Magento Marketplace Vendor Groups

The customers will unzip the respective ‘Magento Marketplace Vendor Group’ module zip folder. Here, they will find the app and the skin folder. Now, move that app and skin folder in Magento root directory as per the screenshot.

After moving both the folder flush the cache from Magento admin module. Under System > Cache management.

After the successful installation of the Magento Marketplace Seller Groups module, the admin will be able to configure this module by navigating to System>Configuration>Webkul>Marketplace.

Under ‘Marketplace Partner Group Options’ two fields will be visible, ‘Number Of Products’ and ‘Check On’.

‘Number Of Products’- The admin has to enter the default number of products that a seller can add in its store. This will be the default value for the sellers who have not purchased any membership.

‘Check On’– The admin will select the membership type for the sellers as follows:

• Only Number of Products – If the admin wants to set the restriction for the number of products that a seller can add. Then the admin can select this option.
• Only Time – If the admin wants to set the restriction for the time that the sellers will be able to add an unlimited number of products for the specified time in the group. After the end of subscription, the products will get disabled automatically.
• Time & Number of Products – If this option is selected, then the limitation will apply on both time and number of products.

Now, the admin will configure the payment system associated with the Partner’s group by navigating to System->Configuration->Sales->Payment methods as per the below screen.

Under ‘Marketplace Partner Group Payment’, the admin will:

• enable/disable the Payment Method by either selecting Yes or No.
• select the Sandbox Active as Yes(Testing Mode) or No(Production Mode).
• type the Title name.
• type the Merchant PayPal Id which will be used to send the payouts to the sellers.
• enter the PayPal API User Name, PayPal API Password, PayPal API Signature.

Note – This Payment setting is for the seller for paying the group fee and not for the Magento normal product purchase.

Now, the admin can add/edit group from the admin panel by navigating to Marketplace Management->Manage Partners Group as per the snapshot below.

Under this, the admin can add a new group by clicking on ‘Add Group’ link. For this, the admin will enter:

• Group Name – the admin can enter any name he wants to give to a group.
• Number of Products Allowed – set a maximum number of products allowed to upload.
• Fee Amount – set amount for subscribing to this group.
• Time in Days – set the number of days for which sellers can add products.
• Subscription Type – either select Yes or No for setting the membership type.
• Status – set the status of the group as enabled/disabled.

Note: In the Subscription Type, either select ‘No’ for just allowing the seller to one-time subscription or ‘Yes’ for making the group as recurring type subscription membership.

Subscription Type: If selected ‘Yes’, then ‘Schedule’, ‘Billing’ and ‘Initial Fees’  tab becomes visible else not if selected ‘No’.

Schedule: In this, the admin will provide:

• Schedule Description : the admin will provide the subscription description in this field.
• Maximum Payment Failure : the admin can set maximum payment failures allowed.
• Auto Bill on Next Cycle : the admin can set whether to generate auto bill on next cycle or not.

Billing : In this, the admin will provide:

• Billing Period Unit : the admin can set billing period as per Day, Month, Year, Week, Semi-month.
• Billing Frequency : the admin can set the number of billing period that will make up one billing cycle.
• Maximum Billing Cycles : the admin can set the number of billing cycles for the payment period.

Suppose, Billing period Unit is Month, Billing Frequency is 2 and Maximum Billing Cycles is 3 so it denotes the customer will be charged every second month up to 3 times (i.e. stop charging after 6 months).

Initial Fees: In this, the admin will provide:

• Initial Fees: the admin can set this one-time payment amount which is to be paid along with first cycle payment.
• Allow Initial Fee Failure: the admin can allow initial fee failure by selecting either Yes or No.

From here admin can edit any existing group by clicking on the ‘Edit’ link. For the groups that have subscription type set as ‘Yes’, there’s another tab ‘Associated Recurring Profiles’ will be visible under Group Information. But for the groups that have subscription type set as ‘No’, this tab will not be visible.

When the admin clicks on  ‘Associated Recurring Profiles’, he can view various recurring profiles of the sellers along with their details.

Admin can also assign a group to any seller by navigating to Marketplace Management>Manage Seller. The admin can assign groups only to those sellers with “Group” status “Unassigned”. However, the admin can not change the purchased group of the seller.

The “Assign Group” menu option besides the “Action” menu option will only be visible when the admin first selects the “Assign Group” option from the “Action” drop-down list. Then, the admin can select any group from the “Assign Group” drop-down list and can assign them.