Defining a seller organization

Typically, the seller organization is the organization that owns one or more stores on a HCL Commerce site. The seller organization can also have sub-organizations, or divisions, which, in turn, can have one or more stores. For example, if you have a store that sells fashion merchandise, it might have a women's division and a men's division, each with separate, online stores.

Procedure

Create a Seller an organization. When you create a new organization, you will create a profile for that organization, which includes the organization's name, description, address, and contact person, as well as the organization type.
1. Open Management Center Tools and from the hamburger menu, click Manage Organizations > Organizations.
2. Select Organization Management. A list of organizations and organizational units for the site displays
3. From the list, click New to add a new organization or organizational unit to the site.
  
  Note: You cannot create an organization under an organization that is of type "authorization domain".
4. The New Organization page is displayed. Provide appropriate information for the fields. Click Next to fill the information on all the pages and click Submit to create a new organization.
  
  Note: Unless all the mandatory fields are filled, it will throw an error on clicking Next.
5. Once you have created an organization or organizational unit, you can select approval types and roles for the organization or organizational unit, as follows:
  - To select approval types for the organization or organizational unit:
    1. From the list of organizations for the site, click on the name of the organization. Available approvals field opens.
    2. From the Available approvals list, select the types of approval required for the organization, and click Save.
  - To select roles for the organization or organizational unit:
    1. Select roles for the organization as follows:
      
      To assign a single role, from the Available roles list, select the role that you want to assign to the organization and click Save. The role moves from the Available roles list to the Selected roles list. Repeat this step for all the roles you want to assign to the organization.
      
      If you make an error or want to remove a role, from the Selected roles list, select the role that you want to remove and click Remove. The role moves from the Selected roles list to the Available roles list. Repeat this step for all the roles you want to remove from the organization.
      Note: There is no Remove all button available in Management Center. You can only remove the roles one by one from Selected roles list.
    2. Click Save to define user roles for the organization.
  Note: It is not recommended that you delete an organization. Deleting an organization will invalidate all things owned by that organization. For more information about what will be deleted, see the MEMBER database table.
Optional: Select approval types for the organization. Define which tasks within the Seller organization require approval, such as order processing or user registration.
Assign roles to the organization. An organization can only take on roles that have been assigned to its parent organization. Since Root Organization is an ancestor of all other organizations, it must be assigned all possible roles. Since you are creating a seller organization, typical roles that you might assign include Seller Administrator, Seller, and so on.
Create users. Like organizations, you will create a profile for each user that includes the user's name, contact information, and the role assigned to that user. When assigning roles, you will select them from the list of roles you assigned to the organization in the previous step.
Assign roles to users.
Optional: Create member groups.
Optional: Assign users to member groups.