Magento 2 Marketplace Vendor Sub Accounts

Multi-Vendor User Account allows sellers to create multiple sub-accounts for themselves. These sub-account users can have various permissions such as - view orders, manage orders, view products, manage products, etc.

The following are the options available to the admin:

• Enable/disable the marketplace sub-accounts functionality.
• Show/hide the Manage Sub-Accounts menu option for the sellers.
• Allows sellers to add and edit their own sub-accounts.
• Allow sellers to set access permissions for their sub-accounts.

The sub-account users can perform various web store functionalities for the sellers such as managing orders, products, profile, order PDF information and so on.

The admin or the sellers can create multiple numbers of sub-account users who can manage the web store efficiently.

They can do various web store activities as per the allowed permissions assigned to them.

• The sub-account users receive an email for setting the password.
• In the email, the sub-account users can view the list of allowed permissions.
• When logged in to their accounts, separate My Account menu options are available.
• The sub-account users can do the various web-store tasks as per the assigned permissions.
• When a new sub-account is created it becomes the customer of the store.

The admin or the sellers can grant multiple permissions of the web store to a sub-account user. The allowed permissions include the following functionalities of the web store:

• View Dashboard - view sales statistics, ask a question to admin, latest orders, and reviews.
• Manage Seller Profile - Edit seller information.
• Create Configurable Product Attributes
• Manage Products - Add product or edit or delete products.
• View Products - View sold quantity, stock, revenue earned.
• Manage Transactions - View seller payment transactions.
• Manage Order PDF header information - Edit or change the order pdf header details like name and address.
• Manage Orders - Complete management of orders. Create shipment, invoice, credit memo, or cancel an order.
• My Customer List - List of all the customers of the seller.
• My Review List - Viewing seller reviews.
• Earnings - The sub-account user can also check the earnings of the store.

The admin can also manage the sub-accounts users of each seller. Using the Seller-Sub Account option available in Marketplace Management>Manage Sellers, the admin can view the list of all the sub-account users. Here are the options available to the admin:

• Add new sub-account user for the seller.
• Edit sub-account user information like first name, last name, and email address.
• Select the allowed account permissions - view orders, manage orders, view products, manage products, etc.
• Change sub-account active status to yes or no.
• Delete the existing sub-accounts users of the sellers.
• All customers are classified under group as - general or sub-account.
• The admin has complete control over the seller sub-accounts.

When a new sub-account user is created, it is automatically added to the existing customer list. The sub-account user can do all the customer activities like a normal customer.

This allows the admin to view and manage the customer, sellers, and sub-account users easily.

Here are the options available to the admin:-

• View the sub-accounts list of the customer.
• Edit the sub-account details of the customer.
• Search sub-account users from the list. 

The admin using Postman can use the GraphQL queries to fetch the respective data for validation as required.

• The admin can validate the data through GraphQL.
• View the results of the required data.
• Allows the fetch of the list of sub-sellers by customerID.
• Also, fetches the allowed permissions to the seller by admin.
• Support Mutation to create/Update/Delete a seller subaccount

The sellers can manage their own sub-accounts from the front end of the web store. Manage Sub-Accounts option will be available under My Account. Here are the options available to the sellers:

• View list of all the sub-account users with details.
• Add multiple sub-account users.
• Edit the sub-account user details such as - first name, last name, and email.
• Select and modify allowed permissions for each sub-account user.
• Change sub-account active status - yes or no.
• Reset sub-account user details.
• Delete existing sub-account user(s).
• Use filter option to search any sub-account user from the list.
• View sub-account activation date & time.
• View sub-account user ID.

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