS-Cart seems to mostly offload that onto the vendors? Do I really want vendors using my API credentials for shippers to do their shipments? If vendors can set up their own methods with their own keys and their own shipper accounts, why do they need mine? What does a vendor gain by using a combination of my methods, and their own?

I’m sure this is a silly question with an obvious answer (that I can’t find a discussion of, either in docs or the forum…), but it’s hanging up getting my market launched so thought I’d ask!

Thanks in advance!

Hello

Sometimes it’s the marketplace model that globally defined shippings are useful. If you don’t need to use it, don’t set global deliveries and let vendors do it themselves.

Have a nice day :slight_smile:

Best regards
Robert

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