Restricting request visibility so only a limited number of vendors can respond

[abrarcreative]

Hello HivePress community,

I’m building a service marketplace using TaskHive + HivePress Requests.

In my use case, users submit service requests, and I want to control which vendors can see and respond to each request, instead of showing every request to all vendors.

My requirement:

• Each request should be visible to only a limited number of vendors (e.g. 10)

• Vendors should be eligible based on:

  • Active membership / subscription

  • Remaining offer submission limits

  • Location match (city / area)

  • Time since they last received a request (cooldown logic)

The goal is to achieve a fair distribution of requests over time, so the same vendors don’t respond to every request.

I understand there is no built-in “rotation” feature, but I’d like to implement this behavior via:

• Request visibility rules

• Conditional offer submission

• Hooks or filters

My questions:

1. What is the recommended way to restrict request visibility for vendors in HivePress Requests?

2. Are there any hooks or filters available to conditionally allow vendors to view/respond to requests?

3. Has anyone implemented a similar limited visibility / fair distribution approach?

Any guidance or examples would be highly appreciated.
Thank you!

[kseniia]

Hi,

Regarding the first request: this can be handled with the Memberships extension. In this case, simple registration will not be enough. You can restrict access in several ways for vendors, either with free or paid plans, for example, limit access to certain pages, restrict the number of offers or messages, or hide specific request attributes (such as contact details) until a membership plan is active.

For the remaining requests, custom development will be required. Technically, this can be done by customizing the requests query, for example using the pre_get_posts hook to modify the WP_Query. As one possible approach, if vendors specify their location in an attribute or a location field, you could filter the requests query by this location so that vendors only see relevant requests. The same general approach can be applied to other criteria as well.

Overall, the concept is to customize the underlying WP_Query, but the exact implementation will depend on the specific criteria you want to apply and will require additional research and development work.

P.S. Please note that we have to move this topic to the Requests forum category. Since it’s related to a premium extension, the forum category is restricted — please add the license key to the account settings or consider renewing support if you still need assistance related to the premium themes or extensions Renew Support | HivePress