Account Types
The platform has three account types: Shop Administrator, Shop Creator, and Report Viewer. Each account type controls what you can see and do within the platform. Account types are assigned by a Shop Administrator. To check your account type, look at the User Tile at the bottom-left corner of your dashboard.
What can a Shop Administrator do?
Shop Administrators manage all shops within the company directory.
Permissions include:
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Creating and managing shops
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Inviting and managing Shop Creators
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Assigning account types
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Viewing reports for all shops in the directory
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Adjusting pricing, markup rules, and payables
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Sharing commission and markup with other users or payees
Shop Administrators have the highest level of access and are responsible for overall directory configuration.
What can a Shop Creator do?
Shop Creators can create and manage their own shops.
Permissions include:
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Creating shops
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Managing products, pricing, markup, and shop settings
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Viewing reports for their own shops only
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Sharing markup with payees when needed
Shop Creators do not have visibility into other users’ shops and cannot change directory-level settings.
Shop Creators cannot invite or manage Report Viewers — that permission is reserved for Shop Administrators.
Report Viewer
A Report Viewer has read-only access to reporting. They cannot create or modify shops, products, pricing, or payables.
Permissions include:
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Viewing reports for shops they have been granted access to
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Viewing sales, orders, and performance metrics
- Viewing their own earnings only, if attached to a payable
Report Viewer access is granted by a Shop Administrator. Contact your administrator to request access to specific shops or to be added as a Report Viewer.
What is a payable?
A Payable is not an account type. It is a designated recipient for profit sharing — either a platform user or an external party (such as a vendor or partner). Note: if the payable represents a non-user (such as an external vendor), payout delivery is handled outside the platform according to your business's payment process.
Important notes:
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Shop Administrators can share both base commission and markup with payables
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Shop Creators can share markup only.
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Payables may represent users or non-users depending on the business need. Non-user payables do not have platform access; their earnings are recorded in the system but paid out via your organisation's external payment process.
To set up a payable, see How to Add a Payable.
Summary
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Shop Administrators manage everything across the directory.
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Shop Creators manage the shops they build.
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Report Viewers have reporting-only access.
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Payables are entities used for profit-sharing rules, not users.