[Steven Zahm]

@ Bert

I am very aware of WooCommerce but I have never used it or that addon. There could be a couple reasons. The roles are dynamically added and do not really exist (bbPress does this) in a way that can be altered. Or maybe the role capabilities are reset on each page load.

I have a suggestion to try.

Install the Members plugins, which is a fantastic user, role, and capability management plugin.

Use this plugin and try to add the Connections capabilities to the Vendor role. If the settings do not “stick” then the issue is with the other plugin. If they do “stick” then there is likely a plugin conflict or theme conflict which is preventing Connections from saving its settings.

Let me know what you find out.