Account Types

Every account that’s created falls under one of 3 account types based on the main function of that account. Each account type has its own user permissions to streamline the platform experience and make it as easy as possible for each user to achieve their goals. 

You can identify your account type from within the platform by viewing your User Tile at the bottom left aspect of the screen.

Shop Administrator: 

The function of a Shop Administrator account is to invite and manage Shop Creator accounts for your company. Shop Administrators can invite as many Shop Creators as they’d like to build shops, but can also build, market, and manage their own shops if they’d like.

Shop Administrators have visibility into the success of all the shops within their account, whether they create them themselves, or add Shop Creator accounts to create them. Shop Administrators commission is built into the product pricing and they can also share a percentage of their commission with user accounts they create.

Shop Creator/Owner:

A Shop Creator/Owner is an account type whose function is to build, market, and manage shops. Shop Creators can create as many shops as they’d like and manage their shops how they see fit, but do not have the ability to create new Shop Creator accounts. Once a Shop Creator has created a shop, they are considered the Shop Owner for that particular shop.

Shop Creators/Owners only have visibility into the shops they create. Their base commission is build into their shops' product pricing. However, they also have the ability to add additional markup to the products in their shops at any time.

Report Viewer:

Report Viewers are an account type that can view any reports associated with shops or directories to which they're given access, but does not have access to shop creation or management functions. This user type can be created either at the directory or shop level and will have access to reports for the shop or directory in which they're created. 

If a Shop Administrator creates a Report Viewer within the company's shop directory, they will have access to reporting for all shops. If a Shop Administrator or Shop Creator creates a Report Viewer within a specific shop, they will only have access to reporting for that particular shop.

Payable/Payee:

Creating a Payable/Payee creates a profit-sharing rule that enables profit-sharing for sales within your shops.  When your company receives commission payments, each payable will be listed as a line item with their earned commissions based on the percentage you choose to share with them. 

Payables/Payees do not need to be users, but you can link users to Payables you create. 

• Shop Administrators can choose to share a percentage of their base commission and/or a percentage of the markup added to their company directory with Payables they create. 
• Shop Creators can choose to share a percentage of the markup they add to their shops with the Payables they create.
• Report Viewers cannot create Payables. 

For detailed instructions on Adding a Payable or Adding an Account, please review our detailed tutorials on those subjects.