[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) ☰ Documentation # What is HikaMarket Details Category: [Global informations](/support/documentation/hikamarket/global-informations) Published: 07 November 2012 Hits: 21736 HikaMarket is an HikaShop add-on ; a Joomla! component which provide front-edition and multi-vendor features to an HikaShop store. There are two differents versions of HikaMarket : **front-edition** and **multi-vendor**. Thanks to HikaMarket, you (and your vendors) can manage a store directly from the front-end, editing your products, seeing your orders... And much more ! HikaMarket multi-vendor include all features of HikaMarket front-edition plus the multi-vendor feature ; allowing you to sell products of external vendors and let them manage theirs products and theirs orders. Because it is an add-on, it needs HikaShop (and Joomla!) to work ; you can use it with all HikaShop versions (starter, essential and business). ### HikaMarket Main Features - ![](/images/stories/hikamarket/frontend_180.png) **Front-edition** : Edit and manage directly from your front-end - Products & variants - Characteristics - Categories - Orders - Discounts - Customers - Share the store management with several users - Full ACL system: limit the rights of the users in the front-end edition - ![](/images/stories/hikamarket/multivendor_180.png) **Multi-vendor** : Allow external users sell in your store - *all features of HikaMarket front-edition* - Vendor registration and approval : decide who can sell in your store - Sub order per vendor : Your vendors just see what they have the right too - Full ACL system : limit the right of your vendors - Flexible fee system - Several users per vendor - Vendor notifications - Shipping per vendor - Paypal adaptive payments ### Why these two versions? When we started to work in HikaMarket, we wanted to create a multi-vendor component but we realized that it can be also useful to manage his store directly from the front-end without having this multi-vendor feature. You can have a classical store and don't want to access to the Joomla backend to manage your orders or you might not want to give the right to a user to access to the all Joomla backend. One interesting point with the ACL system in HikaMarket is that you can decide what feature a user will have access. So you can give to a user only the right to edit the product stock of your products, or give only the right to another user to manage the sales for the shipping task. ### The ACL in HikaMarket One important feature in HikaMarket is his ACL system. Thanks to that, you can configure for each specific user his rights in HikaMarket ; depending the user right, the HikaMarket interface can be totally different. ![](/images/stories/hikamarket/product_acl_compare.jpg) *Depending the ACL, the interface is adapting and display more or less fields* The product edit page could be quite complete and allow you to modify a lot of fields. HikaMarket would be able to provide same editing features than HikaShop backend.