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]
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:
support@cedcommerce.com
Best Regards,
CedCommerce Team
All the records
are displayed
Filter condition
Search button to display
the result of filter condition