Vendors can’t reply to reviews if reviews are restricted to buyers

Vendors can’t reply to reviews when Restrict reviews to buyers is active.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Create a listing website with the marketplace and review plugins
  2. Order something
  3. Create a review
  4. Try to replay to the review as the vendor

Actual result

A message will popup - “only buyers can write reviews”

Expected result

The vendor should be able to leave a review
It seems like this, but is back in the latest update for marketplace

https://community.hivepress.io/t/vendors-cant-reply-to-reviews-if-reviews-are-restricted-to-buyers/755

Hi,

Unfortunately, we haven’t fixed this issue yet, but we plan to release a fix in the next update.