Vendor Group Addon - Magento Multi-Vendor Marketplace Addon by CedCommerce

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[Vendor Group Addon] CedCommerce Vendor Group Addon is a powerful module for the Magento E-commerce platform, which helps website owners in sorting out accessibility, configurations and commission distribution for different categories of vendors.

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Vendor Group Addon

User Manual

Version - 2.0


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Table of Contents I. Overview ............................................................................................................................................... 4

II. Enable/Disable Group ........................................................................................................................... 4

III. Add Group ............................................................................................................................................. 5

I. Group Info ......................................................................................................................................... 6

II. Group Configurations ........................................................................................................................ 6

III. Group Resources ............................................................................................................................... 8

IV. Group Vendors ................................................................................................................................ 11

IV. Edit Group ....................................................................................................................................... 12

V. Filterable Grid ................................................................................................................................. 12

VI. Support................................................................................................................................................ 13


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Overview The CedCommerce Vendor Group Addon extension is basically an admin panel extension which

provides several admin panel features. With this extension, the website admin will have the

facility to create groups of vendors and all the features provided to the vendor will now be

provided depending on the group to which he/she belongs.

These groups will further classify the vendor according to the website, store and store views.

Earlier as per the default feature of Magento, websites were at the apex followed by store and

store views but now, there is something above websites also and this is nothing but the Group.

A Group can have multiple vendors but a vendor can only be a part of any one group. If a

vendor belongs to two groups then before becoming a part of 2nd group he/she will first be

unassigned from the first group so that he/she can belong only to a single group. This is

specifically done to keep a track of the rules or conditions that need to be applied to a vendor.

If a vendor will belong to more than one group then which of the rules will applicable to

him/her can’t be decided as each group will have different rules and conditions like different

discount rules, tax rules, etc. Therefore, because of the same reason common vendors among

groups are not allowed in the Vendor Group Addon extension.

CedCommerce Marketplace extension should be installed prior to Vendor Group Addon

extension as Vendor Group Addon depends upon CedCommerce Marketplace. With Vendor

Group Addon one more sub menu gets added to the CedCommerce Marketplace main menu, in

the admin panel, and that is “Vendor Groups” to provide group related features.

Enable/Disable Group To enable the Vendor Group Addon, just select “Yes” in the “Enable Vendor Group System”

dropdown and click on “Save Config” button to save the system configuration settings.

Selecting “No” will disable the Vendor Group Addon and it features won’t show up on frontend.


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Add Group The website admin can add a group by going to the menu section and selecting CsMarketplace

> Vendor Groups. This will open the Vendor Groups page displaying the grid containing the

groups that have been created so far. By clicking “Add New Vendor Group” button a new group

can be created.

Vendor Groups sub-

menu to open

Vendor Groups grid

Select Yes to enable

Vendor Group.


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Following page will open for adding a new vendor group:-

i) Group Info

The basic group information like group name and group code are to be provided

here. “Group Code” should be a unique field to identify the groups easily.

“Group Name” field can include any value in characters.

ii) Group Configuration

It provides configuration settings to the website admin. These settings are

similar to the system configuration settings of CedCommerce Marketplace

extension. They are being provided here to organize the facilities of the vendor

according to the group. In other words, the vendor features and facilities can

vary from group to group, for example, in one group the vendor can have the

Add New Vendor

Group button to

add a new group


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option to create three types of products while in the other group he/she may

have the option to create only one type of product.

The settings which are not present here will be taken from the configuration

settings of CedCommerce Marketplace extension and those which are present

and have been changed by the website admin in this section, will override

CedCommerce Marketplace settings and thus, Vendor Group Addon settings will

be reflected.

Given below is the screenshot of the Group Configuration section:-


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Website can be

changed from here

Product Types

can be selected

from here

Categories to be

provided to the vendor

can be selected from

here

Commission Fee can

be set from here


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iii) Group Resources

This section provides the website admin the authority to limit the vendor panel

features available to the vendor at frontend. The website admin can select the

tabs or features which he/she wants to be displayed in the vendor panel

navigation menu at frontend. Only the features selected from here by the

website admin will show up at frontend in the vendor panel. Rest of the features

will not come if they are not selected. The screenshot has been given below:-

Access can be selected

from here. On selecting

‘All’ all the vendor panel

features will be disabled

at frontend


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Vendor panel (frontend) before limiting access:-

The website admin can select the features to be displayed at frontend and then click on “Save

and Continue Edit” button to save the changes done so far and carry on with editing.

All the features are

available in the

vendor panel


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Vendor panel (frontend) after limiting access:-

Here, we can see that default page that opens up first as soon as the vendor logs-in is

“New Product” page, but, when the Resource Access was not limited then, the

dashboard page was the first page which opens up. This is because, whichever feature

will be present at the top in the left side navigation menu in the vendor panel at

frontend, that page will be treated as the default page and will open up after login.

Do not select the

features to be disabled

Click this button to

save the changes

Dashboard features and profile

view have disappeared as they

were not selected


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Thus, when “Dashboard” the topmost feature, the dashboard page opened up and

when the topmost feature in the navigation menu was “New Product” then new

product page opened up.

iv) Group Vendors

This section displays the grid of vendors with their status as

“Approved/Disapproved/New”. The website admin can select the vendors he/she

wants to include in this particular group. The “Reset Filter” button should be clicked to

display the list of available vendors. The screenshot is given below:-

If a vendor already exists in some other group then on selecting him/her a warning

message box will be displayed and he/she will be unassigned from previous group and

included in the current group as shown:-

Vendors can

be selected

from here


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After filling all the information, click on the “Save Vendor Group” button to save the group and

display it in the grid.

Edit Group The website admin can edit the details of a group by clicking on the row of the corresponding

group that is to be edited, to open up the Edit Group page. Thereafter, the group details to be

changed can be provided and “Save Vendor Group” button should be clicked to save the

changes made to the group.

Filterable grids

All the grids of Vendor Group Addon can be filtered on the basis of the columns present in them

by entering the required values for filtering and then clicking the “Search” button. The records

which match the filter conditions will be listed.


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Before filtering:-

After filtering:-

Support

If you need support or have questions directly related to Vendor Group Addon, please use our

Online Message Form to contact our support team or send us an email at:

[email protected]

Best Regards,

CedCommerce Team

All the records

are displayed

Filter condition

Search button to display

the result of filter condition

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